skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like few people remember that for a brief period, messenger bots were all the rage in the tech press and a lot of investment money was lit on fire to support them. I suspect most or all of that fervor can be traced back to this email. Concise, visionary... and wrong.

It's a classic example of confusing what's good for business with what's good for consumers, and then getting wrapped up in a story that rationalizes the use case. Messaging is a convenient interface in theory, but in practice it's not.

Zuck talks about opening a specific app to perform a specific action as if it's some terribly onerous process, but consider that most common use cases are the first or second button on an app's home interface. Tap to open, tap to do the action.

Even if it technically takes longer because of load times, it feels shorter because you're doing less work. Two or three taps to complete a task vs. opening messenger (tap), then TYPING what you want and hoping it's parsed correctly. Sounds awful.

Zooming out, this is a microcosm of how we get the labyrinthine user experience of so many popular apps and web sites: Executives suppose they know where the future of their business is, then insist the UX be built around that (instead of how or why people actually engage).

Note that Zuck's analysis here isn't based on any data whatsoever - it's purely "here's what I think the future of this business is," and then the entire company pivots around it. Is it all bad? No, having some kind of vision isn't bad. But... This is one of those areas where we can point to someone like Steve Jobs and say, at least he generally focused on the end-user experience and worked towards building the right product; FB/Meta's business-first consumer-later approach is backwards.

It might seem at first like it's framed as being about the consumer experience, but if you pay close attention the primary questions answered are: What can we do to increase engagement on the platform? And: What might others do to drive engagement that we can do first?

Wait a minute, what might others do that we can do first? That sounds like... playing defense. Except, the others haven't done it yet, so it's speculative proactive defense, which is something just about any startup advisor would caution against.

But FB/Meta is at the point where they're focused on market share above all else, so decisions are being made from this backwards second-guessing defensive position. And because so many of us are already locked into the ecosystem, we're experiencing the consequences.
One downside to Bridge is that it is a much less visual game than Go and Chess.

Personally, that is what drew me to the other two games.
> The other thing is their habit of releasing entire seasons at once

The Korean studios are quite smart with this. They release 1 or 2 episodes on a weekday just like Netflix used to with Star Trek Discovery.
Damn, that would have been so interesting. I've had a few Wikipedia binges about naval battles, so I remember stories about damage control and how incredibly good the US Navy became at doing it. Seems like an interesting mix of engineering and action film type excitement.
I feel the urge to apply to that company and squeeze a backhanded backdoor on those tablets
13 years ago, last I used them, Comcast would send an email with a list of the titles of the torrents it thought you downloaded.

Good enough to scare ~everyone by itself, though iirc they did threaten to halt your service, something I never decided to test out.
As a current prisoner, one of the nice things about private prisons is that they are so thirsty for profit that a lot of them bypass all the asinine rules about security that government prisons have in order to sell you anything and everything, e.g. games consoles, steel-stringed guitars, etc.

So, while you are more likely to come to grief in a private prison due to them under-spending on guards, health care, physical plant, etc, you will die in luxury as long as your family have money to send you.
Right now I don’t see any way he’ll run knowing he won’t win.
I've installed android application and it showed around $2-3 per month for subscription. But I'm pretty sure it should be different in another country or for web.
> The YC brand worked here, I think.

Congratulations? You weren't one of those who lost all of their money to this YC supported scam. Scams and get-rich-quick or get-more-rich off of the backs of others: that's the YC brand here and increasingly elsewhere. Paul Graham started this accelerator to make himself and his wife rich. YC exists to enrich its owners not as your litmus test for trustworthiness. Money over morality is the motto here. Libertarian values, limited government, startups as silver bullets, founding workers working themselves to death to enrich venture capitalists, and Dunning-Kruger for days in the form of Paul Graham. Are you poor? 'Have you tried making a startup?' is Paul Graham's solution to poverty as with everything else. You might as well ask 'Have you tried not being poor?'
Math is not science. Arithmetic and geometry were two of the original liberal arts (defined by Plato). Math doesn’t follow the scientific method. Math is a foundation for much of science and social science, but it is distinct from them.
I'm completely new to the rust ecosystem, but am I reading this right, this is basically a dev webserver for running in your checkout and testing locally?

Is this a competitor to an incumbent as I cant imagine something like that doesnt already exist?
Most users do not like changes that add very little value despite requiring they make regular investments in skills they already invested in and seek to derive value from.

Microsoft, and they are by no means alone in this, do that ALL THE TIME. And the most consistent reason they have provided is some benefit to them. They imply it means value for users, but that is a secondary rationalization.

Source: Many normie type windows users asking me, "Why?" ...often in tandem with, "How?"

Edit: Regarding the tile menu, the normies often just type something now, then pin it so they do not have to navigate a less familiar and arguably less interface again later.
None of what you've stated changes the fact that the original plan for fibre-to-the-premises was derailed by the incoming coalition government under Abbott & Turnbull.
In August of 2000, we were in the top 100. 73, to be specific.

I don't think I ever managed to push our rankings higher than that.

Those were the days!
It's this comparable to Archivebox?
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
definitely installed xp netbook edition, and it was faster than full boat xp but still a chonker compared to whatever the popular linux distro for netbooks was back then
Timbs v. Indiana is a great case. I've seen too many civil forfeitures where someone lost their brand new $60,000 car because they got some sort of minor traffic infraction.

In theory, Timbs has limited that.

I've not seen it used much in practice yet, but most state and local governments are seriously winding down their civil forfeiture practices anyway due to the changing tide of public opinion from abuse.
I think the root cause here is that people are afraid to live near nuclear plants, and would get mad at their political representatives if they got built in their area. Making these limits more stringent makes it look like the politicians are forcing the plants to be safer, when really they are just blocking the plants from being built in their districts at all.
Depends on your angle.

If you goal is to prevent your average joe, grandma & pafrom getting rugged from script kiddie, then it must be destroyed.

Or you create financial tsunami dwarf today's collapse and probably create WW3.
It’s a falsifiable claim, you’re welcome to disprove it. Good luck.
Nothing changed much in the last 5 years, if you like .Net better stick to .Net. The fact you miss Rails sometimes means it wasn't that bad though.
No, "in rem" civil forfeiture says that the items are a guilty party in the criminal action. It is no different to putting a person in pretrial detention until their case reaches trial.
Perhaps the US and Europe is pushing things to the point of their own suicide as well. The US (alone) is sending 50+ billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine for a conflict that has only lasted for a couple months. At this rate, the US will send about $300 billion in 1 year! That represents almost 1/2 of the entire US military annual budget and would dwarf the military budget of almost all nations in the world except maybe China. Talk about suicide.
> because the industry is a regulatory hell

That's weird, since many believe that the US nuclear industry is a fine example of regulatory capture.
Ask HN: Automated bot trading is our future?
I wants to know that automated bots trading have a good future or not.
Hauling materials breaks your body over time. I know from experience.
Except, it was never the regulations.

A nuclear power plant costs between $6B - $9B to build, before it generates any electricity, that is just the construction cost these days for a 1100MW plant

Regulatory costs for a nuclear power plant will range between $7M - $15M annually.

Do the math: it is definitely not the regulations. Any time someone complains about regulations, you know there is a Republican agenda. We need regulations, because they are the only thing preventing Big Business from enslaving you and me and worse. Regulations are good. Unless you make more than $400K/yr, stop doing the 1%er's jobs for them making sure most of the wealth is controlled by just a few by... removing regulations which really only bothers them because it means they make slightly less of the fortune they'd make without it.

The money is what is important. Your money should be important to you, so please make sure you only support agendas that work for your personal economic interests rather than the interests of the richest of the rich. If everyone always voted in their personal economic interests, we'd see a boom economy. The problem is, 99% of the Republican Party is literally voting adversely to their economic interests. They are voting to keep themselves economically stagnant and also to make sure the rich stay rich, for that day that will never come when they are rich, or maybe it is the absolute distractions that do not affect economy, like abortion or 2nd A. issues. If everyone only voted in their personal economic interests, and ignored all other concerns, there could not be a Republican Party. Well, there would be, but it would only have about 20 members, all listed among the top 25 richest Amercans. Most people aren't rich, and could benefit from better opportunity, which will never come so long as a minority party somehow has and has had control of the Senate for 18 of the last 20 years. If you care about your money, you should be on board with making DC and Puerto Rico legitimate US States, tax them and let them vote, and let's progress as a nation, rather than stagnating.
Right, and one piece is normally to reinforce that feeling by selecting crossings that actually DO get pedestrian traffic (normally 20 / hour for any one hour or at least 60 over some combination of 4 potentially non consecutive hours).

What happens when you splatter crosswalk everywhere is they lose some of their subconscious meaning because you de-link them from actual pedestrian use potentially.
Hot take: Everyone now uses k8s, I don't get why forcing our devops team to learn OTP and understand how to integrate Elixir with k8s is a benefit, it will only be harder for them. So you get most of the benefits like scalablity/reliability etc even if you're on the Rails - but you don't have to expose junior devs to a complicated and obscure stack like Elixir.
A lot of the rules for disconnecting solar were written when solar wasn't expected to be a major part of the grid, so the logic has them trip because that was the sane default.

That's no longer the sane default and the utilities have been slow walking software and hardware updates to fix it.

...and now that might be a problem.
Nomen est omen – On nominative determinism and the power of names
Never knew this was the case, I thought these enterprisey stacks were all about moving slow and being compatible. Why are they doing this then?
So Russia and/or China can annex Mexico into an exclusive military alliance and the US would argue “They are under no threats from the outside (China and Russia). Simple as that.” No way that would be the case. Alarm bells and missiles would be flying over such a move. Why do people not understand this as an equally alarming concern to Russia?
> The difference between a large construction company and a small one remodeling your home can be in the five figures.

I work by myself, for myself, and I'm able to charge much less than most simply because I have almost no overhead and almost everything goes in my pocket. I don't need to pay for a building lease, employees, company vehicles, etc. But it'll take me a week to do what those other companies can do in a day.
It is, because if the crosswalk collective idiots paint a crosswalk there, pedestrians will be more likely to choose this terrible crossing and be killed.

That's the point their ego's seem totally unable to grasp in all this.

That's literally part of how this design works. They've painted a crosswalk in the straight before the bend, and the straight after at a stop sign (goal is every 300 feet minimum to have a high quality crossing) to draw folks away from this dangerous crossing.

Rule of thumb is 40mph traffic requires 400 feet sightlines to stop and if you have a multilane crossing more
These points are either inaccurate or irrelevant

We can not build nuclear at $10/GW, that's a fantasy.

The use of the land is quite different too. When a wind farm "uses" 100x-1000x the land (and I am not accepting those numbers, just quoting you), that land is still available for other uses. The fraction of "used" land is so neglible as to not matter at all. So to discuss it in the same terms as a reactor doesn't make sense at all.
Taxes should be on luxury items.
Why would an SPA do a "personalized experience" better than a traditional website?

Amazon is highly personalized and fits well into the standard web page paradigm. What about Instagram's "personalization" wouldn't work as a standard web page?
The article on the site about solar is equally bad. Both are full of lots of good information but then have some key misunderstandings. The solar article doesn't acknowledge that installing a solar requires installing a gas peaker plant on the grid as well. [1] Although solar certainly reduces carbon emissions (the gas peaker plants only runs some of the time), the result is that the cost to the grid, rather than being the lowest, could be one of the highest depending on how the math actually works out. Battery can be installed instead of peaker plants, but the prices of raw materials for batteries have increased dramatically recently and it isn't possible for the mining of battery materials to keep up with the future demand. Tesla's car prices are shooting up- even though they are building huge battery factories to drive down price- it's not enough- they are now exploring mining Lithium, having already bought mining rights for it in Nevada.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22454/w224...
Does anyone have a more up to date citation?
Market makers/HFT firms can have astronomical returns, hundreds of percents is not uncommon depending on how capital intensive the strategies are. The returns don't compound since strategies in this space are usually very capital constrained.
Public sentiment and big oil lobbying
Kind of explains the abrupt Roe v. Wade reversal: a ruling based on a right to privacy & body autonomy would be in direct conflict with employer testing, contact tracing, forced vaccination, etc...
https://archive.is/Rw891 archived just in case
>"Just like News feed started out as friends content only but eventually expanded to included more content that is now critical to everyday engagement..."

Aged like milk, and not only in the context of the 2016 election.

Friends' generated content was the main reason why I started using Facebook back in '08. Content that showed up on my newsfeed not created directly by friends triggered my - and perhaps many other folks' - leaving the platform.
One thing I haven't noticed in the article is anything about wasted food. The common knowledge says: we've got enough food for everyone, it's just in the wrong place, so it's cheaper to throw away. If we really have global shortage, the balance of that will change and not throwing things out (or not overstocking in the first place) will become more common. I'd be interested in learning how much that affects the real shortage of food that we experience in the shop.
There's so much more to this then Stack X runs faster or has better concurrency - there's development time, there's the team's ability to maintain the code, there's community size. Performance is overrated most of the time - it simply doesn't matter much to the business if you save some money on AWS bills compared to human cost.
It seems like what worked for you was having a source who was paying close attention, not the branding at all.
> Effort: if a P2 can be done in an hour, it's probably higher impact than a "P0" that will take a quarter.

A "P0" that far out sounds to me like something with a tight (calendar vs estimated effort) deadline and some sort of fairly serious contractual or regulatory penalties for missing it.
Apple’s is the result of their experience promoting OpenGL and OpenCL. They found GL and CL both remained resolutely in the past, and people also seemed resolutely opposed to using them.

So GL and CL had to make a compelling argument for why apple should continue to invest in the technology, and even now they still aren’t able to show a single compelling argument for them being better than any alternative.

Personally I would have rather a single open API, but the open API did not appear to be super interested in competing with the other platforms. The end result is the open platforms turn into a pile of expense, licensing, and engineering for behind the curve technology and API.
Very good points.

I’m not sure if there’s something Netflix could have done honestly. They had a technology moat with video streaming tech at a time when everyone else focused on cable but video streaming and streaming apps became a commodity over ten years or so.

To expect them to also become a great studio company when they started out with the tech moat would be a bit of Silicon Valley hubris. It works for a few like Amazon but even Amazon is facing similar issues where online shopping tech is now commoditized and rivals have better depth in retail itself.
>But in DeFi, intelligence and strategy translate directly to greater yield. Math has proven time and again that those things matter very little in traditional markets.

You're all over the place with your usage of concepts.

Here you say that intelligence and strategy matter little in "traditional" (vague) markets. Yet, in DeFi, they do.

Not buying it. It feels like I could copy and replace your replace all of your uses of "DeFi" in this thread with <insert ponzi scheme>.

It's "different" than normal markets...I made it work personally (but not at scale)...
For most modern guys, yes, but there are still a lot of other uses for a hammer. Whether it's just not worth it to break out the nailer, or light demolition, or aligning framing elements, etc. Personally, since I moved into my property a few years ago, I frame about 50 linear feet per year, which is next to nothing, and I still preemptively went out and bought an electric nailer. No clue how the old school guys did it and maintained feeling in their arm.
When was that? I'm from Illinois. Not my experience in the slightest.
Shinobi – A Text-Based RSS Blogging System
> they had billions of dollars to create original content

they had the wrong idea that original content is their strong point. It's not. It's disney's strong point.

Netflix should've used their dominant position to lobby for new rules to the game - prevent exclusivity of content! They should've lobbied gov't to mandate that studio productions of content be permanently untied to a streaming service, and be available to all players in the streaming space. Just like net neutrality, we might call this content neutrality.

Netflix is at it's core, a tech company that solves technical issues with streaming. They pivoted to content creation, and they aren't very good at it - sure they got a couple of hits, but they cannot possibly compete on this with actual movie studios that own IPs from a century ago to this day.
Absolutely an ego trip, and an uninformed one. Many groups doing many things to increase walkability and things like bikeability. There are very few city that I'm aware of that are going backwards in this area, and many that are going forwards.

Again, I'm fine with it, as long as they can be sued, their mansions taken etc if they kill people with this. If they don't, great, but they need to take responsibility for what is very likely to be a horrible idea.
Yes, basically this tool is relying on github advisories, which is included in our list.
Okay, so maybe # of characters and index of the word that starts and ends with the specified character and has that many letters.

That reduces almost every English word to 4 bytes.

However, it might be possible to do the same trick with pairs of words.
I understand that SPAs were being overused in many places. But the pendulum seems to be swinging back way too hard, and people are bashing SPAs as if it's the worst thing in the world.

SPAs are cheap to host, as you just need a reverse proxy and with increasing internet speeds, bundle splitting can be almost imperceptible from MPAs
> A nuclear power plant costs between $6B - $9B to build

Why? Why not $20M or at the absolute worse $200M?

> Regulatory costs for a nuclear power plant will range between $7M - $15M annually.

This is disenginous number. Every single supplier, compliance, proposal, EVERYTHING about nuclear is regulated.

Behind this $7M-$15M on paper costs, lies the true cost of regulations: $6B-$9B.

> The money is what is important. Your money should be important to you, so please make sure you only support agendas that work for your personal economic interests rather than the interests of the richest of the rich.

Strange thing to say.
> It's hard if you are much better at a game than your children.

I disagree, growing up I stalled out improving at chess because no adult around my small town could reliably beat me, give a close game or point me at any resources to improve. I'm playing at ~1500 level as an adult (having stopped playing for 20 years) so have definitely lost some potential there.

These days it's not the case as there are many more easily accessible resources for children to find themselves, but a capable adult player is definitely a huge benefit as they can teach a child a lot about mindset towards competition as much as the game itself.
It's not as good as ArchiveBox at the moment.

In the future we will provide

1. peer-to-peer, conflict-free synchronization. (base on CRDT)

2. local-first desktop client, mobile client. (no server dependency)

3. notes software integration (obsidian, logseq)

4. chrome extension

At that time, I believe hamsterbase can be comparable to ArchiveBox.
It's not money transfer. It's crypto"currency" transfer. See my comment on this thread elsewhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31462909
> It's crazy what people come to believe.

It's not crazy to believe the reality of what is actually happening in the US and Europe

Assuming that the US and Europe can build the way that Russia or China can might be crazy though.
what's next? Teach your kids LoL, not bridge
Spotify playlist from the article: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54ZA9LXFvvFujmOVWXpHga?si=...