skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a phpbb2 free forums provider back in 2006.
Had a million visitors per month.
But spam was a big problem and monetizing barely paid the server cost, which cost 120 eur per month. 1 server had about 2500 instances and load was always >1.0 .
All my time went into maintaining the site.
After a while I had the option either continue to waste my time with this or just close it down.
I opted to close it and sell backups of the database for 25€ each.
I got some hate, to which I responded with hate myself, ungrateful bunch!
Some communities however managed to get started on my platform and migrated to hosting their own.
I remember one community in particular, which was a goose farmer community from Finland.
I helped them migrate to their own host and the member made a thank you thread, which was so heart warming :).
And then there was a writers community from Poland.
All in all it was very interesting to see all the different kinds of nieches and interests people were into.
There was a FKK aka nudist forum, and I would get adsense warnings on a regular basis. So I exempt them from adsense ads but put some adultfriendfinder ads there.

Anyhow I've been writing a modern, real-time multi forum system for the last 4 years on and off, but idk if it's ever going to be ready.
Forum software may not look it, but it actually quite complicated.

Forums went away and got replaced by the horrible reddit, which Google pushes in their results. Every damn exotic search has a reddit result in the top 3 results.

Facebook added to that, forums were the main info banks, then Facebook came and not only mostly destroyed forums but also classic, colorful websites.
I hate to talk like that but what once was a wild, arguably pretty and free internet, Facebook turned into a white-blue dystopia. A walled garden where censorship was and is the norm, where you're identified and tracked, where you habe zero choice about the look of your profile/wall. Is it even called a wall anymore?

And what's worse Instagram is replacing Facebook. Communication by images only. How dumb is that?

Yes we need text culture back.
But nowadays if I would be super smart and have the resources, I'd probably build a speech recognizing feature, where you can just record paragraphs because people don't like typing. With the option to also post that recorded passages of speech and read that text aloud.
Which brings me to Adsense has this new experimental feature, reading content out aloud and monetizing that.
1+1=2?

That would actually make forums have a comeback. Because now you actually CAN monetize single posts.

P.s. those ~2500 instances were hosted on a single core amd64 with 2GB of RAM and RAID1 only.
I'd rather use shady and corrupt Visa/MC, than exchanges of literal criminals, some even already convicted for fraud in the dotcoms or housing crises, operating from unregulated offshores with zero oversight.
> People always jump to simplistic conclusions and forget all the nuances involved.

That looks like a classic Matthew 7:3 - Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
I'd like to correct your statistics: 1119 sampled emergency department treatments over 11 years and an estimated 25000 emergency room visits for the whole of the US. An estimated 20% (5000 people) were hospitalized. 94% of the visit involved things falling under this regulation.

In a separate study, 46.4% of the children required procedures, of which 14.2% required surgery and 9.6% got sick ("morbidity").

They also mention at least 3 death-cases.

Source: the report [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-09-21/pdf/2022-2...]
That conclusion is entirely based on the idea of the war as a crusade against slavery. Nobody (nowadays) would celebrate a million-casualty war if waged merely for the preservation of a polity.
I think the main direction of $$$K dollar ideas are those in the area of consulting, do those count? It can scale well beyond that, but at that point you're an agency.

I believe that coming up with product ideas that can work at the indie level (bootstrapped/without raising millions) is a matter of training, validating the idea is the hardest part (and not falling into the trap of building it first). The main target of those ideas is often something that can sustain you with under a hundred customers, which rules out building a new social network.

One idea I had recently is on the edge of consumers and businesses: it might make sense to have groupon-like websites for niches. These could be geographical, or around a certain activity. For instance if you are into craft beer, why not create a "deal" website for it? Call up shops that sell brewing equipment, walk in to local bars and ask if they would like to come up with some craft beer tasting event. The model is here that you get a kickback if people take you up on your offers. The more niche the better.. It could be as specific as "young parents who love craft beer and live in New York". That sounds like it could be in the 100k range.

A small plug, for fun I've been writing up some ideas that fit this description [0].

[0]: https://indieideas.substack.com/archive?sort=new
But the actual scientists, historians and so on are super careful in my experience to say “we don’t know” or explain the limits of their understanding so I don’t really understand what you have a problem with beyond poor teaching and poor lay interpretation. Even in popular media appearances, for example I enjoy the long running radio show ‘In Our Time’ which covers a lot of this ground with a lot of academic guests who are almost infuriating in their care to spell out the limits of what we do and don’t know.

The point also should also be made that the burden of proof should be on the claimant. It’s perfect reasonable to take crackpot theories and say “there is no evidence to support that this is true” rather than “we don’t know”. And again in my experience it’s crackpots like Hancock that try to dissemble about how much we actually know.
Perhaps no one wants "your art"? 99% of artists who produce something worthwhile very much care about money/copyright.

The there still is the question of attribution, which 100% of real artists care about.
So much that is where Docker is trying to pivot into, WASM containers.
I don’t know. Apple watches are pretty neat. Chip design and performance has gotten better over the last decade, although it’s harder to program in parallel than scalar. There’s been a tremendous development of web tools and frameworks, recapitulating in a way the Xserver environment.

And we don’t know what fiddly bit of academic or hacker software will turn out to be new and exciting. Or which hardware startup will deliver its promise. And ai/ml development, while not new, has become far more significant even concerning. And I assume you’re limiting the discussion to the computer biz as biotech/pharma has continued to do its thing as before.

Aside from the mba’s, it’s not the things you mention that are the problem. It’s the vc’s and their money. Selling ads, harvesting data and “social media” have consumed the talents of gobs of developers. And to what end? Complain about how the last decade has eroded privacy and increased corporate and government power and you’d have a better argument.
It's a story about a US police department. Also check the top comment:

> I can't possibly imagine how anyone thinks this is a good idea. US police are already over-militarized and under-accountable. We as Americans need to stop worshiping "men in uniform" including all levels of law enforcement and military and hold them to the same standard as any other member of society -- stop giving them everything they want and stop spoiling them when they call us unpatriotic.

Maybe Ctrl + f next time
Java Application Servers reboot.
It may not be the only reason, but you’re being too generous if you don’t think this was at least one of the reasons they did it.

Other than some abstract “branding” campaign, I cannot really see many other reasons why they would be doing this.

And as someone who worked in adtech in the past, it was very well known that Google used their domain as their tracking cookie domain as it’s nearly impossible for adblockers to just block without crippling other functionality. So they even have a history of using precisely these types of techniques.
What I really like about Arch is how minimal & fast it can be without resorting to 'exotic' software or libraries.

I recently installed Archlinux32 on an old Pentium II machine just for the fun of it and was pleasantly surprised that it still feels reasonably responsive (I didn't get X11 to work yet though as the GPU driver for that machine apparently never reached mainline or was removed in the meantime).

Everything is managed by systemd/networkd the way it's authors intended. No custom scripts or other cruft or bloat. No 'helpful' background services to update man pages or the package database.

It's also refreshing how fast pacman is compared to apt.
I suggest another thinking: ALL our appliances are designed with the idea of minimizing peak consumption preferring a constant load since that's the best for power grids.

It's about time to do the opposite: offer aside appliances that maximize all possible energy production peaks for self-consumption. It's more neurotic than calm, far more expensive for various reasons, but far cheaper for those who have p.v. etc. So crafting a "two systems" it's needed in transition terms...
Show HN: Hand-held AR demo, based on my family’s puppy, made in Snap Lens Studio
Please use the “back” camera facing out away from you. Double-tap the screen to switch cameras!

It works best if you hold your phone in your right hand and hold your left hand, palm up, in the view of your back camera
I read the "[ + ]" bullet symbols as indicating a topic that could be expanded.
Climate change is established science. Predictions that Earth will become Venus 2.0 is a non-productive nihilist fantasy.
The Seasonality of Weight Gain
It's even worse with their iOS apps.

I've tried to avoid logging into my Google account on Safari on my iPhone because I am scared of them tracking me, but I also wanted to use the Google Keep app for sharing a shopping list with my partner.

But when you launch the Google Keep app, iOS asks you whether you want to allow the app to share data with "google.com". It turns out that there is no way to sign into the Google Keep app without also signing into Google in Safari! I don't know how this works, but it is horrible! If I want to use a Google app on my phone, I basically have to give them permission to track me everywhere!
If you gave it back to the indigenous people it was stolen from maybe we could have a conversation. Otherwise you just re-colonized already stolen land
So anybody who just wanted a thing to exist, and don't care who gets the credit, aren't "real artists"? You must not work on any large art projects that involve other people.
Thirteen years is a very long time in technology. The "problem" with HN is that many of us have been around since the start of cryptocurrency, and have a very deep rather than superficial understanding of the technology. That means we have seen how the cycles work out (start out with something reasonable, e.g. a system for "small casual transactions" in Bitcoin's case, fail to deliver, change promises, fail to deliver, and rinse and repeat, each time with a new generation of greater fools) and understand that each new wave of promises are impossible to deliver for various technical and in some cases non-technical reasons. Unfortunately the current generation of proponents just don't have the depth of experience to understand this, and are blinded by false hope that this is their generation's breakthrough technology, so are doomed to repeat the mistakes of their forebears. FWIW I don't think it'll go to zero or disappear - it satisfies a niche in some human's psyche to try to "get rich quick" with little effort - just like we've had Multi Level Marketing schemes like Mary Kay for decades, and casinos and various forms of gambling for centuries.
No, because your position is indefensible. You argue that only the biggest perpetrator of terrible crimes should be held accountable, and everybody else could be left out. Which is a double standard and you know it, which is why all that you have left is emotional diatribes and ad hominem.

In fact, that's an extremely evil thing to push, because - who holds USA accountable? Surely not Russia or China. So nobody is held accountable. Well done!

And being Ukrainian I have enough moral authority to call out Russia at least.
What were the two tidbits for you?

Some notable ones for me:

* curl cheat.sh/command will give a brief "cheat sheet" with common examples of how to use a shell command.

* `sort -h` can sort the output of `du -h`

* https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/

* https://catonmat.net/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution
"conspiracy made by toast avocado eaters."

I hope you do realise that slang names like beta, soy, avocado eaters etc. is predominantly used by conspiracy theorists themselves. All those flatearthers, climate change deniers and so on.
+1 to pressure cookers. We find owning both pressure cooker and slow cooker to be very useful. Pressure cooker is particularly good for pulses that would otherwise take ages to cook. Seems to reduce cooking time by roughly 2/3 .e:g beetroot takes 15 mins at pressure instead of 45 to boil. Only problem with it is its all too easy to overcook stuff. needs timing carefully.
Arch is not minimal. Debian netinstall does the same.

Alpine is. If you think Arch is fast, try Alpine x86.

On X.Org, VESA works everywhere.
What you are talking about (simple statistical aggregation) may be true 10 years ago. Deep learning is truly different.

I'm not saying it is "smart" or listen the way we are. But is not "dumb" either in that it does not just follow prescribed rules.

I personally prefer human curation. But I've heard many many stories of how spotify's AI sometimes surprises people with uncanny magical recommendations (and dumb ones too). And it is just a start.
What kind of oven is underpowered? Most ovens for sale in the EU go upto 250C-300C. Sure, it takes 15 minutes to reach the max temperature, but that's to reduce energy use and the ovens I've seen have a setting for fast preheating.
Or former Prolog users.
I never type my current address but a location nearby. (I am sure that google know exactly where am I, still..)
The point is that there's is no practical limit on compression. You don't need "AI" or anything besides very basic statistics to get astronomical compression ratios. (See: "zip bomb".)

The only practical limit is the amount of information entropy in the source material, and if you're going to claim that internet pictures are particularly information-dense I'd need some evidence, because I don't believe you.
Instant Pot is great for Asian soups/broths, you can get a soup done in an hour where it would have taken 5 hours using traditional cooking. In fact I haven’t really used it for anything else
Rino, Saving the World from Insecurity
Nowadays you get banned for posting anything remotely controversial
"The Tunguska event was a nuclear-weapon scale asteroid"

Which had very little impact on humanity because it exploded in the middle of the tundra.

"These are predicted to happen once every hundred years or so"

What is predicted exactly, by whom and how were these predictions validated against testable reality given the postulated rareness? If they're so common then why is it so hard to name the last 10? I think in reality these events are very rare and will almost always happen over the oceans, deserts, poles etc where not many people live.

"Long-tail risks exist, and burying your head in the sand and pretending they don't"

They exist and I am not pretending they don't. I am saying that this style of reasoning in which an extremely unlikely event is unfalsifiably and arbitrarily assigned near infinite downsides in order to justify spending time and resources on it, is problematic and as a society we are far too generous towards people who do this.
Sounds like COM. Comparing a programming framework to pipes seems a bit over the top though. I don't know anyone who'd seriously advocate building a large application solely from small programs piping their output to other small programs.

I've already complained previously about the new Microsoft though, so I have sympathy with the underlying sentiment :)
Much of Europe was laid to absolute waste after the second world war, yet now is arguably the richest 'light age' area on the planet. Ukraine will do just fine, particularly as EU will throw its full economic might into fixing everything (much as the US did with the Marshall Plan).
It allows me on the Pro edition without any hacks.
Only 8 month late (this is an old article from 15/March/2022).
>Great documentation? Yes.

Compared to BSD's, mediocre and subject to dramatic changes by nature.
Yep, that's me. Surprised but happy to see this resurface now.
I think parent is talking about the COM interface.[1] powershell still has a legacy of object oriented manipulation as opposed to text/line based manipulation. I’m too much living in Unix world to give more insight as to how well it functioned though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
I think anybody has the moral authority to call out anybody's crimes, if that's objectively true. I'm not going to read the rest of this wordsoup.
I use maps only for route planning. If I don't know where I am, I use an offline GPS.
Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
Sure. I tend to prefer a docsite generated using a rendering tool because when the docs look and feel high quality/high effort, people take it more seriously. But it can be that a README file in a set of directories is OK too. Chrome does this for example.
> Even the main durable writing material

I must say, I wonder if the dark ages were dark because of all the factors you cite ... or simply because they started using a non-durable writing material and historians can't find much information because all that was written down disintegrated before it could be found.
Data is not getting posted with Sample data API
The substantial difference is that slow cookers use a ceramic/porcelain vessel, and dutch ovens are made (usually) out of enameled cast iron. Gives a different kind of fond.

A dutch oven on a standalone induction "burner" is a fine slow cooker.
Sure. The thing is, tokens provide a solution for ANY law avoidance and can be used by ANY person. That's the problem. As soon as the very short period of nerds inventing and using the system passes, then big sharks come. All the billionares washing their stolen and almost stolen money are very fond of tokens, some are actually making money in that space, people like Alex, Sam, Giancarlo, Paolo, Zhao etc.
That’s a rather simplistic take; a company that makes money by surveilling you as you use their products also must care about the quality of their products. If their products suck, fewer people will use them = fewer people to surveil = less money! So not all changes are necessarily directly in the service of surveillance.

Also, I don’t think your reply to the above comment was entirely fair; they didn’t say anything about adding DNS records, and also mentioned several other potential benefits of not using subdomains.
Price elasticity will play a role here, but, all things equal, you'll get a slightly better part than the one you'd get with the units permanently disabled.
I disagree, actually. (For clarity, I wrote this article, 9 months ago.)

This year I have done short reviews of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. IMHO the docs for Arch are more helpful than any of theirs.
Some people empathize with the working class over CEO’s and billionaires. Some people think in the end, billionaires will be ok, and ultimately are not being exploited.

> If we’re going to go down that road we might as well count how many janitors HP fired today, and how the CEO should have personally kept them on salary.

Agreed
It was very common to shoot a picture concurrently in different languages at the time.

Often with some lead playing the same role, as does Brigitte Helm in the French and German versions of 'Gold'.

Another such example is 'Andalusian Nights'[1] (German) with Imperio Argentina reprising her role in the Spanish version of that film, 'Carmen de la Trirana'.

The opening has phenomenal cinematography, editing and singing btw.[2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_in_Andalusia

[2] https://youtu.be/k42w7axKju4
As long as the game is zero-sum or even negative-sum, you won't be able to make money.

But, when you're placing tote bets, you're often competing against a variety of different actors in a prediction market - and not all of them are pursuing a rational equilibrium strategy. These suboptimal or noisy agents can turn a zero-sum game into a positive-sum game, which is called subsidization. When participating in such a market, your primary goal is to extract value from these agents (very similar to arbitrage). It's important to note that the amount of subsidization needs to exceed the totalizator fees, otherwise you can't extract enough value.

It's similar in poker, you're making +EV plays to extract value out of actors that are playing a suboptimal strategy. This is how some people can consistently make money. However, most people aren't rational robots, and are psychologically impacted by variance. All in all, I would recommend a different career path :)
AI tools aren't people. We don't have to treat them the same.
Nobody blames you for anything. He is just saying that reddit is seeing a lot of propaganda.
The likelihood of a startup being around at 10 years is about 30% for statups generally after the third year. But around 90% don't make it beyond their third birthday.

So, joining a 3+ year old start-up is actually fairly safe. The odds of "success" in terms of your role still being needed 5+ years away is as good, if not better, than it is at any big corp.

Plus your work is way more likely to have a far more immediate and obvious impact on the business and on customers during that time.
I haven't forgotten because my YouTube account to this day has remnants of that move. The same with my Google Contacts, it is an absolute mess of G+ and Orkut stuff that got shoved in there at some point and Google never cared to clean their absolute mess.
Correct, however "compression is equivalent to general intelligence" (http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#compai ) and so in a sense, all learning is compression. In this case, SD applies a level of compression that is so high that the only way it can sustain information from its inputs is by capturing their underlying structure. This is a fundamentally deeper level of understanding than image codecs, which merely capture short-range visual features.
Reasonable Assumption: The "remote communities", "mining sites", etc. which both qualify for a nuclear power plant, and can afford it, will be fairly select & high-budget places.
The Mystery of the Blue Whale Songs
Libervia XMPP⬌ActivityPub gateway and e2e encryption
SNI is still in the plaintext.
> but you’re being too generous if you don’t think this was at least one of the reasons they did it

If you consider it absolutely unthinkable that it was not one of the reasons, it's you who is being too generous. Unconsidered side effects occur plentiful and all the time.
Fully agree - it was infuriating to read. It kept setting up some idea then jumping to a different topic.
Although one point is that many only learn Lisp from FOSS tooling, instead of the Lisp Machine survivors, CCL, Allegro and LispWorks.

One of the talks at this year's HIW is how Haskell could be more better in IDE tooling.
Well, great documentation with the caveat that good upstream documentation is always preferable to the Arch wiki.