skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument was

> companies where able to host their own digital stores and sell their own digital products, Apple could not afford to mark up to 30% on sales because no one would buy anything at the inflated prices on their store

Yet companies that do have a choice between selling products using their own distribution channels, overwhelmingly decide to sell through aggregators. Why is this?

You keep bringing up buying a game locally as opposed to buying it threw the PS store. My point is the platform provider is still getting a cut.

> alternative websites. Unlike the App Store, there is no rule that says these items must be sold from a single source.

Your argument was why would merchants sell on the App Store if they weren’t forced to. My Counterexample is that even when that choice is available, merchants still chose to sell through aggregators because that’s where the customers are.
Man, I hope Pinboard stays up awhile longer. Genuinely one of my favorite simple, reliable internet tools. I don't need new features, I just need it to continue to exist.
> Policy statement renews agency’s commitment to exercising

Classic Uncle Sam newspeak. If there previously was commitment, there'd be no need for restatement and/or renewal. Put another way, this is a shameless way of saying, "We've been slacking." Bold.

That aside, taking it on its word, this type of hard left turns are counter-productive. No one - business or society - likes surprises. They need to set a standard, *do their jobs*, and stick to it. They might also want to send a memo to The Fed asking they refrain from pouring gas on the fire that ultimately benefits those best positioned to capitalize on said pouring.

This swerve left only means there'll eventually be a swerve right. And back again. Hardly an effective approach.
We are all American on this [God-forsaken] day

;)
I’m not saying people sell these for insurance. One of the two options in this spread IS insurance.

A short call spread is someone selling calls (option A in the link) and buying insurance on said sale (option B in the link).
Giving away other people’s money is both effective and altruistic, it seems to me.
> The cycle of building, burning, and rebuilding the Great Digital Libraries of Alexandria (e.g., Napster, Pirate Bay, Demonoid, what.cd, redacted, etc.) has gotten old.

That is the very cycle of Nature and the rise and fall of Civilizations upon which Human progress hinges on; I think its more apt to say that YOU got old, and keeping up got hard (it has for me too) because this is how it's always been in Nature.

I question if you are even familiar with the very core values of the Manifesto, let alone the works of all other Cypherpunks as this is at the crux of it's existence:

> We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Just so it's clear these are the people who ushered in the exciting tech era in Silicon Valley in the 90s--especially for those of us who grew up here and saw it emerge and consider it part of our very culture rather than merely an interesting/lucrative career path--that eventually decayed into what it is now; the sense of enjoying and relishing these values were the norm when I first got into tech as a kid, now it's the exception and fringe for and it's cause is very the reasons that most have come to hate tech: it's become a dystopic land of Corpo barons (VC) tech lords (FAANG) who rely on IP and a crooked legal system to maintain it's supremacy.

Gene Kahn (RIP) said it best at the Senate meeting [0] and people would be wise to adapt and have Humanity flourish from the advance in Human knowlege and culture, instead brilliant men like him and Arron Schwartz killed themselves because of a few business moguls rather than being on the cover of Wired Magazine or on Forbes 30 under 30 for their efforts.

0: http://www.xcflabs.com/
Number I saw this morning showed meta had added 15k workers since Jan 2022. Laying off 11k still has a higher headcount than a year ago. The question of who those 11k were May be more interesting, but this doesn’t seem like some end of the world bloodbath.
Reviewing a larger section of the wiki, the Peoria cantelope certainly seems to have helped.

"On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal sepsis with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient, Anne Miller. By June 1942, just enough US penicillin was available to treat ten patients. In July 1943, the War Production Board drew up a plan for the mass distribution of penicillin stocks to Allied troops fighting in Europe. The results of fermentation research on corn steep liquor at the NRRL allowed the United States to produce 2.3 million doses in time for the invasion of Normandy in the spring of 1944. After a worldwide search in 1943, a mouldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois market was found to contain the best strain of mould for production using the corn steep liquor process. Pfizer scientist Jasper H. Kane suggested using a deep-tank fermentation method for producing large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin. Large-scale production resulted from the development of a deep-tank fermentation plant by chemical engineer Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau. As a direct result of the war and the War Production Board, by June 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced."
> Do we know if he's okay?

He last commented on HN four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords
Musk bought Twitter as a bad deal. He's way upside down on the worth vs the debt to investors and bankers. He needs to squeeze blood from a stone.

The end.
Activation, if done correctly, strongly correlate with long term retention and are very useful for experimentation where you don't want to wait 30 days for a result.

Activation rates make sense when you look at them as what does a user have to do to get value out of the product? It might be connect a bank account for an accounting tool or complete a social post for a tool like hootsuite.

Choosing the right one is important as you will start shaping your entire funnel to get users to complete that action and if it is only correlation and not causation you may find it leading the product in the wrong direction
Beware though -- nginx 444 doesn't actually close the connection. At the packet level, it just does not respond.

This distinction is important if you have a load balancer in front of nginx. The LB will wait until timeout for a response, occupying a bit of stateful memory and probably causing an error which is indistinguishable from "backend application server is offline".
> But a new jetliner design will likely face one of the same challenges seen in the nascent air-taxi business: convincing people to fly on something unfamiliar.

How much innovation is kneecapped out of the gate because of human behavior that cuts it down like a scythe?
fucking frightening
Really interesting to see these sorts of comparisons both as someone who was previously a heavy user of Pinboard and really admired what Maciej was able to achieve with solid execution on a simple idea.

One thing that I found really lacking in Raindrop and other alternatives was the support for treating online commentary as a first class citizen, which ultimately led me to develop my own little service which has served me very well since 2020.[1]

I have made it available to others to use over a 2-year-long free beta test which will end this year, but ultimately I'm starting to think that this kind of service is just so personal (or maybe, that my own needs are so individual?) that it's hard for users to settle on a service in this area that leaves them feeling completely satisfied.

[1]: https://notado.app
Tether will unravel, it's only a) a matter of time, and b) whether it happens in public, or behind closed doors in smoky rooms.
The width of your spread should be inversely proportional to your certainty about the price level.

If you are an unsophisticated maker, you have to quote wider, and yes you will probably get hit very very rarely. But occasionally someone comes through and just needs to unload something as quick as possible, and they will put in a market order to basically take the whole one side of the book and trade down to your level.

Obviously not super profitable, but not losing either! If I knew an easy way to make markets as a retail trader and be wildly successful, I wouldn't blab about it ;)
That is what aggravates me the most: that there is so much money sloshing around out there, desperate to be spent, and it goes to obvious bullshit instead of building bio-sand water filters for every off-grid community in the world, or ensuring everyone in the world gets a sandwich at least once a day, or basically ANYTHING that would make the world a better place for everyone. Instead, over-privileged, over-wealthy, over-gullible people are wasting the economy on digital artifacts. What a senseless waste.
And then there’s me who uses nothing but div elements and hacks at them with css like a drunken butcher moonlighting as a surgeon until my webpage kinda looks correct on my browser and monitor.
Winning the lottery once increases your ability to win it in the future because you can (if you want) buy more tickets. Success creates conditions for more success in pretty mundane ways.
> it should be evident that success in capitalism relies on a huge combination of factors.

I’ll be happy with the discussion if a single Elon hater admits that regardless of anything else Elon is not actually stupid. You cannot be actually stupid and do what he has done it is totally beyond any reasonable interpretation.
https://defillama.com/ - there are hundreds. Almost all are open source and transparent.
> the language is (for many purposes) an excellent replacement for C.

No, it's not. The runtime wouldn't even fit on many platforms. GC pauses are similarly not acceptable on soft/real-time systems, etc.

Ada/Rust get closer to a replacement.
GNUspeech can sing too:

https://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/extra-synthesis-example...
Electric cars are good if you actually need a car, but we currently use cars in far more situations than really need them. Shifting away from cars where they aren't needed will be far more effective than replacing gas cars with electric.
If they wanted people to use a different tag for such text, they should have created an idiomatic tag instead of attempting to repurpose existing ones. Adding alternative elements is usually the better solution.
Elon Musk details his plan to turn Twitter into PayPal, but now with interest on positive and negative balances!
Move Around, Rambling Quaintly Until Eventual Exit
Hah. Funny! But I do think you're on to something.
Getting kids involved in software in general is still a massive challenge. I would rather have a world where 1 in 100 kids knows how to write mediocre Python and 1 and 10,000 kids knows how to write good C than 1 in 1000 of both.

C is a simple language in theory. But memory management is not something that I would consider approachable to most children.
Stack cookies, CET(shadow stack) on Windows, XFG in some cases, non-deterministic heaps etc…
I'm working on a machine learning project where we're trying to package something up, and bringing in all the packages that get installed by default with the framework we're using adds gigabytes to the size of the application, almost all of which is probably not necessary. The challenge is it's bloat on top of bloat, without an obvious way to pare it down, so it becomes a separate engineering effort to try and make something small and efficient. Under a certain size and for many applications, it's more cost effective just not to worry about it and keep the bloat
In English, yes, you’d say en masse, but it literally translates to the same thing.

We borrow it from French, as we do many other phrases.

For example, when people say, “X has a certain… «je ne sais quoi,»” you wouldn’t be entirely wrong by simply saying, “X has a certain… I don’t know what.”
Underwhelming report. Boils down to "rewrite it in <memory safe language>; but be careful, even those allow unsafe regions". Also surprising: no mention of Ada/Spark, the language people use to guide rockets and pacemakers? Seems pretty damn safe to me, and it handles more than memory safety, such as integer arithmetic.
When that guy hacked the DAO and Ethereum reversed the transaction, did he keep the coins or not?
Insulin, also a lot of pharmaceuticals have gone up over the past 10 years, at least in the USA from price gouging.
That was a lot lower level than I expected. I like how humbling it is to see such deep dives in areas that I would not know how to debug.
I've used GrapheneOS for a while now and have been impressed by it. I'd recommend it to all those who value privacy and security. Battery life is way better now as well.
See also OCLC v. Clarivate:

<https://www.infodocket.com/2022/06/15/oclc-files-lawsuit-aga...>
The market is going to get tight if FAANG is on a hiring freeze/laying people off. Other companies are going to look to the FAANGs to make their decisions. It was real hot for a year but if you stick 20k developers on the market at the same time you take 20k jobs off the market combined with other companies going cold. The market is going to get tougher, even for SWE/OPS.
I remember when the orange dude said tik tok was a National Security issue and everyone lost their cotdamn mind. I'm glad to see there is progress being made. Better late than never I guess.
Yeah, Europe bends us over on pricing.

Though plain old insulin is actually pretty cheap. It's the fancy stuff that's really expensive.
TIL that Ford Motor Company owns a very large number of very large IP blocks
BlockFi paused withdrawals. WTF is happening with crypto?
My thoughts are, anything that is not an on/off ramp to Bitcoin is probably a waste of your time, effort and money. Stay smart.
I don't have an ad-blocker and the ad keeps popping up, rendering the site unusable. On chrome mobile, I close the ad then pinch zoom for a better look and the ad pops back up.
The aptera has 750W of solar panels, so you're pretty close.

It also has about 40% less Cd, half the frontal area, much less powerful motors nd a fraction of the weight. Which is how you get from 8 hours of sunlight to 5.

Real world it's probbably more like 20-30mi

The most likely reason it won't become common is it's legally a motorcycle to get the weight down to something sensible (or has no legal category in some areas) because cars are a regulatory captured nightmare and we're literally not even allowed to have a sane sized vehicle.

The lightyear and sion are much closer to vaporware and their marketing departments are doing the concept a great disservice, but they have over a kW of panels and you could reasonably expect them to be mostly self charging if your commute is short or it's just for errands.
i had a very brief excitation that this might be a Web Application Messaging Protocol (wamp[1]) post but the rest of the topics seemed orthogonal. Yes, not the topic.

[1] https://wamp-proto.org/
My problem with the label is twofold: it blames individuals for systemic problems, and it suggests 10x is some immutable trait.

You said that there's a 10x difference between the best and worst member of your team, in response to a post saying that the concept of 10x developers is hard to take seriously. I assumed this meant you thought calling the best member a 10x developer was a good idea, which is what I disagree with.

Are you saying that calling people 10x developers is not a good idea, but there's still a 10x or greater difference between the productivity of the highest performers and lowest performers within a single team when observed over a couple of years? I agree, but that argument's a very strange one in the context of the post it was responding to.
I read an article (or watched an interview) a few years ago, where they were saying that because cancer is unique to the individual, to truly cure cancer you would have to target each cancer individually. Hence CRISPR. But they also warned that this kind of control could also be used to target individuals or groups of individuals. The example they gave of what could theoretically be possible was 'making women of a certain racial group hyper sensitive to sunlight'.

Was this hyperbole? I can't find any references to it today.
Nobody remembers the washer dryer machine association or typhoon, not even Google it seems. It makes me feel it was all a dream
No. This is what MDN choose to call it. The actual spec uses no such silly names. Concerning the actual semantics, which are WHATWG’s domain, that was done over fifteen years ago.
From his all hands today -

Employee: Why is our leadership trying to increase attrition rate if we’re already understaffed and barely able to keep things running?

Musk: I’m not trying to increase attrition, but I think we are not understaffed. I think we are overstaffed. That is my opinion, which you’re welcome to disagree with.
Don't have to say it, I am an expert in divining political bent from posts.
Uhm, yeah, people made the wrong bet because they fell for another hyped up tech company.

But let's put a fine point on it -- that specifically fell in with a rent-seeking company capitalizing on a decentralizaed space with a centralized platform and then surprise-pikachu'd when they did the same thing as every one before them.

> because when it's not on an exchange you can't convert it back into USD when significant market moving events take place.

Weew, well, idk, if y'all know this, and I'll take the karma hit, but the rest of us that know better than to day trade mostly roll their eyes at this ... crap. And if you WERE "day trading" and didn't manage to pull out, well, maybe day trading isn't in your cards. Go watch YT for a few hours and I'm sure youll be on to your next get rich scheme.
Fair enough, 6 figures is a lot for some. Good luck to him.
Then you (origin you in meat body) will die anyway but your digital copy will survive.
With these kind of generative systems, the way you prompt is is often really important. You have to kind of talk as though you've stumbled upon someone talking about the thing you're looking for. Not quite sure what you were looking for but I seemed to have better luck with a prompt that looked like this:

"I'm thinking about traveling to Hawaii next month. Does anyone have recommendations for what to do?

I just came back from Hawaii and loved it. If you're going you have to check this out"

https://metaphor.systems/search?q=I%27m%20thinking%20about%2...
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes, (Open to Hybrid and in-office)

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Technologies: Machine Learning, Pytorch, C++

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Email: accio.arjun@gmail.com

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I have experience in solving for end to end machine learning problems, robust data collection & cleaning, distributed training on GPU clusters, building custom model & training recipes on domain specific problems, model calibration, scalable and low latency inference pipelines in C++ / python (GRPC, k8), monitoring and hard negative mining, Model specific inference optimizations (Quantization, Pruning, Torch Dynamo etc) and have worked on various domain problems like: Search & Ranking, Cold start recommendations, Constraint based optimization, Speech (Speech to text, text to speech), Vision (Segmentation, Classification, OCR), NLP (Doc QA, Classification, Entity Recognition) etc
> anything that is crypto is probably a waste of your time, effort and money

yesyes, i'll take the downvotes :D
Bi-Luminous Information Node (type K)
And the actual change was made at least 15 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20071001102153/https://www.w3.or.... (Can’t be bothered finding even earlier drafts to find when it actually happened, but it could be a few more.)
It's only been one day, let's wait to see how this plays out OK NAFO?
Alameda, on the other hand...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465861
Why don't those people just liquidate some sizeable amount of money that would last for a few generations and run away into some country that is receptive to rich murderers?

Every dictators seems to have the need to sink with their governments and take the country together for a ride.
I was a big supporter of SGML-based languages: markup language written for humans to author.

However, the trend in computing in late 90s and early 2000s was to come up with more easily parsed languages, thus came things like XML: a mark-up language tuned for computers to produce.

But let's be honest here: parsing most XML can be done very simply, whereas supporting basic SGML was only possible with the OpenSP.

SGML is a specification of over 1000 pages of dense text, and that's before you get a language DTD on top of it (like the HTML or DocBook or TEI DTDs). Basically, it is too complex and too flexible, and it was too expensive to produce the tooling to support it (GUI editors, processing tools, making them performant...).

I mean, we are looking at MD here that is even less flexible than HTML: simplicity wins even if it only caters to 90% of the usecases!
There's an aphorism about how the best way to get the right answer to a question is to post the wrong answer.
Social media is changing, but not dead. Maybe the idea of what we “want” social media to be, is dead.

There will always be a demand for social status. And, as long as there is sufficient demand, there will be supply. Eugene Wei[1] has written a lot about how online social media operates in the economy of social status. It applies to TikTok and LinkedIn alike.

[1] https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
Lmao!!! Downvotes are a-comin! Lol .. in all seriousness. I respect your skepticism.
maybe 12oz, but this is high quality, not at all like the stuff you would get in Wellington

/s
Because it only took ~24 hours for this comment...

>As someone in the industry, it's almost certainly not.

... to be proven wrong.
The standard doesn't mention "bold" and offers no reason why <b> is <b>.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics....
> It does, except it's about what led to pizzagate.

In the times before The Internets, we had that too. OG Nazis were based on nebulous conspiracy theories about Jews. "Internationalists"*. And they certainly weren't original in that either.

* I think "Globalists" we have today are synonymous to that.
> already services out there the last slurp in a ton of activitypub feed data

this posting was from the enemy seeking an evil reductionist desire deeply in opposition to what this world wants (self definition) and you are ungenerous & unmoderate in unwillingness to meet part way here. bad things here from bad intent! be warned. this is a vile path.

i still think some room should be allowed or explored. i still found the original ask to be incredibly solutionistic & consumeristic in gross ways. there was zero interest in enjoining the effort at all; it expected, without involving.
Can’t rely on that long term.
To which he added $1B a year in liabilities.
Absolutely. Leave HTML as is and focus on actual accessibility features. They could even add screen reader specific elements and indicate that all other page elements should be ignored. So, you would show one presentation for visual purposes and the other for audible purposes. (Or even braille for feedback purposes.)

Add something to the document that tells it to ignore screen readers as long as a <screenreader> tag is present that puts everything in one place.
It's very very very expensive and does less than my QY. But it's pretty neat.