skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developer's comment in [1] also doesn't suggest there is any plan for further development than keeping it on life support

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/vv844d/comment/...
Here's a sequence of events that led to me quitting a job:

- The owner/CEO of my company met with another local business owner and sold them on us doing some custom software work for them. He gave them an estimate during the meeting, and made a handshake deal.

- Owner tells a PM at our company about the project. Usual project kickoff stuff happens where the PM organizes a team and schedules a meeting with the client, etc.

- PM sends a meeting invite to a dev (me), a designer, and a QA, to meet at the client's office for the meeting.

- The owner of the client company does a similar thing, and at the meeting is 3-4 employees who know a lot about their business and the needs of this project. We talk for 2-3 hours and have a pretty good idea of what they need.

(details: The company operates a fleet of temperature sensors. They currently subscribe to a service that alerts them when a thermometer reports values too high or low. They don't like the software and don't want to keep paying for it, and want us to build them a replacement. Basically to collect a bunch of data from devices in the field, parse and store, send sms/email based on rules configured on a web app, and also have some really basic reports viewable)

- The team (4 people, including the PM) play agile games for a few hours, coming up with narratives and points.

- I get to work. Get access to the data, find a japanese manual online for the devices that describes the format of the data, set up a web app, database, user management, data download/parsing, a polling and alerting service. Lots of parts unfinished, but it's technically functional. Less than one week has passed (and my time is split across multiple projects).

- Project is put on emergency hold. Client found out how many hours we had spent, and was pissed. Apparently the person writing the check was told by our owner that it would be like 10-20 hours of work. That was never communicated to the employees at either company. The requirements gathering meeting exhausted the budget all by itself, unknown to everybody present.

- The PM is fired.

- The owner schedules a 1-on-1 meeting with me, where he spends 40 minutes describing the concept of database tables and rows. His thinking is that if I had only known how to store things in a database, the project wouldn't have taken me so long. Fortunately he gets a phone call and abruptly leaves.

- The client was apparently paying $20 a month for their monitoring software.
Why not just measure total mammal biomass? Humans are part of ecosystem, just like any other species and we have allowed many animals to flourish on unprecedented scale. Just look at all the new feline and canine diversity, or novel genomes like glofish.

Obviously, we want to preserve pre-existing biodiversity as much as we can, at the very for our own sake and for future generations to have all the tangible and intangible benefits of these species. But I wouldn't say that human-symbiotic species are inferior or that relative biomass has to have a particular ratio.
Photography is perhaps becoming niche.

My wife learned in the digital era, but has recently got into film with a couple of 35mm cameras and now a Rolleiflex 120-format twin-lens reflex from family friends.

She struggles with, but likes, the ideas that you have to think much harder about your shots with film (especially 120: 12 shots per roll!), and that you have to keep records of your shots in a notebook or similar, because you won't see them for a while. She loves the different effects of the different film types.

The result has been moving from a 1:15 keeper ratio to closer to a 1:6 or 1:4 ratio.

Film cameras are heavy, though. Something in carbon composite would be nice. And possibly a dual-media camera: take a preview on digital, then if you want, take the shot on film.
This seems to really expand the scope of how keys are handled and authorized. It at least appears to be optional, however.

Or just use userify's public key distribution model (then you can stick with a simple and proven design that just automates the standard SSH design that's been around for decades)

Or just do it the old way, by hand: drop your teams' public keys on groups of remote servers, setup their sudo access, and you're done.

Or just use Ansible or Chef or Terraform, or any of those other server orchestration tools, too (just without the permission layer/bulk remote session kills/user deletes of Userify).

of course, if you really need an ssh terminal in a browser, then you have to go with one of these sorts of crazy things, and at least it's not using passwords!
> iPhones make money, but services make more.

The results are there big as day. This is obviously isn’t true.

> The App Store alone made over 80 billion dollars in estimated revenue last year, just by existing

Apple accounts for revenue as all of the money it takes in for the App Store before distributing 70%-85% to app makers.

> for all I care. The App Store is a fundamental de-facto monopoly on software distribution

Good thing we have a real judge who has said just the opposite in the Epic vs Apple trial. The judge thought it was foolish to claim that someone had a legal “monopoly” on their own platform. That’s just like saying Sony has a monopoly on the PlayStation
They've signed a contract with the US government, now they have to honour it. Legally, they can't cancel it without NASA's agreement. They could try to force NASA's hand – but that would severely damage their chances of getting any other US government contracts in the future-not just NASA, but the rest too–including the military, which makes Boeing roughly 10x as much money as NASA does. So the cost of trying to “cancel” Starliner would be vastly more than whatever they are losing on this particular contract. Poor Boeing just has to wear it.
Twitter needs to make money. Either if sheds staff, charges ordinary people, or accepts advertising. Shedding staff will only reduce costs not boost real income.

Do you honestly believe the growth trend is there? Do you believe it's capital investment and network and development costs can be shrunk?

Facebook is in decline, has been for over 10 years. Why do you believe Twitter is on an upward line?

Google announced a 25% revenue drop this reporting season I believe. If true, isnt that indicative of a shrinkage in global advertising revenue?

So what's twiiters path to revenue and profits?
I appreciate that news stories on HN aren't, for lack of a better term, popularity-driven. There would be no point to HN existing if we had the same news on frontpage as any other website (apart from the userbase, which I agree is far, far better than most sites).
What happens to birds in the wild? Is it ethically significant that a particular one is predated upon by a human rather than another animal?
A hellscape for people with fragile ideological bubbles, thin skins, and too much time on their hands, absolutely.
There’s very good reason why platforms like that recommend the content. Without it, it you’re not a power user (and that’s usually tiny %), your experience gets boring/empty pretty fast, as the platform ages.
Also:

http://robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-bash-scripting...

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html
I welcome all to check out Sqwok (https://sqwok.im). It's been a labor of love and it continues to be developed with a goal of becoming an excellent place for live public discussion.

Personally I'm interested to see what happens at Twitter with Elon at the helm.

A friend and active Twitter user who lets say isn't a fan of his, has stated that they don't think he'd be foolish enough to burn it to the ground and thus won't be going anywhere. I agree.
Finding the spots where they zoom out might be interesting. I saw footage from 2020 where the helicopter camera was watching a group of police as they walked down the street to confront protesters on another block, and one of the officers randomly breaks a car’s window with his baton. The police helicopter camera operator quickly zoomed out and looked somewhere else. Amazing what cops will do when they don’t think anyone is watching.
Show HN: A self-hosted Twitter- and Reddit-like site written in Rust
Mexico used their government licensed NSO tools to target the children of activists working to pass a sugar sweetened beverage tax.

https://deibert.citizenlab.ca/2017/02/mexico-nso-group-and-t...
The Nook was a failure because B&N does not have the resources to maintain their own platform. Samsung is probably the only real competitor to Apple here.

However, in the long run, it is likely that open platforms will win. Eventually, the Android ecosystem will get to a point where such software updates stop being a challenge. Then you can just buy a generic Android phone and nearly everything will work. Probably it becomes similar to buying a Windows PC.
I’ve been following this project recently. Not entirely surprised that someone wants to jump on the hype and possibly scam some profit from it.

Honestly the goals for the project seems lofty and in some ways seems like a scam itself.

The engineering feasibility and the economics behind the fancy 3d renderings is simply not there.
See also https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/#readme
I'm working on a project around this but am a developer and not a business/sales person so I'm actively looking for a partner/co-founder. The NFT part is not at the core of it but exists as ownership and authenticity validation mechanism, which if you consider the actual app is a tremendously valid use case. How can I find a co-founder to help drive this to market?
Easy: eliminate the zoning restrictions that forbid corner grocery stores.

When you can walk five minutes to the store, you can buy just what you need for today (and maybe tomorrow). Then you will eat it and not throw it out.

It will cost more per, but since you are not wasting any of it, you still pay less.
While true, there are a subset of humans whose age precludes them from having the same opportunities to see it, in addition to those people who are part of the 10,000(of xkcd fame). There's only been 4,885 days in which anyone could choose to watch the film, and I'm sure many people have filled them without even having heard of the film whether they'd enjoy it or not.
We had a taper tantrum in Jun 2019 - the commercial paper markets almost seized up, and the Fed started dropping rates then, a good 9 months before COVID. That's what business leaders remember. We couldn't service 2.5% rates in 2019 (actually more like 2%, it takes time before companies need to rollover their debt), it seems extremely doubtful that we can service 3.25% now.
Yeah it's definitely an inconvenience. I hope Telegram team listens to the feedback.
CFO and general counsel
I created a mastodon presence a while ago, and then forgot about it, and then got back on there today after deleting my twitter (I had an acct since 2008 but barely used it anyways) and it seems there is a bit of an inbound wave happening. But as it's not really an environment much like Twitter, I think a lot of people will sign up, poke around and leave.

I also just made it on mstdn.social, but probably I should have applied into one of the more specialist fedi-thingies. I dunno.

Should be interesting to see how it all shakes down.

Personally what I want is an alternative to Facebook.
I don't see DST as a disaster in this (relatively) high-latitude place. And I have kids.

Here in Sweden, we switch to standard time this weekend.

Right now, sunrise is 8.16 and sunset is 17.32, so yes, I'm taking the kids to school in the dark, and it's still light when I pick them up around 16.45.

Next week, yes, it'll be light in the morning. But sunset will be 16.19, which means I'll be picking the kids up from their after-school program in the dark.

On December 10, the sun will be up 8.46 - 15.20, so it'll be dark for both drop-off and pick-up -- and neither DST nor Standard time will change that.

If it's really a walking-to-school-in-the-dark issue, then maybe the school start time is the problem. "Schools Start Too Early" - https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.h...

> The American Academy of PediatricsExternalexternal icon has recommended that middle and high schools start at 8:30 a.m. or later to give students the opportunity to get the amount of sleep they need, but most American adolescents start school too early.
I've got a Moto 5G stylus, it was $280 on prime day, $450 normal. It'll get 3-5 more years of os updates. Battery lasts 2-3 days for me. It's so cheap I don't get insurance (would lose money in like 8 months) or care. I broke the screen 4 days in because I'm a dummy, but a replacement was on ebay for $40 shipped next day. I fixed it myself. No Multi-$K tool fixtures. I used an ios for other reasons. They're basically they same just slightly different. But I have an easily adequately powerful phone for 1/4 of an iphone and I don't even care if I break it or lose it, next day shipping replace or walk in purchase in a store.

So basically there are GREAT midline phones. I'm not coding on my phone, I m reading slack and email and taking photos.
Could you add the total amount of wasted meat (and food) per day also ?

From several sources like WHO or WEF the annual wasted pourcentage of food is around 50% in the world.

Guess where the inflation come from.
Twitter will be all the better with people like that leaving honestly. You can't fathom a platform with people you disagree with not being silenced?
Don't use twitter. So not jumping ship, mostly avoided it in the first place. Too much politics in the way it is run, for my taste. Been using Mastodon for the last year or two, once NA fired one up. ITM!
And wind turbines decimate bird populations.

I wouldn't be surprised if solar panels had a negative impact on insect species.

Where is the magical green line?

I think most people equate "green" to anything not involving petroleum.
I don't do Twitter, at all, who are we talking about?
> recently paid out a $10 million bug bounty

ImmuneFi have "paid out +$10,000,000 in bounties" [1]. Not $10mm for a single bounty.

[1] https://immunefi.com/hackers/
> putting the world’s richest man in charge of the struggling social network

So he spent $44,000,000,000 and is still the richest man in the world?
Hello, it's me, the pearl-clutching, not sane, proselytizing, pseudo-intellectual author of this blog post. Happy to field your many insults/inquiries!
Backed by hype without any true merits to be actually viable?

Yeah I tend to agree. But at least crypto has been done before many times. And in some cases, it’s actually worked out quite well.

NEOM on the other hand, I don’t know.
>Facebook is still the place for real-life connections

Most of the people I know left Facebook long ago or never had an account to begin with. For people below a certain age (which includes myself and I'm not young) it will resemble a ghost town.
I'm actually curious as to what people think about that. Is Meta "over", at least to the point of losing that much of its value, or is it just that investors overreacted to a couple of relatively minor misses?
> one thing you used to get right is freedom of speech before big tech had so much influence

Before big tech, there were no global platforms where anyone could just speak to millions/billions of people for free (as in money).

You weren't "censored" by big tech because there was nothing much to censor. In the past, if you wanted to reach a massive audience, you had to go through the traditional news media, big book publishers, major TV stations, or the like, and they were definitely selective about who was allowed to speak.

Also, the so-called "town square" where strangers gather to discuss politics in public is largely or entirely a myth. There are of course public spaces, but what happens on Twitter is not what happens in real physical town squares. And of course there are city council and other government meetings, but they are strictly controlled by government officials, not a free-for-all free speech zone.
Gambit supports the R7RS module system and has a decentralized module system that can automatically download libraries from git repositories. Take a look at the "Libraries" section of the online REPL's tutorial for a few examples, or just type at the REPL:

> (module-whitelist-add! '(github.com/feeley))
> (import (github.com/feeley/roman demo))

This paper might be helpful if you want to know why it was designed that way:

https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/HamelFeeleyELS20...
uh.. the Saudis aren't white. but yeah, the juxtaposition between the Web 4.0 buzzword-laden website and the Saudis' history with executing people for sorcery, punitive amputations, treating women as property etc. was rather jarring.
> bullsh*t stat ... Units count as vacant, for instance, if they are for rent and no one has moved in yet.

That category of units seems correctly labeled as "vacant"
You should sign up for a fighting game tournament some time and see how far a few attempts gets you
I'm fine with that. Are you not? There's a hundred news sites. There isn't really a lot of intellectual discussion generated by it.
Love it or hate it, something was lost with Flash. Sure the web can do it, but for some reason it doesn't. The combination of tools and language in Flash hit a magic sweet spot that let all kinds of people play and create. This demo is extra impressive for doing it in CSS, but it's also impressive for simply being done at all. You don't see stuff like this on the web too often. If this were a Flash world, I feel like it would be ancient news. I don't wish it were, but it's worth noting.
Hint: you do not need to eat any meat to get plenty of protein.
It's been too long since I played Witcher 1 to really remember the feel but I never had the complaints other people constantly bring up. In fact I put off Witcher 2 for some time because unlike Witcher 1 it seemed to require using a controller to have a decent experience, but Witcher 1 was great (in my vague memory) with keyboard and mouse. (I also had a slow start-and-restart phase with Witcher 2 because it takes a while to really open up more, but when it does, it's a fantastic game too. Witcher 3 improved on that and you get into things immediately.)
This is a "free speech" guy, not a free speech guy. If Twitter follows other "free speech" platforms, it will become very one-sided. I'd expect all the newly banned folks to set up elsewhere. Maybe Mastodon, maybe something more established like Tumblr.
At least it'll help with inflation.
> this is the only game in town.

There is another game in town. Emphasis on "is", as in present tense, not future. Natural gas power plants. They emit much, much less CO2 than coal. If we use them to only generate electricity when solar and wind are not enough, we end up with much lower emissions than what the trees remove from the atmosphere. We also end up needing to overbuild solar and wind by only about 30%, not by a factor of 3 or 4. The capital cost of maintaining the current, existing, natural gas power plants is basically zero. The capital cost of building new pumped storage is huge.

Here, let me do it for you. Lifting 1 kg to a height of 1 m requires about 10 Joules (more precisely 9.8, as every high school student hopefully knows). One billion kg, or one million tons is 10 giga-joule, or giga-watt-seconds. Increase to 360 million tons, and you get one GigaWatt-hour. One ton is one cubic meter of water, one million is a square of 1km2 area and 1m height, and 360 megatons is a square of horizontal width and length of 6 km and a height of 10 meters. A fairly big lake. Building an artificial one would qualify as a mega-project. It would cost multiple billions of dollars. It would be able to generate one gigawatt of power for one hour. Of course you'd raise it to a certain height, let's say 100 meters, and that would generate the 1GW of power for 4 days. If you have 100% efficiency. Which you don't have, because you lose energy both when you pump up, and when you let the water come down. Assuming an optimistic 25% overall round-trip efficiency, you get 1GW power for one day. If you want for one month, well, you multiply this by 30.

Or you can just keep around a 1GW natural gas power plant, and use it when you need it.
This guy is purely an entertainer, far closer to a clown than an investment advisor. I don’t see him crying after saying the sky was the limit for Ford at the beginning of the year:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/01/04/cramer-says-sky-is-the-l...

He acts like an oracle for investing but anytime there’s economic turmoil, he’s like a fish out of water. He’ll shamelessly keep on making 1000% confident recommendations though.

I actually used to listen to him until he made disastrous call after disastrous call during the Great Recession. I watched him make similar mistakes when the pandemic started. Always way too optimistic and calling “the bottom” way too early.
Materials aren't the largest cost around here (California) There has been a massive worker shortage since 2008, so even incompetent people can charge way more than material costs for most installation jobs. (And then you pay a second person even more.)

Permitting, engineering, etc are also expensive.

Finally, construction costs are difficult to estimate up front, so it is difficult to be a rational actor when deciding to build or not.

After all, if you hit a 33% cost overrun half way through building, your best option is to pay the 33%. At that point the house costs 83% of the expected price of starting over. If you stop now, then you are out 50% of the initial budget.

If you think facing such a tradeoff is rare, look around for lots that are for sale with pre-approved plans or partially constructed houses. They're usually pretty easy to find.
I just wish I could buy and download copies of audiobooks, that's still how I listen. It's a trope on here to talk about walled gardens, but I was surprised by how difficult it's been to find audiobooks outside of Audible.
WSL in Windows 10 is almost useless. Also for embedded and people working on kernels etc it is really painful.
On the other hand if you had a hunk of gold, in 20 or 200 years that's still a valuable hunk of gold. Buying an iPhone for the status symbol is like buying a hunk of gold, and every six months you chisel off a huge chunk of it and lob it into the ocean to simulate depreciation on technology.
Based on the stridency android users tell me how "they're sorry for me" I fear never.

I didnt want a religious war, I just want to use my phone in peace without hearing how you feel about my vendor of telephone. I cant even mention it in passing.
Yes, another good reason to use something like https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss instead of depending on a (very transitory) front page.
Isn't AF significantly improved since the sensor always receives signals?
> and free speech will be defended

When people say this I just assume you're wanting to spit hate speech and vitriol
I don’t know if that will be the case. Previous free speech platform attempts only attracted a specific crowd - but Twitter has the opposing crowd quite firmly entrenched, so it may balance out better.
The singularity finally happens
> because it wouldn’t be prosecuted anyway.

which is weird to me - video evidence should mean a slam-dunk case is it not?

So the reason it isn't going to be prosecuted is political then? Which means a failing of the system and institutions. This is an indication of a deeper problem. Moving is the individual's solution of course, but that's not a real solution for the state.
Exactly. It is painful in Windows 10. Nothing beats running natively.
The relatively high probability of any or all of severe economic sanctions, the people who know how to run TSMC escaping, and the TSMC facilities themselves being replaced by large craters.