skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it remarkable that someone would go into business for themselves to NOT pay for their living standards. In a start-crunch sure, but if you got revenue, pay yourself. The whole point of going into business for yourself is to pay yourself. I think some people get wrapped up in the emotional aspects, and fail to see the pragmatic aspects.
Consistent hashing (or more generally weighted rendezvous hashing) provides pseudorandom allocations with minimal reallocations when parameters change. This is exactly the properties desired for rolling out feature flags gradually over an input space like user IDs. It is a special case of a consistent hash function, where the possible assignments are just two (weighted) buckets, corresponding to the feature flag's value of true/false.
WikiMedia is known to have paid "edit-thons" to edit their site.

These are grants given to organizations, primarily of a certain political bent, with the express purpose of creating and editing content. And when such grants are given out on this manner, it's hardly a surprise when the desired outcome is achieved.
I agree that "medium.com" is a stamp of mediocrity, and I tend to have the same kneejerk reaction to never read something posted there.

However, I'm not sure I agree about the good tone management. There's always been something about medium and most of the articles there that is sort of cringe. It feels kind of like linkedin, where everything is superficial self-promotion, everybody is "thrilled" (a word only used in linkedin posts when you change jobs), and there's too many exclamation points everywhere. None if it feels raw or authentic.

Part of this ties into the low technical quality you mention: after reading the n-th generic, un-insightful description of a Kalman filter on medium, you get the sense that grad students are only posting this stuff to build a following, i.e., for the clout.
> and that this capacitance increases not linearly, but exponentially

The formula is C = εA/d, where d is the distance between the plates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor#Parallel-plate_capac...
Mick Wests videos on the topic have been thoroughly debunked by fighter pilots and experienced aviators.

He also completely ignores the eyewitness testimony and radar data.

He’s one of the least credible debunkers you can find.
Or you know... bootstrap a non-predatory sustainable business. If anyone even knows how to do that in 2020s.
Reminds me of the fashion designer who figured out you can change a design 3% and it becomes yours.
The people that would have been replying to questions in SO have moved on to Discord and the format is lossy but more immediate. The overhead of all of SO's concepts like reputation are probably what's led to it's decreasing market share in the answers-to-tech-questions market.
Especially because the high altitude stuff are generally zero pressure balloons
VMware drops on report FTC talking to third parties in Broadcom deal review
At this point any time someone switches from talking about Roundup to glyphosate, they either have an agenda, or they picked up their argument from people who do. Some of the 'inactive' ingredients in Roundup are more toxic than glyphosate, and stick around longer. Spraying it directly on yourself, the glyphosate may or may not be your immediate concern, but touching something that was sprayed weeks ago the glyphosate is the least of your problems, so making it an argument about glyphosate is one you can kind of win.

It's very much like the tobacco lobby playbook. Nicotine may not be that bad for you (unless you're a bug) but you aren't smoking nicotine. You're smoking a broadleaf plant exposed to soil minerals and four kinds of pesticides and antifungal compounds (fungi and human livers are susceptible to many of the same chemicals) which may or may not have prevented fungal volatiles from ending up in your lungs alongside the trace amounts of uranium.
How's the new management doing?
Edit: this is such a good take that it's posted as a top-level comment slightly further down! That's what I get for not reading more responses before commenting.

Original:

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

from TikTok's Enshittification[0] by Cory Doctorow

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
I assumed they were offering him clean cash. Maybe it was a "just help yourself to 1% of the bag". At any rate, the perk of working for money launderers and literally depositing the dirty money is you should be able to do the exact same strategy with your million.
> To be clear, I am only suggesting that the instrumentation be added to the Go command-line tools written and distributed by the Go team, such as the go command, the Go compiler, gopls, and govulncheck. I am not suggesting that instrumentation be added by the Go compiler to all Go programs in the world: that’s clearly inappropriate.

It doesn't seem like that is the proposal.
Ha, I pass through this stop on my work commute. Glad to see it getting recognition as being completely bonkers. It’s not easy to keep track of the order in which the six other cars arrived at the intersection. Most of the time someone just slowly inches forward until it seems everyone else agrees it’s that person’s turn and then they floor it the rest of the way through. I’m surprised there aren’t more accidents here. It’s on a hill, too.
> But I'm not worried that they'll nuke someone else from a distance.

I'd like to hear more about this perspective- is this based solely on the fact that they haven't done it before or something else?
You need to read the full memo, sent out as an email and watch his prior speeches. The memo appears to have been admonished by actual national security experts. Irregardless of the accuracy, there are better ways to handle these things, and he doesn't seem to have proper authority to make those statements.
The balloon last week could have easily been an order of magnitude more expensive than the AIM-9X. It was hundreds of feet in diameter with a suspended gantry with a multi-kw solar array. You don't put that much solar on to power nothing, so presumably there was a ton of military grade comms equipment on it.
Was it a loop? I thought it was stagnation due to the fact that everyoen was trying to copy mobile apps and bring them to the web. It was a bad decision because mobile apps are by definition constrained and not very versatile. In any case, people seem to be picking up where they left in 2011, not a loop.
I remember this anime Jormungand in which they used an EMP for the purpose of disabling all flights & satellites, that forces the world to be fully dependent on sea shipping (far fetched but was the story).

On the flight point, I'd find it disappointing if nations uses a cheaper version trolling airspace with balloons :S
Or more directly, maybe they intend to start shooting down our balloons. There were stories last year that the US military was planning to deploy surveillance balloons over Russian and China. Have we indeed been doing so? Here's one of the stories: https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/06/us-military-balloo....
More or less the premise of this 2021 article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...
No, I mean contributing improvements to the GnuPG project. That's the point of open source: if you don't like it, you can fix it.
Its an empirical rule of thumb that to build an audience online, post at least once a week (more often for low-effort posts for smartphones). If you can think of any well-known online writers who do not post a lot, I think you will find they generally had an existing audience (eg. Paul Graham is a venture capitalist with a crowd of admirers). Rules of thumb are not laws of nature, but this one matches my experience and my observations.
Ordinance doesn’t last forever. Might as well use them if you’ve got them.
Yeah that's the problem. I don't want a newsletter, I want a blog.

And like the OP I only care about people reading my stuff. I don't care about monetisation and I definitely don't want to put them through all the crap that medium does.. substack is not a great alternative because it's also monetisation focused for authors.
The comparison is between Safari + Safari-compatible content blocking extensions and other browsers + fully-featured content blocking extensions (such as Firefox + uBlock Origin).

You have been spreading FUD about fully-featured content blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, which is not a very good argument because Safari itself is closed source and its behavior is opaque. A combination of Firefox + uBlock Origin is fully free and open source, and its behavior is fully and easily verifiable. It is absurd for you to criticize combinations such as Firefox + uBlock Origin when the combination of Safari + a Safari-compatible content blocking extension is clearly less transparent due to Safari being closed source.

Apple's anti-competitive App Store restrictions are preventing the superior combination of Firefox + uBlock Origin from existing on iOS. Fortunately, regulations will soon make some of Apple's anti-competitive restrictions illegal in some major markets.

uBlock Origin not being able to protect web views on iOS is yet another restriction imposed by Apple. If browsers on iOS were able to supply web views to other apps and activate extensions in those apps, as the Custom Tabs feature works on Android, uBlock Origin would have no issues blocking content in iOS web views. Don't blame uBlock Origin for a restriction that Apple created.
Warmonger tries to sell a war. Film at eleven.
Matsutake are a big deal here in Oregon too[1]. Interestingly they are a big enough business that you're only allowed to pick a few without a license, though I would bet that enforcement varies...

1: https://oregondiscovery.com/white-matsutake
When your parent said "one-man project", he is referring to Elm, not the project using Elm.

Elm was/is highly dependent on one person.
I’ve been working on a note taking app exactly because of this.

https://grugnotes.com

I can load 3 years of notes on a single page 100kb.
I've been on scrum teams that work well. The reason they have worked well is because of the people on the team. Those people would have been a good team regardless of the project methodology used.

I've also been on scrum teams that do not work well. I've had multiple scrum masters on my teams who were essentially useless. As in the OP, they ran the standup wrong. The retro and demo sessions were just box ticking exercises. Ironically it seemed like they understood scrum less than everyone else on the team.
I agree that UX complaints miss the bigger picture. Lots of the highest-traffic sites have terrible UX. Lots of people will put up with poor UX if it delivers the content/product they want. Poor UX does not help -- but it's not the main failing of Medium, in my opinion.

Medium has been plagued with endless "pivots" -- not sure if it was wimpy yes-men who had to give in to every U-turn from the founder or if it was just fundamentally bad ideas. They also let the Substack idea pass them by, which can only be described as embarrassing.

On the other hand, your point about Medium flailing away trying different features to add to the bottom line is poignant. Very few written-content publications have figured out monetization. There's always a tension between ads, which yuck up the experience, and paywalls, which hobble virality and penalize your most passionate users.
Just wanted to say thanks for your transparency - very cool to see you here acknowledging the pain points head on and sharing your plan to address them.
ArcGIS Pro is just the name for the current iteration of a desktop suite (after ArcMap). ArcGIS Online lacks many of the „classic“ GIS features, especially raster features.
What mechanisms do you recommend for reining in, say, the NSA or GHCQ? Were either reined in at all after the Snowden leaks, or was it business as usual after things calmed down a bit?

I think we have to accept that these intelligence agencies are effectively untouchable and here to stay. With that in mind I think it boils down to: who can do the most harm by spying on you:

- a country thousands of miles away which you probably have no connection to and don't visit

- the country you live in

I said in another comment but it bears repeating - I don't want anyone spying on me, but I am losing no sleep over Chinese intelligence, I am an extremely uninteresting target for them. If a Chinese agent is watching me die repeatedly in Elden Ring, looking at webcam footage of me gawping at my monitor while I scroll HN, or checking the stupid FB messages I send to my friends they'll realise pretty quickly I'm not worth the bandwidth or the storage space. A local agency might be interested in those FB messages, especially if I was politically active, vocally against the government and I was trying to organize protests or strike action.
You might change your mind if you saw how steep Queen Anne Hill is, haha
But the government DIDN'T impose it. Whatever the bank's procedures may be, the regulator can say with a straight face, "We didn't tell them to implement those procedures, and we didn't tell them to take those actions. That was their decision."

And, unbelievable as it may seem, the government won't be exactly wrong either.
> they’re all “dead” in the sense that they aren’t the moving targets that most people expect of the Javascript ecosystem.

Are we talking about the same Elm? The 2019/2020 uproar in the Elm community was due to the Elm team making significant, restrictive changes against the will of the userbase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447

> That said, they are still under active development

I don't know who would consider Elm to be under active development, given that the last release was in 2019 and most of the repo hasn't been touched for 2 years or more: https://github.com/elm/compiler
Good example: The Information.
1 out of 10 sounds about right. Especially if you're taking a shot in the dark and/or not competing in an established market. Truth be told, it is tough, but its not the path of least resistance, so there's nothing else to expect. It is easier to push through if you have thick skin. If you have grit, you can iterate through projects quickly and find the one that connects with a market. The trap is falling in love with your idea without first proving it can generate revenue. I know guys who have poured tens of thousands of dollars into SAAS, only to discover after-the-fact that nobody wants to buy it.
Funny you brought up Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad author) since one of the lessons in the book was - the rich (wealth accumulators) are smart enough to not spend their money on luxuries such as expensive new cars, and presumably high-end craft beers.
What if you value privacy, smart guy?
Analysis: How spy balloons work, and what information they can gather
I wonder how they mount them to the wall and ceiling?
Not a refresh of the same page, but if you perform some action (e.g. adding an item to a shopping card), that would imply a POST request which then (according to the common pattern) redirects to the original page... so then you do lose the original scroll position, I think?
Let’s hope so.

Otherwise my kids are going to have a few questions when GPT gets triggered by an unexpected token sequence and segues mid-story from teddy bears’ picnic into animal gang bang.
That's a overly broad and false statement - I am optimizing for the environment. Additionally unbridled greed isn't really the best way to run a society, government regulations are supposed to account for this by promoting a societal goal when it is misaligned with personal goals.

It's everyone's personal goal to not get murdered, and it's society's goal to minimize murders... but, from a personal perspective, being the murderer would probably be beneficial in a number of metrics. Viewing everything through an individualistic lens is pretty weird when we live as a society.
> A factory that produces cars faster than it can sell them is not producing cars. It’s producing waste.

Car analogies, fun, usually a bad idea. But if we're going down this path the right analogy is not to produced cars, but to produced orders for cars. Backlog tasks represent wants/needs, not a finished product sitting idle, which by analogy makes them akin to car orders from customers.

Having an unfinished and ever growing backlog means that, in the best case, you have more dreams of features than you can handle (not awful, but bad if you don't prioritize or have a clear objective for the system). In the worst case, it means you have crappy, buggy software and are too busy keeping it alive, or attending to creating more broken features, to fix it (this seems to be more common).
You can measure distances natively in QGIS, the symbol looks like a ruler. Adding permanent points requires adding a layer, e.g. a shapefile of points.

That being said, as I've outlined in the article, I certainly haven't properly learned it...

But having dabbled in Python/Folium and the like (most recently did geo vis with Superset for another article), some of the datasets and functionalities were familiar (I also had to do point-in-polygon problems in Python, way back when, so maybe that mental scar helped :) ). I found random blog articles and stackexchange posts for specific questions I got stuck on the most helpful.

For instance, I have this link saved: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/421467/not-geotagged... , which got me down the rabbit hole of "Oh, you can make a style a function of other things? You can read EXIF? How neat!" (where I then found some other posts).

What I will say, almost everything online is out of date - the GUI changed frequently, plugins are now native functionalities etc. The HTML tooltip thing I did is also a modification of an older blog article (which I'm afraid I didn't save), whereas the contour line styling I took verbatim from the article I linked in that paragraph.
Can you share the TypeScript server?
Hey, Andy, welcome to HN! DC looks pretty awesome.
I also like to dig through the backlog when doing a major refactor or a large feature. I'll look for related things that might help inform the design.

It's surprising how often you find cases where we couldn't do A, because it depended on B which we didn't have back then and it would have been too much work to do B just to get A, so A just gets backlogged. But now that B is finally getting funded, if we do B right, we can let A come along for the ride almost for free. Then a whole bunch of related things like that can get cleared from the backlog all in one fell swoop.
Of course you don't need the vdom for testing, but it's typically a little lighter weight since the implementation of the vdom would already be bundled in. That said people typically reach for some special vdom assertion library anyway.
I used Manticore to implement full text search on a legal journal’s website. It has worked brilliantly for several years now. Recommended.
Using email addresses as login ids is a bad design because makes it virtually impossible for your users to change their email addresses. Talk to people who used their office email and later changed their employer, people who want to abandon gmail for privacy or other reasons, or whose email provider simply went out of business.

I would be surprised if your app would have a "change your email/login" function implemented.
I think it’s an attempt to market his product to what the OP perceives as the trad HN readership.
Could they shoot down the ISS, if they wanted? Isn't that thing moving insanely fast? haha. Not a space guy but always found it interesting.
I’ve never tried it, but my understanding is when JS is disabled HN fires off a GET request (via a link) and returns a 204 to prevent browser navigation, right?
> Mick Wests videos on the topic have been thoroughly debunked by fighter pilots and experienced aviators.

I have never seen a counter-analysis. Can you explain why you think this? It's not common knowledge that the observations of Mick West has been "debunked"...at least not as commonly known or easy to find as the Mick West analysis or the source videos.
You have obviously never been involved in litigation. Actually being in court is the tip of the iceberg. Just look at the xrp lawsuit. Been dragging on for years and still hasn't gone to court. Lawyers are billing by the hour the whole time.

And what does this have to do with kraken?
Love your references for these claims. They're so thorough.
I don't agree. It's not young people as such, it's the mainstream that love shallow short form content.

However the more intelligent, curious and thoughtful people that hopefully become our leaders, are more into long form content which simply has much more to offer than cheap one-liners.

Unfortunately selecting those leaders is where we are going wrong right now. Referring to a lot of leaders (politics and industry alike) that just love blasting cheap shots on short form services like Twitter.
That's a really good point. Humans generally don't like big changes, so removing friction to a big change makes it more likely. While remote work might make it a bit easier to fire someone, it totally makes it easier to leave.

Factor in that with the boomers retiring, the workforce is much smaller, especially among those with more experience. Unemployment is expected to stay low for some time (in the US at least), which means workers have more power. This is especially true for work that requires more experience or education. Those roles will be harder to fill overall, and the expected outputs are higher.

As a person working in a fully remote, global company... and as a hiring manager, I can attest to the challenges in hiring and maintaining a remote workforce. Hiring is tough, but keeping employees is also tough... because it is so easy to leave in a time of low unemployment.
I’m reading this on my iPhone SE (the first gen, from 2016) and it works totally fine.
I disagree with the idea of trying to defy death itself, as it is a physical impossibility due to the law of entropy. All things eventually reach a state of chaos, including our bodies. Death comes for us all one way or another. That being said, I DO see trying to extend our lives as long as physically possible as a worthy cause.
Those look phenomenal!
I don’t understand the goal of fiddling around with the API and API access in this way when the rest of the business has been lit on fire.

Is this part of a long-term plan, or is it just happening for ‘something to do’ while Rome burns?
£45 per year
I’m slowly making a map of my back yard in QGIS. One annoyance: I live in a place where tectonic movement over my expected lifespan is significant on the scale of my map. And so are the supposed inaccuracies in various coordinate systems. (I want to record where things are so I can find them again without digging big holes!)

As far as I can tell, QGIS has no particular understanding of either a coordinate relative to the (moving!) crust or of a coordinate in space-time that can be projected to space at future or past times. Surely this should be a thing!

I found HTDP, a web tool that can shift coordinates forward and back in time:

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/TOOLS/Htdp/Htdp.shtml

And I found this discussion:

https://www.gpsworld.com/the-effects-of-tectonic-plate-movem...

But I haven’t found anything easy to use.

(I have an RTK-capable GPS and NTRIP data via UNAVCO from a nearby CORS station. I was hoping that storing position relative to such-and-such CORS station as it was on such—and-such date would be straightforwardly doable in QGIS.)
What have we learned from a year of ChiselStrike?
The last one never came to my mind but is the most likely explanation I now have. I truly thank you for the insight.