skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats! Awesome to see some others from the newsletter world here. I'm a bit earlier than you are along the process, I have a crypto based newsletter which has about 1200 subscribers, ~50 editions sent, and just started conversations with interested sponsors (we also had inbounds which we have not really engaged with). Our SEO is doing pretty well, we get roughly 3500 people coming to the site per month, and when something in crypto world blows up we double that.

I have 2 tactical questions for you:
1. That seems like a relatively high CPM for your niche, how did you structure your sponsorships to get there? To be more specific, what are the normal sponsorship lengths, do you do a short term and then renegotiate after they've seen click throughs, does click through come into play in your negotiations, etc.
2. Your open rate is amazing. We used to maintain an open rate in the 40%'s, but we saw a dropoff and have been struggling to get from mid 20s back to mid 40s for a while now. I know this is because we end up in promotions, but can't quite arcane how to get out of those folders. Did you do anything in particular to maintain your open rate?
The article seems to miss entirely that (in the US, at least), democracy is a two-step process. The primaries are widely open. That is where you meet other people with similar but not identical beliefs, and find a compromise before proceeding to the general election.

"Third parties" seem popular with people who want to limit their involvement to pulling a lever, once. At the very least, you can make your choice in a primary, often among many different candidates. You can also get as involved as you want to push for the candidate you prefer to stand out among all of the others.

People who want to be almost completely disinvolved in the process, and expect to use a single finger point to resolve the complex and multi-faceted issues that face us, seem to me to be lazy and not particularly thoughtful. No algorithm for dealing with more candidates is going to do the hard work of hammering out compromises.
> But most crypto is not comparable to stocks. It's comparable to currency

Gary Gensler, the boss of the SEC, would probably disagree. He's calling most of it (with the possible exception of Bitcoin and Ethereum) a security (read "stock").

As to your point about "currency" -- it's not _really_ that either, chiefly because of the tax treatment in most countries that have crypto-regulation. If you buy some foreign currency, it goes up, and you sell it, you are NOT taxed a capital gain.

If you buy crypto, or stock, or bonds, or real estate, it goes up, and you sell it, then you are liable for CGT. This makes crypto more akin to a digital asset, or a commodity.
didn't realize everyone thought it was a slur; I should've used the term anti-politics instead
Once, again, the original poster said that we should pursue science with little to no expectation of usefulness, and should pursue it for its own sake. I am merely arguing that IF that is the case, then it may not be worth pursuing with public money.

To your suggestion, I am not arguing that we should not fund things, just because we don't have an initial understanding of how it will be useful.
We're talking about a course on cooking here, how is it gatekeeping to talk about cooking 101 subjects?
Team Organisation Capability Matrix (2021)
In this post I discuss an organisation of workers into four quadrants based on whether their roles produce or consume information and instructions which helps quantify and plan capability requirements.
Is that a fair reading of my comment? I used "2%" as shorthand for "an increase of two points of accuracy score".

When the starting accuracy is 5%, saying that it was improved by 0.4 is not very elucidating. The point is that the approach is still very bad at generating correct programs and any improvement to the already abysmal state of the art is tiny and possibly insignificant.

It's like the old joke: the USA president challenges the General Secretary of the USSR in a 100m race. The USA president finishes first. Next day, the Pravda goes out with the title: "100m race: General Secretary finishes second. American President finishes before last".
My dictionary has a definition of FOMO which is more nuanced than just spelling out an acronym, and it has a pronunciation which is not just the letters said one at a time.

So in this case I think spelling out the acronym is neither necessary (as articles typically needn’t define moderately well known words) nor sufficient (as the term’s meaning is more than just the expansion of the acronym).
Sorry for off topic but I’m concerned in reading these discussions by the generalization of a Europe v. America.

Countries in Europe are so different. I’m guessing the same can be said of the countries in the Americas, as well as states and provinces even.
My impression of him has always been that he's one of those people who would never use one word when one hundred words were available. If he has any good ideas (and I'm skeptical based on what little I've seen and also his dissolution), it's so buried under academic-sounding rambling that working them out is more trouble than it's worth.
To an investor, a salary is a temporary cost ie, you pay the salary, get the TF scripts made, fire the employee while a checkbox driven, managed resiliency is going to cost you forever with no hope of ever eliminating that cost.

At least that’s what was recently told to me by my manager to explai why my employer prefers to hire people to self manage the AWS infra.
Because of inflation, the price is going down.

However also because of inflation, I have had a 10% "pay cut" since mid last year.
Yes, it's possible but the refractive index decreases with increase in wavelength to the point that this would not be feasible.

Radio wavelengths are ~9 orders of magnitude larger than optical, meaning the detector would need to be placed roughly 30 light years from earth. A bit out of our reach.

(assuming I did my back of the envelope math right)
It's a good lesson to learn for life - we have so many options these days that we can run round trying them all - a better more systematic approach would help
Firefox, may I tell you what the free Web really needs? A docker-like environment for websites. The environment can arbitrarily override anything, from JS built-ins to CSS rules, and do that in such a way that the underlying website would never know about the shim layer. A useful bonus would be limiting CPU time spent by the website. The former can be marketed as a privacy feature and the latter as comvating global warming.
How much air time is Fox News spending on the falling gas prices? How much time did they spend on the subject when prices were rising?

Also, his latest tweet on the subject seems pretty balanced: https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1552739457433972737?ref_s...
Night sky must be great in NK!
For my use case, DO Spaces was quite bad in terms of artifacts being served from stale caches after being replaced and the 'purge' API being called on the bucket; this was over 2 years ago so maybe it's better now.
I find them almost weirdly cheap; I would not deliver anything (with some exceptions) for 10x the amount (the delivery people get after paying everything).

Edit; checked here; 1 Big Mac large menu is 11.63 euros including delivery. 7.65 euros for takeaway of the same menu. Distance similar to yours.
The median is 1.37 micrograms of cocaine per bill, so roughly six hundred thousand bills to get a gram of cocaine.

And even if you want to buy the most expensive gram of coke, remember that money likely has more literal shit on it than cocaine. There's a reason food service staff is trained to always wash your hands after handling money.
A later poet Bai Juyi [1], criticizing Lao-Zhe for inconsistency:

> Those who speak do not know, those who know are silent,

> I heard this saying from the old gentleman.

> If the old gentleman was one who knew the way,

> Why did he feel able to write five thousand words?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi
This isn't even a technical or business acronym, it's a common colloquial.

It's used in mainstream television advertisements like the FOMOH ads by the NHL (fear of missing out on hockey).

FOMO is probably as well-known as other acronyms that aren't explained every time they come up: IRS, LGBT, DMV, MLB, NYC, etc.

And, really, if you don't know it, you just do this:

CTRL+T define:FOMO ENTER

I mean, we're already in a web browser...

But here we go, now we're deep in an HN thread about something so incredibly trivial – it really is true that our day jobs are bullshit if we've got this much time to kill on this kind of discussion. (I'm unemployed, what's the rest of y'all's excuse?)
I haven’t had a chance to look through some of the new predictions, but I know there were some issues with predicting the structure for membrane bound proteins previously. PDB hardly contains any.

Does the new set of predictions contain a bunch of membrane bound protiens?
Oh boy, you must have worked for Enron
There are necessary protections in place for minority shareholders in public companies. For example, I can't just buy up 51% of a company and then vote that the company is now going to give all of its profits to me.

The same situation should apply here. Employees are typically minority shareholders and as such, should get some basic protections. Early liquidity has significant value. I'd bet that plenty of employees would give up a percentage of their equity in order to cash out at least some of their shares early. Giving this ability to larger shareholders and not to smaller ones is very similar to saying that only large shareholders get to share in profits.
Selling before everyone else is putting yourself over others. It's a terrible move from a morale standpoint if it gets out. Doesn't matter whether it is "morally acceptable" or not.

If you want peak performance from your employees then leaders eat last.
No objection to that, but someone still had to hire the mercenary company.
Thanks, that was nice.
Some good points, my understanding of the history is “The UC” has always been Cal, Davis is the “agriculture branch”, LA is the “southern branch”, UCSF is the “medical branch” but things have changed and new campuses have been established.
Not sure how Boalt mixes in with all that (when looking up the spelling just found out Cal Law doesn’t use that name anymore either!)
Good thing I’m just a code monkey
> Lobbying is basically just advocating.

That's fair. I was imprecise: I should have made it explicit that I was speaking about lobbying in America:

> The one big difference between the US and the EU is that the majority of policymakers in the EU institutions are not elected, and since they do not need to stand for elections, they do not need to find the significant amounts of cash to support campaigns. Instead of spending innumerable hours fundraising, they balance competing interests in an effort to produce policies that are seen as legitimate, though produced by a less-than-democratic supranational structure. https://www.politico.eu/article/why-lobbying-in-america-is-d...

US Lobbyists funneled a total of 3.77 billion dollars into campaign coffers in 2021, and are already over 2 billion for 2022. I hope it's not necessary to point out that they're not doing that without the expectation of a return on that investment (and as we've already seen, they absolutely are getting that ROI.)

> That's kind of dodging the question. Why are there so few funding sources then?

Not sure I see how it's dodging the question, especially since my following paragraph continues not dodging it in greater detail.... but setting that aside, the obvious answer to "why are there so few funding sources" is "there is a finite number of wealthy individuals and organizations", with a side order of "and they tend to consolidate their lobbying activities into industry groups". (To be specific, in 2022 that finite number is 11,441.)

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying
All it takes is one.
The emerging future of ACI (animal-computer interaction)
Exploring the Unprecedented Privacy Risks of the Metaverse
Yes and different cultures have different appetites for these vices. For example, in East Asia it's much more acceptable to gamble than it is in most Western countries. In most of Europe it's more acceptable to do drugs than it is in the US, and the US finds it much more acceptable to do drugs than East Asia does. In East Asia it's common to be openly drunk, at night, in public. In the US it's much more acceptable to enjoy firearms than it is in Europe or East Asia.

There's no easy answer to "this is toxic, we should ban it." Everyone has a different definition of toxic. Cultures form around different norms. Social media, like HN, spans multiple continents and cultures. I don't think you'll ever be able to get all of the userbase of any of these sites to agree on what is toxic and what is not.

I'm of the opinion that the user should be able to:

1. Audit their algorithmic recommender to see which bin they're bucketed into.

2. Adjust the weights on the recommender

But anything more, any form of broad agreement on toxicity, is asking for humans around the world to land at a single definition of what is good and what is bad.
This is a side point to the article, but but important for anyone running an enterprise business:

> The article brought attention to other things not going right at the company. For example, DataRobot sent its top salespeople on a lavish trip to The Virgin Islands just days before laying off 7% of employees.

This trip is not necessarily a bad thing to have done, and more likely than not a good thing. You need your sales team properly motivated.

Sales people have their own culture, and if you don't understand it you'll have a hard time recruiting and retaining an effective sales team. Actually you'll have a hard time recruiting the VP of sales who will build and manage that team for success. The good ones are ultracompetitive. You didn't make top producer for the quarter? Well I'm still excited at the number that person made because it shows how great our company is, but fuck, I'm gonna blow that shit out of the water next quarter.

I've been to the sales meeting junkets as CEO. They love to hear from the CEO...briefly. Rev them up and get them excited that this company is going somewhere BIG. Then get off the stage, give it back to the VP of sales, and leave. The VP is their boss, their protector, and makes sure the comp and commissions are paid. The CEO has to balance all sorts of things. The VP has to...bring in the revenue!

Obviously people like that would hate to work in engineering, and you wouldn't want to work with someone like that on your engineering team. Different worlds.

It's very common in tech companies for engineering to shit on sales (why won't they just go sell what we've got?) and marketing (our product is so great, what do this assholes do anyway?) sales to shit on engineering (those shits just say no all the time and never work on what the customer really wants). The effective companies are where they respect each other and realize that their cultures are different but that they need each other. I'm surprised how infrequently I see that.
Why doesn't he keep the encoded .exe as an adjacent registry key, and have the powershell script open that key, decode the content and run it?

Anyway once you've persuaded the user to import a .reg file as administrator, it's game over. There are so many registry entries with exploitable possibilities. (It's similar to persuading a Linux user to unpack a tarball over /etc)

While I'm here...

hivex is a Linux library for accessing and modifying the Windows registry (https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex), and virt-win-reg is a Linux tool for modifying the registry of a VM (https://libguestfs.org/virt-win-reg.1.html). After many hours discovering how the registry works to write those, I also wrote this about why the registry sucks: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-regist...
The point of a functioning market is that humans choose who they do business with. Both sides of the transaction are responsible for this - if you fill your shelves with trashy pulp fiction and there isn’t a market for that people stop going to your store.

Personally I try to go out of my way to purchase books directly from the author, publisher, a book store with a local presence, and online retailers in that order.

I’ve mostly cut Barnes and Nobel out of my vendor list for this exact reason, their book shelves are full of products I have no interest in - walking into their store has such a high noise to signal ratio that, unless I place my order in advance for a specific product, I don’t bother walking in anymore. The books of value are buried on shelves drown out by heavily marketed pop culture noise; and that’s if I’m lucky, often I have to have it ordered and shipped to store to pick it up locally. They don’t meet my needs for content discovery so I don’t do business with them very often.
Yup, exact same here. All of the multi-AZ failover depends on AWS recognizing that their AZ is having an issue, and they never reported having an issue on any health-check so no failover ever happened. We started being able to make progress when AWS told us which AZ was having issues. It still took some time for us to manually shift away from that AZ (manually promoting ElastiCache replicas to primary, switching RDS clusters around, etc.) because all of the AWS failover functionality did not function as they should have and we were relying on that. Multi-region failover would have made us more fault tolerant but our infrastructure wasn't setup for that yet (besides an RDS failover in a separate region). Here's to hoping we never have a Route53 or global AWS API Gateway failure! Then even multi-region will not do us much good. Perhaps we should have some backup servers on the moon, then in case of nuclear warfare we can still be online via satellite.

P.S. AWS has said they have resolved the issue for almost 2 hours now and we are still having issues with us-east-2a.
I'm curious about this too. And as a non-developer myself I don't see this asked/answered:

What platform do yo use for your website and for the newsletter?
Do you self-host or have a hosting service you recommend for doing this?

I have always wanted to do a similar thing, targeting a niche segment, but don't know how to start on the technical side of things. Thanks!
At the end of the article the author provides 3 high level areas to focus on improving. (1) and (3) clearly have nothing to do with censorship. It's also not fair, in my opinion, to assume that (2) implies censorship considering the author doesn't give any detail on HOW to reform social media. If the solution to (2) is "require social media companies to offer a chronological news feed," which has been suggested a bazillion times in the comments, how is that censorship?

Personally, I think the word "censorship" should be reserved for governmental suppression but that ship sailed a long time ago.

>> I proposed three imperatives: (1) harden democratic institutions so that they can withstand chronic anger and mistrust, (2) reform social media so that it becomes less socially corrosive, and (3) better prepare the next generation for democratic citizenship in this new age.
A blogger has also written a detailed overview (in 2018) on
actually using this language:
https://danyspin97.org/blog/getting-started-with-execline-sc...

The syntax somewhat reminds of Rebol/Red, but feels cleaner.
Interesting stuff with great, thought-provoking documentation;
definitely a candidate for
"an ecosystem that fits inside the head of a single person".
Downtime is not an option: The people of the cloud
No. The swift stdlib is the API that is available by default without any import statements (consisting of the Swift, _Concurrency, and _StringProcessing modules). The runtime is a separate library that programs do not explicitly interact with; calls into the runtime are implicitly generated by the compiler when necessary to perform tasks like allocation or retain/release.
How else are they going to pay 1000 engineers $300k per year?
So far the best thing in the burger course was learning how to deglaze, I never knew that trick.

The questions on types of cheeses or how to cut an onion were weird and felt wrong. (What about the easy root method for cutting?!)
I disagree. When reading material that's so utterly flawed, full with oversimplifying stereotypes and arrogance, then it's entirely possible to have formed an opinion before finishing the piece. Nothing could have come after the first "law" that would have made the part up to that point better or more defensible.
There's something morbidly relaxing about seeing the stats. I've currently got a seasonal stripe map of maximum temperature changes until 2100. My skin is already suffering in anticipation.

I didn't quite understand what the 2050.earth tab is about, if you mouseover some cities you get news articles, but the news doesn't seem very doomy?
So let me get this straight, you're siding in favor of Stripe not doing what Stripe signed up for by becoming a payment processor, is that correct?
there is one to learn with real chefs.
there is even a hardware that you put on top of your cooking station to record.
you get back a full review of every step you did. from how to slice perfectly, to keeping your utensils neat.

cookwithmoment.com

i am sure they have a english page somewhere and you can order in euroupe. but for some reason it is showing up only in portuguese
why not executing the .exe and it doing it for you?
Lunch With Freeman Dyson, in 196,883 Dimensions
Same with people in former USSR countries. They still do quite a bit in cash and tend not to trust banks.
I don't have an opinion about this raid, and I don't know that we know the parent commenter does either. What I do know is that most people with very strong opinions on this thread likely haven't read even the whole Reason article, let alone did their own digging about the raid, and when people take the time to do that and share with the thread, we should be careful to celebrate it rather than cross-examining it.
One of the benefits of inflation!
When I write, I typically DO spell these things out.

> We accepted a pull request ("PR") for our continuous integration ("CI") server. As a result, CI will now automatically trigger a canary release instead of the old blue-green deployment process, except on AWS where canary releases are not supported.

Note that there's no real interruption to the flow of the writing, as I only spell it out the first time it is mentioned. Nor do I stop to explain what "pull-request" means -- the full name (unlike the acronym) is enough to perform a search on the topic and read about it if needed. And I don't do this universally: everyone I know uses "AWS" instead of "Amazon Web Services" and even pronounces it that way in conversation, so I don't bother explaining that one.
The way eBPF is described makes it sound fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
I did notice it being a little slow but I'm also on 4G at the moment (it got the blame)
I asked a structural biologist friend of mine (world class lab) about the impact of alphafold.

They said it's minimal.

In most cases, having a "probably" isn't good enough. They use alphafold to get early insights, but then they still use crystallography to confirm the structure. Because at the end of the day, you need to know for sure.
Inflation and record-high rents have almost a third of Gen Z living at home
No questions but will be a new sub for you :)
I do not understand your view point. This does not make "Keet" bad software. It is actually a good idea regarding decentralization. So why the red flag? How does this "pump" the value of crypto? A pump always refers to a manipulation of the market. If people use it, and it is the next "killer app" the value of crypto would indeed rise but for valid reasons.

Don't get me wrong. I am nutural towards bitfinex. Haven't had to deal with them until now. I would wait how the project develops and then maybe give it a chance.