skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favourite kindle feature :) it fits in most of my back pockets. I like to read while on the road, when waiting etc and not having to carry it on my hand which is a hassle and not forgetting in random place is a big feature for me.
We don't share many common interests (except cats), so no comments on the content, but I rather like the look of it, it has a classic feel, and is responsive. A few of points on typography:

- The top menu has items on two lines, some on one; could that be made consistent? (possibly by rewriting: "Home page" -> "Home", "About Me" -> "About" etc).

- The home page has subheads which start with a "#", is that on purpose? Those look affected and don't seem to be used elsewhere on the site

- On the "About Me" page, the quotes have text which is larger than the body text, more usually it is the same size (perhaps italicised)
> The verification is fast and cheap.

And yet the most widely used IPFS client, Brave, does not implement this.

The blog post is technically wrong, but I think it's worth accounting for the general state of the ecosystem in these decisions, and in whether to include IPFS in cURL, and it sounds like the general state of the ecosystem is not up to the standards that cURL should reasonably expect from a protocol asking for inclusion.
Take it up with the astrophysicists who gave this criteria, not me. Unless you are also an astrophysicist, I'll stick with trusting their judgement over yours. You can also watch the video I provided for a more nuanced explanation.
The whole affair reminded me of this gif meme of Woody Harrelson "crying" and wiping his tears with dollar bills: https://media1.tenor.com/images/4663eb72e9f59cd3dbc3a60bc5aa...
Yeah, I hate when woke liberals and college administrators go on about their Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and subverting the bourgeois counter-revolution, good grief.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32419845

iOS does have a restricted/safe webview experience, it just currently permits more custom ones. The solution presumably is to ban those.
There's plenty of hunter-gatherers in Siberia or Amazon rainforest.
>does none of the actual work himself

How did this person become the sole shareholder of a 100 person game company producing wildly successful game without any work in your story?
Transitioning to sustainable electricity is necessary but not sufficient, we also need to address methane, cement and steel production, and a bunch of other things. Regarding the urgency of methane in particular: https://climateer.substack.com/p/aerosols
It's hard to explain, but as a first response it implies "the current code is fine", or "we don't need to do this". That is, you risk it being perceived as a challenge to the idea ("rewrite it in React"), rather than a question to explore the goals.

Note that I wouldn't mind such a question at all myself, but others can be more sensitive to such things. Actually, I think "Why? Is the current code not working?" is a perfectly valid engineering question for rewriting or refactoring anything, but not everyone has this kind of engineering mindset.

I would phrase it more open-ended, such as "Okay! What goals would you like to achieve?"
You can likely use Proton to run Civ 5.
> people would literally create new original OS kernels to fill the void Linux left if Linux for some reason stopped existing as a free option

Well, no, they'd use the other Free and Open Source Unix-like kernels, in particular FreeBSD. If we woke up tomorrow and there were no Free and Open Source kernels around at all, we would of course want to create one. This is why the Hurd kernel was started, after all. [0]

There are already various non-Free kernels out there. Windows is the obvious one, but also HP-UX and Oracle Solaris. There are also some freely available proprietary kernels, such as Menuet 64.

> you will never find a lack of free compilers, OS's, programming languages etc

It's fun to dabble in those fields, but doing serious work in compiler engineering or operating systems is just that: serious work. Major FOSS projects are very often powered largely by paid developers with specialized skills.

> since companies wants a free OS for their servers they would start to contribute to whatever OS that looks the most promising, we would have another free big OS for most service needs running very quickly

Hopefully we would, yes.

> I should have said "most products that aren't fun aren't free", there are exceptions

Not really, no. The list includes the Linux kernel, MySQL, Postgres, OpenJDK, GCC, LLVM, Chromium, and Firefox. Those aren't mere exceptions, and they're not the kind of software that can be achieved on a have-a-go basis.

> the main point is that developers using these free products in no way clashes with developers getting paid

Right, as I've been saying, business interests can align with those of a FOSS project, hopefully benefiting both so that sustainable progress can be made.

> the things 99.9% of developers are paid to work on aren't things they use for free

It's not clear what you're saying here. You're right that most paid software work is not released as FOSS. A lot of paid software work is on software that isn't intended for use by software developers, so they're never going to be the user anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
What issues? I’ve had less issues than with other wired ISPs and satellite providers, personally. Not to mention any other satellite provider is going to be incredibly latency positive. Starlink has been a godsend. I guess just be careful of andecdata.
In many places if you as a business are willing to take intermittent power cuts (with varying warning times) you can get significant discounts.
I really think you would get some interesting perspective out of reading “The Tyranny of Merit” by Michael J. Sandel, and I'm really curious how the ideas in the book would come together with your views. I would be happy to gift you the book if there was a way to do so.
I do, mostly. I often ran in some terminal emulation issues with other terminals, especially when using older software.

These days, I could probably switch to another terminal, as I'm in tmux quite often, which creates those compatibility issues itself, no matter what "backend" you're using.
This is great advice, but this article was not written for executives.

I skimmed in 5 seconds until I spotted the SCQA bullets, Minto's Pyramid, and the bolded parts of Mistakes to Avoid. If there are other takeaways, I don't really care.

This is how executives think. They have to — they're in meetings for nine hours straight, constantly context switching, needing to suss out who's bullshitting them and who's legit.

One tangential thing: in any situation with an executive, one way to stick in their mind is to deliver little 'nuggets' of interesting information that they can quote to their peers or managers. Should be pithy, novel, and ideally surprising: "Did you know that 25% of users have been doing [totally unexpected thing] outside the product in order to [solve some problem we thought we understood]?"

Don't expect you're going to be able to come up with these things on the spot. Prepare them. Keep 'em in the holster. You're welcome.
I've experienced this effect with jigsaw puzzles, Tetris, and the pedestrian paths in RC Tycoon.
Our current system is wrecking the environment. That seems like a good enough reason for me.
> If you’ve ever wondered why in a certain discussion someone “came around” or magically the entire room was in support, either that person or their boss worked it out prior to the meeting.

This is old-school political practice: when it comes to taking decisions, you should go into meetings only if you know in advance what their outcomes will be. Going blind is a defeat in itself.

> Hey, remember when I helped you with the thing? I need you to help me with

Trading favours is an invaluable skill. A lot of people do favours for free and feel petty if they remind others at later date; figuring out a way to do it in a pretty neutral way, will help you a lot. Typically it's just about figuring out that it's not personal. For a great intro to the practice, the character of Rawls in The Wire is a decent model.
The little gray snippet (“backyard hens’ eggs…”) at the top of the page is clickable.
So you hold the Fictionalism view and reject Platonism. That's fine. This stuff has been debated ad nauseam and we're not going to break any new ground here.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/

> It's like saying unicorns exist. They're a shared fiction. (A highly useful fiction, to be sure)

I will mention that dogs are also a useful shared fiction. We assign the label dog to a perception of a configuration of atoms that we think satisfy the criteria for what a dog is. So I'd say that numbers are more like dogs than unicorns, in that they are an abstraction that is used by us in practice to map to perceptions of physical objects.
In the US there is: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/limits.html
Pinata Raises $21.5M to Empower Web3 Creators and the Future of NFTs
Not that I know of. We still have 3 nuclear stations in production. One of them is Isar 2 next to Munich. They will stay in operation until the end of this year.

That said, there are debates right now to prolong their operation until another few years. But that has other constraints.
I remember those, but we'd moved to WKWebView almost as s soon as Apple marked it deprecated.

We don't have many web views anymore, we still use a couple for signup and for the user to change their privacy settings because we need to change some behaviours based on the results, so we inject something to know if the user made changes and close the view. But there's no way for the user to navigate out to the greater web from the pages.
Anything else and we instruct the os to open URLs
And it will go up as more and probably better satellites are launched?
Also check out FreeCol, the open-source clone of Colonization: https://www.freecol.org/
ADRs / RFCs are great. Compromise is a necessity for anything where there is no right or wrong answer, only unknoowns with more or less certainty and more or less strongly held opinions. Getting everybody's opinion and insight into a question, documenting it, searching for the best way forward, and then reaching and documenting a compromise, that to me is good engineering. I fully support building things in a way that I didn't suggest, that's what the team agreed on and gets the project going.

That's not what my point was about, however. I am not going to state "python is better than C++" just because someone wants me to say it, or back down from something I know is a fact, like "writing a file to disk is a complicated process." And I'm ready to quit over that.
All the ones that actually care about security do this.

If you want people to fix their mistakes and change, you need to encourage them to do so. If you want people to try to hide their mistakes, punish them.

(If you discover that IT has permanently reserved a backup laptop for a particular employee who is perpetually in need of a fresh image, it's time to talk to their manager about why they fall for these things and what other mistakes they might be making.)
Let’s take a look at the hottest and fastest JavaScript framework: Bun. How does it compare to Node and Deno? Is it really that fast?
He/she was just asking how it compares to Factorio. It's a valid question, since I already own Factorio...
>there is something about the structure of co-operatives that intrinsically makes them less attractive to investors?

It's the intrinsic structure of being owned by the workers that makes co-operatives less financially attractive to outside investors. My previous comment about why:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166080

Co-operatives also have to compete in the marketplace (compete in both the costs & revenue) with other companies that are not co-ops. This financial pressure from other global economic actors is what causes co-ops like Mondragon to outsource labor to subcontractors or workforce in other countries who are not true members of the co-op. Mondragon appliances, etc still have to compete in sales with everyone else.
Just to point out: This is a 10-12 person marketing agency from Columbus, Ohio. They (most likely) did not take VC money, go on hiring sprees, or have extravagant salaries and perks. Would you draw lessons about running a tech startup from your neighborhood accounting firm?
That's not what you can infer from the data. Some observations fit well with MOND, some with dark matter. See:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331/htm
> Belle Epoch in France before the French Revolution

Belle Époque was circa 100 years after the French Revolution.
> not a pc word but it sums up perfectly the communication style I can’t think of a better one. Maybe condescending?

As long as you’re insulting men, heterosexuals, white people or cis people you’re perfectly ok with the pc brigade. No need to apologize as long as you’re intersectional.
If you want to measure the quality of a system you need to count both, the hits and the misses.
> Do the math.

A counterpoint with 5 minutes of searching: from [1], Peter Kern (3rd highest paid CEO) got $296M in 2022 overseeing ~15k employees (from [2]). Distribute that salary evenly and everyone gets a ~19k boost which, on an average base of $108k (from [3]), is about +17%, if I'm not mistaken.

If you want an even more ludicrous example, David Baszucki (Roblox, 7th highest, also [1]) got $232M in 2022 overseeing ~1600 employees (from [4]). Even distribution gives a $145k boost on an average base of ~$135k (from [5]) is about +107%. Which is a bit better than Intel's +0.2%, no?

In summary, you can pick and choose examples to make either point.

[1] https://www.equilar.com/reports/95-equilar-new-york-times-to...
[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/EXPE/expedia/numbe...
[3] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Expedia%2C_Inc...
[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1279348/roblox-number-of...
[5] https://www.comparably.com/companies/roblox/salaries
Journey into Philippine forest in search of the world’s largest, rarest eagle
Amazon expands palm-scanning payment tech to 65 more Whole Foods locations
Here's your nuanced review by astrophysicists:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331/htm
The employer needs the worker's labor and ghe employee needs the employer's concentration of power. One needs the other and vice versa. Or are you suggesting the directionality is only one way?

Marxists do think that way and they are wrong. The thing they are missing is the third factor of production (labor, capital, land) that was magically omitted from classical economics to make the conflict strictly between labor and capital. You end up with the left right divide blaming each other for wrongdoing even though these two factors are in symbiosis. It's the slumlord on the sidelines that enters the equation unnoticed, convinces the the parties to hate each other, while sucking away their blood like a good parasite.
ClickHouse – The final piece of an open source data stack
"My point is that launching with a free tier and applying limits later has been an effective monetization strategy for many successful startups."

That's usually called bait and switch.
no I'm just wrong, sorry!
> I consume maybe a few megabytes of disk space. Why do they want to get rid of me so badly?

Isn't their max size announced a few days ago set to 5 Gigs? I also use it for a few personal projects that I want to make available to others and I also have a few megabytes. That's a very long way from 5 gigs.
This is how I felt when I read Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong's self-centered layoff letter opening:

"Today I am making the difficult decision to reduce the size of our team by about 18%, to ensure we stay healthy during this economic downturn. I want to walk you through why I am making this decision below, but first I want to start by taking accountability for how we got here. I am the CEO, and the buck stops with me."

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-message-from-coinbase-ceo-and-co...
Thanks! It's right before WWI. Not the revolution!
Good question. However, if you want to learn, the requirement shouldn't be a clean code base. Instead you want to find a working and complex code base. Real projects have warts and history. Whereas you can always find perfect code in tutorial snippets and opinionated blog posts.
This is missing a lot of history. There was a lot of Anarchist violence in the 30s that led to things like the Inheritance Tax, now repealed. Up until Reagan it was possible to live reasonably well and even raise a family on a minimum wage. Now even middle class people can barely make it and are vulnerable to large medical bills. The past was not impossible. It actually happened. And we should be able to use that experience to craft something better if we really care to. Getting distracted with "Not within this system" talk is useless. The system can be changed and honed so let's do that.
“The foundation of communicating effectively with executives is to get a clear understanding of why you’re communicating with them in the first place.”

This is essential. I sit in these meetings with senior execs all the time in my role (mostly as neither the presenter nor one of key audience members) and I can’t tell you how often people presenting to execs make their lives hard!

E.g. status updates on key initiative/project is delivered as a summary of all the work that’s been done to date, challenges encountered and overcome, detailed technical commentary, and piles of next steps and detailed charts, when all the leadership team wants to know is 1. Is the project on track? 2. What are the key milestones/ next steps 3. Where and what are future risk /decision points, 4. Economics/budget considerations
Oh right, forgot about touch recognition, that's also a bit off. Needs more strength / pressure than it should. I'm guessing they didn't tune it properly when they made the devices water resistant?
This was an interesting bit from that link:

> Some studies suggest that the current OSHA PEL and NIOSH REL may be too high to protect against certain health effects.
The factory must grow!
> Disney won't be being paid for stuff that is compulsorily bundled with a plan.

This is untrue[1] and also just not how these deals work. Verizon is paying Disney when bundling. It may or may not be full price.

1. https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/02/02/verizons-disney-pa...
They’re expanding to add extra planets with all new mechanics in the upcoming v7.
Hey, thanks for relating. To answer your question, I guess I've become a bit "robotic", for the lack of a better word, about justice. I find that kindness, protection, being fair, etc. are important ways to take care of others, which to some extent is pleasant on its own, but also can have desirable knock-on effects. In short, good will leads to good will. I don't experience it as a moral or metaphysical dilemma, but as a calculation.
Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop
The lessons can be drawn from the larger environment, not just from this example. I’ll edit my post to make that more clear.
I assume he means launching the rocket.
For sure, and I agree, but that's underscoring my point.

The marginal cost of cloud computing isn't capex, it's opex. And of that opex, it's mostly electricity. We aren't paying for the hardware so much as we're paying for the cost of keeping it turned on and cool.
And if you are lucky, Amazon will even be able to convert them.

About week ago I wanted to test it, I tried it with bunch of epubs from various sources and only about half converted successfully.
But in doing so you'd need to admit to the crime.
NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server
Green energy is in the costs of 8 cents/Wh. Coal is more expansive as gas always was. Only nuclear is calculated with 2 cents/Wh ignoring the costs of the nuclear waste as this paid for by taxes in addition.
The hash you have is computed from the hash of the content and other data. You would need to send that additional data out-of-band to allow the client to compute the overall hash and verify it. (Not to mention with urls like ipfs://<hash>/some/path you only have the hash of some arbitrary parent node, so there's even more additional data necessary to be able to verify that the content at that path under the hash you have is valid).
I said you will find outliers.

Congratulations. You found one extreme case, and included links to some others.

There are many.

There are also 5000+ large companies in the US that employ tens of thousands of people. 20,000+ companies globally.

This isn't the average. Use a normal distribution, and you'd expect 20+ companies with 3 sigma (where CEO pay would increase pay by 6%+). Corporate profits definitely don't have a normal distribution, neither does CEO pay. This isn't surprising to me.

Elon Musk has $200B. He's an edge case of an edge case. Should we pretend all billionaires are like him, too? The average Billionaire has almost 50x less money. The average CEO makes much less than 50x the links you cited.

The average CEO for the top 350 companies made $24M in 2020 (a good year). The average CEO for all companies over the last decade makes less than $1M - according to BLS it's $190k: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/top-executives.htm#:~:tex.... And that's the average not the median - so people like the links you provided are skewing that higher than the median...

> In summary, you can pick and choose examples to make either point.

This is called cherry picking. You can always find what you're looking for if you're willing to cherry pick hard enough on a large dataset.

Your starting hypothesis is that CEO pay is ridiculous - and you're finding examples to confirm that - rather than looking at averages to easily disprove the idea that the examples you cited are the exception not the norm.
Brave uses its own local gateway running go-ipfs. go-ipfs verifies the content, so Brave does not have to.

You only have to verify the content yourself if it is not being verified by someone you trust (i.e. a local gateway that you're running yourself).
:) Or if you call them reusable, then what was their actual use at first place.
Or people will separate out heavy tasks that aren’t time critical to run them when power is abundant (when there’s wind or sun) and not when it’s scarce.