skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lovely! aaah i have such a soft spot in my heart for ideas like this. reminds me of "hoodwink'd," a similar project by _why the lucky stiff from 2005 that let readers leave comments on webpages tagged by URL. (see http://web.archive.org/web/20080106065546/http://hoodwinkd.h... )

Back in 2010, I also ran my own project in this space called "Goggles." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/goggles It was a bookmarklet that turned any webpage into multiplayer MS Paint; viewers with the bookmarklet active could see others painting on the webpage in real-time, before websockets made this kind of interaction commonplace. The entire thing ran on a single-threaded nodejs instance, serving something like 1k simultaneous connections at peak. Every half-hour or so it would crash from memory leaks. Good times.

Moderation was the thing that killed my project. Some users became victims of targeted harassment campaigns; bullies would draw dicks, swastikas, nooses, racial epithets etc on their personal tumblrs or homepages. There's something insidious about knowing that folks could be graffiti-ing your own webpage behind your back unless you're constantly checking goggles, so it didn't feel right to keep the project running knowing I didn't have the motivation to add proper moderation tools and didn't want to build user accounts or any sort of reputation system to keep the UX simple.

Some folks made absolutely stunning pieces of art on corners of the web that nobody saw. I probably still have the shapefile database archived somewhere... maybe we could reunite artists with their work someday.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://archive.org/details/cryptographers-way-bradford-hard.... Thanks!
Stripe Experience
I tried to find Stripe support from reddit and trustpilot, Stripe just repeatedly sent emails that the account was closed, I had to turn to
HN, Stripe's facial recognition is so fast that Stripe just closes the account and refunds it, which makes me feel scared.
I am currently using PayPal and my monthly transaction volume reaches $450,000, but Stripe is stricter than PayPal and even scares me.
To be honest, the first Andor episode is really slow and I also almost dropped it right there, but the rest of the show is actually quite good (so far).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33526741
There are some GDC talks that give insight into the concept art industry, e.g. https://youtu.be/CYbYvImd7Bw

The general sense that I get from that talk about what it’s like to work in concept art is not sunshine and rainbows.
That's a truism. You could say that about any connector.
I don't have such strong opinions about how bikes (or other products) should be used. I'm curious, what informed your ideology? Why is the bike such a sacred cow for you?
I like the author's website. It's an interesting idea to be able to list bullet points of what you did in a month (not too granular), add recipes etc. Really becomes your own space.
>I’m curious how many miles have you put into your brake pads

I don't know: my bike doesn't have an odometer. I've never seen one that did.
This is actually... extremely apt. It is commonly referred to technically as the dollars exhorbitant privilege. It would seem FTX managed to exploit this phenomenon on a micro scale. Until it didn't of course lol
Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition
https://archive.ph/nEiBj

> Musk sold a combined $15.4 billion worth of Tesla shares in April and August, but had said there were no further sales planned.

With this one, the words and subsequent actions align less and less.
Once you are a Manager, you are NOT an engineer.

If Engineers don't like Managers-with-no-Engineering-background, then Engineers should try to fill the Manager role from their own ranks.

Otherwise, what else do you expect will happen? Like a lot of things, you won't win if you are not in the race.

Having said that, having an Ex-Engineer as a manager doesn't guarantee anything. You need the right ExEngineer - a person who can manage!
Toyota “Stuck Throttle” Investigation Part 1 [video]
I think you have explained it well. Since English is not my first language, I can't even tell that the word 'just' is supposed to be offensive (and probably same with many other speakers of English). However, attitude can easily put off people and that can be done using any set of words.
This is great, I just used this to replace a janky IFTTT notifier for when new ALNAV messages come out.
I was an artist. A fairly decent one (I don't really have a gallery of my stuff up, anymore, but here's a couple[0-1]).

That was a while ago (a long while ago. Over 35 years). I figured out that even a top-shelf artist (and I don't think that was my destiny) wouldn't make as much as mediocre programmer.

Nowadays, I have sort of "run off to join the circus." I write software for free.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/art/Cavalier.png

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/art/Sentinels.png
Google, Apple, Amazon all make products that are useful, whether we like their business practices or not.

If Facebook disappears overnight, I don’t think it will matter much. If anything, it would have a positive impact on society.

If Twitter and Facebook crash and burn next year, then that alone would make 2023 bearable
Teaching Chemistry:
https://www.chemedx.org/

A number of chemistry investigations, as distinct from experiments, for high school students:
http://seniorchem.com/
AI won't eat lunch, but it may crowd the space with more people getting paid less.

A marketing person can't sit in front of Stable Diffusion and work it towards the campaign they want. They still need an art department that can iterate and make it match the campaign. The artist may very well be sitting in front of some iteration of stable diffusion/imagen/dalle but they still need to discern between AI generated outputs that work and that don't, and to iterate on it until it's right.
Likewise, SVGs can embed HTML with <foreignObject>. It's DOM trees all the way down
Are you considering just clock speed? The "bandwidth" of L1 is just how fast the load/store units can operate on it, and they do the same amount of work per clock regardless of conditions.
It'll be ready at some point, people at AWS experimented with it, they have a sample ready: https://github.com/awslabs/dotnet-nativeaot-labs
Damn. Consider myself pretty into sound but have never heard COTS and Googling was less than successful :(
I keep meaning to write something about this, but: There are two kinds of "why". One is "I understand what you want but I think it's stupid so I'm going to argue with you." That one is insufferable. The other one is "I don't understand what you want, and I need more information to know what to do." That one is inevitable.

Unfortunately the line between the two is very fuzzy, because every request is underspecified, and we fill in the gaps with context and guessing. And everybody has a different threshold for how sure they want to be that they understand the request, before they go off and implement their best guess about what it's asking for.
I never said continental, this was on the Big Island in Hawaii. Though I would be shocked if there weren't similar places in the large patches of undeveloped land in the west side of the US.
Is this a good sign he’s got some strong moves in mind for Twitter? Seems risky given Tesla is already in the middle of a sell off.
Re: prototype OO and LambdaMOO and so on, there was also CoolMUD (also by Stephen White, who wrote TinyMUCK, and then wrote the first version of MOO before Pavel Curtis took it over) and also ColdMUD by Greg Hudson, which was then forked into Genesis. Those two were more "pure" prototype OO languages, in the sense that they didn't have "magical properties" like permissions and locations built in like MOO, and they provided multiple inheritance and, in the case of ColdMUD, also had lambdas and lightweight objects ("frobs") and in the case of CoolMUD a simple form of federation/object distribution.

I recently dug up and archived the original ColdMUD sources at https://github.com/rdaum/coldmud. There's a link to the (still maintained and used) Genesis fork from there. CoolMUD may have been lost to time.

There was also FMPL, which was a nice and interesting scheme-inspired MOOish thing that was made by Jonathan Blow, who has since apparently gone on to become a famous game developer. (I messaged him a couple weeks ago asking if the sources were around anywhere and he thinks they're lost.)

I don't think there's necessarily any straight line from Self to LambdaMOO, but I always wanted to ask Stephen White about it. It may be more that he fell into the prototype model naturally just from how authoring in those kinds of MUDs work. (Then again LPmud/LPC looked nothing like that)

In a bout of unemployment after the .com crash I wrote my own language/server in a similar vein. But it had multiple dispatch and other stuff going on. Of course never finished.

Anyways, I could go on at length on this topic. You probably know all this already. Thanks for bringing this into this thread. I wonder if we knew each other?
The issue at point with the patent system is that it was intended to incentivize innovation, and the evolution of the State of the Art. The building of large general patent portfolios by wielded by NPE's as a financial instrument does the exact opposite.

So while you might "net out", said netting out is not helping society actually advance, in fact it makes it more difficult to do so as you try to avoid potholes created by patent x-1 in your own journeys to actually innovate/invent.

The moment you get a self'sustaining finance engine implementable from a legal construct, it will be beaten reoeatedly, as fast and hard as possible til all the money possible can be extracted.
Discussed at the time:

Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980191 - Jan 2019 (588 comments)

Related:

Ask HN: Recommend sunglasses made in the west and independent of Luxotica - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029206 - Aug 2021 (35 comments)

Making My Own Glasses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156637 - Oct 2019 (187 comments)

How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19312499 - March 2019 (301 comments)

The spectacular power of Big Lens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061380 - May 2018 (43 comments)

The One Product You Should Buy Online: Eyeglasses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040924 - Dec 2017 (97 comments)

Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736573 - Nov 2017 (86 comments)

A Closer Look at the $13B Premium Eyewear Market - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429826 - Oct 2017 (135 comments)

One Dollar Glasses – Help for 150M people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091936 - Dec 2016 (114 comments)

Why are glasses so expensive? (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9183464 - March 2015 (113 comments)

Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718224 - Nov 2013 (48 comments)
I got this NVMe wifi card that uses some key that basically only exists for motherboards and laptops with special NVMe wifi card slots. I couldn’t use it or find an adapter.
I am the developer of JoinBase and happy to answer any question about it.

The interests of JoinBase is that, in combination with kinds of scenarios, we explore the infinite possibilities of expanding database technologies.

The database is is dead, long live the database.
It makes them a brokerage, doesn’t it? Not a shadow bank.
Andor is an amazing adult show about the causes that drive people to take up arms against their government. It's not a traditional Star Wars show.

She Hulk is an engaging legal comedy in the style of Ally McBeal, with Marvel elements.

Both get better after the first episode.
Waxing and waning of economies is something that happened since civilization started. No one has fixed it yet, and people a lot smarter than you and I have tried. If the human race was more altruistic than greedy, it would probably be possible, but we aren't. Until that changes, this is just what happens.
Missing is NewtonScript - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript
Gambling sites 'thriving' due to use of Steam's Marketplace
"Crypto" is from the 1990s, but now has a completely different meaning.
Maybe this explains the urge to do a little dance in the server room
Frog's law of social media: Free speech or money. Choose one.
...anymore.
Depends entirely on implementation.

Remember when everyone praised WikiLeaks for exposing Democrats in 2016, then ignored that they also had a bunch of republican documents.

If they play favorites, which people like musk have show little ethics against, then it's just a propaganda technique.
I don't think they tried to make a product from Self, really, but it was definitely a real language with an extremely optimized runtime and a quite complete user interface. Many many hours of intense engineering went into that.

I remember being excited when it was open sourced, finally.. but nothing ever came of it. It was actually quite readable, the C++ VM implementation.
So, because anyone can pay for something that formerly was reserved for government officials, companies, celebrities, big content creators, etc. they now essentially have to make a blue checkmark for your blue checkmark, yes?
However, it's apparently separate from the regular "verification" mark, in that you can't buy it and you don't need to pay for Twitter Blue to get it. Am I understanding this right?

I wonder if they'll eventually back down from "you can't pay for it" and introduce a process for you to buy into this new Official label if you aren't one of the major accounts eligible for it already.
Traditional networks compete with each other. When CBS has bad shows viewers might move to ABC. AMC could lose people to FX.

For some reason Netflix seems to think it’s 2009 and they’re still untouchable. Like “no one would ever leave us. We’re Netflix. We are streaming”.

And it’s really hurting them.
Should have called it Betamax.
They're "RPMs" with some union mounted fanciness, a chroot, and some cgroups isolation to keep other people's fork bombs from taking out your service.

Agreed that explainng containers should never start with VMs.

I think it should start with package managers rather than chroots though.
I think most DJ's would actually be surprised that flooding VLF without regard for the beat is effective.
> Human children are supposed to be raised in mixed-age setting

Ah, right. The way they are designed.
Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering microplastics
Commercial Off-The-Shelf.

As opposed to some custom solution.
It's not uncommon to use a GPS to log rides. Before GPS became commonplace, there were cycling computers that could estimate your distance based on the number of revolutions your wheel made (as measured by either a magnet on a spoke passing over a sensor, or an accelerometer).
I've never had any desire to sign up for Disney or Netflix. After reading the comments I feel like an extreme outlier? :-)
Netflix ending binge watching is reported to be a rumor: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-binge-release-...

(/me busy binge watching the latest Dragon Prince release).
500M year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle
I am amazed that the barrier to Masto entry is apparently so high.

It's Twitter but a bit crapper. Just pick any server and start posting. Done.
It shouldn't work this way. Customer funds should be segregated from whatever prop trading the rest of the business is doing.

The only way this happens is if the prop trading business is over-leveraged somehow and the exchange bailed it out with FTT.

Customer deposits should meet liabilities 1:1. If they don't, somebody is lying.
> much less useful than someone wanting to play sax or act.

Sadly, the pay equivalence of all those actions (on median: minimal with the occasionally lottery ticket winner to keep the pipeline primed) suggests that society views them as equally non-useful.
Right, but you called bullshit. I was just providing how/why it might not necessarily be bullshit. When it comes to DIY which this product is aiming, anything is possible.
This is somewhat silly. First, the mystery chords for the terminal only grew. And... Is kind of the reason to use a different editor.

Second, adding acme as a preferred editor throws the conceit by introducing the mouse to the chords.

I fully grant that chords with the mouse probably add a lot, especially after training. I struggle to see how "small means" can lead you to any one editor over another, though.
Researchers have discovered a mutation that significantly increases lifespan
hasn't this always happened with internal connectors? SATA rev 1 (1.5Gbps, 2003) used the same connector as SATA rev2 (3Gbps, 2004) & SATA rev 3 (6Gbps, 2009) so drives and motherboards plugged together and operated but at the slowest common speed between them.

is USB-C somehow different that people expect Thunderbolt 3 (Dec 2015) using a connector introduced in Aug 2014 on a 12" Macbook announced in March 2015?
Yep, it is usually Kent, you are entirely correct :)
Exactly, that's why we use special software.
Periodic videos and Alex Szydlo are good if basic channels. Alex is to me the Cliff Stoll of chemistry:)
Agda2hs: Verified and readable Haskell code from Agda
Yeah if it’s more than 3 and less than 15 we’d both donate. And yeah, just prison time, if she gets 24 months in prison and 24 suspended, you’re off the hook. I still like my odds!
There is no science that helps stop someone from hating themselves. Worthless comment.
Russia Is Buying War Supplies Using Bitcoin
I don't regret doing mine but at the same time I'd never recommend it to anyone.
As confirmed by https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...
Centaurworld was really something else, very... Gen Z in its sensibilities. We enjoyed it a lot. The Cuphead show is way better than it has any right to be too. Dogs in Space seemed like fun but it didn't land with my kids for whatever reason, so we haven't watched much.
> unless the Ukrainians already have moveable tank capable bridges

I am pretty sure they've had them for a long time, not least because they did multiple river crossings, many successful. Their army is quite capable, and was already quite capable prior to the post-February wave of foreign support. For example in the air defense department, as far as Europe goes they were only second to Russia (though the missiles are starting to run out).

Ukraine was deeply integrated into the USSR and even Russian military industrial complex - shipbuilding (after Moskva sank the remaining best ships in the Black Sea Fleet are made in Ukraine, Mykolaiv I think), engines (both turbojet/turbofan and rocket), whole aircraft manufacturing (Antonov), assembly of armored vehicles ... The lead designer of R-7, the first serious space rocket and the reason why Russians think they won the space race, was a Ukrainian.
It's healthcare monopolies, from supply to distribution, it's all wrapped up pretty tightly. There's also one large payer that covers most of the market already.

Zero people have effective choices in this system. So.. prices go up.
Pulses to Their Brains and 2 Women’s Binge Eating Went Away
> Witness LTCM, Web bubble, Subprime crisis, all fueled by banks willing to lend and overextend themselves beyond margin.

This was addressed under Glass Steagall by creating the FDIC and ushering in the fractional banking system, which kept commercial and investment banking separate and imposing liquidity requirements and a review system on banks. This legislation was later repealed during the Clinton administration and was largely seen as one of the key mistakes that led to the 2008 crisis.

That doesn't mean that the Fed is failure now and should be completely done away with. The runs we're seeing on crypto exchanges are very similar to what the Fed was created to avoid.
>> "It was easy to identify the greats at that time"

The slogan at the time was "kill your heroes". Hüsker Dü?

For me, the greats at that time, 1980's hardcore, were the kids in the pit. The kids putting on shows in basements. The kids making copies of copies of copies of cassette tapes of music recorded from a boombox while driving around a city two hours away at 2 AM in the morning on a college radio station because that's the only time they played hardcore on the radio and it wasn't sold in record stores in your city.

Bad Brains did not start out as a jazz/pop band. Darryl: "a lot of people try to misinterpret and say Bad Brains were jazz fusionists but we weren't. We were just teenagers that were looking into that style of music before we started to listen to punk rock music." They couldn't listen to hardcore because hardcore didn't exist yet, they had to help invent it. People exaggerate the musical background of those kids. And the importance of that musical background.

The music was dance music for pissed off teenage kids with shaved heads. It didn't need to be great. If you look at the back of the DOA record Bloodied but Unbowed, it says "we want to create a world so free we can run wild".

https://i.discogs.com/Oa4bo9uc2FZ0elSuP2u60tHbwXqvEPKdDLeSZa...

That's definitional hardcore. That's what is was about. That's what hardcore meant to me. It wasn't about chord progressions.

We failed. And now that world is gone to the point that few remember it ever existed.
I would argue that AM Talk Radio and Fox News DID eat people's brains.

The thing preventing brain rot was the uncoordinated, decentralized nature of radio and TV stations. Once TV and radio became monopolies that could provide a unified message, the brain rot set in.

Why do you believe that the social media companies who are monopolies won't wind up the same?
Isn't this twilio 10 years ago?
"have earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.6% since the plan's founding in 1990"

9.6% sounds pretty stellar to me. This is much better than many funds.

Calpers' 30 year return is 7.7% annualized.
History?

So this is a total guess but as far as I know radio stations have always played all music. As far as I know there’s never been Sony stations and EMI stations and such. Maybe with original programming like soaps and game shows long ago or talk shows more recently but never music.

On the other hand TV sort of started siloed. Maybe because of radio consolidation? But CBS had CBS stuff, NBC had NBC, etc. Cable kind of continued that (outside of syndication and reruns).

I just can’t imagine listening to a BMG station. I don’t have any clue what label(s) my favorite artists are on.
Selective childhood amnesia occurs in most people and is not necessarily an indication of any trauma: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
"Skillset: spent 2 years at Twitter's climate crisis division fighting disinformation"
One unfortunate thing about Docker that exacerbates this is that certain places where you can specify a local container, if the container can’t be found (e.g. a typo), Docker will automatically attempt to pull it from dockerhub. IIRC “docker run” has this behavior.

So even if you’re used to double-checking container names before you pull them, you have to be vigilant even when using locally-built containers.
Very insightful comment.

The developer ecosystem is always the primary path to success.

The same thing with Raspberry Pi. There are a million $notmuch single board computers with fruit names, but the Raspberry Pi has dominated much more powerful systems for 10 years now because of its top-tier software.