skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, it's an insult meant to lower the assumed position/opinion of whoever it was aimed at. Maybe in the past it meant what you describe it as, but I haven't seen that in any recent use.

It's more or less a term one would use to signal to others to dogpile the person and get them to leave the conversation/topic, mostly by being absurdly obtuse and misconstruing their words to it's most literal meaning with nothing left to deem charitable if engaging, or just speaking to other people entirely and not towards the subject whatsoever. Kind of like how most insults devolve into in pretty much all social media, just another word to pull out of the ad-hom bag.
And when he became president, he brought a lot of people from the show with him.
Same thing happened in Germany years ago
Ya this is basic economics, fixed investment vs markup driven return.
Am I the only one that when an article is about something I want to know more, I quickly drop it and go to Wikipedia instead?
In page 44 onwards, this describes how to do class-based OOP with assembly language extensions to generate vtable calls. I wonder who ever used that…
Same. Able to open the web and mobile versions but the 1Password masked mail integration is still busted. Sucks about the DDOS but hope they can resolve the issues soon
Chandler reminds me of another, I'll fated PIM project, documented in Dreaming in Code.
Half wondering if the elevated traffic is from the hn hug
5 minutes to launch, if all goes well
"We'll lose on every sale but make it up on volume" takes me right back to the dot com era. It's amazing what central banks can achieve when they really put their minds to it.
In my experience most of the people that want reddit alternatives can be split into two camps: those that want to be able to say naughty things unchecked by mods or admins, and those that want to go back to the "good ol' days" of early reddit.

I belong to the later camp, and I suspect the grandfather post you're replying to does too.
I think you are. The author is using the term "fucked up" kind of stupidly IMO.

What he's saying is that all organizations operate differently, and you have to find an organization that operates congruently to the way you operate. If you love to cook and drink a pint of vodka before lunchtime, maybe a restaurant where everyone's drinking all the time is just the place for you.
Additional info now:

16 Nov 2022 06:33:23 UTC

We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack. We have a number of mitigations in place to minimize the attack’s effects. Some customers will see a degradation of services.
Thank you for the links! That's exciting, although I'm cautious since it wasn't built around pattern matching.

I do know there is already some basic work on Fable having a Dart/Flutter backend, but I haven't used it.
Although it would depend on what kind of fields of math you are interested in (algebra, analysis, topology, etc), I think that you can't really _go wrong_ per se by learning Category Theory first, even if many of the examples/uses of category theory won't make sense at first. Of course, learning Category Theory first is definitely unorthodox; at least in college, you usually first learn basic algebra (Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra) along with analysis (Complex Analysis, Real Analysis) and "advanced calculus" (Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus). Fields like Category Theory usually come after that and are taught mostly in grad school, but at its core learning Category Theory doesn't require knowing a lot of prerequisites so I think in terms of accessibility it resides alongside fields like Linear Algebra or Group Theory. An advantage of learning Category Theory first is that once you have a decent grasp of it, you'd have the mathematical vocabulary to describe concepts learned in different fields; a homotopy is a 2-morphism in the category of topological spaces, for example.

That being said, if you like algebra the most, learn algebra first. If you enjoy topology, learn topology. There really isn't a "right place" to start with mathematics, and as long as you avoid fields of math that build heavily on other fields of math like K-theory or representation theory, you'll have a decent starting background in math. Most fields of math, not just Category Theory, have analogues to other fields (and Category Theory acts only to really formalize this connection), so you can't really go wrong with starting with something like Linear Algebra or Group Theory.
A great idea.

If you're ever in a strange city in a rental car, and want to find a radio station: look between 88 and 92 on the FM dial. That range is reserved for non-profit stations, like these.

You'll also find the local NPR station(s) down there, if there are any.
Prompt: The crypto crash of 2022

Result:

The crypto crash of 2022 is a projected global stock market collapse in cryptocurrency trading and other speculative investments based on blockchain technology. A number of factors are being considered as potential triggers, including a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network, a global economic slowdown, and a potential Bitcoin short squeeze.
Ask HN: Promoting My Side Project
Hi All, I have a question about marketing my side project. I’m not adding a link as it’s kinda NSFW and might be offensive to some. It’s a dating site for men who like to meet other men.

The main selling point of the site is that it’s private and untracked. I’ve been trying to advertise on Google and they didn’t just disapprove of the ad (nothing explicit at all), but they also suspended my entire Adwords account for “circumvention”.. twitter won’t approve my ads either.

From a functionality POV it’s all working and the current set of features will always be free, so cost is not a barrier for users either.

I’ve created a blog and wrote some articles to try and get some google traction that way, but that’d also not too effective at this point. The twitter account is slowly getting followers, but that doesn’t seem to translate to actual sign-ups.

I’m a developer, but to be fair the site is an online asset worth at least $10k, what do I do to get people on my site? Any input would be appreciated. :)
Bankruptcy can be avoided with money. But:

> In Australia, we have concluded that achieving a sustainable position of leadership in the market is not possible without a disproportionate level of investment which would have highly uncertain returns.
Launch Managers Give “Go” to Proceed with Terminal Count, Launch Set for 1:47am.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/launch-managers-gi...
A regulated labor market exists. The regulations are there due to past problems. Like warning signs beside a crocodile-infested swimming hole.
> The whole thing is quite messy – much like the whole crypto ecosystem, which is supposed to be open and transparent but is more opaque than a dog with glaucoma.

Centralized exchanges are NOT crypto. They often don't even use crypto - just fabricated records in their databases with no crypto backing whatsoever, like FTX.
I think I broke it:

Question: Why did civilization form when it did?

Answer: The Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago. The first life forms appeared about 3.5 billion years ago. The first single-celled organisms were probably bacteria. The first multi-celled organisms were probably protists. The first animals were probably sponges. The first plants were probably green algae. The first land plants were probably mosses. The first animals to live on land were probably insects. The first vertebrates were probably fish. The first amphibians were probably amphibians. The first reptiles were probably reptiles. The first mammals were probably mammals. The first birds were probably birds. The first dinosaurs were probably dinosaurs. The first mammals to live on land were probably mammals. The first reptiles to live on land were probably reptiles. The first amphibians to live on land were probably amphibians. The first fish to live on land were probably fish. The first insects to live on land were probably insects. The first plants to live on land were probably plants. The first land animals were probably..
A lot of people like to paint these services as evil, but 100% of the people I know who've driven for a restaurant delivery service (N=1) found that the pay wasn't bad, stress was low and it was a good opportunity for people who can't/don't want regular hours.

Just don't accept pickups from Montrose Charcoal Chicken. :)
> It is only by ignoring the torrent of low-quality information that people can focus on applying critical search skills to the remaining now-manageable pool of potentially relevant information.
The margin these demiveroo/Uber/etc companies have is predicated on an exploitative relation with an unstable temporary workforce that is impossible in countries with effective labor regulation. It works in the US so they suppose it will work everywhere.
Yeah, I didn't see anything in the man pages.

For my purposes, a Unicode library that doesn't do string comparisons is, well ... incomplete. It's a fairly fundamental thing that you need to do: I would have thought well before you'd want eg. up/down-casing, for instance.
Japan has ratified the UN Declaration of Human Rights and has a constitution that is heavily influenced by the US one but it doesn't protect freedom of speech in the way you think it might. From [1]:

> Under Article 230-1 of the Criminal Code of Japan:

> “(1) A person who defames another by alleging facts in public shall, regardless of whether such facts are true or false, be punished by imprisonment with or without work for not more than three (3) years or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.”

“regardless of whether such facts are true or false” isn't the way to protect freedom of speech in my mind, nor anyone I've ever heard supporting freedom of speech. Hence, no, it's not safe to conflate the concept and the implementation in law, and not just for this reason but because in the vast majority of cases the implementation in law does not protect freedom of speech to even the amount the US constitution does (which is still not far enough, in my opinion).

[1] https://kellywarnerlaw.com/japan-defamation-laws/
Always tried to live somewhere near ground zero. Right now I live just far enough away that I'll have time to repeat after H. G. Wells, " God damn you all, I told you so."
And perks go away, which increases the average anger point and decreases enjoyment. The best performers will move on while everyone else will be "stuck with the check".
> What a spectacularly bad idea to show it in the open, but educational nonetheless. It very much resembles Reddit moderation, on steroids.

Why is that? Open moderation logs are, in my opinion, the corner stones of establishing trust between moderators and users on a discussion platform cum social network.
Does the effectiveness of various forms of altruism actually form a total order? I've yet to see any kind of rigorous argument in favour, yet seems like a fundamental requirement if one is going to expend such incredible resources into attempts to maximise this value.

The reason I ask is that, when I first discovered Effective Altruism, finding the premise to be deeply compelling, I ended up staying up all night watching videos trying to reconcile / assimilate it into my world view. In one video, various trolley problem scenarios were enumerated, and the EA guests were advocating sparing a lamborghini to the detriment of a child's life so that the car could be sold off and the money donated to saving multiple children in the developing world. Furthermore, there was some suggestion of a threshold where the altruism of sparing X domesticated animals was 'higher' than sparing Y humans, which definitely felt like it fell into [citation needed] territory.
The Perpetual Quickbooks Home Currency Adjustment Bug
T-2 minutes and counting as of now! Fantastic to see this project launching and around the moon!
Working fine for me. Perhaps already resolved?
Flagged for triteness.
That annoyed me too. Still, it's to be expected. Companies with this sort of business model are dishonest at their core.
We used it for the kicks at the Uni. Never got to try that in prod because frankly the next time it came to using assembler it was 15 years later (and on another arch).
At a certain megacorp, there's a hiring freeze officially except for senior technical talent. Most bootcamp folks were let go and recruiting was downsized significantly.
And what would accomplish the goal?
Here in Belgium it's quite the opposite: got unlucky with 3 bad meal in a row, was told by customer support that I exceeded some threshold and that they would not refund those (and nothing else for x months). So missing part of the order, incomplete meal (burger with only the meat and bread), problematic situation (found a piece of glasses in one meal...): no action on their end - because you know, as the customer it's your fault.

So no, they don't care here in Belgium. At all. But none care.

Also Uber and Deliveroo cost quite often way more than local platform.
Update: the integration is also working now. Good stuff. Thanks Fastmail team!
Aided and abetted by putting a veneer of mathematics over the top. That is the important context for the idea of decolonizing math - that it doesn't actually take place in a vacuum.
I have my fingers and legs crossed, I really hope all goes well for all the hard working Teams!

They deserve good luck, given all the hard work they have done!
compensating much?
It is, sure. In theory, at least -- existing VC has fairly well demonstrated that they have no particular skill at directing investment to companies that will actually turn a profit (largely encouraged by scale problems).

The real challenge is how (1) to design a VC investor model that doesn't take venture-bait, and then (2) how to convince those with capital that you are actually both different and better.

Of course, there already is something that "disrupts" VC to an extent -- Angel Investors and Angel Funds. These have proven to be better at avoiding VC-bait, but the way they achieve this (the Angels invest their own capital) inherently limits their scale.

I'm suspicious of attempts to blend the two, attempting to create a crowdsource-based angel network, for example, because I think you lose the expertise available in smaller networks of more-highly-engaged investors. Then again, for some types of projects "microfinance" worked 10+ years ago (when that was the cool new thing). It was mostly engaged in for semi-altruistic reasons rather than strictly profit-seeking ones, but maybe something slightly bigger ("centifinance"? "decifinance?") could work.

But we definitely could use more types of Angel networks -- especially those not looking for the next 1000x opportunity, but instead the next 5x or 10x or 20x opportunities, as these are the types of (workable) businesses hardest to get off the ground today.
If the license plate is deemed public property, then removing the piece of plastic from it is like removing chewing gum from a picnic table. It is not comparable to slashing tires, because slashing tires is vandalism, whereas removing an illegal modification from a license plate is the undoing of vandalism. (I don't know why you would compare any of these to a reckless act endangering multiple lives, like jumping in front of a speeding car.)
https://archive.ph/s0JQb
I can never actually pay for anything on Uber eats - nothing unusual...Australian banks all the way and yet still impossible to order.

Menulog and DoorDash appear to work pretty well. Sad to see Deliveroo go.
I think it depends. Used to work in asset management. Seven investors in our group managing $4.0bn in equity and debt investments.

We had complex, up-to-date excel models for every investment. We’d update them whenever the company released financials or when there were significant changes in rates.
Nothing wrong with getting some help from automation though. It makes things more effective, so if you want to keep relationship with friends/family then you will get that, if you don't want that person to be in your reminders, just remove them. It helps keeping your mind free for other stuff.
If the air supply wouldn't be at a slightly higher pressure than that, the air would get sucked out of your lungs as far as I understand.

This is why dive tanks run out way way faster the deeper you go (around 1 hour at 18 meters deep and around 10 minutes at 30+ meters out the top of my head).
they have been rolling out sporadic changes to UI.. first the timer UI changed months ago - to be worse than it was. Next it was the phone icon, and i think 1 to 2 days later the messages icon. There have also been numerous other changes to the actual texting UI..all this is enough to throw me over the edge to getting on with grabbing a Pixel and chucking GrapheneOS on it.
If the author's here, please note that the embedded pictures in the article are huge! Felt like I was on dial-up again, waiting for them to load on 2.4g WiFi.
No clouds. No encryption (if needed I just use password protect feature of compression software). Copies in separate internal HDD. One copy in an external HDD. Many CDs and DVDs.
It doesn't say they're bankrupt. It doesn't even say they're insolvent. All it says is that they're ceasing operations and an administrator has been appointed to presumably wind the company down in an orderly fashion.
Just Monika.
It's also predicated on a never-ending flow of cheap debt being available to companies and their investors. When that stopped a few months ago a lot of these businesses died. It's just taken a little while for the bodies to float to the surface.
Futurepedia – The largest directory of AI tools
You could attach an rtl-sdr to a raspberry pi and locally host a websdr server (https://github.com/jketterl/openwebrx is a good open source one). The rtl-sdr doesn't have a high enough sample rate to cover about half of the commercial fm broadcast spectrum at a time where you can see quickly switch between stations in that portion e.g. 89-94 Mhz. Going to the other half just requires having two different modes and switching between them in the websdr interface.
Why does it need to be replaced? Pizza shops can deliver on their own like they used to. Lazy people can go out and pickup their own food. Not everything needs to be centralised and appified and run as a giant VC gamble.
Speed of sound in vacuum

The speed of sound in vacuum is the speed of sound in a perfect vacuum. In a perfect vacuum, there are no molecules to support the propagation of sound, so sound cannot propagate through it. This speed is usually referred to as "the speed of sound" and is usually denoted by c, which is the standard notation for the speed of light. In fact, the speed of light is very close to the speed of sound in a perfect vacuum. The speed of sound in a perfect vacuum is the theoretical upper limit for the speed of sound in any substance.
> Also known as social democratic governments that collect taxes.

That conclusion does not follow. Why do you think a social democratic government has any focus on the utility of its work?
>Most people think of assembly language as a low-level language. Turbo Assembler, however, provides many of the features of a high-level language (such as abstract data types, and easy interfacing to other languages). The addition of object-oriented data structures gives Turbo Assembler the power to create object-oriented programs as easily as high-level languages while retaining- the speed and flexibility of assembly language.

Shocking and surprising
On who or what benefits from generative AI (Dall-E, GPT3, etc.), I'm reminded both of Veblen and Warholl

Thorstein Veblen's The Engineers and the Price System, which looks at the relationships between art (engineering, in the original sense of the term), on the one hand and the nexus of management, ownership, and profits on the other.

Andy Warhol industrialised art. Or more accurately, applied 20th century production methods to art --- the practice of applying any specific age's best mass-production practices to the production of artworks long pre-dated him, look to, for example, Michelangelo's workshops churning out cultural affirmations for the newly-established Medici dynasty in renaissance Italy. In both cases, technical methods of production were applied to art.

Veblen asks qui bono. Warhol answers how. Both look to technology.

I'm being less coherent here than I'd like though I hope the gist of the issues I'm pointing at comes through.
I just run the Steam client on Ubuntu, seems to work fine. Valve does not need to make SteamOS unless it is for the noobz who can't figure out how to install Linux.
My Web App Challenge: From Zero to $5k/Month in 5 Months
I can share it here:

(defun ff-link-org ()
(interactive)
(insert (shell-command-to-string "lz4jsoncat $FIREFOX_DIR/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 | jq -r '.windows[0].tabs | sort_by(.lastAccessed)[-1] | .entries[.index-1] | \"[[\" + (.url) + \"][\" + (.title) + \"]]\"' | tr -d '\n'"))
)
(defun ff-link-org-xdotool ()
"Get Firefox link in Org mode format"
(interactive)
(shell-command "xdotool search 'Navigator' windowactivate --sync key --clearmodifiers Escape y o ; xdotool keydown alt key Tab ; xdotool keyup alt")
)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c f") 'ff-link-org)

I misremembered, once the data was in an SQLite database but now it's easier to grab from the sessionstore backup file - it's compressed JSON. I then query it with jq and trim the newline - here's that part isolated with the format changed to provide a markdown-formated link:

lz4jsoncat $FIREFOX_DIR/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 | jq -r '.windows[0].tabs | sort_by(.lastAccessed)[-1] | .entries[.index-1] | \"(\" + (.title) + \")[\" + (.url) + \"]\"' | tr -d '\n'

By the way, I'm a longtime VIM user but have recently been converting all my notes to org-mode. Emacs with Evil is a good-enough VIM replacement for notes taking, and the org-mode format is absolutely terrific.
I haven’t used this particular framework but I have used alternative template systems in rails and they are generally nice for the basic cases but then get really confusing and non trivial when you want to do slightly less common things with html.

Html is also just a universal knowledge that everyone already has while every custom one will require more learning.
Good question:

Transaction cost: about $0.75 on Ethereum or $0.01 on Polygon at the moment - no size limits. Zelle is free up to ~$1,000 per day.

Settlement: 12 Seconds on Ethereum or 2 Seconds on Polygon, "instant" on Zelle. However many transfers on Zelle use ACH under the hood, so it may take 3-5 days to settle with your bank. If the recipient isn't enrolled in Zelle it may take 14 days for them to register to receive funds.

I'll note that I regularly move USD around as part of my job and have always found USDC to be a superior experience than bank transfers - especially because I can use smart contracts and custody tooling to set custom transaction policies on required approvers, whitelisted recipients, etc.
Huh. Didn’t get any of that with Uber in my local market. In my local market, the only difference between the two is that Deliveroo would require telling the delivery person a code to get your food, it’s cheaper, and sometimes the menu is out of date. Also, getting a refund from a messed up meal was harder than Uber eats. Uber eats refunds were 9/10, no questions asked, while Deliveroo usually required chatting with a human.
The British monarchs seem to be doing alright, massive estates and no inheritance taxes.