skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step 1: write an open-source connector for an open-source ELT tool

Step 2: paywall customers’ access to their own data so you can brand it as a premium feature/product

Step 3: ???

Step 4: profit
> For Ribbon, the NFTs act as verifiable proof of an achievement.

I don't believe this. Blockchains can be hacked. That means NFTs can be faked. This means Ribbon isn't necessarily verifiable.

> Lying on LinkedIn profiles and resumes is rampant.

With good reason. People are going to do whatever they think they must to get a shot at a job they want and think they can do, even if their actual experience and skillset isn't a 1:1 match with the requirements in the job posting.

If you think people won't find a way to fake Ribbon, then I find your lack of cynicism disturbing.

> The NFTs can also act as a pass for benefits

That sounds like the sort of "social credit" stuff China's messing with. No thanks.

> and entry into achievement-gated communities (e.g. a community of verified product managers across many companies)

If I wanted to confirm that somebody was a real PMP, I can look them up in the Project Management Institute's certification registry -- unless they were smart enough to opt out of being listed. (Most PMPs aren't that smart.)

I'm still not convinced Ribbon is an improvement. It looks like another attempt at applying a technological solution to a social/political problem. If my firm tried to give me a Ribbon as recognition, I'd ghost them on the spot and seek work at a firm that isn't run by people drinking crypto Koolaid.
As an avid user, in my personal opinion there are multiple factors, but the most significant one is that during lockdown and school closures, a lot of kids, blue collar workers and amateur investors (/r/wallstreetbets) were suddenly attracted to reddit due to the abundance of content, community and opportunity. In the reddit community, this used to be called summer reddit when kids were on summer vacations, but this time it seems the userbase has been retained.
The EU's ePrivacy Regulation[1] has (or had - it seems to fluctuate) a goal to move cookie consent into the user's browser settings.

There has (perhaps predictably) been significant lobbying against that by entrenched industry players, so we'll see what emerges as a result.

(I have to admit I'm not up-to-date on the latest happenings regarding this regulation)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation
I guess that makes sense. Those screens are black boxes as far as the user is concerned and highly dependent on the cloud to even function.

I guess I was thinking more Laptops and Phones.
> Firefox HTTPS only mode does not upgrade local IP addresses or reserved local "TLDs" like .local. If machines on your "local network" are squatting on a public IP…

It could be one of your public IP addresses—more likely with IPv6, but still possible with IPv4—and not simply "squatting" on someone else's assigned public IP address. The browser may not be aware that these are local.

With that said, the devices should use public domain names and obtain proper certificates for them via the ACME DNS challenge, which avoids the issue altogether.
Honkin' on the Fly
Think Like Git
> I’m of the opinion that lambda-as-in-serverless is an evil.

Are there any other serverless solutions that you'd recommend?

Maybe a more open cloud function solution that could also be self-hosted, should the need arise?

As far as I know, OpenFaaS might serve that niche for some, though of course there will be no cloud solutions as large as Lambda available: https://github.com/openfaas/faas

Also there used to be IronFunctions, but those seem basically abandoned at this point: https://github.com/iron-io/functions
Someone from the Roman Empire would have had a good understanding of the world in 1750. Ocean travel better, some advances in building large buildings, otherwise not that different.

In 1900? Quite a bit has changed.

The general shape of daily life today is not so different than say 1970. Email instead of letters, cell phones instead of searching for dimes for the pay phone.

But we fly in jets that average about 450 MPH, cars with a top road speed around 60 or 70 MPH, television but now with an Internet or cable feed, supermarkets are much the same, etc etc.
I’m not familiar with JVM things and what DMA is there, but usually when people talk about the OS page cache, they mean the in-memory file cache stored by the kernel. This means that if you read or write to a page in the cache, you’d be accessing memory instead of disk.

The alternative is to open your file with O_DIRECT, which makes your reads/writes always interact with the storage system and bypasses the page cache.
One game that was announced and then cancelled was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canceled_Command_%26_C...

It was similar to what you are talking about. There was an RTS aspect with a tactical view where you ordered groups of units around, and an FPS aspect where you fought as an individual.

The gameplay was based around your tactical units being under balanced against the enemy, so you would have to choose where and how to use yourself as the superweapon to achieve the level objectives.

I was a developer on the game team which had representatives from the RTS and FPS teams (CnC and Medal of Honor). The first day you were on the team you had to play the lo-fi prototype which had the basic mechanics in place. It was frantic, exhausting, frustrating, and incredibly fun.

Obviously I can't talk about why it was cancelled, but if you look at the business environment and economy in the first couple of years after the xbox360 and ps3 were released, you can get a good idea.

I really wish that game had been finished and released as it was originally conceived.
<3 Arctype. Query Variables & visualisations are awesome features.

Disclaimer: Worked with them in the past
And I'm saying that your portrayal is foolish.

From the very article you link

> Overall, the 1619 Project is a much-needed corrective to the blindly celebratory histories that once dominated our understanding of the past—histories that wrongly suggested racism and slavery were not a central part of U.S. history.

The 1619 Project contained historical errors that the authors should have avoided. But historians working in this area do not consider it to be a "journalistic rag" even as they criticize it. As I mentioned in my post, academic criticism is not evidence that a piece is devoid of merit.
Why give a corporation due process? Just summarily dissolve it and confiscate its assets.
> This is the unintended consequence of making pharmacies liable for filling prescriptions to people who were addicted.

Indeed. CVS, Walgreens and other pharma companies recently settled a $860 million lawsuit with Florida for their role in the opioid epidemic. Florida alleged that CVS and others failed to heed warning signs and filled an unreasonable number of dodgy prescriptions. It seems CVS is taking things more seriously now.

> The company distributed 2.2 million opioid tablets from its store in Hudson, a Tampa-area town of 12,000, and in one unidentified town of 3,000, sold 285,000 pills in a month, the lawsuit says. In some stores, its opioid sales jumped six-fold in two years.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-sues-walgreens-cvs-ov...
It's surprising it took Google so long. I remember "street view" projects like this when the Web was in its infancy back in 1994. You couldn't spin freely around, but you could go forwards, back, turn left/right etc. I was planning one with my home town, but it burns up a lot of 35mm film and you had to then find a good color scanner (usually handheld then) or use Kodak Photo CD to get the images into the computer.

Google were standing on the shoulders of hundreds of prior projects. They just did it on a scale no-one else could muster.
Vrchat or something else?

What hardware is needed for playing around with this?
You have to find a valid assignment of resources according to some business rules that are unstable/partially unknown/very likely to change.

You have to solve some kind of 3-SAT-reducible problem that would be difficult to implement otherwise.

You have to do some heavy pattern-matching.

Closely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_set_programming
Using a data warehouse as a processing engine is one of the dumbest things to come out of the data world.

ELT is genius marketing though!
>But the main controversy is centered on a strawman: should the New York Times cite sources in their articles?

100% yes. In the cyber security field, this has become such a problem. Several prominent cyber security news consolidating sites will put out very impacting articles, but remove any and all references where the information comes from. It is a nightmare of news reverse engineering.

I also have a vague suspicion that the articles are scraped from the original sites, and re-written by automagically with ML tools. That is, vast majority of these articles are auto-generated. Nothing wrong with it, but no way to prevent such scraping, and no way to compete SEO with them.
I've been dying for a cyber punk or Sci fi loot based ARPG. All the ones that exist are some flavor of fantasy with the exception of Borderlands and Destiny, but those are FPSs and I prefer the Diablo/Path of Exile approach.

I keep thinking about a mech based ARPG where you can attach different components to your mech that grant different passive/active abilities. Maybe different mech styles that have different passive abilities, but, in the spirit of Path of Exile, the components you equip are not limited by class.

I'm just tired of all ARPGs doing Gothic fantasy horror type stuff when there's so many unexplored options that could revitalize the genre. Give me lightsabers instead of swords, guns instead of bows, and drones instead of totems. Let me fight in cities and spaceships instead of villages and castles. There's just so much you can do with Sci fi.
No, but if I had to bet on one over the other, I'm going with 4% returns.
The NBA community is just for entertainment purposes not serious sports research and discussion. It has 5 million nephews. If 1% of that number decide to participate on any given day, that's going to be 50,000 nephews out in force.
Same here! I feel "at home" when I set a more personnal banner. ;-)

Still I did not know figlet was a thing: I hitherto used the Text to ASCII Art Generator (from patorjk.com) to do so. So thank you for posting this. Obviously a CLI tool had to exist, but I never thought about it.
I feel like you might've heard of ‘Space Rangers’ (just ‘2d space trading with pirates’ does rather hint at it), but if not—it's about a third to a half of what you described, plus some other stuff on top. IDK if they ever made it multiplayer, though—maybe in the Steam release.
A long, long, long, time ago I had a conversation with a Unix consultant at my Dad's business; his hobby was flying stunt planes with a twist: each plane had a 100 yard long ribbon tied to the tail; the winner was the pilot who landed with the longest tail.

This would be a terrific non-violent flight combat game; you could imagine with modern graphics and even VR it could be very satisfying.

Further, the consultant lost his license for a couple of years when he evaded an opponent by illegally flying under a highway overpass and a passer-by reported his plane's ID to the FAA; that could be a mechanic itself, extra risky maneuvers that had a chance of some big negative effect.
I wish i could afford to do what you are doing, but I can't survive in 2022 USA and support my family without access to credit. It is maybe possible, but it is wildly impractical. And the ability to borrow helps to smooth out the turbulence of life (unexpected emergencies or broken things). When I was in my 20s my credit was so bad I couldn't get loans and when life threw a curveball, it could take a ton of energy to sort out how I was going to deal with it. Now I just dip into the credit that I have available to deal with the situation.

But I hate it. It feels insane to me that we as citizens don't have more regulatory control over credit systems. I envy you, but I also know that what you are doing is not practical for me.
Spend 10k a month on ads and you'll be guaranteed to be found as well as bring in new customers.

There are ways to position your advertising budget so it generates new and more profit when you drop ads on Google & Bing + social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok :)

But yes, being at the mercy of the search engine Gods is no fun.
Interesting tale story, thanks for sharing!
> I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this, but this whole mini-journey was worth it for me, and I hope it will be for you too, should you embark in a similar one.

You have a new fan. Hearty congratulations and wish you a continued success!! You are an inspiration :-)
The thing is, even in Australia we didn't try to take the guns. We just said, "give us your guns, and we will give you above market rate money. Oh and btw it is illegal to own a gun that isn't registered."

If your buy back program offers a higher rate than the market (black or otherwise). Then the buyback program will suck up the guns.
This attitude of acceptance is probably the most helpful attitude the vast majority of the time, but I was lucky enough to have parents that radically minimized their possessions in their early 60's and moved into a retirement community, and it has first and foremost been a favor to them. As they've aged a few years, they're just enjoying a wildly unencumbered existence with the bare minimum of regular maintenance chores. They're focused on spending time with the people they want to, not puttering around the house. You're right that this kind of mindset can't be forced on senior citizens and it bespeaks a certain level of affluence, but it is a wonderful way for the elderly to live. I'd encourage children to lay the seeds with their parents before they're elderly and more resistant to change.
I was thinking about this classic article [0] that gets linked whenever people talk about HTTPS?

If so, that's a 2017 flamewar.

[0] http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/ (NOTE: this site tracks if you come from HN and sets a cookie. You'll probably need to open it in incognito)
My philosophy is to never browse reddit as a "whole" but instead just go to specific subreddits for what I need. It's been 10x more "normal" and each subreddit has a better balance between full of snarky replies (r/programmerhumor) or more helpful (r/rust) rather than the more popular ones (r/funny, etc.)
> My argument is that you should only use a credit card when you actually need credit and not to merely game a broken system.

Credit cards are literally the dumbest way to borrow money, second only to payday loans. So you definitely shouldn't use them when you _actually need credit_.

But you should use them to build up your credit score, so you can get extremely cheap credit when you actually need it.
Is there (or will there be) a way to share boards to web, for non-Muse users to comment on?

It's fine if those comments don't make their way back to Muse, but some way to share a static view of a Muse board would be helpful.
I think this answer draws the right balance between truth and vulnerability.

A corporation is not your friend. The interviewer is probably feeding you less benign little lies about the company simultaneously.
A leaked capability is indeed a critical failure. There are multiple ways to deal with that.

1. Revocation is pretty critical

2. Bounding of capabilities is great - "You have this right for N seconds", meaning that a leak is less devastating

3. Not relying on capabilities is the best option. Capabilities are amazing, and a wonderful access control system. Their main benefit is that you can very naturally implement extremely fine grained access control. The downside is that it becomes hard to reason about that access control statically. ACLs are bad at super fine grained access control, but they're great for "I can look at a policy and know what this thing can/ can not do".

Layering ACLs and capabilities is a match made in heaven.
https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Vportal/TK/Funktechnik/S... gives this example:
> Der Flughafen Bremen meldete ein Störungssignal in der Kommunikation zwischen Tower und Cockpit. Nach einer aufwendigen Ermittlung haben unsere Messtechniker einen Mardervertreiber auf dem Dachboden eines Familienhauses in der Nähe des Flughafens gefunden.

> Bremen Airport reported a fault signal in the communication between tower and cockpit. After an elaborate investigation, our measurement technicians found a marten repeller in the attic of a family home near the airport.

That sounds like EMI to me, but a different example they gave was that the wireless keyfob of the complainant's car didn't work on one side of the house (but worked on the other side), with the culprit being a small weather station at a neighbor that ran on the wrong frequency "due to a defect".

I'm not sure to what extend the offending devices affect safety critical infrastructure, but if they are sufficiently broadband, I'd expect them to hit such a frequency allocation.
In that case, the BNetzA can and afaik will order the offender to turn off and fix before turning back on.

Also note the german amateur radio club's information on the subject: https://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/emv/emv-abhilfemassnah... "EMC (the EMI-sense) mitigation measures".
I’m ex-iOS dev so maybe things changed in the last couple years. But Apple was pretty good at keeping old APIs around for a loooong time. Deprecated apis would stay around for quite a while.

New architectures do break old apps once in a while. But even then apps do survive several years without touching. And if someone wants to keep using apps after that… IMO it’s fair to put some burden on user - they have to stick to old OS too.

But if app is subscription, then Even sticking to old OS won’t help…
Every community worth some money was captured by a specific interest group. All the organic growth got turned off and the places that still nurture organic growth are front ends for shopify/unreal engine/alibaba, ect.

The real sense of community which enabled so much valuable information flow was stamped out. Community was replaced with politics, auto mods and feudal lords crushing dissent instead of leading discussion.
minikube is the best kept secret in the container industry. Use minikube to match closer to prod on your local development machine.
I was looking for mention of retro games. https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Dropzone

Defender
Robotron
Agreed. I see a "Use new Reddit as my default experience" preference checkbox not to click if you don't want (longtimer here...) . It also supports RSS for subreddits, that's nice.
I wish this was on the GoodNotes/SublimeText model: pay once for a premium version of the app, and then never worry about subscriptions. The moment something requires subscription my threshold for buying it goes up 1000 fold.
why did you use Flutter?
clearly we should ban cars to stop drunk driving.
Really excited to see what happens with this project!
A modern good Thief game
I have been thinking about this concept / similar concept for a long time.

My chief complaint with Civilization games is that they've become a history-themed board game. A fun board game, but less and less it doesn't feel like a history simulator.

The problem with "country" simulator is that countries are a more modern concept, the vast majority of human civilization doesn't feature strong nation concept. How do you model a country that goes from Villanovans to Romans all the way to Italians?

How do you model a civilization which can boom and collapse? How can you set the systems up to support things like the mayan collapse or the bronze age collapse? The fall of the roman empire? Technological regression? How technology truly transforms culture, engineering, politics, etc? Adding +1 to a score is nice and dandy but how you simulate your nation having dynamic classes enjoying luxuries based on location, industry and technology?

I want to see that the urban elite are using silver utensils while the farmers are stuck on wood. I want to see that the civilization used wood too fast and used it all up, causing a collapse.

I actually envision the map as a grid with each grid holding information about the people there. Population, class, technology, industry, culture etc. A rural tile would have low population and be influenced by other tiles. An urban tile might be generating let's say `copper age 3` and in a radius around it for some distance, their tools would be upgrading towards that level. But invading and pillaging this urban tile might lead to those levels dropping, setting a region back in many ways.

The hardest part I have is that I just want a pure simulation with no user input. Gamifying it ruins the purity of my simulation and leads to civilization the game!
To offer an opposite argument, I hated reddit before the redesign and always take "old." out of links.

Every reddit looked like a geocities offering to me, they were inconsistent in coloring and contrast and all the bullshit I don't care about. Non-old reddit gave me a more consistent and less distracting way for me to quickly browse subreddits and posts I'm interested in and getting out.
Wow, I'm jealous of the control panel in your first link. In contrast, my 2014 Chevy Volt-with-a-"V" has an absolutely aweful interface. It's a combination of small, laggy touchscreen and a bunch of also-laggy, haphazardly-arranged touch-sensitive buttons:

https://www.automotiveaddicts.com/25445/2012-chevrolet-volt-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73W4jZpkf0