skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would you solve raid groups NOT being pointless while also making sure that players who want to participate, can, without having to play the "pick me for your team" game?

Allow someone to create a raid/party and define filters on who is allowed. Ideally there would be an LFR system they're exposed to, as well as a filter on who is allowed to join the raid so that anyone can invite anyone. If you meet the criteria, you can join the raid without asking.

I think the underlying issue is trying to be inclusive of everyone (hardcore people don't want to play with casual people, and often vice versa), and exposing simplistic interfaces to people who are okay with complexity.

I think TradeSkill Master is a good example for WoW. People love that. Give two interfaces; one is a casual interface with basic but useful options, and the other is a complicated "whatever you need" interface. Let the hardcore people use advanced filters with complicated interactions, and let the casual people use a basic "I just want people with enough gear to theoretically clear it" interface.
Not tech-related but it happens with law firms, which are often Limited liability partnerships (LLPs). A notable example is Heenan Blaikie in Canada, which was the 5th biggest national law firm with offices everywhere in Canada with over 500 lawyers. The firm had its most profitable years right before it was dissolved in 2014, mainly due to loss of trust and infighting - partners started leaving the firm and taking the money they put in (which I believe had a snowball effect) and lots of partners lost their money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heenan_Blaikie
I think most job salaries can be linked directly to how much of a difference the employee can make. A complete dud at McDonalds in the kitchen might cost a few thousand on average but the further you go up, the greater the damage or benefit potential gets.
30% seems a bit off, though yeah dense metal magnets in transformers and speakers are probably what keeps these products >= $100. Transistors, etc, are cheap as hell though. Some of this assembled gear is thousands of dollars and beyond, per single unit... So if you can build your own magnets, cases and push shipping off to the customer while providing 2x greater than behringer *quality*, I want to believe.
But they might be right this time.

Many game devs are fungible cogs, implementing a well-defined blueprint. Especially Activision games like Call of Duty. It doesn’t help that there’s just so many devs these days that they can seemingly abuse them for decades and nothing has collapsed.
agreed, somehow w3schools just made stuff really easy to learn, easy to navigate, and easy to refer.

I only need MDN when I want to read stuff 'deep', but 98% of the time I don't need that depth.

MDN is also hard to navigate, it works like a thick dictionary to me, it will be needed, but only rarely.
Celsius Network Plots a Comeback After a Crypto Crash
Highly, highly doubt it
I guess I'm the worst type of customer for audio retailers. I recently switched from buying $50-$100 gaming headphones to $5 wired earbuds with a built in microphone.

They are still working perfectly after months, and I got a spare for another $5.

The reason I decided to try that is because the wires in my headphones always get partially broken after a few months and so I end up with only one channel. And the cheap Bluetooth earbuds I had which were great for several months eventually went to a single channel also for some reason.

If that happens again, $5 is no big deal to get more. Assuming I can find those cheap earbuds again.
Its because Instagram is for self promotion.
Banking payments are never useful to charge progressively. Always, one part of the banking system subsidises the other, so some players will pay for others, some borrowers will pay higher for others to get lower rates etc. Banking is not a bunch of silos, it's fungible, interconnected, dependant activities. Usage based fees are not good; you want people to transact more so you can earn more float income on average rather than nickle and dime out fees from a few and this reduce growth. The float income pays for everything and much much more, so no point doing usage based fees
No way they don't pay bank the bulk of their irreplaceable programers.
It’s a matter of not disincentivizing victims from cooperating with law enforcement. If there’s the possibility that some information you give the police could be used to prosecute you in the future, that could deter people from going to the police or seeking justice in the first place.

In terms of DNA specifically, it’s kind of a weird power play to say “if you want us to convict the person who raped you, we’ll have to put your DNA into our database to make it easier to convict you in the future”.
Yeah iOS seems to be extremely poorly thought out. It's just that people are used to it so they can function with it. So many times the back text on the top left is un touchable too, and I give up after a few tries.

In general, the hardware is impressive, but software is quite mediocre on Apple products. I find myself wanting to run windows on my MacBook very frequently.
I built my own speakers for under $200 and I honestly think they are some of the best I've ever heard for a personal setup. They were inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIye4RZ-5k (Tech Ingredients) . I built the speakers from foam board, the subwoofer from car audio parts and the amp is a standard class D amp. The best part is whenever someone comments on how good my speakers sound I can say I built them myself.
Same here. I see two things on my FB feed: meme pages (cat is c h o n k as stated above), and memes shared by friends from the same meme pages.
$5 wired earbuds with built in microphone at Walmart.
90% of apps using UINavigationController or the SwiftUI equivalent will have the back button be a label with a left facing arrow in the top left. A swipe from the left will also trigger this action. Its never tripped me up.
I have no serious involvement in academia. What is the proportion of work that gets reviewed by someone with an axe to grind? I don’t doubt that it happens regularly but I have no conception of the magnitude of the problem.
Nancy Pelosi and husband frequently trade on inside information. Supposedly it is OK due to her title of nobility, or something like that.

Presidents at Federal Reserve, Kaplan and Rosengren, were reported to have been swinging seven figure stock index trades during corona panic timeframe.
https://news.yahoo.com/a-timeline-of-the-federal-reserves-tr...

The really big players are not prosecuted.
I do have a deep-seated fear of being seen as less competent if someone saw it up on my screen.
I’m puzzled by this statement. Russia has been invaded by Germany several times. Has it been invaded by France, Spain, Poland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, or The UK in the past 100 years? As a parochial American, what have I missed?
What do you mean I can't run my sixty dozen frameworks of JavaShit to real-time encode and render my MP4 disguised as a GIF so it can occupy 120% of the monitor before you get to read anything on my webpage?
In my family home growing up, me and my sister had our bedrooms upstairs while the dining/living rooms were downstairs. When it was dinner time, my mother would yell out "Dinners ready!" up the staircase - often to deaf ears, as us young teens were pre-occupied with loud music, gaming or talking on the phone.

After coming down one-to-many times to a cold dinner, I developed my first "app" with MIT App Inventor - Dinners Ready, an app with three buttons: "kid A", "kid B", and a larger "Both". Pressing a button would send a simple text message saying dinner is ready.

My mum loved it. Suddenly she didn't have to worry about fruitlessly yelling to her distracted kids. I wouldn't have to rely on my grumbling stomach to come downstairs to an empty dining table with my food going cold. We used it for years, and she still brings it up from time to time. To this day it remains my most well-reviewed app with 100% happy users.
Wow. Reading along and I didn’t fully appreciate it either. This adds a ton of perspective to what early game devs were working with.
This is confusing to read. Shareholders are investors.
Specifically he would be surprised if there isn't a computer with greater than human intelligence by 2030.

It's interesting that 29 years after he said that, and 8 years remaining on the timeline, it's not completely out of the realm of possibility.
Gross. Also a recipe for disaster. However:

As a "gamer", I have to say: We are running out of options for anti-cheat.

The cheaters are EVERYWHERE in games like Destiny 2, Fortnite, CS: GO, New World... any popular online game, the cheaters are in 1/10 matches ruining your fun.

Weather or not a kernel level anti-cheat will help? Probably not. It is unfortunate that a lot of lower information consumers are going to install this crap onto their PCs.
TrollStore, an OTA sideloader for jailed iOS apps
Those pictures of their "safehouse" were taken from 4chan.
Wow I love the style of this game. Sorry to hear it was hard to fund.
Wouldn't it be insulting that you would somehow proclaim to know what did or did not lead to Hofstader's thinking? Cut the puritanical bullshit.
A lot of CEO's at places I have worked didn't really make decisions. They schmooze the biggest customers. Constantly, 12-14 hours a day.
LinkedIn (or is it LInkedIn?) still serves one purpose: you can sign up for a free month of lInkedLn premium and drop a priority one chat message in someone's inbox. Much better than getting lost in someone's spam folder.
It’s 2 people on a 20+ person committee. It isn’t like the whole committee quit.
Aquihires are really only a thing when the target is a start-up with little revenue and limited growth prospects. At the time, Borland was a real company with many products and paying customers.

The majority of Borland products completed directly with Microsoft products at the time. If Microsoft had done an acquisition then they would have sunsetted most Borland products anyway so it would have been a pointless waste of money.
>So, Chromebook can run any app... as long as you also have a computer on which to run the apps.

Isn't that the entire point of a dumb terminal, which a Chromebook essentially is?
But why is it always on the top left or right? Phones continue to get larger and since iOS doesn't have a universal back button, wouldn't it make sense it put navigation buttons on the bottom left and right?
Commits such as?
>>rejection of the fundamental premise that some people are inherently superior and deserve to rule because of it.

>>Not tolerating a bunch of elitist, parasitic pricks who think they have the right to rule because they are better than everyone else.

Democracy just offers you a choice to pick among a range of elitist pricks. Note in monarchy too, the prime minister is more or less a person of merit. The monarchy just maintains a veto, that's all the difference there is.

The remainder of the structure is just the same both in democracy and monarchy.
I was on the fence on this issue, but this article has convinced me that UPI needs to remain free. At least if the goal is a society that relies less on cash.
OTA means "over the air", meaning that you do not need your iOS device to be physically connected to a Mac to sideload.
SQLite is made to replace "dread" by being generally better than storing the data as a json blob or csv

There's still an argument for columnar formats like arrow, but compatibility is iffy compared to SQLite which "just works"
Agreed. There's very little in this article to acknowledge the rights of adults and sex workers to create and view pornography, or to acknowledge that sexuality is a healthy and necessary part of life for both men and women. It sounds like the author would reluctantly endorse the missionary position, while married, for procreation purposes only, but that's about it. And no looking at pictures, you perv!
> > Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: any sufficiently rich formal system, together with an interpretation, has strings which are true but unprovable.

Somewhat oddly, this is actually technically correct - a "sufficiently rich" system is one that can distinguish true versus false statements of Peano Arithmetic, and a inconsistent system, by the principle of explosion, can prove any statement, so cannot distinguish statements of Peano Arithmetic (eg, 1+1=2 and 1+1=3 are both provable), and hence is not sufficiently rich.

That's a somewhat unintuitive way of looking at it in practice, though.
if you'd ever worked on a call of duty you'd realize how foolish a statement this is.
I hope this is overly pessimistic and under-analyzed. For example, the human population hockey stick graph doesn't show the dramatic drop in birth rates experienced by developed countries. We are on track to reach a global population maximum. And is the author too zealous in drawing hockey stick curves over any 2 or 3 data points? Is deforestation still accelerating? Any chance extinctions will decelerate?
Am I furious? No. Am I "put off". Yes. And the reason I get put off is that when there is someone or someones involved that has money in focus and are "creative" with securing funding for their work I get worried about possible future decisions and get wary of investing time/effort in the game/software. But that's just me and I know myself, that I get upset when individuals uses their full right to eg close source and start a business based on their successful software. It's not rational but I tend to gravitate to projects driven by very idealistic individuals. Of which there seem to be less and less of as time goes.
It does, doesn't it. But it's been almost fourteen years since Bitcoin hit the world and it's never become a major way to pay for porn, despite everyone who makes porn knowing damn well that this keeps happening. Sex.com was making millions a mere five or so years after the WWW made it out of CERN.
I think that might be the case. I might even get used to using iOS after a long time but I don't think that would equate to the UI being good or accessible.
That's true, I'll give amazon some credit for trying their best to make returns easy, but it's still obnoxious when the number of cheap counterfeits and poorly made products is so high. No matter how easy they make it, the time and frustration involved with doing without while you wait for another roll of the dice is high.
Given the track record with other games' kernel-level anti-cheat, probably not very long.
It's also on them to manage, handle, and be responsible for everything. Walk a mile in their shoes and then try say it's so "easy" honestly.
Quiting is an option. I left a toxic software consultancy env after a few months because of the politics and scapegoat
Not too long ago, I worked for a pre-IPO "startup" with ~2,000 total employees. Over the course of a few months, the core of engineering (based in Bay Area) was gutted by a FAANG, out of retribution, because said startup had poached some key employees from the FAANG. After I left as part of the exodus wave, I learned there was an "unlimited" $30+ million dollar extra budget for hiring employees from the startup, lol.

Lesson: Don't piss off FAANG execs, they can throw what amounts to unlimited resources against you.

Fortunately for the startup, it turned out they were massively overprovisioned and didn't really need all those intelligent engineers and executives. Startup ended up closing their Bay Area office and moving engineering to South America. The undead zombie corpse husk is still chugging along.

The startup still somehow went public during the pando, but the IPO eventually became an embarrassing flop. Turns out a business based on surveys isn't that lucrative, after all.
This discussion is about Wikipedia. He may be wrong about a covid strategy, but if he has valid research in other areas I don't see why his other contributions should be censored. That being said, I don't really know the context here.
They love their DRM. This won't stop programs running outside EA's view of "kernel space". Total waste of time, and opening a new side channel.
I would agree with everything you are saying. I did not start this service for the sake of stopping actual people from using certain websites. I started this service to mitigate/detect bot abuse of consumer applications.

I think it really is dependent on the consumer application. But mentioned by some other folks is to add the ability to have IP exceptions, essentially an allow list, which I am in favor of. This brings up an entirely different issue, which is identifying the user as legitimate.
The idea of being on one side or the other of issues is what leads to polarization that prevents reasonable discourse.

Education should give an adult the set of tools to navigate a complex situation and achieve a balanced point of view
StoryDALL-E: Adapting Pretrained Text2Image Transformers for Story Continuation
This is actually true of many businesses/industries.

There was an article just like this about the clothing business, and how at the high price points the quality is equivalent - any price delta is due to branding.

Once you use the highest quality material, the highest quality stitching for the price point, well, you're stuck. That's when you sprinkle the magic fairy dust on it to raise the price, which usually consists of a nameplate or logo.
> Seinfeld seems corny now

Seinfeld holds up brilliantly.
Also, the Selenium Rectifier : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_rectifier
I'm just happy niche communities using old school forum software still exist!
Obligatory Kanye interview clip (NSFW, explicit language):

https://youtu.be/uYUCUrzrF5E
I worked for a company big enough to be in the HN headlines (sorry, have to stay somewhat anonymous) where development virtually stalled for a couple years after a mass exodus event. The CEO went on a rampage and fired some people on the spot for something they weren’t even responsible for, which destroyed the already fragile morale and created a steady exodus of good talent over a couple of years.

It didn’t kill the company for several reasons, but primarily because:

1) The company had enough momentum, revenue, and cash in the bank that they could go on hiring sprees to replace everyone. The new hires had a lot of churn when they realized what was going on, so they just kept hiring until enough replacements stuck around.

2) Many of the employees who didn’t quit saw this as their opportunity to rise through the ranks and fill the voids. They weren’t wrong and it paid off for many of them in the form of rapid promotions and advancement. The CEO became more hands-off as he realized his micromanagement wasn’t helping, so they basically inherited a slightly better situation.

After this experience, I don’t really see a developer exodus killing any big company with good momentum and decent cash reserves. As long as a company has cash flow they can spend their way into hiring replacements as long as it takes.
It does give better results. The filters can also be quite powerful.

The problem is paying a steep fee to proxy Google's index... It benefits you and Kagi in the short term, but strengthens the Google/Bing/Yandex index oligopoly [0] long term. Bad search results are the symptom - scarcity and opaqueness of viable indices is the root cause

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
The quickest way to kill speakers is square waves. Ask any subwoofer enthusiast. Clipping kills speakers.
The Chess World Isn’t Ready for a Cheating Scandal
Ask HN: What are examples of companies with a great culture?
I'm looking for a new job which got me thinking; which companies have/had the best cultures? What makes somewhere a great place to work? Are there examples of companies known for a great culture which changed or degraded over time?
The first public modern overflow exploit, following the Morris Worm itself, was Thomas Lopatic's 1995 HP-UX httpd exploit.

It was followed shortly thereafter by 8lgm teasing a syslog stack overflow in Sendmail 8.6.12. New Sendmail vulnerabilities were the gold standard of the underground at the time, and 8lgm set off a race to work out how to reliably exploit overflows. I posted about this on Twitter a year or two ago, and Neil Woods showed up and posted the exploit, which is a highlight for me.

https://twitter.com/MrNeilWoods/status/1332579039832367106

The first blueprint for a stack overflow exploit on a widely-available architecture --- really, the first how-to of how to implement a stack overflow for ordinary security researchers --- was probably vicm and daveg's Linux splitvt exploit.

To my lights, if we're spreading credit for overflows around, primary credit goes to Lopatic, and then to vicm and daveg, whose exploit was cut-and-pasted a bunch of times for the 1996 userland bloodbath. The most important document of these attacks was Aleph One's "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit", which is the one that's taught in college courses.
Considering how cheap fossil fuels are it's a miracle that 37% of electricity generated globally is done so without using fossil fuels and there is nothing but progress on this front.

https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
It's painful and doesn't have customization points. It's a dream for enterprise but useless for a hacker.

Source: We (MAANG) dumped the thing and rewrote it from scratch.
Can't we also issue PR against MDN?
> Double-blind reviews are just peer-review theater. It is quite simple to guess which group the paper is from. It is difficult to guess the exact set of authors, but reviewers who are out to settle a score or to discard dismissively just need to know a ballpark of where the paper is from in order to stonewall with an irascible review.

In some fields like AI knowing the exact authors is also quite common. Because the vast majority of researchers are employed by just a handful of big labs, the reviewers (and sometimes organizers) with experience in the subfield are employed by exactly the same lab(s). So they already know each other and each other's research anyway. Add to that that citations and prior work usually give away the set of authors too.
Any thoughts on how you would price a HaaS product. Would you aim for 30% of LTV?

I've been looking at Whoop, and I think they have a great business model.
Based on my estimates, the COG of their product is probably $8-12.
The monthly cost is $35 - but you have to subscribe for a minimum of 12 months so $420.
>Other than the most important transaction of my life, though, they've been great!

I don't know Varo but would you imagine continuing using them for other transactions and using the traditional bank for traditional purchases (house, etc.) After all, people don't go through the most important transaction of their life frequently.
Oh no, they very very very much lean in to it.
Oh come on. Surely you can think of a few things other than iPhones and malaria medicine we have, that were completely unavailable to kings and queens of old. (Although “smart phones” admittedly encompasses a LOT of things.) How about air conditioning and central heating? Modern dentistry and medicine of all sorts? Refrigeration? Air travel? The light bulb? A much better than king-sized variety of entertainment options on demand? Indoor plumbing, for God’s sake?
You're right. At one point I read it was as high as 10 years that the average person who died of covid could have otherwise lived on for. I suspect that number has changed a few times over the pandemic, but even a few years more years with a loved one is priceless, losing anything close to a decade would be a massive loss.
Sounds like a great idea and an even better feature. Would that exception only work for you? Or would it also work for other users of IPDetective?
Of course, the relevant thing to know is always if that one important point comes after or before the curve's first inflection.
My thought stemmed from reading the "Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32831701
Plastic Might Be Making You Fat