skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why did he fight so hard to back out? I just can't understand why someone with a grand vision for Twitter puts in an offer in April and spends the next 6 months and millions on lawyers fighting to get out of the deal.
Do you think they identify the "messy" or "hidden" "middle" of the food system well?
I'm curious how they generate the content, how much work is involved in getting the leads on cheap flights, is it automated? It seems like a good thing if it's mostly automated, but if it takes 35 hours a week of someone searching for deals it's not so much.
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This is actually a common pattern. Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has given presentations where he says that charitable works is actually one of a handful of factors they look for when assessing a fraudulent company because the correlation is strong.
> Nike iOS app install size was 182.2 MB. A week later, it was 322.1 MB

This is besides the point, but is anyone else concerned just how insane those sizes are? There are operating systems smaller than that, why is that needed for a single app from a sports brand? What is this app even supposed to do? How much functionality did they need to cram into it to get a 180MB binary? Why does the app even exist? Why does it apparently need 160MB of just text to do whatever unfathomable job it has?
As much a fan of Terraform I am. If you didn't started defining your repos in Terraform from day 0, importing hundreds of repos, members, permission sets would be quite a lot more work than running this audit tool.
The accessibility aspect is huge and deserves more attention and kudos than it gets.

Also, from a purely selfish aspect, I vastly prefer documents with at least a minimum of semantic organization, even if it's just header, footer, main, and meaningful heading levels.

Without those, well, it's just a document full of undifferentiated text with various attributes to distinguish it visually or typographically, and usually inconsistently used. Is this piece of text styled "bold with fontsize 16" supposed to be a second or 3rd level header?
Like many quantum computing companies they didn't meet private investors' expectations due to an enormous hype cloud and no concrete progress in terms of industrial applications. Rounds and rounds of funding promoted by the ideals of "quantum supremacy" to then go public and lose incredible chunks of those funds due to total inapplicability of quantum computing to real life problems in its current state. If you have stocks in dwave, rigetti, etc just sell them before they plummet to 0.

No idea how common this sentiment is. It matches my observations, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the market (in particular the short term focused VC market) become impatient with vague promises of theoretical future performance, and mostly drop the whole field.

Quantum computing, as an investment, is sort of a compressed version of AI - it's got lots of potential, but got misunderstood and overhyped by investors that will flee when short term results don't match whatever they imagined the tech could do without understanding it.
“Coincidentally”
Article title is inaccurate: this project gets 8K in revenue per year but has almost no profit.
Living Bungie's Values as Engineers
Musk blocks veteran marketer for asking marketing questions
You can also delete the Phone app in iOS. Amazing how far we've come with alternatives. Plain old phone calls should be relegated to the dustbin of history (and SMS).
I'm sure he thinks he doesn't need one because he is 'acting in good faith'. Completely delusional.
$31M movie tie-in video game failure that crashed an entire industry
I think you're right. After doing some sleuthing, I found this:

G Suite Business is not available for new sign ups. If you have G Suite Business, your subscription and all related services will continue to function as they do today, until it’s time to transition to a new offering. We’ll be in touch over the coming months to identify your transition path.

This was a $12/month unlimited storage plan.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782?hl=en
It's kind of having a renaissance as more people discover the world outside of walled gardens. Platforms die eventually, internet standards are here to stay.
just by using that term, you leave the impression that you're on a weird fringe information diet.

e.g. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...
Terraform doesn't know what it doesn't know. It only cares about stuff you defined in code and ignores all the rest. You can't use it for auditing purposes, except in its narrow scope.
That may become the case in the US, but in places like Sweden you have to announce long before the actual layoffs to give the unions a chance to negotiate.

I went through a layoff where they announced they had to make major reductions in headcount (it ended up being about 30% but I'm not sure that number was announced). There was then several months of discussions with the unions before they announced who had to leave.

If you were not impacted they didn't tell you anything until the announcement. The people who were impacted had been briefed beforehand. As I was staying on I didn't know anything, which was stressful, but I guess that if I had known about the process it would have been less so.
https://every.sdf.org/US_ASCII/Geekish/various/knuth-macilro...
Obviously we aren't!
The end end state is a bigger machine that replaces everything except the brain, i.e. an enhanced body that knows that "metabolism" is
Is it just Mozilla coming up with these un(?)-intentionally hilarious retcons?

Or are these actually becoming official standard names?

I'm truly enjoying the sheer absurdity of it all.
Corporate america is literally millions of positive, and unemployment is very low.
Raindrop is excellent value for the price, highly recommend.

Author makes some good points, but I still argue Raindrop is a superior product depending on your perspective as a bookmark tool user. Pinboard feels dead/abandonware unfortunately.

(Paying Raindrop user, no other affiliation)
"Should know this stuff already" - wow, SJ, the arrogance. SMH.

When people act like they know it alls, they act like SJ, and rest assured: they, contrary to popular believe, do not know it all. In general, fire the KITAs because they need to be assholes who make everyone around them miserable. Infinite talent or not, morale of the team "superorganism" is more important.
Pointless. Vaccinating livestock and domestic animals wouldn't prevent them from transmitting the virus to humans.
> His only real skill is taking credit for things other people do.

I feel like a lot of people don't know that Musk didn't actually found Tesla, despite his made-up "founder" title.
If possible, report the hosts you block using f2b to AbuseIPDB or similar projects. That way we'd be collectively better able to hinder this abuse.
My personal take is that markdown is only good when you can customize it to your needs and situation. There are a million markdown flavours, because everyone who ever implements it decides to add their own extensions to it to suit their situation. There have been attempts at creating a single unified standard, but these miss the point: if we wanted a single shared syntax, we could use html directly; the advantage of markdown(s) is that it lets you create something that looks clean and simple as plain text, while turning into a nicely marked-up document. A "standard" markdown would need to have a "standard" extension mecahnism (or none at all...) which would inevitably look like ass for most use cases.

I nowadays usually just write html directly for my personal documents, because I spent long enough messing around with markdown parsers trying to get them to act how I want. But for a website commenting system (eg), it makes sense to spend some time making the formatting system nice to use, which involves customizing your flavour of markdown. I don't think web browsers can or should try to do a good job of this; it requires to many specialized demands for them to be able to create a generic solution. If you want to write in markdown, its easy enough nowadays to format it on the server, or client side with a small js snippet.
Can you elaborate what exactly is the nuance I missed?
> here’s a convoluted meaning

I think the word you are looking for is “contrived”
the guy spent 44 billion dollars. He has the freedom to run it straight into the ground and terminate every employee, if he choses. That's what FU money buys.
Oh wow. Yes that makes perfect sense. Thanks
> transfer my wealth

I don't think _anyone_ is against using cryptocurrencies as a way of transferring money. It doesn't make sense to transfer wealth via something that rapidly changes its value, right? Because means of transferring wealth requires preserving the value of the wealth. Bitcoin today does not preserve its value, as evident by the rapid decline in value in the past few days.
Show HN: Full Fledged Image Editor in Browser
You should probably seek professional help about that projection problem you have.
When I see names so highly correlated to the event, it really makes me think along magical lines of thinking or we really are playing in a game.

> FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried said in investor meetings this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
I use that provider - it's one of the buggiest Terraform providers ever!
Here's what.cd on Wayback if anyone's interested and looking for some more context:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://what.cd/

And the first snapshot from 2010:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101021055418/https://what.cd/

And the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD
> Ground beef is essentially an average of the beef across the cow

Usually across many cows, which can be problematic wrt pathogens. Similarly, ground beef is not like steak in that more of it might have been exposed to pathogens during processing. That's why it's important to cook ground beef all the way through whereas steak can be very rare as long as the outside is properly seared. Nutritionally, however, they're much closer.
> If your friend had "his identity tied up in crypto", then why wasn't he holding it himself?

Some people love day trading crypto. They keep funds on exchanges so they can trade immediately and not deal with constant back and forth transactions with their own wallet.
Well, do you see programming as an obligatory tool to make stuff, or do you aspire to expertise and mastery of the craft?

I think those are both probably legitimate approaches, but if it's the latter you really want to understand how the hardware works.
> Technology does tend to get cheaper over time, though not always.

What technology didn't get cheaper?
Most people spend $3 per day on coffee, so why not $3 per month for the heads up on flights that are hundreds of dollars off regular fares?

I dont find the comparison very compelling. If I can save more per year than I pay, it's a good deal. In that vein, I'd like to see how my travel habits could be accommodated by the info the newsletter provides. If I believe it's a fit, I'd happily pay the money.
> all based on scanned drawings from the 50's

It's 2059. We're using browsers that render pages created with Dreamweaver and Frontpage using advanced machine learning techniques to determine that <blockquote><font size="+1"> is an entry in the table of contents, while <p><font size=+2> is a level 1 header.
Yeah, I always roll my eyes at the phrase "passenger acceptability." For example, a few years ago there was this idea that passengers would not fly on the 737 Max after it re-entered service in the US. Which is nonsense since I'm willing to bet that 90% of passengers can't identify if the plane they're on is Boeing or Airbus let alone care about individual models. The only "passenger acceptability" metric is what does the ticket cost?
Why should the Baker expect to receive alimony?
The fact this person used the term "twitter run" signifies they only see Twitter as an opportunity to be antagonistic rather than anything useful.
Obviously not op, but it sounds like the issue is that the cure makes you sick in the short term which requires expensive care. If the sickness is inherent to the solution it’s hard to see how this gets cheaper.
Hi everyone, for the past few days I've been working on this image editor; since now you crop images, I've decided it is a complete image editor.

Features:

Run custom filters (blur, sharp, edge detectors...)

Custom blend equations (overlay, multiply, screen)

Paint tools

Masks

Animations

Below some videos showing some of the features:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFqKuitvWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NdaNGe4GVE
Many, many people (including myself) have cost as their first concern, with a deep gulf between other influencing factors
Hahahahahahahaha holy fuck.

Disclaimer: I don't usually drop comments like this that don't contribute to anything, but... lmao wow.
People who can't buy booze will drink it to get drunk, mostly kids who both can't legally drink and have access to plenty of hand sanitizer.

They're being tactful by saying accidentally ingested instead of "Your kid went blind from chugging hand sanitizer."
Not on Ventura 13.0 either.
Because the people who were in charge two months/years ago understood the consent decree, were afraid of the FTC, had the manpower to actually obey it without having software engineers to self-certify with possible legal repercussions to themselves. The new guy doesn't give a shit about the consent decree, the FTC, or his employees' exposure. He also released a new feature without going through rigorous safety and compliance review, exactly the thing the consent degree mandates. If that's "nothing has changed", I'd hate to see what your busy weeks look like.
They weren't trying to get results, only giving a low dose to verify acceptable side effects. Wait for the larger doses to render judgement on clinical results of the treatment modality itself.
I’m happy I stored my Terra on Kucoin so I could have an easy exit. During the crash it took hours for Kucoin to confirm UST deposits.

I’ve also lost money in mtGox.
Well I'm not a politician or lawmaker and I have no problem blaming blockchain for this. I'm technically a "business person" because I have a job, but technically all crypto people who intend to use it to make money are also business people. The way bitcoin and all its friends are designed is intentionally done so in a way that allows centralized entities to run amok and cause havoc without any accountability until the entire thing collapses. It's blockchains that are the fraud. The designers of blockchains, including Satoshi, were aware of these problems and the risks of the system becoming unstable or getting targeted by scammers. They went forward with their designs anyway knowing the risks. Because they thought they were better than the central banks and they wanted to say they were sticking it to the man. How were they better though, when their inventions gave way to one giant fraud after another in a shockingly small amount of time? These Enron-level and WorldCom-level events are a weekly occurrence in crypto.
That's pretty fun to see. I like to go for the unintentional stuff like the experienced shoe salesman or the Swiss rifle unpacking & assembly.

I wish I understood more about what makes different people laugh at different types of ASMR because the comedy potential there seems huge too. Sometimes there's just one factor that changes a bit or hits different and I noticed everybody is rolling on the floor. But it's still ASMR.
Is "in mass" a real thing? I thought it was "en masse"?
Although I'm hesitant to make strong statements because inflation plays a significant role here, cars are much more sophisticated than they used to be but also very expensive as a result.
SST: Serverless Application Platform
yay. I read the headline in order to be elated. Now I'll read the article to get carefully optimistic and then I'll visit the HN comment section to come crashing down.
It really does look like he got caught up in something and completely lost track of reality basically. It's like those dreams, that at least I have, where you have some problem that you're solving and almost there but everything you try can't finish it, and then all of the sudden you wake up and have no idea what you were even trying to solve.

It really shows how the media, these VCs, these paper billionaires, and their followers get caught up in hype storms that sort of self-perpetuate until they hit land.

What's even crazier is that both of his parents are law professors.
It's nowhere nearly as hyped as Rust is here. Which is absurd considering Go is a more appropriate alternative to C.

Even K from K&R uses it!

https://youtu.be/VVpRj3Po6K4
Amazing how little things have changed. Till today, ASLR and some basic CFI is all we have?
Shouldn't it be Canada Yard or something?
It was tongue in cheek.

I'm saying: Amazon's diaper thing was the same as Costco's chicken thing. Retailers shouldn't be obliged to run every single product at a profit just in case there is a single product retailer.
The Cantor Museum is also free and open to the public and has an impressive collection.

Interestingly, they have one each of the gold and silver spikes from the Transcontinental railroad. (They're not at Promontory, UT.) The Museum of the City of New York has the other silver spike. The other golden spike was presumed lost until 2005 but is now on display in the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.
Oh! To be honest I'm not actually sure what we call those ('pool inflatables' is all I can think of, somewhat generic) but I don't think it's tubes/inner tubes.
I built an ultralight markdown CMS with this philosophy in mind : https://github.com/arnaudsm/raito

Just drop index.html on a static server, and it's live.
okay, fine, you’re all still using “i” so we’ll put it back in the standard

Going from HTML/XHTML to HTML5/XHTML5, several elements were redefined, including <i> and <b>.

It’s nothing new.

Here’s an article from HTML5 Doctor explaining this more than 12 years ago [1]. I hope web developers serious about their craft aren’t just now discovering this.

[1]: http://html5doctor.com/i-b-em-strong-element/
> What was a clone of oink, which was the first and blazed the trail for all to follow.

I was going to post the same, it had a very healthy community that was only rivaled by some very select/invite only alt.binaries on usenet--when Demonoid was strictly invite only it carried some of the weight, but my tastes in music changed dramatically around that time and I instead started to buy vinyl (2007?) in order to support a small niche sound since the music I was into was mainly artist/producer released.

It was supposed to re-lauch in '14 [0] but never did, but by then I had already a decent vinyl and mp3 collection because as I used to play around with DJing and had got to know lots of producers/artists on/offline; in short, it's a cold, hard and messy Industry but what's clear is that while producer led labels became a norm in that time and had lots of penetration, it suffered from the same issues that majors did in the end. White-label one offs and tests presses are a form of currency in dub-culture so it never went away, but it was a net loss monetarily speaking for most and really started to be seen as a business expense/marketing.

Producers were almost always also DJs or MCs (some were all 3!) and had to tour and link up with major artists or sponsors like RedBull, who built an academy for producers and covered lots of expenses for them to tour on special events and nights with specific clubs.

What Oink never really got right in my view because it was so early was the social aspect, a huge part of music-sharing was the commonality that we would run into those people who shared our tastes out at clubs/events. Even if it was a one off event it was still cool to put a name/face to the handle online who you share with and could relate with--that's the point of dubplates and test press. I've spent lots of time with my nose in a crate at random record shops in US/EU/UK and that feeling you get is unique and equally special as the music itself!

Cypherpunks/Bitcoiners were the first to actually try to do microtxs on Soundcloud [1] in order to monetize their work in an appreciating asset: hell, I got paid by a bitcoin whale (also a music lover) to try and spear-head this initiative when I told him about what music community I was a part of and even met with a few DJs from the UK coming to the US that month.

Sadly, it was way too early and most were in the middle of a tour so had to direct their attention to that and no one collected their funds, but overall seemed excited about the prospect of having a userbase serve as a patreaon of sorts on a platform they themselves could curate.

0: https://torrentfreak.com/busted-torrent-site-oink-prepares-i...

1: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/changetip-brings-bitcoin...
I do, in fact, remember the 80s. And the point of asset stripping in that era was that the targets were generally companies with good fundamentals in parts, which had either merged or grown in ways that resulted in those good components propping up losing components, which was what allowed the asset strippers to make their money via the process described. The successful asset strippers also had generally done a lot of analysis before they made their aquisition.

What detailed analysis did Musk do? A bunch of DMs with Jason Calcinis pulling numbers out of his arse? What's the core profitable business that Twitter has that is encumbered by unprofitable components?

If I wanted to look at a case for an asset stripping target in social media, I'd probably look at something more like Facebook, where there's a case that unrolling their rats' nest of aquisitions like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus could result in some valuable spin-offs: for example, if WhatsApp went back to a stripped-down standalone company with a small fee it would probably be quite profitable, as it had been before being Facebooked. But Twitter is twitter. That's it.

The only thing I see with this is an echo of when this site's owners sacked Musk for fucking up PayPal with deranged, incoherent edicts. The difference is that no-one can sack Musk to save Twitter from him.
Everyone should read that article. The delusion is insane
I’m not aware of any proof this is the case. Regardless of platform, what business is going to invest the time and money required to make a competing platform for app delivery on mobile that rivals the current stores? Both Google and Apple can shutdown you down in an instant if they were to consider you a competitive threat. Why bother?
As with many medical drugs, the marginal cost of production of the medication is small, but it is dwarfed by the cost of research, trial conduction and FDA approval and is patented. Additionally for CAR-T there is rather intense post-adminitsation care required.

For the pharma research companies to be profitable, they need to recoup the above costs on the limited number of cancer patients there are.

For a widely applicable technology like CAR-T, if you can figure out how to distribute the costs over multiple types of cancers, you could have a much larger pool of patients to distribute the cost over, such that the marginal cost of production is a more meaningful component of the cost to patient/insurer.
Whats the difference between FTX and Coinbase for example? Couldn’t coinbase pull the same move?