skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or is it concerning that nobody else is raising prices?

We are literally commenting on an article about a similar business that is shutting down due to being unsustainable without price rises.

I was on grandfathered YNAB pricing. The increase isn’t great, but at least I know they are working to make their business sustainable.

Plex has a similar problem, I’m on a grandfathered lifetime license, but without the ongoing revenue they are really struggling to the point the product is now a mess of add-ons and I don’t even use it anymore.
> It is said that if you do business with authoritarian countries, you start to resemble them and I fear that we are headed towards something like that from all we've seen in the past 3 years especially.

As they say, you can judge a person by the company they keep. This is probably true of any system. You can evaluate a system by that which it is entangled with.
An elephant not explicitly mentioned in the article: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend is coming up on 2-5 June.
This is actually supported by the first — completely unrelated! - conversation I read on the platform.

“Whenever I write anything publicly I risk being pulled into the maelstrom, which I call the epistemological woodchipper. It's a risk.”
Arguably the key would be picking industries ripe for disruption if you’re willing to look stupid for awhile.

Those would be high-capital low output in general, as low capital or high output have probably already tried many things.

If there’s a Muskette strength it would be identifying those.
To throw in my 2c (having worked at Tesla before) - I don't think it is either of these directly. Clearly no one is clairvoyant, however Elon is not one to take the status quo as an answer (eg his first principles mantra). And making a ton of incremental improvements over and over (especially in industries that tend to be risk averse to any changes) can result in huge improvements over time. And it's not like he is directly involved with those improvements. But there is a culture of no BS and fix things if you see it broken, get rid of as much bureaucracy as possible, etc. So if he can instill those cultural values he doesn't need to be directly involved. And if something goes wrong, it can also change on a dime, and go a different direction.
I would only repeat what I already said.

I think you would have to be dishonest in your internal thought process to believe in that project, much less promote it.

I say no to shitcoins.

I say no to nonsensical economics.

I say no to UBI which is similar to communism in ways that matter, and cannot work in a moral or economic sense.

How you could end up believing so many awful things?

There are good projects you could be supporting instead of peddling irrational nonsense.

You could be supporting the signal but you are supporting the noise.
Exactly my thought - I reply here all the time and simply ignore responses half or more of the time.
How would you know that? You aren't guaranteed to get COVID-19 (the symptomatic disease) but you're almost guaranteed to get infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The majority of Americans already have been, and those that haven't yet will likely get it soon. Many infections are asymptomatic (particularly among the vaccinated) so patients don't necessarily even know whether they've been infected.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094817774/covid-19-infection...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
I'd say the same about the Majjhima Nikaya. If I said things like that.
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Cool idea... But how do you deal with sock puppets?
Donald Knuth prefers "email" without the hyphen [1], according to his webpage which dates back to 1997 or earlier [2]:

> A note on email versus e-mail

> Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to write “non-zero” and “soft-ware” instead of “nonzero” and “software”; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus it's high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling “e-mail”. Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form “email” has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of course, “email” has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason.)

[1]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/19970526031736/https://www-cs-fa...
Most interesting. The novelistic heritage is interesting: Murdoch and Gass directly, Wallace at one remove.
> I feel the same way about those bots that tell you about insignificant security vulnerabilities in some project you abandoned. It's basically spam.

If you "archive" your repos, dependabot and friends won’t bother you.

Or, you could just disable security alerts in your repo's settings.
> Some parts of the U.S. have more homes for middle-income buyers than the national average, according to the National Association of Realtors’ recent analysis.

Color me surprised!
I’m sorry I’m not sure what you think the link says but it doesn’t contradict me.

I did a manual audit of the top 10 US brokers in 2019 and all of them participated in PFOF. The only caveats we’re that IB let you pay to opt out and Vanguard only engaged in PFOF in options. Every other broker I looked at used PFOF. Admittedly there could have been small brokerages that didn’t but it was such a small percentage I didn’t look.
Startups usually don’t leverage their valuations (unlike real estate etc) and don’t do significant debt raising, so other than a few banks margin calling high flying founders who took personal loans against equity, the notional hit shouldn’t have much ripple effects.
I mean the M1 exists and you can go buy one.

Paper processors get released all the time.
Mercury (https://mercurylang.org) is a language descended from Prolog that has some interesting examples. Personally I think it shows a lot more promise than many other languages people get very excited about.
Good point. Perhaps they could implement a feature that indicates there has been a response submitted but not yet approved. Possibly it could include when it was sent, who the reply is from, whether the approver has seen it (and when they saw it). That would at least make it apparent when someone is withholding approvals for an unreasonable time.
A common discussion "technique" on reddit is to block the person you're arguing with right after your last message, when you feel you're done with the conversation. That way they will never be able to reply and you always get the last word. Unfortunately this feels like an amplification of that. However, I guess the dynamics will prevent the frustrating feeling when that's the game you're singing up for.

Intriguing idea anyway. Looking forward to seeing how it pans out.
Why do they gate it this way? Don't they own GitHub?

Bad actors, just ludicrous..

Also, isn't it just a chromium fork? I wonder if ElGoog gave them speci licensing terms.

Chrome is released as "proprietary freeware"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

Chromium is licensed as 3-clause BSD, which means $ms can do whatever TF they want with it. Fun.
Happy to hear you consider mass deportation a solution.

No, there is no moral justification in modern western civilization for religious or sectarian violence. We are nations of laws, the moral path is to work in the system to change the law if you feel it's unjust. Again, this is cost of admission to western civilization.
You'd want to use the debugging API, which is available either via websockets or via the chrome.debugger extension API. The latter will require a specific permission though, I think.
Im pretty sure there is only one Model 3 body.

If they are testing the parts to the point where they would risk dismantling a rented car, I assume these are some form of custom development - if they were just reselling they could trust the manufacturer that everything is to spec, and deal with any issues as they appear during installs?
Eh, I'd ignore the critics related to 1.

Facts are not copyrightable. (IANAL) Strip out the prose, API/schema/DDL it all away.

Your tool sounds orders of magnitudes more valuable to humanity than bloggers' random ramblings with a surprise recipe at the bottom.

Anyone who wants that, can literally and easily ignore your product and continue using the existing internet. SEO spam will only get worse.
How do you pre-allocate lists and dicts?
> Honestly, though, the quality of their codecs suck. The color information just isn't there. You can watch Netflix and immediately tell which things were shot on RED, because they'll be grainy (which they think is a feature) and will lack nuanced color.

This is all just false. Their codes allow you to record actual RAW data from the sensor in 16 bits. All the color nuance is there.

RED cameras are crazy expensive and are used by Hollywood, Netflix, and thousands of professional studios. They are the golden standard, along with Arri cameras.
Absolutely. You can work with what you got, and stop blaming the world for what you weren't given (e.g. a face with no deformities, for me; I'm happy the picture with resume is not a done thing in Australia). Telling people to HTFU has never been popular, but that doesn't mean it can't apply to most anyone.

It might be small things like quitting alcohol, not using smart phones until the early hours every single night - so getting enough, better quality sleep. And getting a water carbonator with the money saved from the drink, thus improving your skin through better hydration. And squeezing some walks in here and there eg by parking further away, or taking the stairs, when before you wouldn't.

Taking hard personal responsibility for your own health, I'm sure most everyone could find something to improve on.

I have a long list still to go through for myself - but I've accepted that minor transgressions one day can be balanced out by being better the next few days. Thus one can achieve balance without going crazy.

For me Intermittent Fasting has been an incredible eye opener, and weight shredder. This included learning about nutrition. On this, DIY food box deliveries (eg Everyplate, the simpler/cheaper version of Hello Fresh) are extremely high value compared to eg Uber Eats deliveries - both nutritionally, and financially. It takes effort, of course - but that's part of HTFU.

Finally, going through a process of decluttering and cleaning my home after my separation - changing these habits have been very healthy for my mental state. Perhaps this goes twice for someone with ADHD, like myself. When I'm home now, I truly feel at peace; it's changed my attitude into a more positive one, which has improved my energy and clarity of thinking.

It's all about habits, and mental and physical health interconnect; maintaining both certainly takes discipline and effort. The effects are observable, though, and everyone judges everything all the time on an unconscious level. Fair or not - as biological beings that's just how it is.
Ask HN: Is all code crap?
Or have I been unlucky for the last 20 years as software engineer?
Your edit message cancels out your edits in a pretty funny way here.
Can confirm, I studied CS and don't feel like I really understand any of the low-level stuff.
Organized religion helped to defeat Communism, and tempered dictatorial control of many despots in the middle east. So your statement is far removed from reality.
I work for Google Search. And no, we won't. Moreover, the form doesn't require anyone to be logged into to file a request.
A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.
How will you stop competitors from stealing your "secret sauce"? It seems fairly straightforward to program this into another more well-entrenched forum stack.

You could, for example, say that you could compete on other feature sets, but the same argument applies.

Reply-by-email? NodeBB has this (via SendGrid) and probably Discourse too.

Extensibility? Lots of forums support plugins.

Theming? Many forums are very customisable (or at least themeable)
Contacts you know and companies you’ve worked for before are usually where you start.

It can be a bit hard to kick off, but being semi retired could help.
I didn't know goodreads had such a feature. This seems much better than the OP website.
Macabees not Macaques
Exactly. Extend it with what?

Intel and AMD each have instructions in their x86 chips that the other doesn't have. No one cares, pretty much. If you're building your own performance-critical software to run on a specific chip then you might enable some of them (or just do "gcc -march=native") but software distributed in binary form generally gets on fine without them.
Welp, that's it, we're all about to be replaced.
The horse carriage industry said the same thing about cars...
You're not wrong. But in one very recent case for "watching" a streamer for 4 hours I got early access to a fairly fun and polished game (Overwatch 2).

I didn't have to pay USD for it, and now I have what is essentially a whole online pvp game to play with new stuff. Since I'm not one of the privileged few streamers that were just given access, that was the price to get into a game that one of the only friends whose gaming tastes overlap with mine.

I just wish there was more trustbusting going on. Letting large companies gobble up all the smaller ones is only good for the shareholders. Not the customers, not the employees, and definitely not taxpayers.
How these prices reached those levels without anyone batting an eyelash a mere 20 years after the last dotcom bust is beyond belief. It's never "different this time", folks.
I wonder how libertarian philosophy handles a worldwide crisis such as climate change? Laissez faire capitalism? Or laissez faire catastrophe? I don't understand what'll it'll take to convince people that dire action is necessary? More wildfires? More crop failures from drought and invasive species? More tornadoes, flooding, and hurricanes? How much could you want?
I don't think it's important to worry about competitors stealing anything
Well, I guess it could end up creating a culture of differentiated commenting, but at Reddit/Twitter scale I’d be a bit skeptical.

One other worry is that those commentees who are willing to spend significant time moderating the comments they receive may not be exactly those who care about quality. To be honest, I wouldn’t want having to moderate the replies I get on HN. :)
It's spaghetti all the way down.
Do you have examples of religious or sectarian riots by historically dominant religious groups in the US in the last 50 years?

Also I don't mean to single out catholics, anabaptists and adult baptism may be a better example.

This is why in the modern west there can be no space for this behavior. It's arbitrary and in the eye of the beholder. Even in the US anabaptists have continued to schism, but we don't allow violence against sects that allow buttons on their clothing however prideful or idolatrous they maybe.
The "seen" feature on whatsapp/facebook is the most infuriating feature that ever existed IMHO.

It's just so frustrating to have no replies when you know the message have been read.

HN is free of such shenanigans and it's been so far the best experience I've had on the internet.
It has a pretty fast compiler, that's one of OCaml's strengths. But I've never timed a build of one of these packages.
> The themes and the vibe is very very similar to Star Wars

I’ve only seen Ep. 1-9, the Christmas special, Rogue One, Solo, and some of S1 of the Mandalorian, and read a couple of the older novels, and having read the whole of the Bible...I guess there's some weird stuff in the parts of Star Wars I missed? Is this some of the newer Disney stuff, or EU, or...?
"Solarpunk is a literary genre and art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges with an emphasis on sustainability, human impact on the environment, climate change, and pollution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
I enjoyed it :) I gave it a thumbs up, so I'm sure I'll get more.

I was just interesting, the gross parts were only a few seconds at the begging and near the end, you should watch it.
>now route my self-hosted email through SMTP2Go thanks to a tip from another commenter here

I think you're referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180604

> I host my own email server with Vultr on an OpenBSD VM using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go (their free tier more than meets my needs). I have all of the necessary DNS entries set to mark my mail as legit, and I sign all outgoing mail using strong 2048-bit RSA keys. Thus far, I'm able to send mail and not have it marked as spam (at least to everyone that I've corresponded with thus far). It was a lot of work to get to that point, but not terrible.

Been interested in doing the same since reading it and meant to bookmark for later!
I think it will hide discourse rather than trolls since, I strongly believe, people just wouldn't approve things they disagreed with or go against their beliefs. I don't see a value in a public conversation that allows one to silence another (well, besides spam/trolls of course, but "trolls" has mostly lost its meaning).
Oppression and Surveillance (New Technology)
The mRNA vaccines aren't adenovirus vectored. Those vaccines are known to increase myocarditis risk, although less so than a COVID-19 infection.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7114e1.htm
Neat game, I find mixing paints really enjoyable so this right up my alley. I solved the hard game, no problem, but after my first selection in the regular game, it X'd out all of my picks, even though I got 93.5%. My subsequent attempts got me further away.
But how do you avoid astroturfing? Seems like someone with two accounts (or a small cabal) could get anything they want published with very low friction.

Are you considering a strongly-bound 1-account-per-person model with verified accounts?
sorry IC = independent contractor? and you're upset that you didn't get into a management/mentorship role and instead remained a developer?

if so, what stops you from going into management now?
these people are addicted. quitting takes a lot of time and a lot of support and many of them won't make it to sobriety even in the best of conditions. saying they need to quit before the can be housed is the same as saying they should stay on the street.
Yes, Scott Wiener made a law that basically made it illegal for SF to do business with almost every state in the US. Often using incorrect methods of determination for why.
You mean like this? https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a... https://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis
Correct, that is what the Homeless Industrial Complex is doing.
> Haven't shopped for a car in a while, but I don't think I've seen one with a CD player either.

They're still somehow around (don't know for how long). A friend of mine bought a MY2020 BMW and the original owner specc'ed a CD player.

My car also still has one (MY2013).

I care about my physical CD collection but I don't care about actually putting them in a CD player: as long as I can rip them to FLAC, I'm happy. Virtually any el cheapo ($20 USD or so) desktop DVD reader/writer will work to rip CDs. And these are still selling everywhere.
I'm simply asking because if someone were to do a feature comparison between forum software, it usually comes down to how many checkboxes you can hit.

If your differentiating factor is something that is simple (and even mind blowing), it's especially easy for it to be stolen.
legend admits their flaws, opened up and used the flaw and fuckup to educate people, plus gave the public domain perpetually until it no longer exists an invaluable tool to learn about your own financial habits and imagine some parent with too many problems and this becomes the thing they can use to build themselves up again.

i agree with you, but sometimes as a human, the only way to actually learn something is to go through it. and who knows how many people this "fuckup" ends helping.

compare this owner to most governments. dude could have changed his name and gotten a pegleg and parrot and sailed to the Caribbean and never said anything or blamed it on the mole people. but no, legends dont blame shit on the mole people.
I think there are 2 senses of the word argument here. After all, how good your argument is (i.e. how good a job you do at convincing people of your view) has no bearing on how good your argument is (i.e. how true it is).

When i claim that failing to address a criticism that is so common it has a template form and thus should easily have been anticipated, makes for a bad argument, i mean in the first sense not the second. To be clear, by a template i mean a template response that people believe in good faith - like what was used in this discussion. I don't mean a template for making an ad hominem attack or something bad faith along those lines. But ultimately if there is some "tricky bullshit" that is commonly believed in good faith by the audience, then yes an argument that doesn't defuse it is a bad argument.
In San Francisco and LA, it is not.
Very much appreciate the quick response and explanation!

I found that a usability expert can come handy.
> Sure, by then I had the hindsight of knowing that parts of those papers contained fabricated data but even so it was pretty obvious.

But this IS the crux of the problem. Chess has a similar situation--the forced checkmate is obvious after the fact. However, even chess masters miss forced checkmates up front at the table all the time. And that situation is far less subtle than research data.

> I was absolutely furious and I insisted that he stay back with me in the lab over lunchtime whilst I repeated the titration which he did.

I applaud him, but that's not good lab technique. Good lab technique is "Here's my lab notebook. You can see my data along with the handwritten timestamps. The procedure is also written in there. YOU will replicate this while I watch and correct YOUR lab technique." THAT'S good lab technique.

I had a physics lab as a freshman taught by an absolute tyrant of a professor. He would pull one notebook every lab and try to replicate your results. If he couldn't, you failed that lab. You had to record EVERYTHING in your lab notebook. Serial numbers of equipment, test and calibration procedure steps, data that you knew was invalid and record the reason why ... all in pen with timestamps with no erasures ever allowed.

It was brutal.

He was totally unapologetic. His stance: "If you can't get the same result three times, you don't even know that you're wrong let alone that you're right. I'm actually being generous in the lab--you only have to get the same result twice."
All I get is a totally blank screen for any page on your site. Probably some script blocker or other security plugin. I'm using Waterfox. Does your site require a more "modern" browser?
But the audio already arrives late compared to the visual part. To compensate for that, PulseAudio has to support time travel, while any video player "merely" has to delay the image sequence by a few frames to let it line up with the sound...
I believe the comment needs to be accepted/replied to by the person who wrote the parent comment.

It doesn't stop you from posting your own stuff at top level, just stops flames, I suppose?
The alternative is actually putting them in jail for the crimes they comitted on the street so they detox there.

It got a mediocre success rate but its 100x better than whats happening now.
I'm struggling to understand your criticism. Why the authors decided to put 12 instead of 24 or 100 (or whatever) is irrelevant. What's relevant is whether the factors themselves are meaningful.

The common thread is covered in the introduction. It's about building services that back web applications in a way that makes it easy to deploy and manage them.