skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managing domain names on a blockchain was one of the few good blockchain ideas. It offered a way to get rid of domain registrars, who were originally just record-keepers and managed to become rent-seeking landlords. But no. The .eth domain was implemented in a way that requires annual payments to somebody.
Good points, but I would suggest that just because the swamp-dwellers like it that way, does not mean it isn't a swamp.

I very much minimize my time there, because it is the spammiest, clingiest "social" network I've tried. I abandoned Facebook too, but there is at least marginal usefulness on LI, so I log in periodically.

I'd say that those who engage most are either directly recruiting or marketing, or self-annointed "thought leaders". At least the recruiters are unashamed in their role there. I cringe most at the thought leader types who apply the term to themselves. Like "hacker" or "guru", the term should usually be given by other people.
My point is that due to lack of users it doesn't get better. I've modified gnome in the past to meet my requirements
> Apple's position is "Macs don't get malware" and any contrary fact is quickly swept under the rug.

C’mon, that’s a lie. They have articles about reducing your malware risk.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/protect-your-mac-fr...
Hmm, I think top 10 US banks easily beat those.
Every recursive problem has a non-recursive solution.
Yes, and? We're talking specifically about companies that have "solid growth, unit economics, and cashflow" — i.e. which have a stable business model + revenue engine. Businesses that have been de-risked. Businesses where the only reason they're not bigger already, is that they need money to throw into the coal furnace to power the train up the hockey-stick hill.

At that stage of a business, you wouldn't be taking seed-stage or series-A funding; it'd be series-B or series-C — where the type of investors who do those investments are just as risk-averse as banks, and are looking at essentially the same things banks look at.

At that stage of a business, you know there isn't anything on the horizon that'll kill your share price. Your market cap is stable (save for the growth you're trying to enable.) So you should be extremely wary to let go of any more equity. You should highly prefer debt-backed investment (i.e. loans) over equity-backed investment, because your equity value increase from the growth should be predictably paying off that debt, and then some, likely the same fiscal year you take on the loan. Selling any equity at that period in a company's growth is throwing earnings down the drain.
My understanding from people there is that there’s also a sort of compensation cliff risk on year 3 for new joiners. Due to the way the stock grants & vesting work, you get some fixed cash component in years 1-2-3 to offset, which goes away on the assumption you can start selling your shares now that they’ve vested.

Further, as the stock was going up, there were downward adjustments to the number of shares granted after year 3 (since the dollar value was higher and put you “out of band”) if you hadn’t been promoted in time. Somehow I am doubtful there has been a equal adjustment to number of shares upwards as dollar value in 2022 has gone down.

So it created a cycle of people coming in, working 3 years, then sitting out 6+ months so they could reset with a new offer all over again with the higher cash component plus negotiating their new stock grants...
Maybe it would be interesting to read if presented as an article, but the Twitter thread is unreadable.
The increase in the pace of modern life does not compensate for this. Many of the problems of the past have been widely solved, and those solutions have brought new problems. Discounting todays solutions based on todays problems misses the historical context this article is addressing.

“Modern society doesn’t have leisure time because people can’t help but check Twitter instead of listen to Beethoven, when they have ready access to both” becomes less of a valid critique every 50 years you rewind human history. Today’s problems are a substantial quality of life improvement over history’s problems for a sweeping majority of humans alive today.
Yes, plenty of games make money off in-game transactions, and generally they only remain profitable for a few years while they have a large user base, then fade into irrelevance.
Clever Deers..
Charge backs should also be less of an issue if the purchase is $1. Same with fraud.

The stakes are lower the lower the amount. Who cares?

It's not worth disputing. Fire the customer if it crosses a threshold.
That makes sense and could explain a lot of it. The time spent is essentially compressed in memory making it seem smaller than it is.
I am very eager for this crime wave moral panic thing to end so I don't have to nod sagely when someone says ridiculous stuff like this (in person, obviously online I'll just communicate my real thoughts).
Are there any non-speculative ethereum apps? The examples I’ve seen would all be better by just a distributed database with trusted authorities.

The computation and distribution is very expensive, so I’m not sure what I would run on ethereum until transaction costs get down to a penny or something.
> An attempt at a better answer might be that a problem is “inherently” recursive. However, that’s just a limitation of viewpoint. There’s nothing more inherently recursive than iterative about factorial. All the problems above can be expressed even more declaratively, as in a mathematical specification, that eliminates any implementation directive (e.g.: the greatest common divisor is the greatest, common, divisor: the definition of the problem says nothing about how to find it, and searching through all numbers to find divisors that are common and taking the largest one is no less valid a solution).

I always thought Euclid's algorithm had a pretty great runtime complexity, compared to "list all divisors, choose the greates common one". Is that not correct?
So, under this theory, why did greed increase so much in 2021, after having been mostly dormant for 1-2 decades?
Real people does not always speak good.

And everybody has blinds pots, topics that are interesting but that we have little knowledge.

> We show that human judgments of AI-generated language are handicapped by intuitive but flawed heuristics such as associating first-person pronouns, authentic words, or family topics with humanity.

And that is a good one. Because we try to understand the others when they does not make fully sense.
Why is it so expensive? It's like $1k in Finland.
Time to play some Stellaris I guess.
Could it also indicate the usage of a new phrase in place of an established word “homeless”? Like if I used the term “apartmentless city dweller” I would probably put in quotes.
P.R. with zero tech details is indistinguishable from 100% balonie.
What is an example of a coastal city with "nice working class neighborhoods"? I am curious what people mean when they say nice, it seems very value laden.
> only stablecoins backed by governments continued to exist as representations of "stored value" on these platforms

What would be the advantage over the government just running the databases for that as well? If there is a central trusted issuer, there is no need for a blockchain.
I totally agree. I understand that people do not blog anymore. But Twitter is not a good place for lengthy texts, by design!
So the article criticizes Patreon for having "additional charges for non-US PayPal payments as well as separate currency conversion fees that are mysteriously high at 2.5%", offering donorbox.org as a respite, yet no-where can I seem to find what donorbox charges for non-US PayPal payments and currency conversion?
Show HN: Remove Silence from Videos with Ffmpeg
There was recently a Show HN for a program that lets one remove silence from video files [0]. I was almost certain that ffmpeg could do this...

But after searching for it, it turned out I was wrong: ffmpeg can't do this out of the box, and also can't read input from an EDL file [1].

So I set out to write a solution, as simple as possible: produce a list of select filters that are applied to video and audio, and retain only the non-silent parts.

The 'silencedetect' audio filter detects silences, and produces timestamps for when silences start and end. So one can pipe the output of that to a Python script, that builds an ffmpeg command with the appropriate select filters.

The resulting ffmpeg command can be run to re-encode the video without the silent parts.

Hope this helps.

- - -

Notes:

1/ I did find something somewhat similar to what I ended up doing [2], but it's complicated, and does the video encoding inside of Python. Granted, moviepy uses ffmpeg under the hood, but it's still better if ffmpeg does all the encoding directly.

2/ This solution doesn't produce a myriad of intermediary files that it would recombine afterwards; there is just one encoding of the output video file. 'silencedetect' is very fast, so all in all running this should be pretty fast.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31767830

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list

[2] https://donaldfeury.xyz/remove-the-silent-parts-of-a-video-u...
That’s the reality for big Japanese tech companies.

They pay you in reputation, and reputation doesn’t transfer to other big corps since they see frequent job changes (sometimes capped at twice in a lifetime) as a red flag and won’t hire people.
Why do people use GA? I've tried it, and it's so unnecessarily complex. They should have a 'lite' version that just focuses on unique visits and impressions, and that's it. The tool is massively underused by the majority who use it. I can see the use-case for startups and large companies who are doing A/B testing and doing funnels etc but using it for basic metrics is like bringing a gun to a knife fight due to its complexity.
I’m like 60% sarcasm and 40% shill
Because its not responsive/dialogue.
Ah, I see. I figured they'd keep the input energy constant because otherwise you're not saying much at all (you could figure that the efficiency plummets and you'd be better off with a space heater).
Who will feed the slackers?

You see, that’s the problem that you conveniently skip.
Great example.

Another one is Oculus -- acq by FB in 2014, first consumer release in 2016. (Although you could argue that the 2012 kickstarter was a launch.)

Also, wasn't Vine prelaunch when it was acquired by Twitter?

A recent example this year is Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia.
Some more info:

- Tested on the files in the /test directory; but not tested on files that have many different audio and video streams

- Could be complemented to add the ability to run on a smaller part of the file to verify the silent triggers (but the output ffmpeg command can be edited before it's run, if necessary)
Units are somewhere over a thou and (simple, not multiduct) installation is somewhere under a thou.
I have always felt like the enslavement concern of extraterrestrial contact is somewhat disingenuous because it stems from our historic treatment of one another due to resource scarcity.

In my humble and unscientific opinion, a race capable of creating ships big enough for intergenerational travel or capable of speeds that would make such travel feasible would have command over technology that would make scarcity a thing of the past. The universe is full of stuff (atoms) we can use to make other stuff, so why would we want to travel so far just to subjugate another species?
You're gonna have to explain this to me because I don't get this quote.
Why Einstein is a “peerless genius” and Hawking is an “ordinary genius”
People have been trying to force cryptocurrencies and related ideas like DAOs into a "Web3" framing, but what I see is that "Web3" was really "Crypto I", and I predict that now that the bubble has popped we'll (eventually) see some "Crypto II" services and businesses that provide real value emerge from the rubble.
Elastic is IMHO a weird pick for this argument. Annual revenue over $1 billion growing at >30%. The money comes from corporations whose most valuable data flows through the system created and provided by Elastic.

How is that a Ponzi in any sense? It’s not like Elastic makes money from selling its own stock on endless promises. The product exists, works, and generates a billion dollar in sales. The valuation may not be attractive, but it seems clear to me that this can be a profitable and stable business if they decided to stop buying growth.
In the third world sometimes the maintenance is just as bad as the construction. Does this person know what they are doing? Well, we are going to find out.
Switching to electric vehicles is a very significant part of combating climate change, without which there is no hope of achieving zero carbon, and no company has done more to make that happen than Tesla.

Minimizing how significant Tesla's contribution to reducing CO2 emissions has been relative to other carmakers', and in fact, relative to any other single company, is not an honest way of evaluating its impact on the world, and suggests to me a motivation unrelated to environmentalism behind it.
Japan has one of the highest rates of car ownership in the world. It’s pretty common outside of Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya.
I’m almost 40, not from the US, and mass market hit us later in ( 1955 rather than just after WW2 )

Still: you will have to go back to my grand parent generation to find folks carrying out the activity you describing.

And even then, that was seen at the time as a rural predicament ( bigger cities had «modern confort » already, but not isolated farm and so on.

( agreeing with all you says… just that the timing seems off )

Source : my 4 French grand parent born around 1920
> VC funding

I suppose Masayoshi Son will be at the top of the sucker list?
> $500 in what home?

The "up to" part means it's the absolutely largest home you can possibly imagine
That would also result in the return of the property to the original owner once identified.

Maybe no one gets prosecuted if they’re clever, but they would be compelled to return it (or then face possession of stolen property charges and contempt of court)
This reflects the most effective mode of lobbying I’ve seen: identifying electeds voting against their constituents’ interests. It costs money to commission reliable polls. But once you have the data, it’s a 50%+ hit rate in getting outcomes. (The other 50% are some variation of subject to unique primary-general dynamics, sceptical of lobbyist-provided data to an unreasonable degree, obstinate or corrupt. The last is vanishingly rare in American federal politics. Much more in state and local.)
they say a picture paints a thousand words. sometimes I don't want to see a thousand words
Actually, to me it kind of distills George, the character.
No they're putting it in quotes to make fun of it. It's like a "those stupid libs" signal but classier.
This article, unless I'm missing something, doesn't actually explain why the algorithm works so well. It just gives the back story that led to the journal paper explaining it.
>I don't think Patreon's reason to exist is because "sending money p2p is hard".

Why do you think that? Sending money p2p is hard in a world where cryptocurrency is treated like an investment vehicle and not a payment system.

>There is a lot of room for competition though. As a supporter, my loyalty is to the creator not to the platform.

You don't clearly speak on behalf of most users here. "Using multiple platforms" in the fiat/traditional system effectively means giving your credit card information to multiple businesses and increasing your risk for fraud, overcharging and identity theft. It's the reason why these intermediaries like PayPal and Patreon operate in the first place.
Thales of Miletus
An Indian Startup used App release notes to pay respect for a lost team member
I think the issue is that if one was to buy a typical laptop I'm sure one would be perfectly happy with it, and (that specific laptop aside) there are definitely PC laptops that are pretty decent. The Razer Blade has been reviewed well, there are some good ThinkPads, etc.

But if you've ever actually owned an Apple laptop and then use ANY of these other ones, it's completely obvious right away what you're paying a little more for. Apple has issues too (I had a previous model with the shitty keyboard, my current Touch Bar is dying, and it was a horrible idea in the first place), but even if I didn't care about macOS I'd still never even consider getting a different brand because those shortcomings are so stark.

The screens are great, they don't flex or creak, the touchpad is amazing, it's not covered in plastic, and it doesn't feel like you're paying for maybe a great processor and SSD but everything else is crap.

Those differences don't show up on a spec sheet though, so for many people it makes no sense why people pay a little more for Apple, and that "little more" really isn't a whole lot when you are actually trying to compare equivalents. When you get a similar-specced PC laptop and the MacBook is maybe $100 more, that $100 is actually going to better components in general. E.g. both have a trackpad but Apple's is significantly better.

Another example is monitors: why pay $1700 for Apple's Studio Display? Well, because literally no one else sells a 27" 5k display except for that one from LG which was widely known to have tons of reliability problems. Why do you need a 5k instead of 4k? Retina text. If you haven't lived with it this doesn't matter, but if you have then moving back to 4k kinda sucks.
While that’s true, people don’t often get their paycheck in Funko Pops or LEGO.
Presumably the 30 year old furnace is replaced or supplemented with a new heat pump.

I have realized an approximately $500 yearly savings by replacing an older electric tank water heater with a hybrid electric (heat pump) water heater so I can believe that claim.
2 hours is plural. It’s not hard to spend 2 hours total if you count prep and clean
I respect Ive's design skills but I think that Ive leaving is one of the best things to happen to Apple in decades.

They're slowly going from Ive's minimalist artistic designs back to useful computing devices and user interfaces.
Ask HN: LeetCode Just for Fun?
Would you complete a LeetCode course just for the lolz and not use the knowledge you gained from it just for getting hired? What's wrong with knowing various coding tricks for the sheer fun of the challenge rather than chasing a job?
Your objection to the joke has been duly noted in the appropriate system of record. Beep boop.
Ah, the post neglected to explain what they mean by generative recursion. The difficulties however are “just” in off-by-one errors and in the boundary cases of fixed-size integer types, which don’t get in the way if understanding the solution approach. You can easily understand it without having to understand recursive data structures. In that aspect, it shares the simplicity with fibonacci etc., but is more compelling than those because the alternative iterative solution is more difficult, compared to e.g. iterative fibonacci. The benefit of the recursive solution is more obvious.
Yes, Jane Technologies
If the reputation has no utility for the employee, why would the employee accept payment in the form of reputation? Is the employee oblivious to the lack of utility of reputation?
No.

Inasmuch as desktop applications continue to exist, the future is Electron. The only applications for which there is still demand for traditional GUI apps are military and medical device applications.

Electron is literally write once, run anywhere. It's leaps and bounds beyond anything else in this regard. RAM is cheap, and a few hundred megabytes per installation are a small price to pay for increased productivity and accelerated time to market.
> no utility

Even beanie babies have more utility.
Sure, but that was really the beginning of the smartphone era. In 2009, the iPhone had ~15% market share for smartphones. [1] Counting 2007 and 2008, Apple sold ~15 million units, about half of those in the last quarter of 2008. So when the Bitcoin paper was first published, Apple had sold something under 10m units. And that paper was of course based on earlier work.

My point is that conceptually, the peer-to-peer, proof-of-work thing was much more suited to the desktop era, a sort of SETI@Home for money. It wasn't until a few years later that we truly began to see what the mobile era would look like (e.g., Venmo was August 2009, Uber was May 2010). The peer-to-peer aspect is basically a failure, as the rise of mining pools and centralized exchanges demonstrate. As do the relatively small transaction volumes for Bitcoin compared to things that are actual modern cash substitutes. If somebody were inventing cryptocurrency today, it would not look like Bitcoin.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/02/04/idc_apple_iphone_...
We can't argue that until we have data on the true positives. For all we know, HALF the titles had the submitters pet word in all caps.
Did I say that? No.

That’s quite the conclusion to jump to. I was mere pointing out that maybe some of the churn is justifiable? Most companies have churn, but everyone wants to point fingers at Amazon for what are otherwise normal and accepted business practices.
Is it me or does the article too end suddenly?
But it delivers 100% words at 5°F at double the efficiency, and 70% to 80% words at -5°F and -10°F. DOE validated the performance and efficiency of the press release.
Actually I suggested, you demand a more rational approach regarding the ruzzian invasion of a souvereign Nation and at the same time imply things because of emotional bias.
Their preprint is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271
Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.

Here's the thing about freedom, Earth, and humanity.. there is only nation that exists for the sole purpose of protecting the inalienable rights of the individual. The brave who would be free should live only there. The cowards who would be slaves should live literally anywhere else. As long as slaves don't go to the lone place for those who would be free, and try to eliminate the option, then time will tell whether or not it is a good idea.

Putting all of your eggs in one basket is dumb. Let the cowboys ignore the slavers' pretenses, and the fearful surrender for what at first seems like a less frightening fiction if they insist.

Should the aliens come, and there is resisting to be done, it would be done best by free men and women.. though, like a supernova, or Persians at the hot gates, someday our days are up. We can betray ourselves, or not. As always, the issue is force. Make your choice, and don't force others to go along with it.
So much air in this statement, but almost zero raw numbers.

In the mean time, there are good quality air/water heat pumps on the market in Europe. Look at the Nibe F2120 for example. It blows this thing out of the water. It has a COP of 2.5 at -25C...
https://nitter.net/maurice_jks/status/1537814372462039043
Often the people voting for policies that allow urban camping are the people who have private security and aren’t exposed to the effects. The people voting out progressive DAs are the people most affected which happen to be the poorer neighborhoods and don’t have private security.
The first mistake in teaching recursion is to make the first mistake in teaching recursion.
Most of the real complexity in this scenario lies in finding a trusted escrow party and adjudicating disputes.

If you have a trusted counter- or third party, the rest can be done and is literally often done by email (sometimes even signed!) and spreadsheets.
Are you going to expense your lunch breakfast dinner and rent as well? You need all those as well in order to work. If you work from home are you going to expense your electricity? Where is the line?
> What's wrong with knowing various coding tricks for the sheer fun of the challenge rather than chasing a job?

Nothing, it's just I can spend my time making cool shit instead.