skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I originally started putting ads on my blog after people started being an asshole about my articles on Hacker News, originally scoped to only readers from Hacker News. That combined with Patreon pays for all my hosting costs (even the CDN on fly.io and my random AWS infrastructure) and all the video games I play (about $280 US per month of income). It's gotten to the point where it's a tax burden, but I think it's worth it. I've never had a side project make an actual profit before and I'm excited to keep writing as a way to hone my skills and get experience with even more fun technology.

My recent post on embedding Rust into Go programs with WebAssembly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33713717) made me about $20 of ad impressions on the day of its release, pretty impressive given how many of you people must run ad blockers!

It'd be cool to make my blog generate more income and eventually take over as my full time job, but I'm pretty happy with the fact that it's a side project that I can peck at when I want to. A lot of energy that would be spent doing various random Discord/IRC bots that go nowhere ends up being thrust into the blog instead. I also love being able to integrate various cursed things (like a Dhall script that takes my salary history data to spit out LaTeX for my resume: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/dhall/latex/resume.dhal...) and then write up how I did it and why. It makes coming up with ideas for the blog a lot easier!

I have plans to make a "Why I think WASI is cool" style post with interactive terminals that run WebAssembly programs in the browser, but I'm still trying to figure out how to graft xterm.js into my custom build setup with Deno. I have an untested but should theoretically work implementation here though in case anyone has any tips: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/src/frontend/wasiterm.t...

Filing my taxes is a huge pain now lol.
Complain about what? Congress doesn't prosecute crimes, the DOJ does. It may take years for the DOJ to lock in a case, and unlike SBF, they aren't going to say jack shit until they've got him dead to rights.
Not everybody can live in the Netherlands though. The Netherlands has just the right weather, just the right geography, just the right urban planning, and just the right social climate.

For a parent, it doesn’t matter how much you advocate, your kid will have their drivers license long before you can change any of the above situations.
I was interested to read that there was a patent on 'non-round Compact Disks' but when you go to the actual patent application (https://patents.google.com/patent/US5844757) the patent states "...The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for reading and writing information on a stand alone magnetic card or disk typically adapted for use in standard three and one-half inch computer floppy disk drives." Note: I highlighted the magnetic part since Compact Disks are optical rather than magnetic. Not a patent lawyer but I'ld take my chances on not paying any royalty fees.

I guess that's why these days patents tend to be so broad and use language like "any and all means (present and future) of doing thing 'X' "
The big issue right now conflict of interest wise is that a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle haven't returned FTX donated money, and the CFTC bill that FTX lobbied for is still alive and well in the Senate. I'm not a crypto fan in any way, but opaque campaign financing is an issue that needs to be resolved.
Tom, I literally worked at your company. Matasano.

Let’s just say the culture changed after you left. Is that so hard to believe?

You probably didn’t spend 50% of your time writing reports, but Andy and the rest of my coworkers did.

Working at Matasano was one of the biggest disappointments of my career. It was basically the exact opposite of everything you pitched it to be. But I should’ve known better than to be deceived by marketing.

The actual hacking was sometimes fun, though. But again, that was maybe 50% of the time, if you’re lucky. Would you like me to break down an actual engagement timeline as a refresher?

An engagement lasts a week, max. Usually it’s two days. That means day one is hacking, day two is reporting.

The weeklong engagements are where the scales sometimes tip. But even by day three, you had better start writing up your findings, or else the report won’t be ready by Friday, and the client (or more specifically Wally, our manager) will not be pleased.
I wonder about airship based (inland) cruises. The cruise industry is on the order of $20b annual and I could imagine a similar experience by air, going no where fast, and opening up a very unique tourism experience to very different types of places.
You joke, but I have been using the same polite tone with ChatGPT that I would with a person.

Not because I think the algorithm cares, but because I don’t want to get in the habit of dehumanizing the things I communicate with.

ChatGPT responds like a human, and I suspect that at some level my brain buckets it with other “human” communication. I want to keep my habits there straight.
> Prestige cars, mega yachts, private jets, and corporations that make rockets and satellites are also male jewellery.

If we're going down this line, why stop here? You forgot the 'trophy wife' which is definitely more prevalent than the dig at Musk/Bezos.
"Likely" is not a strong enough word here. In US English, "in hospital" without the "the" is a grating error.
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Well, sort of - fuel costs are real. Being able to transport 5 to 10 tonne point to point (you do not need an airfield to land an airship) while using very little or no fuel that produces another avenue of competition.

Cargo ships also run at a third of the speed, their advantage is fuel efficiency by weight and number of human crew by weight.

If you could get capacity to something like 10 or 25 ton, it could directly compete with cargo by being slightly faster and more fuel/manpower efficient
[Note: it’s often unclear to me why so many Show HN posts show up dead on, or very soon after, arrival. I vouched for this, not because I’m interested in it but because it seems like a perfectly cromulent post.]

This is really interesting! It’s not something I would necessarily choose for a personal or greenfield project, but it might fit well in a project I inherited/maintain which already has a ton of imperative DOM code.

Particularly interesting to me is the `from` API for treating actual DOM nodes/native event sources as reactive inputs. This would work quite well in my project, which currently relies much more than I’d like on native (and ugh, jQuery) event handlers. While I personally prefer a functional style, this imperative design would still be easier to reason about than current events usage, and could conceivably be part of a more gradual strategy towards a more functional future.

Thanks for sharing!
tl;dr - the big issue right now on the Hill with regards to FTX is that a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle haven't returned FTX donated money, and the CFTC bill that FTX lobbied for is still alive and well in the Senate.

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Is your mental health medication actually working?
Your examples are not "signaling".

A rich person being a poorly paid journalist because they want to and can afford to isn't signaling, they're just doing something they want to do and which they can afford to do. Very very few people do such things simply for the sake of appearances.

You (and me, for what it's worth) always having to have a decent-paying job available or else is also not "signaling", it just is what it is, we have to work jobs because we have to work jobs, there isn't a status meta-game to it, it's just how we afford life.

It's the mindset of looking at things like your poorly paid journalist example, and thinking "that person is signaling" rather than "that person wants to be a journalist" that I find tedious and unrelatable.
If it works, why not just use it yourself to earn $$$$ selling options?
'JumpCrisscross has written a bunch of good comments here about how overblown and silly SBF's supposed political influence is. It's mostly a talking point for him.

With a divided government for the next 2 years there's little chance of any serious legislation passing. New financial regulation? Even less of a prospect. Whatever bill FTX was advocating for, with their powerhouse of 8 congressional backbenchers, it's DOA now.
You don't need to hack config files. The big DEs have GUI settings for pretty much everything macOS or Windows does. The only reason it might not seem like it is tutorial websites where it's easier to post a one line command then screenshots for 7 different GUIs.
Aside from technical concerns, they're loud as hell during takeoff and landings, making their use inside populated places a bit controversial.
I haven't seen Maestro-exclusive terminals for 10 years, at least with support of Mastercard, but the survivorship bias is hard because my country was a playground for all new tech of both Visa and MC.
EctoLife: The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility
Yes, in theory. I remember when Lockheed took over the US Antarctic program support contract and claimed they would use an airship to transport stuff to S Pole. It was obviously ridiculous given the weather. If it weren't for that it might make sense.
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
Ah, I'd already read the article in my feed reader before seeing it on HN, and hadn't followed the link back then, sorry.
That hasn't really been my experience, but ymmv. But it's also why we should fight so much against centralization in the economy even if it brings efficiency gains. Ideally you'd want to have as large of a table as possible.
Some people are interpreting that more broadly than I intended it. I'm squeamish about this kind of medical gene editing in specific.

There is a genetic disorder that runs in my family. I used to be on a bunch of email lists for the condition. People with the condition routinely volunteer for drug studies in a desperate attempt to get help that current medical science can't provide them and/or to get free care for a condition that's very medically expensive.

People with serious medical conditions are all too often treated like lab rats whose lives don't really matter. Treating people like me humanely isn't a real high priority. Quality of life is not much part of the discussion. Keeping us alive a little longer is the only metric that seems to count and horrifying things get done in the name of it.
It's not 'every problem'. People know Windows. People understand most of Windows. They took years to do so, and they still run into problems. Now you ask them 'switch over to Linux, it doesn't have problem X', without understanding the average person doesn't want to invest the time or effort learning anything more complicated than downloading and installing a random .exe (why do you think phishing and malware are so prevalent in their infantile state?).

This is reinforced by most major apps which eventually become cross-platform starting out treating Linux as a 3rd class citizen. For games, Discord and Parsec come to mind, where the former took years, and the latter still doesn't allow hosting from Linux. Nothing about this reinforces the idea of Linux being easier to use. It's the opposite: it reinforces the mentality that Linux is still two decades behind, regardless what the reality may be.

How many complaints form when YouTube pushes a minor UI or UX change? Now multiply that by a few magnitudes of order. That is the problem we're dealing with, and no amount of chastising or belittling Windows users will change that (in fact, it does the opposite). Did people forget how Apple managed to get a foothold in the market despite their ludicrous prices and dev-unfriendly practices?
Energy. Flight control. Congestion. Accidents. Noise. All those would be much difficult, worse / problematic or even catastrophic when flying vehicles would be accessible to literally everyone, including criminals, drunks and teenagers.
These articles have been periodically popping up since the 1990's - I seem to notice them on average about once a year.

I assume it happens each time a company has got some funding together to start some early prototyping.
In roles like research it happens that one spends tons of time on the command line. It's normal for me to have spent more time in a week running commands in the terminal than writing code.
Said terrain is almost by definition not on established trade routes.

But maybe Russia will want to massively increase their southeastern trade?
Does this help?
https://www.makeuseof.com/workspace-setup-sites-work-from-ho...
I found your podcast after a comment here about the episode featuring the guy who built the (Apple II?) app from his cabin in the woods. I’m still a regular listener.
> The vast vast majority of people are not "signaling" when they do things, they are just doing things.

Well forgetting the fact that neither of us can prove what we think about this I do believe it's a form of signaling. At least in the sense that someone who does not have status if (from my observation over the years) less likely to do things that could further confirm or lower their status.

For example growing up my mom had a 'cleaning lady'. That cleaning lady would insist that when my mom dropped her off it was not in front of her house but where her neighbors couldn't see that another woman was dropping her off (because that would imply she was cleaning houses). Likewise an employee of my father (factory/warehouse work) would always change out of their clothes and travel home in something much nicer. And not because the clothes were dirty either.

I dress in a t-shirt and dungarees everyday. When I was younger (and also in my own new business) I wore a suit. Sure times were different but for one thing now I don't need to prove anything.
What drivers? You don't need to install any drivers if everything works.
That would make DM collapse in a black hole. I don't think that DM black holes are considered impossible, just not likely.
The payload is only four tons. That's only about twice the capacity of a Huey, and less than a Super Puma. Both of those are widely used utility helicopters.

Fly by wire airships are not new. DARPA had the Lockheed Skunk Works develop one. That was nicely maneuverable; it could taxi out of a hangar and take off, fly around, then land and taxi back home. Fans on multi-axis gimbals for control.[1] Worked fine, nobody could find a use for it.

The Zeppelin NT airships (remember Airship Ventures flying over Silicon Valley) worked quite well.
Not quite as maneuverable as the Skunk Works craft, but far easier to dock than traditional airships.
The guy behind that used to speak at steampunk conventions.
When the price of helium doubled and the tourist business collapsed in 2008, they had to shut down.

The big cost item with these things is replenishing helium leakage.

There may be a market for flying yachts.

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cnc6
One of my favorite podcasts. The two part xbox episode is my favorite.
Dark, low contrast monitors mostly but you will eventually either become near sited or far sited as your eyes get older.
On anonymous and pseudonymous communities, people tend to assume everyone's american for various reasons. This is also true here on HN.

In my experience, when people think someone else is a foreigner, they ask them where they're from. The assumption that they were talking to an american was violated so they try to determine who they're actually talking to. So if I can manage to not violate that assumption, it must mean that my speech resembles that of an american native speaker.
Totally agree. This is the essence of the 'broken windows' approach to crime prevention. Anecdotally (I live in north london) a large proportion of burglaries are committed by a small number of individuals, and in fact when a single gang were eventually apprehended a few years back it put an end to a serious spate of break-ins. When a mate was burgled in his area some years before that, the police found the perpetrator but did not pursue to prosecution as there was a sudden reprioritisation to anti-terrorist work. There is a disconnect between police priorities and the helplessness ordinary people feel when crimes that violate their homes and sense of security are not taken seriously.
Nah, it's from someone who hasn't owned a car in over ten years.

I can totally see how a car could get passed down from father to son, but a single car and "many generations" doesn't really add up in this part of the world (could be totally different in other parts of the world, of course).
They keep saying it's painless but I've heard more than once that's it's very painful.
If anything I feel depressed from the lack of critical thought considering that buzzwor-y platitudes that dominate the front page.

Not really surprising considering the vast majority of people here seem to have probably not received higher education (university/college) in regards to STEM. I didn’t think this was the case before I joined though.
The riches are in the (data) niches
Lack of DOJ prosecutorial authority never stopped Congress from complaining or dragging people in for show trials of public opinion.

The House or the Senate will happily subpoena folks to make the minority party look bad.

Bipartisan donations, though, would prevent that
Not who you asked, but my employer won't allow me to change it.
Technology has been making progress all this time. It may be slow progress like FSD or a fast progress like many of the things in Moore's law.

We still do not need to believe it, but obstacles do get overcome with time, and if at some point someone can make a business out of it, we will wonder why it took so long since it was so easy.
I know I probably sound like a broken record, but Linux really is quite nice these days. I personally find it miles better than Windows. It is even decent for gaming, thanks to Steam’s work on proton.

So, depending on your use case, you might be able to make the switch without any significant drawbacks.

FWIW, I say this as a former Microsoft employee and heavy promoter of their ecosystem for the first 15 years of my career.
Hydrogen instead of helium is clearly the elephant in the room.

Helium is expensive, limited, and not easily produced, whereas hydrogen is readily available almost anywhere, has no quantitative limits, and provides far superior lift than helium. Of course, hydrogen is extremely flammable and explosive. If there was a way to minimize or completely mitigate this problem then airships would certainly become more viable than they currently are. The article mentions the use of fire-retardant materials as part of its covering. Perhaps this in combination with tens of thousands of isolated gas "sacs" and an outer helium buffer (To isolate the hydrogen from external heat sources, laser-based weapons, static electricity, etc.) could make hydrogen a viable choice?
It's a common thing to miss. There's a reason SQL injections are (unless things have changed recently) among the most prevalent classes of web exploits.
I guess if it would be possible to run js somehow. There is support for code preview, images preview. Is there somneobscure way to run js in markdown?
NAT was never intended for security and privacy.

IPv6 security is like IPv4 security: Firewalls

For privacy IPv6 uses Security Extensions, which shuffles your ipv6 ip.
> It must be so tedious to live having internalized this perspective on people. The vast vast majority of people are not "signaling" when they do things, they are just doing things. This constant meta game mostly exists in the minds of this iamverysmart crowd.

I think what you are missing is that they are signaling whether they realize it or not. A signal is just a discernible phenomenon that is given meaning by observers. It doesn't have be intentional.

An example: social counter-signaling often arises naturally and unconsciously. Think about the rich person who would rather not be recognized as such, or the person who is a bit carefree because they are beyond the grind. They don't consciously adopt a 'carefree persona', they just feel more at ease because of their life situation.
Oh boy. I tried, really. WSL2 is good enough to test things and run docker, but as soon as you try to run X applications, remote in with ssh on your laptop, or try to use full power, the limitations become clear soon.

I tried, on the new job. I've dealt with windows for 6 months, but 2 weeks ago I was sick of it. There is always something not working right. If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, Windows 10 has training wheels and a hysterical helicopter mom screaming 'you're gonna fall!' all the time. Death by a 1000 papercuts. I've reformatted it and run kubuntu now. I will miss excel, and online outlook is not as good as the real thing, but these are sacrifices I am willing to make just to get rid of the whiney drug addict called windows 10.

I'm not going to say Linux is perfect. Plenty of dumb cuts in there too. But at least it treats me with respect, at least the KDE world does.

Ymmv, of course. The job is great enough to let each run his or her preferred OS. As a recent escapee from a hyper standardized environment, I am loving it
In order to not accept terms of an agreement, you need a reasonable alternative. Being able to start your own business that makes money is a good alternative.
Ask HN: Is ordering webhook events important to you and why?
As we continue to build getconvoy.io we get asked if we support ordering webhook events. We'd like to know if this is important to a larger community of webhooks providers/consumers and why?
To state the obvious : of course we are using this exact same technology to identify people by writing style. All of us. Right now.
is there any specific reason to think this disease could come "roaring back" aside from general unknowns of a new treatment?
Have you ever thought about sharing revenue with the owner of the sites?

I asked on the guys that runs scrapping bee but he just ignored me.
This seems to have taken one sentence from my comment out of context in order to widely exaggerate and attack it.

All, if not most conspiracy theories have some element of truth to them. That's what makes them so compelling - In a similar fashion to fiction writing. Philosophers like Nietzsche would say “there are no facts, only interpretations”.

Rather than debate semantics. What I was referring to in context was the festering of dangerous conspiracy theories such as 1930's anti-semitism, and yes, hoaxes about inoculation.

Being wrong is acceptable. Purposely seeking to undermine scientific evidence on the bases of small instances which are not sufficient to draw conclusions about the wider point is intentional.
Really boring report, nothing of real essence. Either G's product is bullet-proof or the research quality from NCC has deteriorated.
What’s the alternative the author is advocating for?

They lament that there isn’t motivation because it’s not a partisan scandal, but that seems like a good thing because then reactions aren’t clouded by two-party tribalism.

Also, naive politicians aligning themselves with (what they see as) an up and coming industry is not at all surprising, and certainly not new.

If they just want the donations returned, that sounds great, although I’m not sure how that works—-I guess the money goes to the bankruptcy pot to help cover investor losses? Not sure that even sounds that great either. As horrible as his must be for people who lost their money, I wouldn’t want my (imaginary) political donation to be immediately handed to some crypto investor who fell for FTX’s lies.

If the author just wants regulatory clarity, that’s what we all want.
How does one "take responsibility for their generation"?