skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When everything was bundled together, we complained about paying for things we didn't use. Unbundling was initially cheaper because it was just extra profit on the side.

Now, it's becoming the primary business model and has to stand on its own.

It turns out economy of scale is real, and we've lost it. Other people were paying for our content before, but not watching it. How does real public educational content get funded in this new world? Most of us probably agree that there should be quality, unbiased content.

Cashflow consistency has a value as well, so subscribing and unsubscribing creates a cost that needs to get covered by someone. Currently, the loyal subscribers.

I'm not saying things can't improve, just that many unrealistic, entitled attitudes exist. Content is better now than before as providers have to compete more to get subscribers, so the value is greater.
I think an economist would say market makers reduce the volatility of a market, which does benefit regular people.
Super interesting.

My family are farmers. I got a PhD in physics, switched to startups and have one successful exit. However family is still a BIG value for me.

I think a lot about the opportunity cost of time and I spent a lot of holidays trying to be thoughtful in the search of a good gift.

A lot of my family realizes the fortunate position we are in. So I have thought a lot about how to share generously, but also authentically, with a keen eye on the fact that time is our only non-renewable resource.

This is why I have focused on gifts as a search/efficiency problem so I can actually spend real time with the people in my life.

Thanks so much for sharing.
Does it have to return false for paper airplanes?

How about Helicopters?

Zepplins?
...also people hate just performing some exam, but it maybe better for people who won't give up raise their social class
Do you feel that with IPFS using content hashes (CID v1, v2, etc) caching would be an easier problem to solve than fetching content that can change? I had thought IPFS would make this problem easier. And thanks for the detailed response, it has got me thinking about a lot.
What about the copy on Tesla's website that says "have your car come to you while you deal with a fussy child"?
I suspect from the undercurrent people are doing it to force netflix stock down to buy low.
For all your points about technical and substantive arguments, I think you have skipped over the crux -

> They had expected all inputs to yield at positive 2.5 mil

The crucial word here is expected. I can model all the things and expect that I’ll get a million dollars next week, but I haven’t lost a million when I inevitably don’t get it the next week.

If you make a prediction of +2.5m new subscriptions, during a pandemic and associated economic flux, and the prediction doesn’t pan out, the only thing that’s happened is that you made a bad prediction.
A flight isn’t the only way either. Around here, a team of two brothers with a van will charge several thousand to transport parts at a moments notice to anywhere in the US, Canada or some of Mexico. They drive non-stop, one drives while the other sleeps.
Along with the huge miss this quarter they quided that they will lose another 2 million subs next quarter. That signals and end to growth and a rerating of the stock.
Meh. My motorcycle is ostensibly for use in endurance racing. I use it to go out for coffee and sandwiches.
from the front there's more ERA than there are gaps by a large margin. You're not likely to destroy a tank with one, and it can shoot back at you. When equipping someone with weapon for a life and death fight, betting on a weapon unlikely to work because 'there are gaps' is not a winning strategy.
Tesla also says that "your car will come to you while you deal with a fussy child".

So which is the definitive statement?
The server in the UK died.
Why would anyone use the summon feature and risk running over someone and killing them?
They took political sides with their content, I get enough of that elsewhere. begone!
I believe that feature omission is intentional. There have been dozens of articles - interesting, thought-provoking articles - that were outside my typical interests, but ended up being well worth the read.
Maybe if you're slacking off, but if you're working on a project with 10-minute compile times, you can't really use the computer for anything else while it's doing that, and it's quite annoying if it decides to go to sleep in the middle of that because you haven't nudged the mouse recently enough.
Electronic warfare is an issue for off the shelf things, but looking at Russian track record, it could have a decent chance of at least giving it a shot
I'm surprised that I haven't heard of small jets (fighters/jet trainers) being used for commercial courier services (although there are instances of military jets transporting organs for transplant, https://apnews.com/article/c1309c58720c78347c1ebbbade56d35d).

They can be privately owned and operated, are very fast, and tend to have hundreds of kilos of payload capacity.
If Brave already does what you want, why not use it? Safari is my primary browser, but sometimes I have to fall back to Firefox or Chrome because reasons. :-)
Nobody knows who owns the rights to the No One Lives Forever series, but something like three or four companies have stated they will fiercely defend it as if they do if someone tries to do anything with the IP.
If this ends up killing Netflix, the new FAANG acronym is going to become very unfortunate.
is the same true for true for gates on microsoft or jobs on apple?

in some parts of the world germans still get a negative reaction because of their countries history.

it's unfair, but unfortunately showing that those influences in urbit are gone or were not even there in the first place, is going to be a long and hard battle.

it's similar to the problem blockchain has today. for no fault of the technology on its own, blockchain is tainted by the massive amount of scams in the space.

and as urbit also uses a blockchain too it now actually has two problems.

i appreciate you joining this discussion, but think about what you end up doing here. you spend energy defending the project against arguments that have nothing to do with its technology. energy that you probably would rather spend elsewhere.

but the reality is that you are likely going to have these arguments for the foreseeable future with many that might otherwise join the project.

and if you hide those issues you will be accused of doing that instead.

germany is doing a lot of selfcriticism in order to atone for its history and it's making an effort to welcome immigrants, and yet there are people who don't believe their intentions as well as there are some germans who still reject immigrants.

it is going to take a few more generations for germany to overcome this, as it is going to take a few decades for the blockchain to overcome its reputation as a scam. likewise urbit will require some effort to get rid of this ball and chains.

i do wish you success, and i sincerely hope that these non technical problems won't be an achilles heel that bring the project down
Teenage Engineering has the best UI design in the business. It's so delicious. It's like visual onomatopoeia.
Same here, as well as a book from the 1890s.
I’m a software engineer, and one chestnut I’ve heard (and subscribe to) is “Missing documentation is better than incorrect documentation, because the latter can lead you astray in serious ways.” I think this same logic applies to news as well, for the reason you describe.

Added to which, the news is a business model which increasingly earns its living off manufacturing outrage (not by making its viewers more informed and worldly). The same can’t be said of history books, which is why I agree with one of my sibling commenters here, who recommends swapping most news with reading history.
> There's no electrical reason to wiggle wires around at 45 degrees,

No, but there can be various kinds of over-etch issues in corners that sharp corners make worse.

> Technically, it just add parasitics.

Depends. 2 45 degree bends is a better approximation of a smooth arc than a 90 degree sharp corner.

Yes, arcs are even better electrically and better for physical manufacturing. But they are annoying to nudge around. Note that the author of this article suggests saving the "melting" for the very end of the process, because making things all smooth and melty makes it harder to edit the board. It's a bit niche. And as a result, the software at both board fabs and for engineers deals a bit worse from CAD standpoint. And in turn, even worse from a designer point of view.

I spend a bit of time trying to minimize angles (e.g. if I can make a 30 degree turn further away going to a pad instead of a 45 degree one, that's nice-- straighter routing), spreading traces more, and teardropping.
Lots of good links getting posted. Another interesting resource is the ACM's History of Programming Languages (HOPL) proceedings,

https://dl.acm.org/conference/hopl/proceedings
They’ve already switched F out for M - so it won’t be as bad.
There are many smaller / less bougie mountain or valley towns in CO. I've got a couple friends who live in Alamosa and work remote. Their cost of living is cheap and they're surrounded by mountains in all directions.
It seems pretty straightforward to me from the perspective of the founder. Would you rather:

A) Be worth $6.6bn and have control of your company, with people generally crediting the company's success with your leadership

or

B) Be worth $1.6bn and have your (former) company be a division of Zuck's empire that's technically worth 3-5x more to shareholders, but (as you just demonstrated) people generally say that it would be worth far less if Facebook hadn't acquired it?

I think Kevin Systrom probably doesn't give a shit about how much Instagram contributes to Meta's market cap these days, but I imagine that he _does_ care about the impact of Instagram on global culture. At the $1bn+ level, it's all about power and legacy. Evan Spiegel has retained the power to shape his legacy.
Here is something else to avoid in web (or mobile) apps: Chain of tips [1].

This is when the app forces you to click on one tip after another before you are allowed to use the app.

It just frustrates the user who just wants to get to the button that does the job. He doesn't want to pay attention to your tips. If your app is hard to figure out without those tips, redesign it.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-instructional-overla...
> That’s what Apple explicitly says. Why they don’t match with measurements is another matter… (and no, it’s not a typo)

Ridiculous. You're just making things up. It clearly doesn't have a 160kB 6-way L1 dcache. Nor are the small cores 64kB 6-way -- those don't even divide that's ridiculous. Why do you say it's not a typo?

They "explicitly" say it is 160kB in that backwater code comment. They also explicitly say it's 128kB in this presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwdkGKmZ0I&t=534s so what makes your source the authoritative one?? Pretty obviously it's a quick cut and paste job with a typo (two in one line actually) in it.

> ECC? Needs hugepages? Or hardware erratum? I don’t know for sure.

ECC? Erratum? Come on. It's clearly because it's 128kB.
Two things: 1) that "anvil" is cast iron or potentially at that size, semi hollow steel. It's not great for doing anvil things and will likely break, whereas the "reputable" one is cast steel or wrought iron, both of which are much much much tougher for beating on. 2) The more interesting thing here is the market for kettlebells and other heavy weights -- they can go up to hundreds of pounds, though typically top out around 100 lbs. Kettlebells that prime ship are all cheaper than any reputable manufacturer since they use their own logistics. I've unfortunately graduated to sizes that the main suppliers don't list on Amazon (40kg+) which have to be paid for UPS shipping and a non-trivial portion of the cost is the packaging to prevent damage to something that heavy. At this point, when I need to buy a new round of them, I'll be driving to the manufacturer in Ontario (including expensive Canadian gas and bridge fees) because that's cheaper than shipping more than one...
I think you’re looking for https://hnrss.github.io/
I actually kind of like it this way... I already follow some more specialized industry literature like Smashing Magazine or MDN Hacks. I don’t use HN the same way as those. Then when a front-end related news reaches the HN front page it is a cause for celebration.

Surely, if HN had a /web-dev I would stop using it as HN and use it more like I already use the specialized blog pages I already follow.
Legal ownership of concealable weapons and automatic firearms is already difficult in a number of states, especially cities with high gun violence.

I'm not sure what you mean by "automatic firearms," but what you describe is limited to a very small number of states, albeit some of our most populous. Counterexamples are legion, 42 states have "shall issue" concealed carry, that's like 72% of the population before the COVID flee big cities demographic changes to the extent they're lasting, and so far this year three states are improving that to "Constitutional Carry," a total of half the states in the union!

For how we got here, "The American Indian foundation of American gun culture" is essential reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Many seem to have forgotten that Netflix stated about four months after the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 that they were at peak subscription, and wouldn't be expecting more growth there.

The customers they lost are likely ones they would lose no matter what now that the pandemic is waning.

Separately, the disdain for bringing in advertisers, saying it's bad for customers: advertisers are their customers, too.
Exactly. You will always need people to wrangle the cats on a medium business scale (20-50 workers), including programmers.
This here is an absolute classic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

It was written probably a decade ago but is unfortunately a classic.
I think you would be able to find what you're looking for at the edges of many metropolitan areas. I'm about 30 min (<40km / <25mi) from the regional city of half a million people, and it's very possible to get that kind of acreage here. I'd base your search on other factors, like climate, education (if you have or will have kids), political stability, etc, and come up with some regions to dive into in more detail.
Turns out Bush sucked in assessing a person.
A few recommendations from an avid armchair computer historian:

- Dealers of Lightning is a wonderful book covering Xerox PARC's history and contributions. If you don't know what Xerox PARC is, then you should definitely read it.

- Where Wizards Stay Up Late is a highly-readable, engaging book covering the history of the Internet's early development.

- Soul of a New Machine gives a compelling glimpse into the era when physical machines and unique architectures were more dominant than software in shaping the market.

- The Jargon File as maintained by Eric Raymond is not without controversy, but I think it's still fair to say a lot of computing folklore and cultural history is preserved there. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

- Folklore.org is a wonderful, wistful collection of stories from the early days of Apple Computer, as told by some of the engineers and programmers who made it what it was in the 80s and early 90s.

- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace And Babbage is a wonderful graphic novel that's full of utterly ridiculous fiction that's only loosely inspired by the title characters. However, it is jam-packed with footnotes about the actual history from top to bottom, and in my opinion, there probably isn't a better or more fascinating glimpse of the proto-history of the computer anywhere.

- Douglas Engelbart's Mother Of All Demos is well worth watching (can be found on YouTube), and maybe reading some commentary on. Mind-blowing what his team put together that we still haven't really matched in some ways.

- Vannevar Bush's piece "As We May Think" isn't really about computers, but it's hard not to connect it to them when you read it. And then maybe to sigh and wonder how someone who didn't have any machine like what he describes can have a vision more compelling than what we've actually managed to build, so many decades before it happened.

- If you're interested in hypertext, look into Ted Nelson. None of his work ever really took off, and Project Xanadu was a legendary mishandled undertaking, but his vision for what might have been is fascinating, and influenced many of the software pioneers, as I understand it.

- This glorious video of using a 1930s teletype as a command-line Linux terminal taught me a surprising amount about why the classic Unix tools work as they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE

Enjoy!
I don't know, I feel like my physical copies are much more "forever" than the censored and "improved" versions available for streaming. In my copy of Star Wars, Han shots first.
I'll have to get some pictures next time I'm at my parents'.
Some other interesting projects from financial services firms:

https://perspective.finos.org/ (JP Morgan)

https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table (JP Morgan)

https://github.com/man-group/dtale (Man Numeric)

https://github.com/deshaw/pyflyby (DE Shaw)
This = 'the comment being replied to'.

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This actually does make sense.

The reason they wrote it the way they did was to convey that (not making sense) was what they expected from GP, but that instead it did make sense.
2 messages producing the same digest. That’s actually a really interesting question.
> The number of complainants can often be quite small. For centuries, theorists have worried about the potential of unrestrained democracy to lead to a tyranny of the majority, in which majority groups ride roughshod over the rights of minorities. What we often see today is instead a kind of tyranny of the minority: a system in which a particularly extreme and motivated fraction of the populace can wield outsized power in the face of a majority which is either too indifferent or too scared to oppose it.

https://areomagazine.com/2019/04/02/the-tyranny-of-the-minor...
I was referring less to films and more to TV.

At the end of a long day of work and chores I cannot stomach a 90-120 minute film, regardless of what language it's in. I much prefer 30-60 minute content. At that length subtitles are much more digestible.
Finished cartridges aren't nearly as dense as actual bullets. Those don't require ORM-D sticker.
> The Tesla manual even states " remaining ready to release the button to stop the vehicle if needed.".

Tesla also states "have your car come to you while you deal with a fussy child."

Apparently that should read "while you deal with a fussy child but maintain full attention on the car"?
Rural communities are providing a subsidy to urban communities by ... selling them things? Isn't "charging money for" just about the opposite of subsidizing?

Food is necessary; that does not mean that the US's rural communities in their current form are all necessary or even that they're unsubsidized. Food is an incredibly substitutable market, you'd expect the market to push prices down to a minimum.
Whatever it is, you’ll be seeing it in a FAANG interview soon
I've actually heard really good things about Brave as a legitimate browser, haven't heard such negative reactions.
There are opposite versions of that story where the drug is a specialized 1-off custom living biological product (often a patient's own engineered immune cells). An entire company's years of effort and existence are tightly coupled to a patient's survival, and sometimes they're hundreds of miles apart.

Those plane tickets, with coolers of ice in hand, are crazy to me.

And yeah, there are those cases where batch 1 was sent 'on time' with Courier 1 who didn't realize what they had, and let it thaw. And so backup batch 2 was sent 'super-express' with Courier 2 with minutes notice.
How did you do this? Why did you do this?
Either way… Amazon canceled The Expanse. Frustrating.
My target demographic is people who can distinguish between the phrase you gave, "women aren't as smart at the high end as men" (which is false or even nonsensical) and the premise of my prior comment and the matter under dispute, that most smart people are men (which is true) and that the m:f ratio increases as you raise the bar (which is also true). These are logically distinct.
If this were really a huge part of most people's experience of Urbit (that they want to search apps by name rather than by developer) then it would be important to know. My company would be happy to curate a list of All The Apps, if someone convinced me this was the case. Browsing big tech App Stores is a huge pain and most people just follow a link from the developer's web page in practice, but since there are so many fewer Urbit apps browsing a complete list could potentially be high-impact.

My worry would be that "and I wasn't able to find the name of anyone who develops apps!" is complaint #10 on a list of complaints where ##1-9 mean these kinds of people are never going to use Urbit much anyway. In which case we'd have to put a certain amount of work into vetting all these apps and their updates and real users would still find apps the same way - clicking on links to apps their friends are recommending.
This might be as good a thread as any to ask this: What's going on with the 1000+ comment threads on articles lately? It used to be pretty rare but I'm noticing it more often. Most recently with the Elon Musk Twitter purchase thread and today with a relatively benign article about Netflix:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31120094

Hacker News is really not setup for such long threads -- you basically get one top-level comment for the entire page! That's not very engaging. It's just a feeling but it seems some topics are getting an order of magnitude more comments than usual.
Just use ML now
It is happening already happening - I can run macOS, Windows, Linux, xBSD, Android ports etc. on my Intel Mac Minis. But with the ARM Macs, your option are limited to macOS and crippled Linux and xBSD because they can't use many parts of the SoC (like the GPU).

But it is thanks those vocal critics that Apple hasn't been able to go full monty with its plans to fully close the mac platform, and chosen the slow and careful approach to close the system closely, with every iteration. Once the adoption of the Arm Macs reach a critical point, they will close it. Closed ARM SoCs are the wet dreams of every computer manufacturer as they allow them to fully control the system at the expense of us consumers who get locked-in with less and less choice. However, good the Apple ARM Socs maybe, the x86-x64 platform today remains the only viable "open" & truly multi-OS platform for general purpose computing.
WooCommerce hosted on a dedicated platform such as Cloudways. It's incredibly extensible, and has a thriving third-party addon ecosystem.

NopCommerce has spent the last 5-10 years pouring most of its development resources into keeping up with the ever-changing .net ecosystem. You can imagine what a code base is like when the framework it's built upon is being swapped out every one to 2 years.

Its third-party ecosystem is sorely lacking.

The schema it uses for product attribute combinations is brittle and poorly designed, making fine-grained discounting and reporting almost impossible, among other things.

Redirection style payment methods will leave you with an empty shopping cart if you return to the site before completing payment (eg, to verify your cart's contents).

I've reported easily reproducible bugs and the devs simply refuse to fix them (such as double discounting for associated products), seemingly due to them not taking the issue seriously or failing to understand the issue.

tldr - NopCommerce sucks.