skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a limit of the platform. If a creator has found 'product market fit' it's obvious that they want to produce more. The problem is that they have to limit themselves to the same content unless they want their account to be deranked by videos that are not equally desired by their audience.

The platforms should offer a granular way to influence the algorithm, e.g. creators could mark their videos 'onbrand' and 'offbrand'.
Not if they innovate out of the problems? Banning and censorship seem to be the past issues that turned people off of Twitter. Even Yahoo made mistakes and had everything before Google had it and it still exists in some form. Yahoo removed their Groups and Geocities sites that were very popular. Users policed their own groups for banning and censoring.

The thing is if nobody does the banning and censoring, bad stuff leaks through. Why not meta mod like Slashdot has? Have the users decide collectively and then meta mod the votes to see if it was fair.
1,000x this.

There are a bunch of potential projects I could knock over personally in a month or two each that I will never ever be allowed to bid on.

Instead, it goes through an internal process at the department that takes months, which means a bunch of people have to justify their positions, driving up the minimum cost.

These non-technical people architect the solution, put it a scribble of a Frankenstein's monster of a design in the tender with a laundry list of requirements, none of which are actually needed because what they really wanted was a mostly static website any idiot could develop.

A couple of years later (I wish I was kidding), the tender process is finished and a Big Consultancy begins the hard work of... subcontracting the work. To my parent company, that finally gives it to me. Out of the $millions on the tender, I now have 2 weeks to a job that should have been 2 months.

The design is now hilariously out-of-date, and was wrong to begin with, but it is now a part of a legally binding contract between orgs I have zero leverage with. It MUST be implemented, verbatim. Including the bits that are actively harmful, stupid, backwards, legacy, or just idiotic. All of it. This stuff is audited to make sure there's no corruption or dodgy work!

The end result is a monstrosity built in a hurry by a poorly paid tech, while 10+ middle manager types all take their cut.

It's abhorrent.
Everyone knows it’s nc:)
I miss Ingrid Marie, this list strikes me as a summary of common industry varieties.
>It's actually the fraying of our social fabric

I honestly don't think it's all that different than other technologies, even though I keep hearing people insist "this time it's different" about Tiktok. Over my life I've heard a similar sentiment of the decay of society regarding Instagram/Youtube/Facebook, about text messaging, about the mobile phone itself, emails, the personal computer/internet, video gaming, and probably other technologies. I grew up decades after television became ubiquitous, and I'm sure the same was said about that.

In fact, take a look at this eloquent essay about digital social media:

>>

>it delivers only... brainless diversions that erode [the] ability to think, inquire, and judge. just another disintegrating toy. Just another medium... for advertisers to use in pestering us

>[They] operate by.. broadcasting so that one... can send his message to millions

>[People just] sit around... if they are feeling particularly loquacious, they may nod to each other. Thus dies the art of conversation. There is now very little danger
that [people] will resort to the vice of thinking.

>>

Actually, this isn't an essay about digital social media. It's an excerpt from the essay "Radio - A Blessing Or A Curse?" By Jack Woodford, 1929.
>The fact that they got rid of the part of the PR review process that matters, and only saw a 1.5% improvement speaks to all sorts of problems in the process overall, not an improvement by this tool

The 1.5% improvement was from better suggestions on who would be a good person to review the diff.

The next reviewable diff feature "resulted in a 17 percent overall increase in review actions per day (such as accepting a diff, commenting, etc.) and that engineers that use this flow perform 44 percent more review actions than the average reviewer!"
https://www.serverhunter.com

You can find much cheaper CPUs outside of the main cloud providers.
Is pdf that bad? I personally like it for being one of the more reliable formats for packaging rich text deliverables.
I’ve had dreams where I carry on actual conversations with people in my own life and or strangers.

Realizing that I’m dreaming, I ask questions and to my surprise their answers and reactions are not of my doing. I ask in the manner of only listening immediately (clear minded with no thinking) so as to not influence their response. The brain is truly mysterious.

I wonder if hidden personas are created and stored and revealed in our dreams?

Or that our brain is connected to a plane that actually exists outside of our reality.

Maybe one day I’ll experience what you have.

Thanks for sharing.
Literally Hitler?
That's not really a comparable analogy. More like "Here is this cool feature I'm going to make by the end of the year, pay me $5,000 for it now." and you never actually get it. It's fraud.
> I think there is room for thinking about effective altruism

I agree, I think effective altruism set up as a private operating thing could work, and if I ever have enough wealth, this is what I am going to operate. Needless to say that all the taxes I can save by doing that helps, at the end, taxes lower efficiency of any task: fewer resources available.

> minimize global suffering

Things like this, "save the planet", etc. are very problematic. It is impossible to agree on metrics. I think the best way is to let people innovate and deal with the aspects that are known to improve people's lives. For example, I would never open a charity to give food to people and let them go systematically. I do not think that improves people's lives. But I would be willing to open a place where they can study and have a job for people that are in risk of exclusion. That way you make autonomous people.

I really think self-reliance and responsibility is undervalued and that it is an active interest of governments not to help you, but to make you fall on a net of dependency on them so that you end up obeying. That is why we are receiving (Spain again, sorry) systematic attacks to property (higher taxes, renting policies, inheritance tax) and at the same time "social helps". Of course this is really bad and make people dependent.

I would say that there is no better person to manage a budget that the one that will pay a price for their mistakes, that is ourselves when it is ours. But if we do it wrong, we pay the price anyway for our mistakes. This means incentives are aligned.

In other setups the problem is that incentives are not aligned with what we want to achieve, you just have to believe in their good will. That setup is one I really dislike and taxing works basically like that. Even for public institutions that are injected money, when they would be bankrupt or they are not helping achieve their supposed goals they usually just raise taxes and inject more money. This would be seen as an abuse in normal civil life though state does it systematically.
Is twitter.com down or something? How is going to be hard for them?
Dorsey is buddy buddy with Musk and has proven time and time again he'll say whatever needs to be said in the moment without ever committing to it. Excuse me for not believing a single second any idea he puts forward. He had every opportunity to do it while he was there, was majority shareholder for the longest time.

Him saying he's working on web5 should really clue you in on the kind of lying clown he is.
How does Syncthing solve this?

AFAIK it doesn't use third party servers and it seems to get through any router just fine...
It makes you feel better I don’t get short form videos either. The content is, well, mostly devoid of content. But I at least conceptually understand how it might be entertaining in the same way I somewhat understand how people find Marvel movies entertaining.
Here are some of the things you might see a consultant do for marketing: writing, speaking, teaching, social media, on-line forums, meetups, user groups, code camps, and anything else that sounds interesting. There are probably a never-ending list of creative ideas. Over time, these things add up and they can be a lot of fun.
Ask HN: Database Design for in App Transactions
Hi,

I am working on a small game. I have developed simple apps with in game wallet/currency. Want to see what is the best way to implement wallets for tracking transactions like
1. Adding money to wallet
2. Moving wallet amount from user A to user B
3. Withdraw money from wallet
4. Running audits to ensure all transactions are correct

on a Relational DB. Would appreciate your personal experience in desingning this or working with a commercial solution ( doesn't charge by number of transactions :) ). One article that I liked but its more suited for a nosql database is by AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/building-a-serverless-wallet-service-for-in-game-currency/
It might be the reason why you aren't there anymore. (kidding)
Which one did you use? Some are fast acting and intense, clonazepam not so much.

One of the worst things about generic drugs is that the dosages (maybe even the molecules) can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. The FDA rules are that drugs need to be within 80% of the stated dose, but in my experience that's not the case. Maybe you got one of the "good" batches. It's a serious problem for people with diseases that require precise dosing, epilepsy for example, since they depend on medicines like benzodiazepines that can have serious withdrawal effects.
I can imagine that the only folks saying yes would be folks on visa and those who cannot be without health insurance or those who like working for abusive folks (there is a not insignificant number who does prefer some level of abuse in their life). For folks on visas things can get sticky rapidly without a job and they may not want to jeopardize anything until they've lined up the next job which takes a bit of time especially around holiday season.
HN is definitely not a free speech zone. It doesn't need to be, and I think they let a lot of legitimate discussions take place, but in no way shape or form is this a free speech discussion forum, it's a business (a I personally think a decently run one, as for moderation is very difficult).
My experience is exactly the opposite.
If that make me a "Linux apologist" I don't really care.

Install TLP, uninstall thermald, and make sure turbo mode is off (it's on by default in Linux - probably applies to Intel only).

Under light load the system is using 6-8w (about 9-10h of usage on the 80WH battery), under 4w when completely idle. This is latest Fedora on a ThinkPad X1 Extreme with KDE. I want to see that with Windows.

You have to invest a bit more time with Linux (for example the fingerprint reader on my Laptop prevented the CPU from going into lower power modes), and that part is unfortunate.

On the other hand I never experience things randomly not working like it was with Windows.

Your mileage may vary.
Pretty much every consumer router has UPnP enabled by default.
Has anything changed over the last six months or so regarding piracy, though?

The last thing I had paid attention to was the Russian government lifting the blocks on RuTracker, the most popular Russian-language torrent site, in reaction to the sanctions—to which RuTracker responded back by blocking Russia on their end [1].

But yeah, in that sense, it would seem that keeping people happy, having access to entertainment, scientific material, etc., and retaliation is more important than the ridiculous anti-LGBT laws right now. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I would think Russia does not pose a massive threat to Z-Lib and LibGen right now.

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[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/rutracker-found-itself-unblocked-in...
Indeed. I agree with most if not all of the changes Musk made, but it was obvious to anyone that he made them in the worst possible way on the worst possible schedule. He couldn't be doing more damage if he was deliberately trying to tank the company.
So I'm not a lawyer, and I haven't litigated anything, and this is not legal advice, but have raised capital (ventures debt, safe's, and Series-A) and seen how PE companies work/do acquisitions. In thinking about these documents, it's worth remembering that for these companies there are basically only two outcomes:
1. Do a priced round (Series-A) that converts the investment.
2. Or, go bankrupt/run out of money and stop operating.

For #1, conversion i.e. Series-A, tend to be done by a small number of legal firms that everyone knows, and VC's have their own legal council too. While there can be plenty of negotiating on terms; I've never heard about conversion being contentious. Compared to many other things, these are 'happy events.' Both sides need to 'opt-in' to the agreement. And the law-firms and VCs have strong incentives to play close to the book.

For #2, bankruptcy's or wind down, there's usually nothing to fight over. The firm has no money, and no-one has put value to the assets.

This is extremely different from many corporate transactions where a) the firm may have a lot of tangible/valuable assets, b) the seller is wealthy/sophisticated/has ulterior motives and c) the buyer is wealthy/sophisticated/has ulterior motives. So there's tons of potential motivation, and reason, to fight over things.

So I think both the finite ways SAFE's are used, and the finite outcomes/incentives to the counterparties significantly reduce the 'reasons' for litigation - compared to the vast majority of corporate agreements/contracts/legal proceedings.
Appreciation on its own is not a taxable event. Only if you sell after said appreciation.
Climate change isn't helping matters as global sperm count declines
Exactly.

Gwynne Shotwell is the too seldom acknowledged hero of SpaceX, who has played exactly that role of keeping the lights on, moderating Musk’s worse impulses, and managing him into less destructive directions. It’s been evident for years.

There are similar people at Tesla, who focus on the endless operational tweaking and improvement that Musk finds boring, and who slowly fixed all the most critical issues on the Model 3 line while Musk increasingly took to politics and social media.

I’m not one of those who believes Musk hasn’t done anything or played no part in SpaceX or Tesla’s success, because that’s clearly false. But he also hasn’t been the sole genius responsible for all the success or infallible. But too many people have made him believe he was and we’re now seeing the result of that hubris and ignorance.
I never cease to be amazed by the fact that Algol-60 was standardized in the form that it was. It's not just that there were many innovations there - it's the complexity of implementation. Recursion (at the time) was one of the sticking points, but there were far bigger ones!

Consider, rather, the fact that Algol-60 had nested functions which captured the enclosing environment and could also be passed as arguments to other functions. Or call-by-name, whereby expression used as an argument in a function call would be re-evaluated every time it's referenced inside the function - again, kinda like closure, except this one could also be used on the left side of assignment. Or the ability to pass labels as function arguments, which could then be used for nonlocal goto across multiple function boundaries.

And now try to implement all this in a compiler targeting a machine with memory measured in kilobytes. Oh, and the compiler itself also runs on another such machine.

For the curious, here's the language specification: https://www.masswerk.at/algol60/report.htm
It has been half a year since this nonsense all began. I hope everyone at the company planned for upheaval and knew there was a (seemingly large) chance they would lose their job.
The OP is implying that by knowing such news earlier, they can take advantage of the information asymmetry to potentially arbitrage for profit (or to remove themselves from the risk earlier).

Unfortunately, this, i believe, is not feasible for the average pleb who has no insider connection/information.
Yeah, kinda seems like it's shifting somewhat away from tech bros and towards actual hackers.
Boo, please consider a review of the HN comment guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Could you potentially explain what makes it "some of the most garbage software imaginable"?

edit: wording
"I think the main reason is the board is just super risk averse and saw adding you as more risk, which I thought was completely stupid and backwards,"

The board predicted this would happen.
I can confirm that there are a ton of books on Zlib not on Libgen.
Not everyone, we just don't talk about it much. headscale is plenty popular — that's not "everyone" already.

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

In addition to your points, we over here also have our own reasons for self-hosting everything (for example, to protect ourselves from being cancelled at any moment for being forced into a citizenship you didn't ask for by being born at the wrong place).
Sort by salary. [0] Only ~8/2k+ visa employees have a salary < 100k.

My stance is that the subset of visa holders impacted by layoffs is STILL a very fortunate crowd stings no matter what.

[0] https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=meta+platforms+inc&job=&ci...
He fires people, at least.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1593198409367756800
As soon as Tailscale provides option for Wireguard preshared keys, I will use it. I need Tailscale out of my network.

Any plan?

Self hosting Tailscale will then not be needed, since users don’t need to trust Tailscale anymore.
They chart nowhere. That’s not the point. Noticing that key changes are still popular at what is one of the most popular song contest in the world is however very relevant to a discussion about the public taste.
Plants don't "use" anything. It happens but there is no agency. Hard to read an article whose title has such unscientific language.
I think jetbrains really got it right. Everyone I know has been giving jetbrains money forever, and I don't think I've ever heard a complaint about their pricing or business model.
At this point, I find it extremely doubtful that Musk realizes he actually needs willing employees in the first place.
He lost me on Ukraine and Taiwan too. Free democratic societies allowed him to become something. Dictators and Communism for everyone that stands in his way towards more wealth.

I was determined to buy a Tesla. Now we placed an order for a VW ID.4.
I thought that was because of the growth hormones used in the foods (meat) and pesticide used in plants? Men are becoming obsolete anyway and now infertle.
Latest early access release of Valhalla features, codenamed LW4
The Big Four are licking their lips at the thought of swooping in at hazard pay to the tune of hundreds of accountants.
The Centipede's Dilemma
Back to working from home?
I don't believe Circle/Centre has the ability to burn tokens on your behalf.

Realistically if a chain (eg. SOL) was going down the tube, you'd probably want to hit fiat off-ramps (eg. deposit to Binance) or bridge out of SOL and pay the appropriate gas fees.

That is to say, if Binance halted deposits from SOL for a long amount of time, you'd have the option of bridging from SOL to ETH and then cashing out your USDC from ETH. It would just cost you more in fees to do so.
Curious to hear what you hate about it? Any specific point? If it’s just the code age then keep in mind the main author is Robin is celebrating his 75th birthday today. Like most early Python pioneers he comes from lisp background and that’s pretty much the same style of code you see by Peter Norvig and other of his generation.
Advertising agencies offer to install these banners to get higher bids from advertisers.
Webmasters have a choice.
Most choose money.
It peters off. I use to be a bit worried by my time on TT, but it's gotten a lot less - now I mostly watch it before bed, and don't even lose sleep because of it. I stopped stressing when I realized I was really enjoying it - so why the hell feel guilty?
Arguably, failing to factor human emotions into your leadership techniques does not qualify as smart behavior.
> it's kind of arbitrary to make the distinction at version numbers instead of features or easily-identified packages of features.

That is literally what version numbers are made to represent
The third-rate university (with a $1.81 billion endowment) where I am unfortunately studying for a PhD, closed its libraries in August 2021 for "renovation". If LibGen also shuts down (and becomes unavailable on Tor), it'll be hard for me to do research.
How are small things like "you left a commented out print/log" or "use color var not hex code" handled - or that a 'company coding standards' type thing. Are those types of things potentially automated with a linter or similar?
Twitter doesn't need 10,000 engineers to keep running. I'd be shocked if a well designed system would need more than a hundred given the head counts as some of the places I've worked at. That doesn't stop Musk from killing it in the transition from here to there.

And what glorious fun we're all having looking at this train wreck.
I have no issues with the wine before hand but here is an alternative.

I wear a leopard print thong to interviews, they are my interview man-panties. (I do wear pants over them) I am a large, hairy, ugly man with no reason to wear this under normal circumstances. No matter how much wine my wife drank she would not be impressed. On the day of the interview, I feel special. Not sexy, but special. I know something the interviewers don't know. The pinching of my ding and dongles reminds me of this. It also makes it hard to take the interview too serious. Bonus, when you get home and take them off, any stress is instantly relieved.

This may sound like a joke but I am serious. I think the reason it works for me is because it reminds me that I am in charge. I do what I want. I am literally not dressing to impress.

An interview is often perceived as a candidate trying to impress the employer. BS. It is two (equal) parties trying to find if they are a good match. I don't want to work in a place if I am not a good fit, not skilled enough, or not wanted. If I don't get offered a job then I am not wanted there or valued by the company- well I wouldn't want to work at that place. If I don't get the job, I didn't want it anyway- I see this as truth. Perhaps a mental trick on myself but if so, I fall for it every time.

I think the wine solution would mesh well with my man-thong technique. I may add wine to my system. I am currently drinking Keystone (piss-water) beer. If I drank a couple glasses of fancy-pants 2022 refreshing white Franzia while donning my undergarments I would be unstoppable.

Your mileage may vary. I am currently unemployed but happy as hell so... whatevs, grain of salt. Best of luck.
> occasionally stole things from the store

It's fascinating to see how stretchy the word "steals" is nowadays. You can make anything be theft - copying open online content and sharing? theft, learning from data and generating - also theft. Stealing from a physical store - you guessed it.
Njal.la

P.S. Also. I would avoid hosters (and other Internet services) that have political slogans on their site ("support Ukraine", "BLM", whatever). They will easily turn off paying customers for the sake of agenda and virtue signaling, whether it comes from a news feed or a single abuse complaint.
They were corporate bonds from a partly-govt-owned corporation. And the rating was only A1 which is good but well below the AAA that US savings bonds get. Meta just sold some bonds that got rated at A1.