skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello! Author of the story here. Happy to answer any questions.

Though we all love archive.ph, FT Alphaville isn't behind a paywall. Email registration -- on the far right of the barrier page -- gives unlimited access.

I set up the server during the peak exodus from Twitter. We use Twitter a lot, both to get stories out and to listen to readers, so the risk of it dying was very real. We made the decision to get a minimal-viable-product up asap, to give our Twitter refugee readers somewhere to go.

Urgency to act meant avoiding committees and working the difficult stuff out later. But Twitter survived, 'Don user engagement was meh, and the difficult stuff became not worth it.

The 160gb thing isn't just a Johnny Mnemonic reference. I'm a lazy coder who relies on cludges, so my 'Don deployment was a mess of duplication and surplus. About three weeks after launch the server hit 100% storage and crashed. I had the option of fixing the code or buying more space. Because I'm lazy I took the second option. A week later it hit 100% and crashed again.

Though it was obvious the setup was broken, the long-term strategy of repair always lost out to the short-term fix of buying more space.

We talked about keeping the server going but restricting it to staff only. Ultimately though, it still involved jumping through many hoops to make everything compliant, and while we all like the Fediverse to varying degrees it hasn't yet become essential to our work. We just couldn't justify the time required.

Maybe the FT can be convinced into doing something official eventually. I'm certainly not against it, so long as I'm not involved in the IT or legal side.
I thought some phishing attacks act as a relay or middle-man? I don't know how common that is.
We checked their abstraction, but it was not a good match with what we have in our minds. Apart from that, it also differs for architectural reasons because they don't have to make it self-hostable, which also affects how they build/run the integrations.
>Definitely a prisoner's dilemma .. an applicable take on where all this is going is Popper's Paradox Of Tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). Not sure that Elon and many other seemingly well-intended social media free-speech advocates fully grasp the implications of this.

In terms of paradox of tolerance. Even in the USA, there are limits on free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

You cant advocate for violence in the USA. Not only is this not protected by free speech, it's a crime.

The assertion of "tolerance without limit" doesnt apply. There's your limits right there.

Elon's twitter never changed this rule. You may not advocate for violence on twitter. This is not in contradiction with Elon's free speech absolutism.

What's important to understand is say Reddit who has eliminated free speech. What do you earn? You earn echo chambers, you divide your populous. You never solve your problems. Each side sees only the worst of the other side. Nobody talks to each other again. Political polarization is 100% because of no free speech on social media.

>You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

I'm shadow banned and flagged on HN so I can't respond to you until it's lifted. Guess it was more than a 1 hour ban. Imagine attempting to have a conversation on HN and not being able to reply

Good ole -10, goto jail for me. Thanks prisoners dilemma.

How ironic, but not surprising. What a waste of time. So long and thanks for all the fish.
A needed dip in the bubble and all of the sudden HN goes from market capitalist to left leaning. This person sold their stock, the time for employees to complain was when he was given this equity a couple of years ago.
I second teknik motors, also check automation direct,misumi, or even ebay/Ali express
The apps you've already had installed continue to run just fine. The device is getting security updates so you don't have concerns there and the device was built rugged enough to still be used years later.

Can you run all the latest apps? Maybe not, but are you confident any device you currently have can run the apps that will be released ten years from now? In the case of Apple you know that the apps you're running right now you'll still be able to run ten years from now. That's the difference, and for a lot of people that's perfectly fine. There are still a lot of people quite happily running their early gen iPads, for instance. It still does everything they need it to do.

Where Apple is setting themselves apart is not forcing you to buy new hardware because you need critical security issues fixed. If you want new functionality and features, sure, you may need to buy new hardware - but you shouldn't have to buy new hardware to get security vulnerabilities resolved.
I mean, if I’m giving a workshop, being able to point everyone to the same GitHub repo and then have everyone able to load the same environment with either Codespaces or the VS Code remote extension is a huge time saver. I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t touch Nix in a workshop. If someone knows how to use it already and wanted to configure everything themselves, fine. But getting people to get Docker and VS Code installed can be challenge enough. If I’ve got 4 hours (or two hours), I really want to spend as little time as possible on the dev environment setup process.

Codespaces makes this really ideal, but just using the VS Code extension (after getting everyone to get Docker installed), saves a lot of time and ensures everyone is using the same version of everything.
Can tell it's AI generated because the "plot" makes absolutely zero sense, lol.
Out of shape people don't stick to high intensity training.

It takes awhile to get your lactic clearance up. Most people will quit after a few workouts because literally feeling like you are going to throw up is not fun.

It is January so the gym is loaded with the New Years resolution crowd still. Most the people who started doing HIT on Jan 1st will quit by mid Feb. It is almost like clockwork and why I always reset and make January my recovery month.

If anything HIT is probably a net negative because if you are out of shape it is just reinforcing the idea that the gym is a painful and miserable experience.
Well they're paying you. In the recent tesla powerwall virtual grid experiment people were printing like $60/day
> What on earth "best knowledge" could an employer know about domestic disputes?

They can know the impact on their brand and the terms of their contract’s morality clause.
I've heard it was an important game historically (like doom) but I've never seen it much in retro gaming.

Can someone who played it when it was new explain why it was important to them?

I've read the side article about the book https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/07/book-excerpt-anti-gam... but don't understand:
> "But messy things like the island add to GoldenEye’s mythology—they add life to the world and give players something to theorize about and are some of the best examples of the handcrafted quality of the game"

> Because the game ran playably throughout development, the team could playtest, riff, and iterate all throughout the level setup period—a process Doak attributes to the game’s success

Iterations increasing quality, that I understand

But the article talk about the importance of multiple objectives and doesn't extends much on that. I just don't understand the difference between that and collecting keys, in the historical context.

Can someone explain?
Why does having a contract eliminate the possibility of getting ripped off? Tons of places commonly associated with ripping people off use contracts to do it. Car lots, telcos. Banks.
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Recently got around to finally reading it. I know Snow Crash is considered his best sci-fi novel (and it’s amazing, too), but I think I liked this one even better.

Snow Crash is funny and weird and action packed, but its light-hearted tone diffuses the tension. The Diamond Age, by contrast, had a lot of hair-raising moments and characters I was really invested in.
Evidence from TV Licencing Vans have never been used to attempt to convict anyone who allegedly failed to pay for a TV license.

You could infer from that, that the vans were for show and a shock tactic only.

It's not impossible, I'm sure.

Back in the CRT days it was reasonably possible to detect a TV program from the intermediate frequency from UHF stations, but more difficult (but not impossible, see TEMPEST) due to direct conversion by SDRs. These side channel attacks can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

Sensitivity of the equipment and picking up the signal from the roadside would have probably impossible in the 60s-80s. But again it's a capability you don't want your cold-war enemies (or allies) knowing about.

Also, being able to prove that the signal was the defendants, in a way that would convince a jury might have been difficult.

I'm sure some experienced radio hams/RF engineers will weigh in and correct me if I'm way off base here.
I mean, if I were providing one of these feeds, I'd probably shut it down and look for (or create) a new community-driven alternative.
These tech companies just print shares for comp like its nothing
Yep it works! Obviously if the app requires specific software installed on the server it may or may not have what you need, but I've installed several apps including the Music app, and use mine as a Subsonic server.
Isnt it that phages can be engeneered to a specific bacteria? Also the other way around.
The can be programmed with the dna of the bacteria.
So pcr the bacteria then make phages that atack them. My knowledge is bad . Could you elaborate where the engeneering problem is and the cost factors? Thanks
It really comes down to the fact that gear shaping/cutting machines are quite specialized machines. Therefore demand a higher cost to buy (machines cost) and setup (tooling cost).

For example a single gear shaper cutter is on average $700-$1000, and that's for a pretty standard and brand new cutter.

So without taking into account actual time to set up the machine, program it, and feed it material. You are already having a high overhead. So the only real way to deal with that cost is in volume or cost.

But when looking at the hobby market, volume is out of the question (who wants to buy >1000 of one gear for a personal project) and cost is out of the question ( if it's so expensive, I might as well 3D print or laser cut or waterjet some)

So it's an odd market to get into.
It's not so much that I would dispute the physics, but I personally wonder about digestion. This strict cico model seems to make the assumption that every digestive system extracts the same amount of energy from the same foods, which I find unlikely but am certainly not an expert. If I eat a bunch of grass, I am pretty sure I'll probably get sick and have some unpleasant bowel movements but I won't draw many calories from the grass. Unlike a cow.

Personally though, I find it rather easy to maintain a particular weight. I just wear pants with the right waist size and if they feel tight I take it easy on eating for a day or two. I have had the same weight +/- 1.5kg for 20 years. Losing weight beyond my comfortable baseline is exceedingly difficult though.
My understanding is that his big project was the release of the Coinbase NFT marketplace.
What im seeking in a company, i can datamine in a day from linked in. Your tech department churns through people? Dying from tech debt.
People vannish from the job market after quitting you?
Toxic culture and burnout stake.

Why cant a company be expected to put in similar effort to background crawling? Why cant there recruiters be not expected to properly vet the jobs they contact me with? Why is the effort expected so low, from those who have the biggest ressource pool?
Okay, one step further then. What happens if your house burns down? Eventually you will want some sort of offsite backup.

Also: https://ohyicong.medium.com/how-to-hack-chrome-password-with...

Passwords are still easy to obtain outside of Chrome, and apparently Firefox is just as easy.

By using the browser's saved password feature you are one RCE away from someone being able to automate the extraction of all of your passwords.
He's walking with around a sixth of all money raised by the company [1]

Might as well treat the execs and all VCs involved to a luxurious "fuck you" dinner!

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coinbase/company_fin...
I think it's time for me transition into a product role...
Wait, wasn't there a re-release on the Wii?

EDIT: Here[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007_(2010_video_game...
Thanks! Wouldn't mind that outcome one bit. It's hard to get exposure and adoption for a platform like this without some serious muscle backing it. I suspect Microsoft has its sights set on the cloud, though, but still, it would be amazing if they adopted QueryStorm.
NKLA market cap still hovers around $1.3B. So yeah, anything is possible.
Unpaywalled link; https://archive.is/oAuZH
DARPA learning the same lesson the Cylons did: lo-tech saves the day.
I would actually not apply to this company.

All of the advice sounds great, but not at all practical for some of the best engineers in I’ve met.

>Regular contibutions to personal GitHub for a year,

well too bad I work 15 hours a day in this tech company that has private git repos

> open source contributions, or stackoverflow answers

Well too bad that I don’t want to work opensource or use stack overflow (I don’t for work because we have our own internal one for years)

> show measurable impact

Well too bad, whatever impact I have in the corner of a 50000 employee company is probably not going to be enough for you.

How about just checking I know what I put on the resume and being done with it, instead of expecting me to cure cancer for a job position that has me change colors of a button every few days?

Edit: to be clear, I do agree with some of the things said like “look for a reason to say yes”. This is generally good advice outside of hiring. It brings new opportunities and when it goes wrong, lessons.
Purdue launches new AI-based global forest mapping project
Yes, just a Jesus-following (not in a church other than for volunteer work) commie at this point. Figure the point of all this is to have kids and help build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the goal eventually being a society that doesn't require anyone to work. Heaven is free time.
There was alot of rumours that they would eventually make this their mobile device OS. By cutting 16%, you're probably realigning goals of the project, and I wouldn't be surprised if those 16% cut are to shift away from making this to mobile.
I use an app called KPass that reads my .kdbx file perfectly, and I use Syncthing as well.
This is what I have been doing since migrating away from LastPass. It has been great so far (and free). I’d say that I wish I could share passwords like in LastPass/1Pass but honestly my wife always struggled with that, so it’s easier to just AirDrop a credential if we need to share. It’s also integrated so well with Apple products that my wife was using it without even realizing it. I suspect the same will happen with my daughters.

If you’re an Apple house, it’s a great solution.
Re >> that nobody's ever heard
I think you just hurt their feelings. It's okay São Tomé and Príncipe, I've heard of you.

But jokes aside: yes, you are quite correct. There are a surprising amount of small island nations, republics, and dependencies that many of us have never heard of.
Anyone not experiencing the sublime joy of unification and oneness with the market is really missing out. The process of transcending material constraint by commodifying their labor so that it can rise to the platonic ideal of profit hasn't truly lived. Nothing else comes close.
That's an insult to baloney - at least baloney has the intrinsic value wherein it can be metabolized into calories.
Good words! I usually cut it down to "I don't need a religion to be a good person". )
I think GP accidentally some punctuation. It probably ought to be read as "Dang! Is Coinbase collapsing?"

In another place where "dang" couldn't be mistaken for a person, "Dang, is Coinbase collapsing?" would also be acceptable.

Remember folks: Punctuation is the difference between "Let's eat, Grandma" and "Let's eat Grandma".

(And capitalization is the difference between "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse" and something else entirely...)
Fair enough. Don't personally agree but seems I've kicked a hornet's nest here.
Pooping out excess calories is not usually what people mean by “calories out” in CICO
that only addresses the first problem, which is what if the user has died - and they have to be a family member. It's extremely limited
Yes it ensures I will never watch the show again because I find their presumptuous morals repulsive. The aggregate effect I suppose will definitely have an effect on the brand. IMO they trashed their brand by sacking people before they were found guilty.

God bless the right to bankrupt yourself to mete out preliminary justice, though.
Dev containers support Docker Compose, is running the database inside the dev container preferable to using that? Or is that what you meant?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple allow Pro features on a iPad Pro
Is apple just taking a piss and the "Pro" line just means "more Ram and Harddrive"?

StageManager is completely trash.

Window resizing is trash.

The windows have a mind if they're own and no way to know there they're going.

Can't use iPad internal speakers with an external display. My clients _love_ when I have to pull out my Bluetooth speaker and then pair it to get sound. Amazing!

No virtual machines (UTM).

No usable terminal.

No extensions.

Battery life is terrible. Charge stops due to the iPad getting too hot while in the Magic Keyboard/Case, being charged by the OEM cable and block. "Oh you thought you had 100% battery? Nah it's been sitting at 80% for the last 10 hours not charging even though the icon is green and there is the lighting icon.

Is there anything that is actually a portable pro device with tablet like ergonomics and removable keyboard that I can actually use to fit my needs?

I do like the screen
These people use the implicit threat of violence to get someone to stop doing a thing they don’t want to continue. They believe that the chance of going to the morgue is very low and the chance of going to jail is also extremely low. So they do it because they think the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs. They would be less likely to do so if they lived in a country where most crime is punished and reports of crime are generally investigated. That’s not Scotland though.
LOL… typical HN tying a market being in a downturn to a company for trading securities “collapsing.”

Probably the same type that associates tech debt with “company is on the decline” despite strong revenue.
First thought is you probably need to exercise. Even light cardio for 20 min daily will help.
The miles between intervention is known for Waymo and Cruise.

Tesla refuses to publish this data.
I think "he"'s actually a "she".
4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
Well, fuck.

Companies eat things to kill them because it works. Only some fraction of users will jump to the alternative, and indeed the alternative never ends up as strong as the original.

Are there examples of where the alternative turned out stronger?
Reference -> Referential
Difference -> Differential
Prudence -> Prudential (now I understand the origin of this name)
Yes, people generally flip views once material conditions change. Also, when the tide goes out, everyone who was swimming naked is revealed. As it turns out, ZIRP was allowing many companies to swim naked.
excellent context, thank you
Yes, we plan to sell enterprise licenses, but we also have other services, like prioritizing the integrations, as you suggested. The integrations prioritized will be available to all other users, but the companies don't have to wait until it's becoming most-requested integrations in the community.

Tesekkurler!
The person I’m replying to make it sound like Xbox Dev Mode came about because Microsoft was tired of trying to keep hackers out, but the reality is Microsoft has kept hackers out. You can’t jailbreak an Xbox One.
A self-hosted replacement for Dropbox.
Even better we now have SQLModel¹, which bridges SQLAlchemy and Pydantic.

¹: https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/
We're yak shaving.

There's a simple algorithm, similar to the "Five Why's" technique[0] that uses a particular question[1] to elucidate the chain of intentions between a given behavior and it's deepest motivation.

Using this algorithm, it turns out that all behavior is directed toward achieving certain "core states". There are five of them and I forget exactly what they are, but um, Bliss, Oneness, Okayness, Being, and something else...

Anyway, as you might imagine, these "core states" are incredibly nice, and they are also not dependent on anything, so once you experience them through the process the original behavior is typically transformed in a deep and profound way.

So that's what we're chasing: these profound states of being.

The problem is that we are chasing them using very complicated and counter-productive and indirect methods. We are yak shaving.

Fortunately, these folks in Colorado came up with the aforementioned algorithm[2] and it's slowly spreading. I figure it's a pretty major advance in the history of psychology, eh? A short easy path to healing and happiness and growth...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys

[1] Not to be mysterious, it's "What do you want, through having that, that's even more important?" but there's more to the process than just that question, please don't experiment without learning the whole thing first, okay?

[2] https://www.coretransformation.org/
> - If you're shooting resumes off into the void of companies "apply now!" pages, it's HIGHLY unusual for them to be looked at by a human. And when they are, they'll probably be considering more data points (looking at your LinkedIn and GitHub). So here it's best to make them "machine readable, human-tolerable".

I wish companies would just keep it real and admit this, and instead of asking for a resume, specifically ask for a simple text or XML file with a machine-readable list of keywords. Because, let's be honest: That's all the machinery at the top of their funnel does. Once you get past the keyword filter, they can ask you to craft a real resume for them. It would cut down on everyone's work: the candidate's and the hiring company's.

I'm firing off resumes to hundreds, maybe a thousand companies anyway. It would be nice to have a standard, structured format for communicating with their AI screening machinery, that I could use for all of them.
Not bad. I think it could be nice if there was possibility of mode with just more or lesser known flag. Like only countries with > 1 million population or 20 or more percentile of countries by population.
> It seems unfair to penalize people for playing the game and attempting to maximize their chances for success.

If a resume just lists word soup, you’ve really given the reader no choice. What you should be doing (if you want to work somewhere where humans read resumes) is not keyword spamming, but using those key words in sentences that are also meaningful to humans.
Really happy that Apple introduced Hide My Email for this reason. Only wish it was easier to manage cross platform and for the ability to initiate email convos instead of only replying.