skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company I work for is in the middle of "modernizing" our backend tech stack. As part of this, a few years ago I was assigned a task that could not be completed with anything we had or could find in the marketplace. I designed and implemented a tool that allowed us to move forward (I'm intentionally not describing it); it has now been part of our production process for 6+ months;

The company had a problem (which was probably some idiosyncratic self-inflicted thing), and they hired you to solve it for them. They could have hired any one of thousands of other people to solve it, but it happened to be you. You solved it, and now it's done, which is great (mainly for them).

> Somewhere between $15-20 million ARR depends on it and yes, it has been rock solid and dependable.

Does any of that ARR in any way depend on other things too? Like a brand, marketing, sales people, some product, etc?

Not trying to be too snarky, and you don't provide too many details, but generally there isn't actually much value in tooling/optimizing backend or operational things. These things are only valuable in the context of the rest of the company, which they own, not you, so they can just keep on doing what they're doing and hire people to solve the rest for them when they need to.
Heads I win. Tails you lose.
> just to see some dumb frames on a screen that are discarded at a hundred per second.

If these frames were really discarded (that is, not shown on your screen), then yes, it would be a waste. But my understanding of your example is that these frames were displayed, and their light reached your eyeballs.
Verrry skeptical. They get hacked the same week that they go under and face regulators?

For apps to be compromised, that means a dev was involved, either knowingly or unknowingly. And as a dev, that unknowing part would be very hard, way more difficult when dealing with an app that handles so-called financial transactions. If something got in unaudited, that's also on the devs.
My favorite example Ursuppe == primordial soup.
> forcing people to get vaccines

Does it not depend on the vaccine?

What if instead we had a therapeutic which shortened an individuals infectious period, would you also feel comfortable forcing that?

What if the disease in question disproportionately affected group A but not group B, would you also feel comfortable forcing that vaccine upon group B?
Exactly right, and this is crypto's fundamental problem.

Say you have a small group of people who are all on the same page about what crypto is and how it should be integrated into society. Then another group comes along and recognizes it as an opportunity to pump and dump. The scammers create their markets and their tokens, driving the value up insanely until it all comes crashing down and innocent people lose everything.

There's really nothing the original group can do to stop the scammers because the entire point of crypto is that you're assuming everyone is a criminal anyway. It just doesn't work.
But, don't you feel engaged to come to a place with such inspirational artwork? Truly, a company that cares.

/s
I think Warren Buffett success of last few decades is mostly thanks to the market following him, not the other way around. Once he dies his business will tank because there's no secret sauce. Just the name of the man himself.
CBDC is an entirely different beast. It is heavily centralized and makes the possibility of third party anonymous transactions impossible. Say hello to a level of state surveillance George Orwell never dreamed of.
In the US, Fed took the "old system" for a ride with no brakes. In the UK central bank went to battle with PM over the "old system" a few weeks back. Old, or new, people in power have their ideas on how to make things interesting.
Yes and...

This latest agitprop is a rehash of anti-mask The Great Barrington Declaration:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College#Academy_for_...

Salon's Matthew Rozsa's recap of that debacle:

https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/this-doctor-is-popular-amon...

I just spot checked some of the signatories of these Ethical Principles. Rough. Here's two representative samples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bhattacharya#COVID-19_pand...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone

> ...are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures

Including The Heritage Foundation, The Federalist Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College#Allan_P._Kir...

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I think it's fine to do retrospectives. What I used to call "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". What works, what didn't, what would you change. A pandemic is a crisis. Of course mistakes will be made. Learn and do better next time.

Attachment to notions like "herd immunity" wrt to this coronavirus is just nutty. I'm just a noob, but my impression is that this coronavirus mutates so fast that herd immunity isn't likely.

I'm okay with comparing prevalence of mask wearing with outcomes. There are always tradeoffs. Learning from this experience will helps us better model public health responses for future pandemics.

Lastly, with today's charged discourse, I utterly dismiss any missive that does not encourage vaccination as partisan concern trolling, or worse.
Off topic: what’s a good free program to use to design a house (floor plan, evaluation view, etc)?

Note: it doesn’t need 3D capabilities, just ability to create 2D blueprints.
Not sure if the employee discount is still the same (close to cost) but a friend of mine worked there around 20 years ago and I was shocked how cheap he could get cables.
Maybe not these days with the popularity of index funds, but it wasn't that long ago that places like Charles Schwab would push actively managed funds that would enrich fund managers while underperforming the market, and then they would close those funds and start new ones. Not quite a rug pull, as you'd keep the remainder of your money, but not great!
And then the embassies would have arranged for return shipment, likely paid for by the destination museum.
You asked how it was misleading.

I told you.
I’m not sure if going to the gym is more cognitively challenging than sudoku. But something like playing football/socker probably is.
Why did it take 7 days? wire from Netherlands to US (ING to BofA) took 2 minutes
Freenom has free domain registration under a a handful of TLDs (.TK / .ML / .GA / .CF / .GQ) with various requirements for registration.

https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html
> [My software] runs smoothly over local WiFi, but terribly over long haul internet.

I'm pretty sure that this is the core of your confusion. We're talking about software that handles ~3000 simultaneous participants. You're not going to find a userbase that large all running on a LAN (wired or not) outside of a convention hall or research facility. So, we're necessarily talking about networked software that users run on their (often abysmally designed) home networks and connect to other players over their (frequently terrible) Internet connections.

I expect that the tolerances you've specced out are absolutely correct for simulation of the local player. They may have even been reasonable for remote players on a LAN. However, those tolerances are overkill when you're designing a system that's designed for use by the general public on the greater Internet. This means that it _must_ do latency compensation for 100->500ms of potentially-highly-variable RTTs, deal with 1%+ packet loss, and also -if it has any even-vaguely-serious adversarial gaming components- have a server component that handles anti-cheat by way of player input validation.

There's certainly value in the high-fidelity VR software that your company wrote. However, the fact that it worked poorly over the Greater Internet suggests that you folks either didn't have experience with writing mass-market networked video games, or that your focus was exclusively on a high-fidelity simulator that would never have to paper over the messes that you get on the regular from the home Internet connections of your typical gamers. (As one example, because of the general shittiness and unpredictability of the Internet, it's fairly common practice in networked video games for all clients to run their physics simulation locally. Clients get notifications of events that will affect objects in the simulation, and then they slam those events into their local sim and play the results locally. For events that might matter to all players in the game, -say some physics object gets bounced around that might block pathing- the server will do a comparatively low-fi simulation of that and validate clients' attempts to move into or through the blocked area.)
It's even less than that; the NFT doesn't show that you exclusively 'own' anything. Another NFT can exist that points to the same JPEG, it could be on another blockchain or even the same one. Which NFT is the 'real' one?
> consent to abide by the outcome without force

No, if voters don't like the result, they can still use force, anytime they like. Like what Belarusians did in 2020 after obviously rigged circus election (though their force was far from enough vs. their government-in-power backed by Russia).
1) the article is very good news, because Crypto the hype newsline word is dead. This means we are past the hype phase of the hype cycle and collapsed to the steady climb of actual usefulness.

The US Dollar is a big scam too, if COVID didn't highlight that then... well, it doesn't really matter.
In the UK if you're under age and you decided to buy a knife you will have a lot of difficulty unless it's a little folding (but non-locking) pocket knife, like the small Swiss Army type utility knives. Indeed legally as old as 17 you can't even buy a steak knife in England although you can in Scotland.

Once you've bought a knife, it will usually be illegal to carry it in public unless you have a good reason, and "self defence" is not a good reason.

Some particular knives, which have no apparent purpose except as weapons, are just illegal automatically except in some cases if you're a museum. In particular almost all swords (if they have a working blade) are in this category, and most things designed as concealed weapons (e.g. blade hidden in an umbrella, combs that are actually knives, push daggers)
The whole article is very interesting and all stories are spot on touching on very important things, like shifting identities, loosing boundries between real and digital, detachment from brutality of real world... and even current trends like abusing building second brains and digital gardens. We are more entrenched in digital than we are ready to admit.

re "subject: Vidya gaem consciousness" - some architecture really shows just extensive and simplistic use of extrude tool in 3d max or equivalent.

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But pretty easy to cause blunt force trauma to the head
HMM is on the way for a page migration-based impl that works on most hardware and allows seamlessly to use all CPU memory from GPU programs, including mmap’d files. CUDA 12 is going to be fun.

CXL 2.0 and earlier just aren’t it because of a coherency strategy that is absolutely dreadful. CXL 3.0 is better though, but that’s a long time away from hardware still.
> Have some fun reading about Carmack's point of view on Plan 9 graphics.

> https://marc.info/?a=111558719100068&r=1&w=4

> "Computers should feel instant whenever possible. This involves the event path, whatever processing is done, the speed of drawing, and the way the drawing is displayed."

This was 27 years ago and still no progress on this field.
The corollary to this is that the average citizen is likely to believe that the average billionaire cheated their way into money. The recently passed prop 1 in MA is likely just the start of efforts to tax/regulate the activities of wealthy individuals.
Another question: Why didn't Twitter just keep using whatever vetting process it used in the past on these Blue Check applications, but just charge for it now? From a semiotics standpoint, the signifier didn't change, but the signified changed from "verified account" to "paying account", which seems like a hugely confusing UI blunder.
On a sample of size one. I found that sticking to hard exercise (I am a runner, so intervals, tempo runs, long runs, etc) seems like it is making it easier for me to stick to hard exercise in the future. I have some theories about it (like upping my tolerance for pain) but I think ultimately it all comes down to willpower. If so, it means that willpower can also be exercised and you can increase/improve it to let you do things that are not necessarily pleasurable right now but give you delayed gratification.

Can't tell if it transfers from exercise to my actual work.
The term you are looking for is TME i.e Technical Marketing Engineer.
It's been many years, and I am still angry and disappointed by Cloudflare's decision to block domain fronting and drop Lantern as a customer. Lantern was one of the most effective Great Firewall bypass proxies at the time, and Cloudflare was expanding in China. (I was at Cloudflare at the time, but I don't have private information on the deliberation. I strongly considered quitting over it, maybe I should have, but I was junior back then.)

The CEO even came on HN to try to frame it as an abuse mitigation, accusing Lantern of exploiting Cloudflare and arguing that they were not a customer. That was obviously false because you need to have a Cloudflare zone configured for domain fronting to work. They were a customer as much as the targeted hate websites they strenuously defend.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9234367

Companies show their color in selecting who they will stand up for.
Yeah I like that also.

Kind of matches another idea I had, but never got around to making, where it was kind of a mystery novel, but it was written in segments, and each purchased PDF would create a random assortment of like 30% of those segments, with some enforcement of sequencing or acts to keep them somewhat coherent, and in some of those segments would be some pretty crazy relevations, and then there's a shared community book available to anyone who's purchased a copy of the individualized book, that auto-includes any passages that people choose to share from their copies (or I could just let people do it themselves, add it to a wiki or whatever).

But they could also choose to keep it private if they wanted, and the website would let everyone know how many times each passage has been generated (but not shared).

I even considered making the tech in a way that if successful I could open it up to others to make and sell their own stories like that, like a dedicated website.

Problem is, you need to write a story that works with that format, and that's difficult. I started a bit of work on it, and then got distracted by other projects.

It's kind of like those old sticker books back in the day, where you buy packs of stickers and put them in numbered spots in the book and it slowly reveals the whole picture. Loved getting those back when I was a kid.

Also getting the random generation right so it doesn't like give everything away after just 10 books sold.

Still like the idea though. Maybe someday I'll get back around to it.
Awesome advice here. As a dev and also design person who works with non-dev art folks all day, I'd say the more you can get down to specific exact asset files and names, the easier things will be for your devs.

On the design side people work with multiple protypes and sketches in different states. But none of that ever makes it to the cold bare metal of programming. Design folks are often surprised that no visual tools are involved in actual website or software creation.

Software requires exact numbers (margins, image sizes, color codes) and exact assets in specific places (on screen and on disk) to work. This means it will be as much effort for your dev to implement a "wrong" or temporary design as it will be to implement your final.

Whenever you can carve out individual components or design aspects that don't change and canonize them in writing, this will help your devs. Think of their job as translating ideas and pictures into code which produces something like your pictures and you'll be easy to work with.

And, have fun and keep adding the joy of your art skills to the (sometimes dreary) programming side.
Saying there's "nothing wrong" when there are obvious, serious hardware issues and a UPS that won't stop beeping is like saying "well there's no law that my tires can't be bald, so I'll keep driving because there's nothing wrong"
I understand, but it isn’t the conclusion. I read it obviously, the sentence I quoted is in the conclusion as well. The title is spurring the same old boring “crypo bad/ crypto good” arguments we’ve been over 1000 times.

We should be talking about the techniques described in the paper, and the fact that they determined it is possible to detect early on with some confidence if a project is solid, or a scam.

This should be a positive for the “crypto bad” folks if you ask me. But this is getting lost.
As the joke goes:

Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. 'What do you think you're doing?' the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. 'With all this manure,' the little boy replied, beaming, 'there must be a pony in here somewhere!
Maybe you have heard about Twitter being in the news lately . With Elon’s recent purchase of Twitter and the release of Twitter Blue Verification, there has been a lot of discussion around the “Verification Icon.” In the past, it's always been reserved for those notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category. Some users are excited to be verified finally, and some think it will ruin Twitter.

I hacked together a Chrome Extension that swaps out the verification icon with an emoji for users who paid for Twitter Blue. You can choose between multiple emoji icons.
A rollercoaster or a skydive without a parachute?
> Aside: At this point, my laptop was bordering on unusable, even on battery power.

How would grounding an outlet affect a laptop running on battery?
No, it's unfair to belittle all the financial innovation in crypto. There are pump-and-dump schemes, pig-butchering scams, outright embezzlement, and many other schemes, not just pyramid schemes.
Hardcore gamers don’t have the time to read books. Besides, books have no points, no special effects, other players and so on. There you have it, the philistines time has come. Let’s hope it won’t last too long
Remember that you can be aware of something being a scam but still trade it, since you believe that the thing won’t collapse just yet. A very risky behavior of course, but it doesn’t mean that you have been scammed yourself.
>I notice this in myself and many others.

Everyone. This is literally the first chapter of 'how to win friends and influence people.'

The fundamental rule being taught is to never criticism or condemn someone. How do you deal with it? By not. When someone does something good, you reward and acknowledge.

>The mental gymnastics we play to deflect.

Only in a defensive state. When you criticise you get here but if you never experience criticism, you are actually able to grow.

>Just about everyone plays this game. Elon just did this recently and wrecked havoc on the Twitter staff.

Twitter made some serious mistakes which led into Elon buying. The blame does NOT lay at the feet of Elon. The political activist who banned the ny post and the hunter biden laptop story is the one who ought to be condemned. But there's no point, they know what they did. They'll never learn anything and will do it again.

The nypost sat on the story for some time to release it at the most damaging time. Twitter's political activists had their hands revealed. The story wasn't even a big deal, biden himself doesn't get to pick his family. The real story was twitter's political activism. After their hand was revealed, they obviously started doing it in public.

>How do we deal with this?

You stay positive. Never criticise or condemn. The big problem of political polarization as we saw during the yellow journalism days; since we have had a return to yellow journalism; it's important to bridge the gap. Dont criticize your political opponents but acknowledge when they have done something good.

The republicans learnt this lesson the hard way. You have democrats like tulsi gabbard who regularly talks at conservative conventions. They acknowledge she's right on point and ultimately there are many democrats who are quite reasonable people. This has shifted MANY independents and democrats into the republican camp.

The red wave was a certainty because they dropped the condemnation. Gavin Newsome even said it was a red wave. It's because republicans opened up the conversation with the democrats. This is what politics should be and by doing this will be decisive.

I leave it to you to explain how the red wave didn't occur. The answer is very bad.
> The paper does not analyze the transactions directly unless I'm missing that piece.

It looks at transactions and attempts to classify coins as scam or not.

It doesn’t make any claims about the volume in scam coins. That’s more a clickbait headline and HN thread thing.

It’s most trying to contribute an algorithm for identifying scam coins.

See the appendix for features from the transactions that they used for their algorithm.
>One could argue, at this point, that a Covid vaccination is really only net beneficial to the elderly, obese and immunocompromised

Maybe, maybe not

"The Incidence and Effect of Adverse Events Due to COVID-19 Vaccines on Breakthrough Infections: Decentralized Observational Study With Underrepresented Groups"

https://formative.jmir.org/2022/11/e41914
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LibreCAD is probably the best free one and Autodesk has fusion 360(free for personal use I believe) , but honestly most people prefer a pencil and paper at first.
> If you use Hacker News you're trusting Dang and the other folks running this place.

I don't direct people to my HN profile. I don't rely on that for identity. I don't try to build an audience on HN.

> If you use Facebook or Twitter, you're trusting Zuck, Elon and the folks working at Meta or Twitter.

These are ad-funded businesses, they have a financial incentive not to ban everyone they dislike. They also have a track record.
Bottom line: Technology is just a tool and an ineffective substitute for the human aspects of "society". Those who tend to think otherwise may be highly trained but still rather naive, under-educated and operating outside their element --- ideal marks for a good con artist.
I use SweetHome3D to arrange furniture before I move into a new place and I know that homebuilders and realtors use it professionally. I don't know to what extent it will be useful for a professional architect.
Unless the "hack" pays for the "property tax".