skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To imagine the life of the mayans was fascinating.

The ancient Mayans. The life of todays Mayans is equally interesting. If you want to know how they live today, knock on the door of one of their houses and ask them. They'll probably cook you an excellent meal while describing their life. Most speak Spanish as their second language, and they're re-learning how to write their native language because the Spanish forced them to forget it (on pain of death).
Something weird going on with my phone's webview. The site jumps around constantly, making it unusable. Looks like the superscripts and their hidden references constantly re-render. Can't debug cos webview.

Works fine in Android Firefox though.
Because of the square–cube law. Planets are an unfathomably inefficient form factor in terms of material use to available surface area/volume ratio.
Yeah, the people who respect themselves would walk out, and you're left with the subservient peons. Win-win! /s
If you're interested in national epics, try the Kalevipoeg next.
Heh. In the Cosmopolitan documentary there's a scene where all these other animals just stand around waiting for the honey badger to find food before diving in. https://youtu.be/chtdRCrZKuw?t=247
Id put that front and center on the brochure ! Pic of.plane landing with one wing ! Sure its not the norm ! But dammit which other fighter jet has an event like this :)
So, I'm in a weird position and have a question:
We're looking for a small investment, technically seed round to bootstrap marketing and sales efforts, product is at v1.0. But we have 50k€ of revenue (enough for ~2 average employees here) and 3 large corporate customers. It's a self founded (pivot from a traditional model) almost entirely automated SaaS for psychometric testing in hiring/development/reorganization with strickly scientifically valid tools.

The offers (from local VCs) were getting are around 100k eur for 10%. Looking at the threads here... Seem like a shit deal. Or am I wrong?
Exactly. And there is so much nonlinearity left to discover even here on Earth, once we get through a number of R&D and commercialization hurdles. Such as for commercial-grade fusion power.

All that deuterium in the oceans represents extroardinarily transformative potential for society. And new pathways for technology. Once we learn how to unleash this energy, Malthusianism won't have the appeal it does today.
> On the contrary, micro-transactions is the ideal way for regular folks to support content creators in a way that does not take too much from them.

In your idealized theoretical market conditions*, and assuming the tech works currently as I mentioned (it doesn’t in my opinion but that debate has already been had).

You might be right, but not until (another) significant engineering effort is established (unlikely given the state of the economy) and not without the blessing of various nation states.
The audiobook is worth a listen just for that one special character. Even if you've already read the book
At the very least they had children, but also a lot of small things probably have a very long lasting effect.
You can stand in the middle of the wilderness on a soap box distributing pamphlets or you can stand in the town square on a soap box distributing pamphlets.
Did we ever find out if was right about the diver?
It's popular in finance, which pulls up the average pay.
I posted the original tweet. The problem is with a spot color channel, which I created in the first place by picking a color name from a color book 20 years ago. Now, the on-screen color (PANTONE 130 CVC, an old color name) goes black in Photoshop 2023, but is still a recognisable yellow in an older Photoshop 2022. Without the screen reference, you don't know what it's supposed to look like, so designers working with multiple spot colors could have a tricky time.

More info in this video: https://youtu.be/OBs2-2KcN-w
Show HN: FFmpeg Command Visualizer and Editor
It sounds like we're back in 1999.
It would make sense if the goal is to create something that is immutable at all costs: even if illegal content or speech is shared on the platform and there is no right to scrub data. I don’t think that is many people’s goal.
I sometimes regret my habit of reading before bed. I think I’ve conditioned myself so anytime I start reading I start feeling sleepy.
Iirc that's a safety feature to tech unsavy users from executing copy pasted code in the url bar. You'll need to manually type

javascript:

at the beginning. Same applies to chrome.
Nomi Prins, All the Presidents Bankers, and also Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.

Those two books illustrate the financialization of the US and global economy over time, and although dense, are well worth the effort. She has a new book out as of Oct, "Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever."

Peter Anderas, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America

A very fun historical read, covering everything from textile machinery smuggling from Britain to the American colonies, to rum and whiskey smuggling into Indian Country in the 19th century, to opium smuggling to China, to Prohibition and the modern Drug War, cotton smuggling by the South to Europe to finance the South's Civil War army, and the smuggling of people from slaves to immigrants. Very eye-opening, a lot of America's 'wealthy families' got their first pool of capital in this manner.

Also:

Junji Ito, Uzumaki and No Longer Human

William Gibson, The Peripheral and Agency
Because space is really, really unhospitable. We haven't colonized the surface of the sea, the top of montains, nor the glaciers of the Antarctic or Greenland, yet all of them are much more suited to human life than space (and as such, humans have occasionally been there for ages).

Living on Mars is pretty close living on the top of mount Everest, if mount Everest was in the middle of the Pacific and all you have to go there are sailboats that take months. It's not a place to settle. And deep space is even worse!

There will likely be people working away from Earth's orbit in the next decades (like we have people working in boats in the middle of Pacific), before being eventually replaced by autonomous machines. But the idea of space colonization is pure fantasy that doesn't hold any water.
The Cyberiad is brilliant. If you haven’t read it already I thoroughly recommend Monday Starts on Saturday by the Strugatsky Brothers. It has a kind of similar vibe, hilarious, fantastical yet still sci-fi.
Relying on a SaaS today is not too bright.
Awesome project, and the C source code is very cool. Distinct APL influence in how it emphasizes code density.
Comfort is a drug. Once you get used to it becomes addicting. Give a weak person consistent stimulation, good food, cheap entertainment and they will throw their ambitions right out the window. Comfort is a graveyard of dreams.

For a shit ton of my teens all I did was chase comfort until this hit me earlier last year. Now I wait for pain to make sure what Im doing goes against the current to bend the resistance to my will.

Goggins sums it up: if you like running what you learning? If you like boxing well what are you learning? People say double down on your strengths. Fuck that triple down on your weaknesses.

Jordan Peterson in one of his lectures: if you expose people to what they fear they get stronger and we don’t know the upper limits to that.

In short: fk comfort, chase pain. That is the 21st century’s killer instinct.
If you are fired, all your options will vest immediately. Additional money payment at exec level too.
Type based memory management has been done in FP languages. The point is that it completely breaks the experience.
Here's a partial answer. The perception of time always happens at one second per second.
Parag used to be CTO and seems to have presided over multiple years of lethargic development and glacial product evolution.

What did Jack see in Parag as a leader, exactly? How do these people continue to fail upwards?
The point is enough people (not all) put up with providing ID for their phone purchase or their phone number for twitter that a more thorough check for Twitter might be tolerated. Especially if there is a little paypal in there too.
The problem is, as a foreigner, you may have been misled to think what you're asking for is legal, when in actuality it is not.
So the best argument you have here is that Musk is good at hiring competent people? Sounds to me like this makes him an excellent CEO.
Hey OP here, I spend a significant amount of time generating complex FFmpeg filtergraphs for my project. They can get really long and cumbersome, so I made this tool that lets you visualize and edit them, and generates the FFmpeg command string for you.

It sort of became an IDE/LSP for FFmpeg filters. My biggest problems were having to constantly to flip to FFmpeg documentation and errors in my filters. So I added autocomplete and embedded the FFmpeg docs. It also verifies the correctness of filters/arguments, and does an analysis on the graph to verify connections/etc.
uBlocklist makes searches a little more useful.

old.reddit.com is the only sane way to browse reddit.
>and write code accordingly

That is exactly the point — now you have to write code, not use a graphical editor.
An ‘Army’ of Volunteer Sleuths Are Out Hunting for Your Stolen Car
> In some sense, the only relevant partition is the quantity of money that is actually in circulation

Yeah thats the bit i’m trying to get my ahead around. Specifically:

>> It's arguably both a stock problem and a flow problem

I’m thinking the key variable here is flow

>>> it's a flow problem

You cant have inflation without increased flow, but i’m still wondering about stock because it’s not as simple as just excess money.

Perhaps it is correct enough to just frame it as a flow problem, since that variable is always dominant in every inflation scenario.

> depends on the bank's net lending to you

Yeah that makes sense, so my example should have been a loan from one bank and a savings account at another
It’s okay if you don’t want to read about any form of assault. It sounds like what you experienced was traumatizing and it makes sense that you’d not only want to avoid it, but also why you’d be wary of anyone saying they can understand your lived experience through a book.
This is sad...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180820035048/http://www.erasma...

Chris Crawford, 2018 :

> Siboot was never intended to be a game; it’s interactive storytelling. The emphasis is on character interaction, and it already offers interesting dramatic character interaction. But people aren’t looking for interesting dramatic character interaction; they’re looking for the things that make great games: challenge, a smooth learning curve, impressive graphics, catchy little tunes to accompany their play. Above all, a game must be winnable. Yet stories aren’t necessarily about winning and losing; they’re about drama.

> No matter how good Siboot turned out to be, it would not create the splash I had hoped for. It would not go viral and trigger lots of tweets and viral videos on YouTube. It would certainly attract a small comradeship of people who recognize its importance. Everybody else would be unimpressed.

[...]

> it will take centuries for civilization to embrace the concept [of algorithmic thinking]

[...]

> Even worse is in store for us: deep learning AI.

[...]

> You will NEVER see anything like literature coming out of deep learning AI.

[...]

> That will stop us dead in our tracks for a few decades.

But I can understand that the prospect of "genius only acclaimed long after his death" is not particularly attractive...

(Also, I'm not certain that computers able to run interactive fiction are still going to be economically viable in centuries...)
There would be one good thing through: run a node and view a non-algorithmic feed!
Kangaroos?
well, not really true. there are huge cultural differences in personal but hygiene. the end result is more or less the same, the process differs widely.
Not every one is out to get you ! Namaste :p
So throw the baby out with the bath water? Great plan.
Amazing that the article can identify the causal factors that drove inflation during 1965-1982 - such as massive government funding to support a war, and then ignore the change in policy (end of war) that led to the moderation that followed.

The USA (especially) and UK (just a bit) have just spent trillions on a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, everyone (I can't think of an exception) has spent trillions on a war against Covid-19. It's not surprising that there is now an inflationary surge. The solution is not to have more wars or pandemics.

Unfortunately this is (to some degree) not a matter of choice for all parties. I don't think for a second that the timing of Putin's war suited the west, which is why Putin went in when he did. The timing of any war in Taiwan will not be chosen to suit all parties either. The war on terror was a matter of choice. History is revealing it to have been a very bad choice indeed. The next pandemic will not be a matter of choice either, whether it's man made or natural no one is going to wake up in the morning and say "wouldn't it be great if we had covid-3?" but if we get covid-3 we will have to react to it.

For me this is the real lesson - one that Putin is learning as well. If a state is presented with the possibility of embarking on a war of choice there is no real choice. The only rational thing is to refuse to embark on that course because the risk of catastrophe is very high and the opportunity costs are higher.
MBA Grad :)
The one thing stopping me doing this is finding my own domain name that I want to use for email.

You’d think with the number of domain names I own I’d have one I liked
Binance is extremely competent in helping companies of any kind to use the Blockchain. Their time to market is unmatched in this business. What I have noticed as an observer is that companies can hit the market faster, test their value prop, iterate and execute the next steps on a solid base with the help of a strong partner. Much better than doing it all by themselves reinventing wheels on a daily basis.
Have a look at a cassowary. Especially, compare their feet to t-rex's.
I can buy turnips but am struggling to find a platform to sell them on
A new twitter account by joe average is also wilderness.

This is more a case of “famous guests on talkshow” than “London’s speakers corner”.

It is marginally easier to get a twitter following. But yoursite + (youtube, facebook, reddit etc.) can build a following too.
While I haven’t read it, my therapist wife loved No Bad Parts. Giving this one a +1 on her behalf.
Why are music publishers paying for future profits from a given work being recorded and distributed on Spotify when people can just go on BitTorrent and get the recording for free?

Is there a lower bound of a market for published works? Are tweets below that bound? Are tweets of video content or photographs below that bound? Perhaps!

Does the current socioeconomic system of Twitter have in impact on ill-informed context free pronouncements? Would a different socioeconomic system encourage different content?
Wow. This is exactly like a speculative comment I was going to write. Only thing I'll add is the relation seems to hold for other animals. The bigger the animal, the longer the wavelengths in both vocalizations and (to the limited extent we can study), brain waves. Think about the reaction times of a whale vs the reaction times of a small bird. I bet videos of whales speed up kind of look like videos of birds.
Your keyword here is 'transparent persistence' (or 'orthogonal persistence'). There was quite a lot of work on this a few decades ago - https://dblp.org/db/conf/pos/index.html
They do run a 501(c)(3) fiscal host though, but I'm not sure if Lichess would fit its charitable purposes:

- increasing access to educational resources and training

- creating a positive social impact

- developing tools to improve civic participation within cities or communities

https://opencollective.com/foundation
I always have to Google which of my bike pedals is reverse threaded. It's a bit embarrassing, as I always think I should be able to figure it out from the whole angular momentum - torque thing.
It wouldn't make sense to store tweets on a blockchain... It would be too wasteful; this level of redundancy is not needed. But it would be a good idea to implement a blockchain-based payment system which integrates with Twitter somehow.
Peter principle I would imagine
Why Meta is tanking and how Zuckerberg can fix it
Amazing animals!

I strongly recommend everybody interested in play to read Huizinga's Homo Ludens.
MGL – OpenGL 4.6 on Metal
Don't know if it counts as a book, but I read through The Art of the Propagator, and it's a very enlightening text on a programming paradigm that may be a good fit to certain problems that the two popular paradigms (OO and FP) may not be ideally suited to.
We must never forget there was a time our great and successful (otherwise we wont be here) ancestors had todo their dailygrind and office'ing in a cave with no rgb backlight or standing desk !
This article is missing a lot. For instance, it misses the international element completely. It does not mention one of the most important monetary facts of the 20th Century: that the USA dollar was allowed to float 1971. This was the end of the Bretton Woods system:

https://www.bundesbank.de/en/tasks/topics/1973-the-end-of-br...

The floating exchange rate helped the USA to hold on to manufacturing jobs, but caused inflation to go higher. This is a big fact to miss.

"What the Great Inflation Taught Us" leans too much on accounts from Paul Volcker and Warren Buffet. It only shares the point of view of the market and investors. It does not include any point of view associated with manufacturing or labor.

The essay doesn't mention the international context, the fact that inflation was often higher in other countries besides the USA. It doesn't attempt to explain some of the anomalies of the era, such as Japan, where inflation peaked at 26% despite the fact that Japan had a strengthening currency.

The inflation of the era was international, and its beginning and end can only be understood in the international context. I made an attempt to look at this era from the point of view of the relationships between the developed and underdeveloped nations, and their currencies:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-did-the-west-deindustri...
For non-fiction, Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything (which I'm still working through the references of as well, many of which are also good).

For fiction, my sample size this year is sadly small but probably Becky Chambers's The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, the final(?) book in the Wayfarers (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet) series. A great end to the series, and given that it must have been plotted originally pre-2020 oddly contemporary.
Ellul is a mid-century French academic and it shows. That said once I got used to the writing I found it reasonable to get through.

The ideas are very interesting, strong second recommendation for Technological Society.
If you read history the answer is yes. So is Babylon, as a matter of fact. "West" is an offshoot of the Egyptian-Greek-Persian-Jewish cultural matrix, with themselves built on generous helping of Mesopotamian civilization.
Whatever combination of luck and intent there was, it ended up with a great result for Twitter’s shareholders.
> That is what makes sense from the sidelines

Except it doesn't. Before the invasion in 2014, Ukraine's chances to join NATO were mostly nonexistent. Now Sweden and Finland are joining and Ukraine will likely join too once it successfully defends itself and ends the war, all thanks to Putin.
Before spending the last money I had on a coding book, the cashier could see my hesitation and said "don't worry, investing in yourself is never a waste of money".

It had a profound impact on me.
Ford Ordered to Pay Millions for Allegedly Stealing Software
Madonna in a Fur Coat, by Sahabattin Ali - a short Turkish novel published in 1943, sad and charming, reminds me of Somerset Maugham.

The Blood Oranges, by John Hawkes - he's a postmodern writer, but this short novel is pretty straightforward. The narrator is the best-written hedonist Casanova I've ever read, and the novel explores both the perks and the fallout of this outlook on life. Maybe read alongside The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams, which explores similar issues and is also extremely good.
It may be time to consider the possibility that you have been reading far too much in to the inane witterings of one of the world's most prolific compulsive liars and fantasists.
I once studied the map of Charon and asked myself who is Octavia Butler? Guess what Xenogenesis was about. Next I recalled Cherryh's Foreigner series and then searched my mind palace for the works of Le Guin and found The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World Is Forest.
True. The better observation is "everyone's shit stinks".
> This may appeal to naive people (students, hippies, etc.), for whom socialist/communist ideas are attractive, but it's poison in the real world.

This is flamebait, lacks nuance, tone deaf (who still says hippies?), etc. Please try to practice empathy online.
The error user see and the one you log shouldn't be the same, you still can log complete information about an error, while the user will see only "Oops, something went wrong"
Robert Frost, not sure if it was meant as advice:

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.
sure, between that and the quid-pro-quo sexual harassment...
Mkcert: Simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates
Thanks for the refs.

p.s.
those seem to be persistent object focused. Persistence in a caching memory model would be a side-effect (and doesn't even have to be used). Do you know if there exists research primarily focused on 'a caching memory model' as an alternative to (general) GC or reference counting strategies?
OP here, most of my advice later in the article is aimed at people running smaller services on smaller scales. I'm (probably poorly) assuming that people at larger scales know what they are doing.
> The market hates innovation - until its successful, then loves it.

Debatable. ARK's Tesla forecasts lean heavily on robotaxi revenue and value creation. The valuation to private investors in SpaceX depends very heavily on Starlink becoming a global telecom giant because rockets by themselves would never be so valued.

Without that belief in a future, those companies would be worth far far less. What happened to Meta is that the potential of the metaverse turned out to be way too similar to a second Second Life. As long as Starlink isn't perceived as a second Iridium, it will have access to cheap capital.
I think there might have been a clause about change of ownership as well
One of the things that really makes me mad is telling someone not to do something stupid, and them replying, "But something has to be done!"

No, it doesn't. Especially if it makes the situation worse.
It might be for balance despite the small size. On the human side, our pinky toes are important for balance despite appearing a little bit vestigial.
I’m just going to put the idea here… C# and Blazor, with linq to sql, in the browser… automatically synced to the backend server… that just sounds like magic, but magic I would throw money at.
43 Things
The Goblin Emperor is incredible. I read it when it came out and I can't believe how little I see it mentioned.