skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit weird of you to use that NHS Providers site. Chris is here talking about the Conservative party making misleading claims:

> So here is a challenge to politicians who say they support the NHS. Be clear and straight about the numbers – for example, don’t double count what’s already been announced and don’t confuse five and one year commitments to boost a headline number. Acknowledge the scale of the funding needed to deliver services to meet our growing needs, and to rebuild our NHS, making it fit for the 21st century. That means looking beyond hospitals, important though they are, to other parts of the service which have suffered similar neglect, for which patients are today paying the price.

That "double counting" means that the amount of money being invested is less than claimed; the numbers of new staff being trained & recruited or retained is less than claimed; the numbers of new hospitals being built is less than claimed; etc.
> With modern computers, where even the smallest instance currently available on AWS would have been a beefy system when this advice was first diffused into the community

Cloud VM instances are for the most part very underpowered (and for the performance, overpriced). You'd have to go far back a lot of years to get to an era where a "beefy system" of the time was as weak as the smallest AWS instance (t2.nano?)
Loading times were the #1 complaint from users about the game. I personally wouldn't play a game where 5 minute loading times were the norm, 10+ minute times are common, and 15+ minute times are not unheard of.

It's the #1 complaint. The thing that makes this egregious isn't so much that they didn't fix the #1 complain, the thing that makes it egregious is that it's a simple enough flaw that a mediocre developer could have just run WPR/WPA against it and see that 90% of those 5+ minutes was spent in strlen. Maybe it's not their area, maybe they don't know how to fix it, but they will recognize that it's a problem with a likely easy fix.

So even if we completely ignore the fact that it's the #1 complaint, it's still egregious that it's been allowed to go on for this long.
Blockchain is a super simple data structure. So any bc product with a incomprehensible buzzwordy description is fraud.
The damages are at least the wholesale price of the DVD (probably half the consumer price) in that case. With piracy that becomes harder because the marginal cost is zero.
> Distribute [your content] via methods you control.

I'm being nitpicky but it feels off to me to call people out on owning their own platform but then use Cloudflare's CDN instead of running their own. And if they did run their own CDN, they would probably have to use AWS or another worldwide cloud provider and not own the hardware. And if I were Richard Stallman I would probably come down on you for using proprietary chipsets in your hardware instead of totally open source hardware. And you can just keep going deeper and deeper with this train of thought. So what level of ownership is acceptable to this website's author? I feel like the right balance of "ownership" is super subjective.

I love a lot of traits of the "old-school" web and am a huge believer in self-hosting as much as possible. But imo yelling at people while on your high horse doesn't encourage anyone.
Pride goeth before the fall. And this guy has a lot of pride. Pity when intelligence, ethics, and rationality diverge.
Quant cash bonuses are highly conditional and would rarely materialize at the quoted max possible levels. If they do at all, party don't last very long. OP is aggressive husler but his greedy optimization strategy isn't going to take him too far.
Requirements changes are not driven by one-off material defects in critical pieces of hardware.

That's simply a bending of the rules for economic reasons. And it is one of the main reasons for me to oppose nuclear: the fact that people will be people and that at the root of every one of those disaster and near disasters there was someone who thought they could get away with something. We are ill equipped to deal with this kind of responsibility, especially across a timeframe measures in decades.

At the same time I would love to see us solve the climate change problem, and I recognize that we will likely have a nuclear component in there. But it will have to be done by the book or we'll end up regretting it - again.

If we're going to start out with the normalization of deviance on the #1 critical component of a reactor then I think we are on the wrong path:

https://becht.com/becht-blog/entry/normalization-of-deviance...
> In a major assault on basic civil liberties, the burden of proof is on the assailants.

That's a very grand thing to say after flat out stating you're just going to flat out dismiss any evidence they present ("I'm not even giving them enough credit to try and explain anything away").
Microsoft tried to continue to maintain their own browser for years without any market share to show for it. For whatever reason, the browser just couldn't match the level of polish in Google Chrome or Apple Safari.

This current situation is stable for Microsoft - the fact that Microsoft is gaining market share with Edge means that Microsoft could threaten to fork Chromium, thus keeping Google in check there.

...as for mobile. I agree and wish Microsoft good luck.
One of Sila Money's applications was that they were able to convince banks to do faster domestic ACH transactions by putting the transfer messages on a public blockchain, instead of bothering with some kind of shared database or permissioned consortium blockchain. (You can add arbitrary data to most cryptocurrency transactions).

Another one that comes to mind is pNetwork. That is a big bridge, was the subject of a large and amateurish hack. There are now many bridge technologies. I had found it interesting that it was so popular but had no token, seemed like it was popular in Asia which contributed to me missing it before the headlines. Nowadays most bridges don't have a token associated with them though.

Sometimes what I do to find projects that don't surface from seeing a big token price movement or don't surface from hearing people talk about it, is to search for certain code signatures for a constructor or a popular function that programmers might re-implement.
Related:

How Software Companies Die (1995) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934450 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

How Software Companies Die (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12963251 - Nov 2016 (1 comment)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860823 - Jan 2015 (1 comment)

How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818556 - Nov 2013 (168 comments)

How Software Companies Die (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182867 - Aug 2013 (3 comments)

How Software Companies Die (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5372726 - March 2013 (14 comments)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4776844 - Nov 2012 (3 comments)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993706 - May 2012 (2 comments)

How software companies die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2523005 - May 2011 (3 comments)

How Software Companies Die - by Orson Scott Card - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866486 - Nov 2010 (45 comments)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1654310 - Sept 2010 (1 comment)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637968 - Aug 2010 (1 comment)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635094 - Aug 2010 (1 comment)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552821 - April 2009 (23 comments)

How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99568 - Jan 2008 (1 comment)

Software - How Software Companies Die - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43842 - Aug 2007 (5 comments)
Imagine misattributing FAANG comp to any kind of personal competency.

My FB interview panel was the biggest clowncar of unwarrantedly self important people.

Anyway, pretty orthogonal to your comment, but kind of hilarious seeing what comp can do to people's ego, and perception of self

I made it rich through hustle and major contributions to a startup from the early days. Most big tech employees are a cog in the machine, along for the ride
Sternly worded emails.
Having keenly paid attention while the ACA was debated and passed and implemented I would say a lot of those opposed were as clueless about it as they are about Glass-Steagall.
It's just a Letter- it carries little or no weight. And it looks like it's from a cardiologist- somebody with no deep/special knowledge of the immune system or viruses https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Kenji-...
See the impact metrics on their main page, https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/
it's a fairly low impact factor, meaning few people cite papers (or letters) from it.
Dell's Wyse 5070 (and 5470 AIO with a passable for non professional graphics usage 24" display) thin clients are $100 (ebay or even dell outlet) machines that make great daily drivers. they aren't speed demons, but with a m.2 ssd stick and 8-16GB of ram, they are more than fast enough for every day use (my 5470 seemed to just stay at a 2.4ghz boost clock in a reasonably ACd room (and with just passive cooling to its cpu, no fan). So don't even need really old ones.

they also make great plex servers, due to intel quicksync for transcoding videos.
> And yet Windows was successful even when unstable.

Everybody had a friend who knew how to fix Windows.

And it was a literally a job, there were fliers glued to lamp posts advertising "I install/fix/devirus Windows for a small fee".

Also, during this time of unstable Windows, Linux was even worse. It wasn't the nice Linux desktop of today.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942632 - Jan 2021 (269 comments)

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841059 - Aug 2019 (67 comments)
The process has exactly zero chance of never terminating in the usual probability space of infinite strings with iid characters, even though the set of strings (of RNG results) on which it does not terminate is nonempty (uncountably infinite, even, provided N ≥ M + 2); the term of art is that it terminates almost surely. An alternative definition is that you can throw out these strings from the space and no well-posed question of probability (as opposed to set) theory will get a different answer. They’re gremlins, essentially, except for the part where an (uncountably) infinite union of gremlin (null) sets may not yield a gremlin set.

(The usual definition of that space via “cylinder sets” may seem contrived, but it’s usually introduced first because it’s “elementary” in that it does not require developing the machinery of limits of [not in] probability spaces. Those can be made to work, though, and then you can say that the space of infinite strings is the limit of the spaces of length-n strings for n → ∞ and obtain the same thing. In fact, the cylinder-set definition is essentially the limit definition with the notion of limit inlined.)
I wrote a tool a long time ago to publish a tree of git sha's to a neat non-distributed pre-blockchain that was being supported by the Linux Foundation, https://publictimestamp.org

https://github.com/rektide/git-ts

Alas frigging publictimestamp.krg was a pretty basic site which was fully dynically rendered. Nine of web.archive.org leaves any evidence of what the public timestamping (centralized) blockchain was anymore. Terrible bitrot, ironically for a.project that was all about preserving histor That's a real bite in the ass by irony!

This was mostly for fun, because it was easy & made sense & I could havk it out in a weekend. I hope this project really does help us get good.

I keep thinking the missong element in so much of the shit we have- Certificate Transparency- is another feature. Signed Exchanges. When you https get a resource, a server shpuld cryptographically sign it, make the resource fungible. Http-signatures feom bag in the Google Buzz days had similar, but this is slicker & more capable. That way we can hold copies & swap them, & knoe, at one point yes, the host said this was true.
Yea, that is something I too can appreciate. The simplicity of having a single place where I can read about a wide arrangement of hobbies, interests, and professions.
Normalization of Deviance – The Pathway to Disaster (2018)
pg_amcheck can be helpful for validation if its a b-tree index
> I personally haven’t got the vaccine, and the reason, I am skeptical with my medical condition, how it will affect me, and I haven’t been able to actually have proper medical treatment because I haven’t been able to have a one-on-one with a doctor to see if the vaccine would be possible with my health conditions.

He talks as if he's one of the first obese persons to be eligible for the vaccine.
Dogma is not synonymous with emotion.
Right, but now we're going "replace this single app with a normal graphical interface for working with visual media with multiple command line utilities including the terminal that you're always going to have to look up the commands flags for" and that's not really selling it =P
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> there are finite and fundamental classes of problems, that underpin the vast majority of problems

We already have had, for a long time, a 'universal' model for a specific slice of information processing that consists of a very small set of components: Graphic User Interfaces.

One problem is the diversity of domain semantics and all the associated nuances. In GUI programming, this is the tedious bit of naming the components and mapping them to processing elements.

Another problem is engineering culture (du jour). A reductionist approach that attempts to leverage structural commonalities requires what is poo poo'd as "boiler plate" and all the associated warts of component oriented programming (including factory-factories). A revisionist shift in mindset is required.
> As has been pointed out repeatedly, you could take a football field, dig down a few stories, and put all the nuclear waste needed for energy generation in there

Here are mentions of this talking point on Hacker News:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> So "it's an accurate representation of how many unions acted, and to prove my point here's a biography of a criminal with union ties." I don't see how that's proving their point.

Since you are asking me, If you read or scan the page you will see how unions historically operated in the US.
There is a big difference between claiming that "you could just go in the backseat while the car drives itself", and calling your system Autopilot, considering collision avoidance isn't anywhere in the traditional definition of autopilot as it pertains to planes.

Don't let your hate for Musk as a person cloud your judgement. These things are not comparable.
Middesk raises 57m in Series B
The mastodon community of today is very different from what it would be if it had hundreds of millions of users. Once the plaform grows enough to critical mass, the costs of switching off that platform become high enough that it can close itself off without mass exodus.

The only way I see to end up with anything like what the author lays out is to mandate interoperability for platforms (possibly over a certain size). Unfortunately I have zero faith that our legistlators can craft and pass a bill that does that without bastardizing it to the point that is simply creates moats for the incumbent tech giants. I'd love to be surprised.
Even better! The true POSSE spirit!
Thank you for showing me this. I didn't even know that 1gb ram devices were created for consumer use outside of raspberry pi and the like. I will keep this in mind going forward.
> He distributed Nintendo's private signing keys to customers

No, he didn't.
Sure, but why not "Omicron-aware" or something less alarmist?
Crypto usage is entirely tied to the market. If the market is doing well, dApp usage collapses.

Google search volume doesn't collapse if the stock market isn't doing well. You still send emails even in a recession.

No one uses crypto outside of speculation. Even the dApp with the most "mainstream" use case, OpenSea, has collapses in usage as soon as the market turns bearish. Why? Because no one wants to buy "digital art" when there is no bigger fool to sell it to.

I haven't even logged into my Metamask for weeks now.
Appreciate the suggestion, that's a great idea. I wasn't familiar with rerere until I started this project but it looks like a useful feature.
I said in a previous discussion

> Nintendo have had a conflicted stance about community projects over the years. From threatening UltraHLE (early Nintendo 64 emulator) developers back in the late 90s to largely ignoring the Wii exploits and homebrew scene in the mid-to-late 2000s to attempting to hire private investigators to identify and implicate 3DS homebrew developers in 'illegal' activities.

Ultimately I think if Xecuter did not have their product so closely intertwined with enablement of piracy and distribution of copyrighted content it would leave Nintendo less legal ammo to use against them and potentially make it not worth pursuing.

Important to note the RCM exploit only works for the first revision of Switch units. This does not justify other potential crimes Xecuter may have done but certain previous mod-chips for certain previous consoles have been open-source in a clean-room design not including copyrighted content by the original vendors thus potentially removing issues of copyright infringement. Sad the Switch scene could not be the same.
The old Usenet had social groups and discussion groups for almost every interest you could think of. New groups were created multiple times per week, and when the backbone maintainers tried to rein that in, the alt hierarchy was created and vastly more groups were created. But most of the non-tech groups were not archived so that discussion is gone. Arguably fortunately: we were young and stupid and posted embarrassing stuff using our real names and affiliations.
They were dumping waste off the coast of Somalia, in the ocean
Appreciate the technical reasons for why AGI is nowhere close to reality:

"Deep learning has advanced the ability of machines to recognize patterns in data, but it has three major flaws. The patterns that it learns are, ironically, superficial, not conceptual; the results it creates are difficult to interpret; and the results are difficult to use in the context of other processes, such as memory and reasoning."
Just like security, you settle for the risk you can afford and are comfortable with.

The cloud muddies your grasp of the risks though. A lot of these cloud offerings (like k8s) are incredibly complex, and therefore have a lot of attack vectors, and a lot of points of failure. We depend on layers built on layers, built on layers. You can't really eliminate all of these dependencies, but you can eliminate / reduce some of the highest risk ones (topmost layers).
Even though android is more open, it's not exactly in much better shape. It's nearly impossible to do anything useful with mainline Linux on most Android devices because the SoC vendors don't upstream anything since their entire financial model is sell new chip every 6 months.
then your friend knows all to well how difficult it is to get fiat to these people. Not every company has the resources to navigate corruption and red tape in other countries when they can simply pay them in bitcoin and be ensured the worker won't be subjected to extortion/corruption stealing their paycheck.

Sorry I can't provide more details, I don't really know if everything happening is totally legal? I assume it is for the US company, but I'm sure you can find more details if you look hard enough.
Aw shucks, I spent far too long making it, but your comment makes it all worth it =)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201022025721/https://martin.cr...

Interesting history in this case - a personal domain.

They probably emailed the owners with a good offer. Since this wasn't a domain broker, it was probably five figures instead of six or seven.

I've managed to do this a few times.
One whole section of the keynote was dedicated to how HomeKit is being subsumed by Matter, a standard all of the major home automation companies are collaborating on.
How to identify your startup's weaknesses easily
Without a time machine, there is no way OP could have predicted their recovery email would eventually be used as MFA.
The DTMF chips that generated regular Touch Tones™ were capable of generating all kinds of fun sounds simply by extending the key matrix.

You could build a red box, pink box, blue box, and others by modifying a standard tone dialer. The easiest thing to do was to add a fourth column of keys, which supposedly gave you the ability to use the ABCD digits required for military networks. I never tried that, though.

For those of you who missed out on that era, a tone dialer was a little palm-sized box that had a small Touch Tone keypad on one side, and a speaker on the other. If you had a rotary phone, after dialing, you could hold it up to the mouthpiece and use many of the fancy features that came with the invention of Touch Tone, like using FŌN cards, or listening to your messages on your answering machine.
But that’s not owning your platform. What if youtube decides that your video is in violation of some community guidelines and deletes it?
Merlin. The bird identifier app from Cornell. Take some time to stop and smell the birds.
Newsgroups were run by a secret cabal for a long time. Beyond that the system just doesn't preserve integrity; a given provider can censor some messages and that's generally something you live with or switch to a better provider.
May be worth considering: Lightweight ActivityPub writing platform, straightforward to self-host but there are also managed hosts: https://writefreely.org/
Just as in modern Reddit, the culture was very different from group to group. Some were like that, others were much more polite.
I posted this because I've seen a rash of recent large raises, Middesk, Supabase, WorkOS etc and have been pretty surprised. I would have thought that these sorts of large raises would have cooled given the macro economic trends, but it seems like I was wrong.
I'm struggling to understand your connection at all. There's a difference between legality and ethics. Something can be illegal and it would be immoral for someone to obey that law. Similarly something can be illegal and it wouldn't be immoral for someone to ignore that law.
Unified Payments Data Read at Airbnb
Ridiculous. One thick side for gripping, one long sharp edge for cutting, both of which taper to a point for poking and drilling.

How did they ever think of this masterpiece? Must have been traveling engineers in a complex social network spanning continents.
> Heating is super awesome with renewables. As you can store heat in an well isolated home.

Sounds like you're not speaking from experience. Actually, houses are pretty lousy batteries. Most people have a range of only a few degrees that they find comfortable indoors. They will tend to set the thermostat to about the middle of that range. If they turn off the head, the temperature will go the lower end of that range after a few hours. Very few hours if it's really cold outside, and that's when it matters most.

Admittedly, my house is old and not super-well isolated, but during the coldest days of winter (around -20C), it can easily require 10kw, constantly, to keep it warm enough to prevent my wife from becoming agressive.

If we turn off the power for 2 hours, it's already pretty cold.

Heat pumps would reduce overall energy consumption, but not the need for constant use, and more isloation would reduce both, but it would still likely take several kw constantly on days like that.