skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram c. 2012 was just burning VC money and had no plans for how it could be profitable. It wasn't until Facebook bought them that there was some thought about how to make it profitable.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3019351/will-instagrams-vogue-li...

> On Thursday, the company announced that it would begin introducing photo and video advertisements on the service, its first attempt to generate revenue since Facebook acquired the startup for $1 billion.

> ...

> It’s a sentiment Systrom has repeated to me for years–and an idea that many revenue-free startups have begun parroting. For entrepreneurs without a business model, it’s become almost fashionable to declare that they’re simply creating a new model altogether: Whatever it is–by god–won’t involve pesky traditional ads. No! The ads won’t be disruptive or annoying–they’ll be wanted and loved! (I’m waiting for the call, SnapChat.) But when push comes to shove, more often than not, the ads turn out to be nothing more than, well, traditional advertisements. See: any Promoted Tweets.

Yes, it was on track to be something big... but it wasn't on track to be able to make any money and was more likely to flounder once it ran out of VC interest and get bought for cheap by Twitter.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/instagram-statistics/

There's a reason that chart only starts listing revenue in 2015.

While Instagram might have been keeping Zuckerberg up at night with nightmares - one shouldn't pretend that it had a path to making money and being able to keep running.
That is an accurate description of this code.
Why the heck would you buy an iPad Pro. They’re vanity items sold as productivity devices. Have you EVER seen someone using one other than for YouTube? The closest to work I saw was document annotation.
Stupid law. The only way to get pay transparency is to publish actual salaries. but we can't have that because... privacy. funny how privacy is really important when it protects corporations
But I would say, continuous refactoring is maintenance. You would not need to do it unless there was technical debt that had not been addressed in a timely manner. And when you are forced to do development because your underlying platform, i.e. javascript, changes, that's maintenance. You're not adding anything, you're just adapting. Though I concede that to the extent that the JS changes allow new capabilities and you engineer them in, that's a gray area.
Well, this wasn't removed. It was just hidden behind a configuration setting.
Alfred Russel Wallace inspires Indigenous researchers
No, too many losses. Same problem with storage.

Use isn't that expensive, fuel cells do exist.

The problem with green hydrogen (made with electricity) is the inefficiency.

It's only good for storage when you have already filled every battery and pumped hydro storage you have and are still making an excess. Electricity -> hydrogen -> electricity conversion is so hilariously inefficient that even petrol engines can beat it.
I don’t have an Apple Watch, but I would expect you can do “Save to files” from that share button, too.

https://theapplewatchtriathlete.com/blog-1/2020/9/27/vr3897y...:

Export your watch faces from your old watch:

1. Open the Watch App on iPhone

2. Tap the Watch Face you want to copy from the “My Faces” section

3. Tap the Share button

4. If you have complications on this watch face, tap options and select which complications to include.

5. Tap “Save to Files”, then put it somewhere on your file system. I created a folder on my desktop called “Watch Faces”.
You could hardly make a less informed statement than to compare Utah to a theocracy. The LDS church is influential, but as an organization neither cares about nor has a position about nor preaches to its members about the vast majority of political issues. There are only a handful of well known exceptions - the LDS church leadership does not want to be involved in politics at all and they only do so reluctantly.
Civil 3D fails you, my dear engineers
Sure. It's possible that updated vaccines could have reduced the wave. I just don't know enough to guess.

I've read that XBB.1.5 is about as different from BA.5 as BA.5 is from the original Wuhan strain. So even with this wave of infection China could get another wave of an XBB variant within a few months.
Hope: An Experimental Applicative Language (1980) [pdf]
Compare the cost of operating multiple servers, on one hand, with the lost revenue from having weekly or monthly maintenance windows during which you just put up a Fail Whale page. Most people overestimate the latter by a huge margin.
Finding out what the most important problem is is quite important to work on the most important problem. So philosophy of sorts?
To state the maybe-not-obvious here: beef croquettes are frying up a thing and fundamentally are totally fine and delicious with any meat. They of course taste _better_ with better meat, but it's honestly a bit of a waste of very high quality meat.

To state a more obvious thing: you can sell many croquettes, but selling larger portions of beef means you are gong to be involved in less transactions per yen. And the margins are going to be much better anyways.

Another thing that is true with more family oriented businesses is that the objective is often not to maximize profit. Of course people want sales, and healthy and stable businesses, but Japan in particular is rife with stories of something becoming very popular all of a sudden and the restaurant owner just gets overwhelmed and overall is negative on the extra business. This is probably the top point, the whole exercise of running a butcher is up to the personal whims of the people working there, and so often is not about min-maxing.
Who'd had yet thunk it, in robot takeover tales of yore, that mad ramblings and futile lores, hamsters on horses, polished vacuous styles, and more, would be the first to fall to our metallic overlords, drunk on statistics, apt at poetry, but still weak at chores...
> The font also has data about the newline character, including its width. This doesn’t really make sense [emphasis mine]

The font doesn’t have one width, it has a width for each character. The data for the newline character is bogus. All of these match.
So how do you suggest "not starting in the first place"? How would you implement that if not prohibition? Keeping in mind that the parent comment made a concrete suggestion on what could replace prohibition.

If prohibition didn't do anything then we should surely drop it. And then?
From being on both sides of the fence (providing B2B software as a startup, and dealing with small businesses as a client), smaller entities will be expected to adapt to the bigger fish.

Startups will bring translation layers to fit inside an existing system, and as a big client you can often send them the exact interface they need to adhere to and they’ll deal with it.

In that sense, the switching cost can be minimal (and you might keep your existing system running in parrallel), and if you’re big enough you’ll have the option to outright buy the smaller business if it were to flail.

It’s more complicated I think on the B2C side, where you have to buy more trust and establish a brand for people to give your their data and/or money.
I've compiled and tested software for big-endian, using a s390x/debian Docker container, running it with qemu-s390x-static. It is quite slow though. To make it somewhat bearable, it is important to do the actual compile unemulated (using a cross-compiler), and then only actually test the binary under emulation. Although I was doing it all on a little Intel NUC, it would probably be somewhat more bearable on beefier hardware.

Not because I had any actual need to do this, just because it was fun.

You can get a small AIX system from IBM Cloud for US$50/month. I've thought about doing that – maybe some day I will. If I really wanted to I could afford it.
Why BRI is Back for 2023
An informed discussion and update on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Land transit of the Eurasian continent has always been slow and difficult. For example, there is not an easy overland route from Moscow to Teheran. The BRI is going to bring about huge changes in geopolitics.
> Eagle screeching in the distance

Fun fact: the "eagle screech" sound is actually that of a hawk.

All too easy to make the analogy that the American (freedom) eagle is really an American (war) hawk.
The code subtracted out the width of the newline assuming it was the same width as a space (which it had used when computing the other size).
Incorrect, as until the business reaches a certain size it is considered a Controlled Foreign Corporation [1]. In addition, it is subject to GILTI[2] (pronounced "guilty").

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cfc.asp
[2] https://www.investopedia.com/global-intangible-low-taxed-inc...
Superior hardware is useless if it can't do the things I actually want it to do.
Ventusky is good and you can pan/expand the map unlike merrysky
Mastodon's big problem is that most instances have the same weird and exclusionary kneejerk culture you see from the Twitter weirdos. Those weirdos already have their echo chamber, and other people, who could make a stable userbase, are repulsed by them and do not want to contribute to places filled with them.
The notes in the Oxford study bible are a good introduction. Lots of college courses cover this
Teams and also what kind of bug it is.
Do you want to make games or do you want to make game engines? A lot of people have the two confused. I would caution going into game development in general... If you just want to make game engines it's a much smaller world and much harder to break into.

If you really want to make games there's a huge universe of types of game development. A broad approach would be to just start making games - pick Unity say - and while working at your regular job - make some games on your own. Nothing helps get your foot in the door more than showing initiative, creativity and a get it done aptitude than having some samples we can talk about.
It’s going to get a lot worse. We’ve only see protective layoffs so far, wait til all the tit-for-tat SaaS revenue between VC-backed firms disappears and their runways come to an abrupt stop.

So, look for jobs at companies with solutions that solve actual problems for people or companies.
Frederic Nicole: 180 lbs

Klem Loskot: 190 lbs

John Gill: 200 lbs

However, None of these guys are performing at a top level today, none of them have sent V16 or higher. Gill is the father of bouldering in America, and was setting standards from the 50s-70s, and claims the hardest problem he has done was about v10, at a time when no one else was anywhere near that good. Bouldering was a lonely pursuit in those days. He was able to hold one-arm levers and do one-pinky pull-ups.

Gill was also plagued by tendon pathologies in his elbows throughout his career, and those issues are more common amongst heavier climbers. Don't let that stop you from trying climbing if you're heavier, amongst mortals it's not such a big deal.
"We run ads, senator." (c) Mark
Backend. Do the game backend stuff for online/mobile games.

Everyone and their sister wants to be the one that does the pretty graphics and UI with Unity or whatever. Nobody wants to be the one who does the backend code that actually makes the game work.

It's actually challenging when you work with games that might have a million daily users or even more. If it's a competitive game, people will try to cheat and you can't trust anything the client sends you. The code also needs to be cost-effective to run, if your game makes $10k a day, but the backend costs $5k a day to run - that's kinda bad.

Also especially mobile games need a custom frontend for customer service so they can do refunds, check player purchase history etc. Those are done with JS and Python etc.

Source: Moved from traditional tech to making CS tools and backend for games. My salary went up hilarious amounts, as did bonuses and options.
We need Apple, Google, and the rest to have holes in them for the good of the entire market. If big players dominate and suck all the air out of the system, all of that money goes to malinvestment and incrementalism. Vanity promo projects that get closed in a year.

Big tech should win based on velocity and bringing value to customers. They shouldn't be able to just coast. And little companies should have a way of getting in without surrendering all their margins to, eg., the App Store.
For the same reason that any other exercise in predicting and future is foolish.
Dridex Returns, Targets macOS Using New Entry Method
There is a Cybiko emulator out there! Obviously it can't talk to nearby Cybikos but it's still fun to play old games and mess around with the apps
+1 for Kagi: I have been using it for a year now. I still use Google on my phone (Kagi's own browser Orion is still a bit buggy), so I can compare daily. Classic search results are comparable, with lenses they are even better, plus Kagi has no ads. Also highlights have dramatically improved over the past year. I hope they find a way to filter out the noise generated by ChatGPT generated content.
Believe it or not, I already have the entire storyline ready to go, with built in conflict between the now-broken-up Crash and Burn, a la the broken up Jolie and Miller. :)
One thing we must make clear is, is there actually a recession? Many companies are firing, but they've fired much fewer than they've hired in the past few years. Many companies are still hiring now. I don't think there is a recession, much as people might be scared that there is.
The famous “36 questions that lead to love” don't
So e2e tests then?
You might like Godot if you know Python.
It's trivial for distros and OSes that still ship to big endian architectures to add, by default, a single Xorg config file enabling this. There's all sorts of things that is put by default in /etc, and this would be yet another one.

Now, this isn't released yet; thus, existing big endian systems that run Xorg are unaffected.
Polars author here.

> Aren't these just if/else-if/else conditions? It's seems more in line with mathematical/python convention to use if/else... am I missing something?

Yes, they are. But if you look at pandas `f['a'] <= 3` a boolean mask is created on eagerly, on the fly. Pandas has zero chance to do anything clever here.

And yes, `when.then.otherwise` is exactly `if else`, but if `if else` is already a keyword in python so we cannot use them. `when, then, otherwise` are close synonyms.

The benefit of using the `when().then().otherwise()` expression is that it is lazy. We don't do anything until we need to materialize the result. Then the optimizer has a chance to see the query a a whole and determine if the `mask` can be reused, is not needed, should be done somewhere else, etc.

> Polars mutates the dataframe,

Almost all polars methods are pure. There will be no dataframe mutated, but a new dataframe created.

> Is there a reason why Polars is trying to avoid this kind of filtering in the row/column indices.

Yes there is. Ambiguity. I want things to be explicit. So the method names should make clear that you are selecting rows:

`df.filter`

or selecting columns:

`df.select`

or slicing

`df.slice`

In pandas this can all be done with bracket notation. I often read code something like this

`df[foo] = bar` and wondered what kind of datatype was stored into `foo`.

Indexes has the same read complexity. I often read/saw queries that showed a different outcome after a `reset_index` call. I like things to be more explicit. This may cost some keystrokes, but future me/us can more easily understand what is going on.
Yes, you missed two things:

They did raise the price.

They do it as a promotion and they believe that associated/follow up sales outweighs the cost.

Not mentioned in the article: it also got them on cnn and probably a lot of other news outlets. If you are a believer in “any promotion is good promotion”.

They got a lot of press coverage out of 200 daily croquettes.
> Combined with apples policy of throttling older devices

What policy are you talking about?
I had two of them that I'd bring to school. I had a few classes where my friends were next door so we'd chat on Cybiko or play the FPS maze game multiplayer. It was really fun, but the next year all the kids started getting cell phones/DS (Pictochat). My friends didn't want to use the Cybiko anymore, but it always helps a special place in my heart.
Some readers may recall that back in June of 2022 Bill Gates also claimed crypto was "100%" based on the greater fool theory

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/15/bill-gates-says-crypto-and-n...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-gates-says-cryptocurrencie...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23169008/bill-gates-crypt...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/bill-gate...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3525036-bill-gates-say...

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/bill-gates-cryptocurrency-n...

What is the "greater fool theory"

https://bogan.dyson.cornell.edu/doc/Hartford/Bogan-9_Greater...
Hydrogen is not at all hard to contain. Just put it in a gas bottle. The real issue is the very low density which makes the tanks rather large.
Because their culture has a deep dedication to craft. Great software developers work towards that ideal.
He says:

It was clear that Active Desktop was basically invented as a response/me-too to compete against Constellation and for Pointcast. We didn’t think it was a particularly good product, but because it was Microsoft and bundled with IE and they started locking up content providers, we had to take it seriously.

At one point late at night after some trade show they had in San Francisco, they dropped off their giant IE4 logo on the lawn in front of the Netscape sign on campus. We were still working and saw them drive off, so we went out and bought a bunch of spray paint and graffitied the ‘e’ so it was properly defaced before morning
How about this.

If any person wants to have no restriction on their business in terms of size, anti-competitiveness etc, then they are welcome to do so - provided that they can build their monopoly without incorporating. Hire as many workers as you want, expand as much as you want - but you have full personal liability for everything that your business does, as it is under natural law.

OTOH if you want a fictitious legal entity to shield yourself from liability, then the society is happy to accommodate - but it comes with strings attached, and one of those is anti-trust.
This virus targets Word documents and deploys a Windows (.exe) virus, so I'm not sure how much of a problem it is. However, it could easily be modified to deploy a macOS virus or do some other activity.

The fact that this technique evades the built-in A/V technology on macOS is a bit concerning as well. I'm in the process of trying to persuade our SOC2 auditor that we don't need A/V products on our Macs due to how well the OS provided tools work. If there were better reporting mechanisms built-in, I might have a shot and convincing them that we don't need a 3rd party.
Show HN: RegexGo – Regex Generator from Examples
You can enter strings to match/not match and the generator will spit out an according regex. It's not 100% accurate, but I feel like this could still be useful in at least getting a starting point when initially trying to make a regex?
https://archive.is/S8xTP
One can always find the devils advocate.
Thanks for all the work maintaining and improving i3 I enjoy using it every day and really appreciate it.
Picking a white point is not "AI", no matter what the marketing will have you believe! The camera simply takes the average grey value grabs a temperature from it.

You can likely stick your photograph into some basic editing software and set your own white balance. I even think the built-in Windows photo viewer can do WB adjustment these days
Is this the difference between Adderall and Dexedrine?
Agreed. It certainly doesn't require fancy quantum mechanics to understand
That's a very Protestant take on things, and one which many Catholics (and Eastern Orthodox too) would argue is deeply ahistorical – something which, from a Catholic/Orthodox viewpoint, Protestants do a lot – there is that famous line by John Henry Newman, "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant"
Ask HN: Where Does Super.so Crawl Notion Page?
The Notion tool named Super.so crawls the page with a direct Notion page link without any Notion API connection.

I can also crawl the page directly, but I cannot pull the information inside the page. How does it get this information? Is there a URL etc? From there I can crawl it myself with cURL.
There is a whole world of employers who need tech folks who aren't google and friends.
Centralized v.s. Distributed – A practical guide for an Engineering organization
His taco solver produces 24 results, while only 6 wanted. That's why she quit, unsolvable with these goals.

https://php.energy/tacos.html
But in public markets all deals don't flow through a few hands. That's why Wework could not, in fact, make the price become "whatever we say it is" - they're currently down 85% from IPO and 98% from the valuation they and their bankers originally pitched. (Uber's not quite so far down from their IPO, which I assume from your comment you'd argue is due to some kind of trickery, but is it impossible that there's just a lot of people out there who honestly think Uber has a good business?)
iirc he cackled a similar sentiment about the stock market in 2007, and decided to show everyone what he meant
Yes, I will take the crypto advice from the chairman of the most threatned entity by crypto. He's argument is valid to me though but Crypto is still much better alternative than government issued currencies. Aren't all other paper currencies even worse in some way? if everyone decides to dump a currency, what happen to my savings? if a government will go mad about printing/issuing, isn't all the value diluted (all governments will do that at some point, but the first example that come to mind is Zimbabwe)
As opposed to canned beans they aren't sitting in liquid interacting with their packaging. So you can wash the dried beans before you use them.

And I generally buy in bulk at the outdoor market so relatively few beans even come in contact with the packaging.
Yes, the pumps were built in the late 1980s and are still maintained, but have never been used for much of anything since then. I believe they ran for about two years. Also, the western edge of the lake (where the pumps are) is still about sixty miles from the Nevada border. Lots of empty salt flats to pump water on top of if that becomes necessary again someday.

I believe the general consensus is that the lake effect is marginal at best in terms of total precipitation received in the area.
Author here. I have noticed similar behaviour. As part of this exercise I tried to train a model to generate Pokemon based on This Pokemon Does Not Exist by HuggingFace. However my models only converged to nosiy smudges after 50 iterations and so I excluded it from the posts (I do mention my experiments at the end of part 2).

My first assumption was that the mdoel I was training was too small: 13 million parameters as opposed to the 1.3 billion in ruDALL-E (not sure how much of this is only the diffusion model). So that's a 100x smaller. I want to experiment with upscaling it.

Reading this I'm wondering if there's more I need to do. For example, training a conditioned model - "cheat" by given it in the index of the Pokemon during training but then you sample without an index - or make the model predict the standard deviation (beta tilde). Or as you say, work with loss functions.

More work to be done here.