skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one reason why Margaret Thatcher had the total success she did was that much of her opposition talked like this.
Also Taobao/Tmall and Alipay is completely separate.

WeChat certainly filled in a lot of holes in iOS such as QR code scanning (which didn’t get native support until a few years ago) so it provided a sort of OS within the phone OS to get a utility knife of features being used in China that Apple neglected. But I wouldn’t say they have complete domination of all markets.

Keep in mind QR codes were a thing in China since the early 2010s, whereas the US didn’t start adopting QR codes until the later half of the decade when Apple finally made QR scanning part of the OS… because Apple was hell bent on making BLE beacons a thing.

So our “everything app” was iOS and Apple literally held us back by 5-8 years regarding QR code adoption just because of some corporate agenda…
Interiorai.com – $1k/Mo MRR
Found some playlists for a few songs. But doesn't work for others. Says Spotify track link should look like 'https://open.spotify.com/track/22numbersOrLetters'
Somebody needs to make a 4D function viewer for regular old 3D VR. And then look at the Riemann Zeta function
> messaging, payment, mapping, photo storage

It’s funny, out of the four things you listed, WeChat does not provide half of them. So much for “everything”.
There are probably lots of reasons.

For one, monoculture can develop when a culture looks backward in a convergent way, developing "the" story of itself, and deriving lessons and forward-facing stances therefrom. This itself was a strong tradition in Japanese culture for what, over a thousand years? It's still very obviously a valued practice in Japan.

Even the cultural trauma narratives have legend-style stories to them, which is interesting in lots of ways but by definition very closed off in others.

The same traits can be observed in organizational culture in general, for example in high-demand (of their membership) religions and certain businesses.

If you combine this with things like geographic isolation (the island excuse gets thrown around a lot), specific cultural movements, a couple of well-timed typhoons, etc., the additional isolation effect has throughout time been able to seal out new perspectives and recirculate more of the previous ones.

A lot of specific and very beautiful refinements can thrive in these kind of circumstances though, so it's not all bad news.

Just some thoughts.
The pop-up is only necessary if you engage in shady tracking nonsense. GDPR does not mandate a pop-up for cookies that simply allow the site to function. Essentially, it's like blaming the flashlight for having made the rats scurry across the kitchen floor.
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/proofster
How do they have people's legal names?
The comment I replied to asked about this specific metric.

Beyond that, when I was growing up US superior economic mobility was touted as one of the key characteristics of American greatness. Its been interesting to watch the conservatives that were the biggest cheerleaders for this and other greatness indicators now make excuses when empirical data challenges these myths.
I order toothpaste with novamin which is only available overseas, so I doubt those other two are an option.
There is a probability, it can be described based on what cards have already been dealt. It does not change whether that specific card is an ace or not.

So yes we agree.
I always liked going to the office to hang out (as a 35ish year old) but I would go home if I wanted to get something done. When afternoon hit the office was always too noisy. This was a typical cubicle office environment.
Buy Skydio drones instead, they are made in USA.
It has happened before in cricket[1], I don't understand how do people not see this coming, or why they think it's still ok.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_controversies_in_crick...
Man I wish I knew where my magic cards were. I have all of those rare cards from their original editions! I had a deck that was five colors, almost all rare, and only multilands. I can't even imagine what that would be worth today (or if they're even tournament legal anymore, I haven't checked the rules in about 25 years).
It hasn't happened in a while, and coincided with the opposite side of the world experiencing a heatwave.
Did you forget about GDPR?
Read the ABC article carefully (as one should always do)

There's mention of a "senior official"

> senior official briefed confirmed to ABC News.

So a source in government confirmed this to ABC (who's that?). Was it just a "could be russia" type comment.

There's a separate person, who's primarily sharing the story:

> Over a dozen airport websites were impacted by the "denial of service" attack, John Hultquist, head of intelligence analysis at cybersecurity firm Mandian, told ABC News.

ABC and many news outlets generally require multiple sources prior to publishing. There's been a lot of stories lately that have the same base source, but they decide to count as "multiple sources" because an official in the government leaks to two different people and those two people confirm. It's called "information laundering"

Anyway, i'd really out of genuine curiosity know how they know this is from Russia. Which agencies are confirming this?

IMO it seems petty and not something a government would do.
My company hired 2 Doctorate in Physics graduates who both did their doctoral work at CERN...

as SREs.

Let that percolate for a bit.
I use a 5 year old app on an airgapped device along with old firmware on my drones for precisely this reason. It has no nanny features and allows me to be responsible for my own actions without surveillance.

With that said - yes, my drone is registered.
The paradox of tolerance has two fairly straightforward issues:

1) It’s a blanket justification of suspending the rules when you believe the rules to be threatened, which devolves to “the most fearful have the fewest restrictions on their behavior” which I’m sure you can see is a problematic paradigm.

2) People often take it as a given that the assumption in the paradox of tolerance, that “tolerance fosters intolerance” is true but that’s not actually clear at all. It might as easily be untrue, or more untrue than not. It could be backwards for all anyone knows.
I guess you have not been following the various EU rulings that say that EU citizen data must not flow to U.S. companies because it could be collected by U.S. intelligence services. “Google Analytics Ruled Illegal” would be a typical headline.
Yeah, that's what I saw too, a digital mood board with blobs of abstract kitchen-like things that you could theoretically cut and paste the parts you like onto a digital whiteboard.

Once that part was done, then the designer could use those bits and pieces to identify what you like best and cross reference that with what is available and what is possible within your budget and get you the result that you would be happiest with.

With that, the actual designer is still a very important piece of the puzzle and this does very little to replace them.
DDoS a website is probably the most common forms of attacks globally...
Turns out they didn't actually give all the VR devs VR headsets and no one had the guts to say "Uhhh hey Mark? We actually never put together a procedure for giving all the VR engineers and designers a VR headset"
Only problem is that investors have the capital to operate at a level where us plebs' opinion of what property is worth don't even matter. If you implement that system, Blackrock and those like them will acquire /everything/ within 24 hours.
> "official" implies government

No it doesn't, it means 'office-holder'; that may be a public or private office.
This list will impede velocity by quite a lot, especially with coming up with and implementing Plan B's
I think periscope detection is only possible since the 1970s

The opportunity to detect periscopes was exploited in early radar experiments that prompted the development of the AN/APS-116 radar manufactured by Texas Instruments in the 1970s. The AN/APS-116 is an Xband, high-resolution, fast scanning system developed specifically to provide a periscope detection capability on the carrier-based S-3 aircraft. The AN/APS-137 is an upgrade of this radar used primarily on the S-3; a limited number are also used on the land-based P-3 aircraft.

https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/techdigest/pdf/V18-N01/18-01-...
Ask HN: Dark Sky EOL, Which weather app do you like?
Maybe I should've been clearer, but I didn't mean personal effects at work. The people I knew had not even unpacked their things in the apartments they were renting because they were too busy working, particularly professors.

And this applied to both tenured and untenured professors. Don't want to name names but one of the high up profs I chatted with there worked roughly 60 hours a week, 6 10-hour days. I mean, he loved it, and he had a lot of responsibility, but I think it's fair to say it's pretty much all he did. His wife mostly traveled and his daughter was already in undergrad by then.

It is genuinely unclear to me how a new prof could hope to compete with that or make a meaningful contribution when even the "old guard" have given up everything to just work.
I think it became public in one of the court filings
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/unite...

Not similar. Significantly lower. In fact, it’s not even number one because Android is a lot less popular in the US.
Not only are these currently possible, my theory is that these "micro" bets are the future of live sports and will be the main factor that leagues move away from tv networks and toward their own streaming platforms. There's way, way too much money to be made from impulse bets.
> Some people have thousands of times more money than others

I don't think it works that way, at least that's not the way I think about it/find it useful to think about it.

You have to consider each individual in a vacuum with what they can get and how they can earn money. The money that another person has is largely irrelevant to the individual (aside from the macro economic effects).

>money ends up not being that great a measure of true value as defined by the things that people want and need.

"Not that great" as compared to what? It's the only measure I know of.
Doom played inside Notepad [video]
AccuWeather
no, it wouldn't. the government wants to be able to freeze and seize and track money too. this is why it doesn't like crypto, or facebucks, or e-gold etc. because the government always wants control. so the next generation of digital payments will be made to run off fedwire (not shitting on it specifically, it's not a bad idea by itself) and later some CBDC.

next time the canadians have a civil disobedience problem they will not have to go to a bank to freeze money. they will just do it directly.
Or if you’re paying, just spend the extra few books (it’s $10) and get Petersen Strobosoft which is the absolute gold standard.
I'm in the same situation. I have a 2012 MBP but I use my desktop daily and most of it's components are from 2012-14ish, other than a 2080 video card that replaced a dead video card.

There just isn't as good of a reason to upgrade yearly as there used to be. My desktop is primarily used for gaming and it still keeps up with most games in High quality settings.
> The gold standard is the invitation.

I'm not sure what gold standard you are referring to (or the article or the paper - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208375).

Double blind studies require there to be data. An invitation doesn't speak to the effects of Colonoscopy screening at all, while simultaneously adding a confounding variable about participation. The data is about the effects of offering screenings, not the effect of those screenings, per se.

Lifelong data is the gold standard for questions about mortality and most Colonoscopy randomized trials started around 2010 (hence this very early 10-year study, which I would say is premature).
Except part of the problem with these tech giants is they're truly inescapable

I don't "like" Windows but I'm using it right now to type this comment because my option is the other FAANG, Apple. Or specifically going out of my way to use Linux. (This extends also to cell phones with the effective Google/Apple duopoly)

I don't "like" Facebook but it's the only way I can keep in contact with my family across the planet, because they're technologically illiterate and only understand Facebook Messenger

I don't "like" Amazon but they've sucked most of the oxygen out of online retail
I think the combination of Tikz and Bibtex is all you need to get to 8 compile passes.
I mean a content hash that redirects if it is deprecated?
True. Or as if it was cast and then someone forgot to clean the "flash" from the mould parting line.
And yet even with an essentially centralized service like Zelle, the system is rife with abuse: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/report-big-u-s-banks-are...
This is a great idea & brilliantly executed. I love to see the innovation in this space. Nice work Mish and Sebastian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY
The government didn't force anyone to get vaccinated.
Yeah, you got a great deal. I've been hearing this story at least since I worked there, about 15 years ago.
My comment was, relatedly enough, made in reply to someone discussing how poorly it is marketed. Specifically, how terrible this landing page is at being a landing page.
Ah, but economics as a science do care about Utility. That is, well-being and happiness of a person, as an agent in the economy.

The main issue is how to measure it properly?
They're not though. In context an "everything app" is an application + service that bundles a bunch of disparate functionality. Such an "app" would only provide access to third parties that have some relationship with the app's platform. More like Disneyland than a shopping mall.
Agreed. You can still see the five year planning thing at GE. I thought it was cute. We couldn't predict our business environment next month let alone five years from now.
Haven’t been keeping up with this - have regular people been affected negatively by the privacy issue, ccp etc?
Sailfish isn't fully open source, which makes the comparison to other Linux distributions moot.
This will hopefully be true, but Serenity is nevertheless one of the most pleasant C++ codebases to read that you're ever likely to come across.
I would point to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate

as this behavior at its peak. There is still a lot of nostaglia for this period in Japan, for instance the (excellent I think) anime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Tama

is set in a fictionalized version of the subsequent Meiji Period and communicates how people at that time felt they'd lost control of their culture. Historians are not really kind to the Tokugawa period which if I had to characterize in a sentence it would be "Samurai were big shots but they'd forgotten how to cut your head off with a katana", the book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_of_Narcissism

is frequently seen as a critique of "postmodern times" in the US but it's commonly seen in Japan as relevant to that period.
> I worked 200% for over 15 years in Silicon Valley. You know how many raises I got without changing jobs? Zero. You know how many promotions I got? Zero. You know how many bonuses I got? Zero. You know how much more work I got assigned? A TON

I’m baffled by this based on my 33 years in tech in Silicon Valley and Seattle. I worked at a bigcorp where my salary doubled in 2 years based on recognition from me busting my ass. I worked at another bigcorp where it doubled again. My promo history has been like clockwork (with the exception of 8 years I spent in startup land, where titles and roles were almost nonexistent), and I’ve never once set my goal on getting a promotion. I just work hard. I have spent a lot of my career going above and beyond, and been pleasantly surprised that it gets noticed and rewarded. Am I just the luckiest gen x tech dork alive? (No, I am not, because I passed up an opportunity to interview at google in the late 90’s because I was happy where I was. But I’m still pretty lucky.)
As a side note, in California it’s much harder to get rid of a bad proposition once it’s enacted than a bad law. Vote against propositions unless you’re certain that you support them forever.
The Human Development Index is another measure that was developed as a result of similar reasoning back in the 90's, specially accounting for such development in the third world.
It's tricky - also because it's very hard to aggregate 'happiness'; for economy you can reasonably get the total and just calculate an average, but any 'happiness' measure inherently has to be bottom-up and then the differences between subpopulations in a single country become critical.

Like, someone can compare their well-being at San Francisco versus Paris and see which one is better but that would be a comparison of well-being for them which won't necessarily hold for Parisians and SanFranciscans of a different income level or with different cultural values - while wealth can be compared directly in a mostly objective manner (e.g. adjusting for purchasing parity).
To me as outsider economics often seems more like an ideology vs reproducible science. As far as Bernanke goes none of his work helped him to recognize a monstrous real estate bubble that was building. And when it popped all he could come up with was to shovel money to the banks and wealthy people. What was his work good for?
I guess it could be a DDoS with the same botnet?
This technology is easiest to witness in person today in modern and big enough hospitals: it's used to transfer tissue specimens, medication etc fast in big facilities. You can hear the "swoosh" sounds when cylinders arrive, it's very cool.

Here's an article about such a system in Stanford Hospital, USA https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2010/01/gone-with-the...

Some years before COVID, the Chaos Computer Conference had set up a temporary pneumatic post system in the conference building (they might be still doing it but I haven't been). It's fascinatingly retrofuturistic to sit and observe the system traffic.
This seems pretty cool. It reminds me of a story I heard recently. Crooks were knocking doorbell cameras off of wifi by an assumed deauth attack. I looked it up and there are “maker watches” that will do deauth “bombs” for you, no soldering required.

A nefarious plasma globe could hide of lot of nasty stuff, you don’t even need to plug it in via USB to cause harm.
I was going to say the exact same thing; to cram the fingers in a small “home row” on a touch screen makes no sense at all. But the opposite does!
It's a cool idea, but I strongly suggest you guys find a good ex-IB/consulting person who you really trust to give you some ideas of what an A-tier startup pitch deck looks like.

Ideally, this person should have experience with startups as well -- you want someone with both tech/startup savvy and finance/investing savvy, who has a deep understanding of startups and also knows how investors think. You want one of two people. The first is the scrappy 24-year-old ex Goldman/McK/BCG/whatever analyst who can come on board as a potential cofounder. This person will have spent 100 hours a week for 3 years building slide decks, knows the rudiments of effective selling to buy-side people and (more crucially) can happily spam 50-100 people in their extended network for feedback on any given deck.

The other option is to find some age 40+ experienced entrepreneur or finance guy/lady to come on board as a mentor, talk to you for 2 or 3 hours a month, and consistently give you steady but firm nudges in the right direction. This person will give you insights like "you guys know how to design but you need to learn about topics X, Y and Z or you're dead in the water, please read these books/articles ASAP".

With the help of such a person you'll be able to shift from "we're a bunch of guys who build decks" (commodity) to "we're a small team of business and technology specialists who can help turn your fledgling startup into a serious investment prospect" (unique specialists).

You mention UpWork: UpWork is for commodity work, you don't want to do commodity work. And you don't want customers who are even thinking of hiring commodity outsourcers; someone who'd hire an UpWork freelancer to build their startup pitch deck is just dumb. You want founders who are smart enough to know your value.

Your decks look nice, but even speaking as a relative outsider to the startup funding ecosystem the content looks unsophisticated and a bit amateurish. Every VC and angel is constantly pitched by newbie founders chasing the currently hot ideas. Everyone reads the same blog posts and pitches the same metrics. To stand out a startup really has to either explain how they've found a strategic edge (the Bezos approach) or tell a bold narrative about how they can build something truly outstanding (the Jobs approach).

Hiring a freelancer makes sense for polishing slide designs (which is one of your options at the bottom) but the real money will be made working with founders to figure out their pitch from start to finish. Good founders should understand their technology and target markets, and you should be able to help them understand 1) investor decision-making and 2) effective sales/story-telling. Maybe you already know those things but nothing on your site says that you do.

I know this is a lot of unsolicited advice, but I think there's a promising business here; however, you have to know what you're doing to avoid falling into the commodity trap I mentioned above.
Ironically, the actual system that exists and existed pre-Uber in NYC (TLC) is about as close to a real decentralized system as you're going to get. Like most good decentralized systems, it relies on a small centralized core (the government) to enforce a few basic invariants (taxi drivers must be trained, licensed, pass background checks, vehicles require insurance and must pick up passengers in certain zones and not in others, etc) and offer a few basic primitive operations (get driver license, get FHV car license, get base license, etc) to get involved with the market.

Beyond that it's all decentralized -- anyone can, after jumping through the right hoops, buy a taxicab or medalliion, affiliate with a base, become a driver, etc. A passenger can easily find a car by walking about half a block to the nearest avenue, putting their arm up in the air (in much of Manhattan) or by using the Curb app (in less busy areas).
That's perfectly fine. Equitable trade.
> So here's my pitch to you: effective altruism is the altruism that raises your status the most

Effective altruism brings opportunities for status, for sure.

But that doesn’t mean trying to help people effectively is a bad thing.

Would you walk past a child drowning in a shallow pond, when you could easily intervene and save them?
Same thing happens in the government sector here (US). If you don't spend all of the budget you requested last year, you might not get it next year. There is an entire ecosystem of bottom-feeder GSA companies that apparently exist to spend year-end money that would otherwise go to 'waste'.
They aren't supposed to do this - See the link I posted on a sibling comment

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/detection-...

>Soon after the ACA became law, some insurance companies considered a colonoscopy to no longer be just a ‘screening’ test if a polyp was removed during the procedure. It would then be a ‘diagnostic’ test, and would therefore be subject to co-pays and deductibles. However, the US Department of Health and Human Services has clarified that removal of a polyp is an integral part of a screening colonoscopy, and therefore patients with private insurance should not have to pay out-of-pocket for it (although this does not apply to Medicare, as discussed below).