skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of answers point to the user experience of Medium becoming worse. This misses the bigger picture: the economics of free blog hosting don't work.

V1 of Medium was great because they weren't concerned with monetization. The product was built fully in the interests of the user. Once the company grew, they saw that the bottom line was not sustainable, and so started adding features that would possibly increase revenue. These features were built in the company's interest, not the user's interest, so the user experience got worse.

This isn't their fault, it's just a fact of business. People wouldn't pay enough to make the project worthwhile (either directly or indirectly in the form of ads/other monetization avenues).

Maybe Substack has found a different model that genuinely does work, or maybe they will follow a similar trajectory to Medium.
Google is very similar. You go through a pipeline to send you to the hiring committee, then once you are cleared and leveled, you can now interview with managers who can read your scores etc.
It doesn't change semantics and if GME is like a casino, GME is not in isolation, it's part of the market. This says more about the market than about GME, tbh.

And as long as you hold the stock, from the tax man's perspective, from the company's perspective, from your trading platform's perspective, you're an investor. It's irrelevant how long you had the stock. If you sell it, you're going to pay taxes on the profit from your 'investment', which makes you an investor.
Do you also believe the world's countries should ban reddit? It's front page is littered with content taken directly from TikTok.
Two laptop model with the same CPU can have big differences in thermal design, which impacts a lot the fan noise but battery efficiency only in a marginal way.
I'm 59, I got my own computer just after high school. I had a modem and was on CBBS and Chinet back in the day. I signed up for InterAccess, which was a long distance toll call, (They were up by Ohare, 30+ miles away!) so I got a cell phone, which had free call forwarding, and used that to get toll-free internet time.

It was pretty cool to be able to connect to systems all over the world. I remember PowWow, one of the early chat systems, and I chatted with a guy in Novosibirsk and was just amazed!

I showed it to a friend of mine, and he was underwhelmed to say the least. This was before the rules were changed, and commercial content was allowed.

A few years later, I was the sysadmin of our local dialup internet provider, with about 200 users. That was fun. I wrote the Windows 3.1 installer disks, which installed Trumpet Winsock and Mosaic if I recall correctly. We had about 50 modems hooked to 16 port serial boards. The new owner who bought it upgraded it to a US Robotics digital connection and supported 53k downloads.

A few years after that, cable internet became available, and I haven't looked back.

My friend who was "meh" about the internet now as $40/month gigabit fiber. I'm stuck with $100/month 100 Mbps cable.
Most heat pumps in the United States have 100% efficiency down to about 20 degrees F. Below that they "lose efficiency."

Most things that are already installed are worse than the latest technology that's available.

That's not an argument against the latest technology.
None of which scaled significantly due to the pandemic. Everyone at companies that use Macs had Macs already, so if they're not using the one at work anymore there's not a net increase of Mac users.
Polygon and Ankr are backers, both blockchain companies. Dont know the other. That's why the question.

Also, why not have a public db for what you can, does it all have to be internal?
Yeah, like maybe a sad face instead of a logout button, which doesn't hint at it's functionality until you actually click it. Or a raised eyebrow emoji for resetting your password. A hand with six fingers to modify accessibility features...
Python Tutorial: Decorators – Dynamically Alter the Functionality of Functions
It won user market-share which is what OP's post is about. TS is not "dead" like Elm is, quite the opposite.
If anyone else is having trouble loading the site, my pihole was blocking turtl.co that they seem to be using.
I agree that chatGPT et al are way overhyped, and don't represent any fundamental advances beyond product development.

That said, this article's a bit of a strawman, hinging way too much on a pedantic definition of "understand". He's correct, but it's not really the crux, and unfortunately this will all be very easy to dismiss
It's on its 2.5th version already, check out links elsewhere in this thread ! ;)
Besides the one interview with the owner stating his Christian beliefs (because he was asked), how else do they share their beliefs?
I wouldn't assume building the html on the server uses any more server resources than building JSON. Either way you are just building a giant blob of text. With html fragment caching the server could easily be doing less work this way.
I'd be fine with GMO if it weren't for the pesticides that come with it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-monsantos-roundup-pestic...

> But pure glyphosate isn’t sprayed on crops, Roundup is, which contains a variety of adjuvants and surfactants meant to help the glyphosate penetrate into tissues. And indeed when the study was repeated with what’s actually sprayed on GMO crops, there were toxic and hormonal effects even at doses smaller than the 1 or 2% concentration that’s used out on the fields.

> Roundup was found to be 100 times more toxic than glyphosate itself. Moreover, Roundup turned out to be among the most toxic pesticide they tested.
It turns out that high altitude balloons don’t pop when you put small holes in them: https://apnews.com/article/268893fddde785d029d5a51b136951eb
Sticks in your craw, doesn't it, that x? Kinda like how trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people do in our cisnormative society. It is deliberate, and it's intended to acknowledge the presence of something that was always there, but absent from our culture's understanding of the world.
If other reports are to be believed this has been happening for a while, and isn't some sort of new irreversible change. This is just the first time the public has become aware of it. The difference here seems to be that it was shot down (possibly because it had become so infamous).
iFixit HomePod 2 teardown finds a lot less glue, a lot more repairability
Loblaw can definitely afford it.
I'm much more in in why nobody is apparently interested in the history of anti competitive business practices including product dumping and downstream supply chain hostage taking, that this article almost implies have been accepted eccentricities of Clark for reasons unspecified but implied to have something of a cult worship element involved.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
All of which reinforces my original argument for physical media, namely multi-decade hands off viability, something digital absolutely cannot provide.
And my personal favorite:

Street traffic is allowed through Pike Place Market.

Every weekend I have a grand old time in the market, watching tourists make the worst mistake of their visit, their rental car crawling at 1mph through probably the largest tourist attraction in the PNW.
120Hz + Apple Pencil.
I thought their response was sarcasm. Surely no one would seriously think it is reasonable to be questioned over the phone over $10k which is what, enough to cover a month of expenses for an upper middle class family in Manhattan or San Francisco?

As for a SAR, lmao. It's illegal for them to tell you if you triggered it, how on earth would you know?
There's a lot of overdiagnosis of childhood ADHD ≈ unruly in class.

An adult who wants to fly may be ill advised to pursue a formal diagnosis of ADHD along with prescription medications.

We all have our own particular mental quirks. If after the usual amount of flying lessons, your instructor decides you have become a competent pilot and the examiner agrees, you have demonstrated the required mental fitness. There is a drop out rate, often because of finance, but also lack of ability.

There are of course those enough affected by ADHD that they require medication to function in daily life, who unfortunately will be found unfit to fly.

Some decades down the road, aviation authorities may find a way to approve medical fitness for pilots on ADHD medication as has been done for diabetes, successfully treated alcoholism and depression treated by drugs. Most of this evolution is driven by pilot unions looking to get members back to flying status. Practically speaking, onset of ADHD is likely non-existent in airline pilots and therefore unlikely to attract the attention of pilot unions
Bandcamp, although many are holding their breath since the Epic takeover.
This is what I suspected.
Substack is literally a paywall as a service platform for indie writers.
Eschew developer fashion (and fashion contrarianism) and use the best tool for the job. It doesn't make sense to pick the tool before you even know what problem you're trying to solve.
> when China has perfectly good satellites.

We need to move past this whole "why use spy balloons when we have satellites" thing. Even Scott Manley repeated it.

The USA has what are likely the most capable surveillance satellites in the world yet the USA still employs spy planes.

For one thing, RF signals suffer from path loss over distance. The difference is >140km in distance. That's a lot of signal loss. Another factor is loiter time.
Ok, a decade ago.

> it took until the middle of the 2010s

Here's a Chinese general openly threatening war with Japan in 2012:

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-general-pre...

The Taiwan Strait crisis of the '90s was before my time but it'd be interesting to know how bellicose the rhetoric got back then.
Finally, aliens!
You should post this as its own link (Show HN) instead of spamming every comment with your link.
> it's that America's adversaries know they can do it without consequences

There was a consequence -- we shot it down.

> That is the irreversible change it signifies, imo.

It's not irreversible. Additional consequences can be initiated at any time.
It's popular for some reason for IPAs to have high alcohol (like 7% or higher), but there's been a recent trend in IPAs (and other styles) for "session" beers that have more normal ~5% levels. I know it's just a few percent, but I find two or three pints of a lower alcohol beer leave me feeling much better than the higher ones.
> By that definition, as long as some people visit Las Vegas and play the slots with the intention of making money (as opposed to playing for fun), they too can be considered "investors".

No, because the casino does not sell securities (re-read my comment, please). You're conflating how the market behaves (or how specific stock behaves) vs the market itself. Ask the tax man, does money from casinos get taxed differently than capital gains from stock sells? Why is that?

> If we broaden the definition of "investor"

I'm not broadening anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor
There’s no competition for Wikipedia yet. As soon as search is killed by AI and AI starts providing answers of similar quality without driving traffic to sources, Wikipedia will either completely fade to irrelevance or will be quasi-acquired by AI providers, which will see it as a training ground for AI and fund it on such terms that allow this use case.
I thought they are ongoing with rewriting macos with swift
I didn't say anything about wealth in general. Capital is concentrated.
I admit that the way it was described to me was probably exaggerated, but this is what I'm talking about:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23073992.traffic-filters-w...

"People can drive freely around their own neighbourhood and can apply for a permit to drive through the filters, and into other neighbourhoods, for up to 100 days per year. This equates to an average of two days per week."

This is enforced with surveillance cameras.

As I said in another comment: it does seem to me that enforcing movement like this and adding bureaucracy to drive through certain places is a solid step in the direction of authoritarianism.

The article is titled "Traffic filters will divide city into "15 minute" neighbourhoods"
With the recent trend of designers submitting their meticulously labeled designs to Figma, there is anticipation that Adobe will soon make a game-changing announcement - the elimination of the need for a separate UI designer.

This will allow everyone to take on the role of designer, thus bringing to light the fundamental truth that design is primarily about solving user problems, followed by making it accessible and aesthetically pleasing experience.

However, the last ten years of UI design, dominated by the influence of Dribble, has led many to believe that they are designers simply because they have acquired basic skills and experimented with variations.

I hope, this shift will give the power to designers, finally, to decouple their minds from the visual bias and personal preferences and connect with the user problems in a meaningful and productive way.
I think a big part of it is that users/readers understandably feel that a bait-and-switch has happened. Because it has.

I really think the whole idea of "make it free at first, monetize later" is what's broken. If the intention is ultimately to have it generate revenue, the best thing to do is set up the revenue mechanism right from the start.
I might be missing something. I've seen other reverse engineering projects where they simply unsoldered the flash memory and read out the contents. Wasn't that an option?
The 3DS series was probably the peak of console hacking. There was a surprisingly long period where you could install freeshop and it would download any game direct from Nintendo’s servers without paying.

Along with easy persistent soft mods.

I expect in the coming gens, console hacking will reach borderline impossible levels when things get replaced with memory safe languages. Probably all that’s left is cpu glitching with power and clock attacks.
Different than threatening war with US. Edit and yes, it stepped up in 2012 when Xi took over. Started with Japan and has migrated to aggression against US and allies.

Edit: Taiwan crisis wasn't great, but it ended when the US sailed an aircraft carrier through Strait of Taiwan. So while it wasn't great, it wasn't like they were threatening war against US.
> Meshes are not CAD data...

Meshes clearly are CAD data just they may be less useful in certain fields. CAD is broader than whatever form of engineering you practice
I agree deaths/kWh is a better metrics, and I was probing into your point about how nuclear can be safer due to better engineering. Is the engineering alone enough? Can we engineer out the risky human parts? Perhaps today that looks like increasing automation of reactors, perhaps in future it means a computer could run an entire station without human inputs or oversight.

Also great points about perceived vs actual risk, and observability of effects, as other things affecting the political landscape of nuclear!
Really?? Scams On HN now?
WW2, I think
Yes, those originating from (around) the telescopes. But just recently Subaru telescope captured laser beams originating from space scanning Mauna Kea in regular intervals that looked like satellite mapping.

https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-green-lasers-hawaii-chin...
>> all in all fewer points of failure than a cutting edge heat pump that can actually produce heat when it's below 20f (-7c, i.e. the only kind of heatpump that might stand a chance at heating throughout the cold winters most of the northern US gets).

My family has one in Poland, it was -20C this winter already and it worked absolutely fine. It's some cheap unit, wouldn't call it "cutting edge". I think there's a simple resistive heater that de-ices the fins at low temps, but it kept the interior of the house at a (very toasty) 24C pretty much non stop even in those low temperatures. I have no idea why people keep saying heat pumps don't work in low temps. I had a basic split unit fitted to my home in UK, literally a basic £600 midea unit and apparently it should work down to -25C without any problem.

>>Gas boilers are far simpler units. Less moving parts, simpler electronics

Have you ever looked inside a modern gas boiler??? I hard disagree that it has less parts than a modern heat pump. A heat pump is like your fridge - there's an inverter, compressor, and a whole bunch of fins, that's about it. A gas boiler has multiple tanks, burn chamber, exhaust recirculation, at least 5-6 probes to measure every part of the process(and they all can fail in surprising ways that renders your boiler dead).
Probably because they're non-trinitarian.
We need to base the number of occurances against our average training flight time/ammo expenditure. Currently we train a hell of a lot more than we actively shoot down targets so the expenditure is practically nothing. Now if a lot more show up that's a different equation.
I agree that it feels like Medium failed, but I think it's hard to say exactly why because it's hard to say exactly what Medium failed at.

Several iterations of their (often changing) business model seemed to focus around creating a high-prestige magazine (or close equivalent). And for a period of time, it seemed to be working; the Medium domain was often a sign that I was going to read something interesting and insightful, to the extent that I would be more likely to follow a link to Medium than to a domain I didn't recognise.

But launching a magazine is expensive; it requires money for high quality content, and money to pay for the editorial staff to run it. (And although I don't think Medium suffered from this especially, when that editorial staff makes editorial decisions, you run the risk of being sucket into the culture war, and the moment you deeply offend a large fraction of your audience because you censored/refused to censor Topic X, your economics suddenly get much much worse.)

And as a host of existing magazines have found out recently, there's no money in running a magazine anyhow, which I imagine explains why the quality of Medium content fell off a cliff, even as they started more and more aggressively trying to monetize things.

Adding to that, the UI was passable to start with, but actively deteriorated under their monetization efforts. At certain times, arriving at an article hosted on Medium with a small screensize could result in your browser being overwhelmingly filled with Medium UI, with little or no actual content visible.

If the content isn't reliably good, and the UX is reliably bad, what's left?

> Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well?

I think there is, it's just fantastically hard. If you look around, there are a small handful of newspapers, magazines, etc. that are still suceeding, putting out content while paying the bills. So it's like asking "can my home town paper be economically viable?" On the one hand, yes, the NYT has done it, so your local paper can too! On the other hand, 99% of newspapers are disasterous failures, and your local paper probably isn't going to be the NYT.

It's worth underlining the incredible ambition of what Medium wanted to do (in most of their business models anyhow). Failure wasn't inevitable, but it wasn't surprising.

(Also, the constant pivoting probably didn't help.)
Congrats on your amazing success! 0 to 850k revenue with a hardware product in three years is almost unbelievably amazing. I'm totally ignorant about hardware dev. How does one even go about designing and manufacturing a hardware product like TinyPilot? Do you design in some sort of CAD software and then partner with some sort of factory?
> Soleimani and a number of Iraqi military officers were taken out by a US drone.

Good. Right?
the equivalent of a satellite being hung from a balloon. "Non maneuverable" is still sort of ambiguous because these types of vehicles navigate by selecting the altitude with the most favorable winds and using controls to attain that altitude, either with a more advanced gas fill/release system or dropping ballast. It sounds like the previous balloon had a good amount of these systems so it could be aimed and this one likely had a more rudimentary version?
That would probably make it some of the best non-armed forces footage of an F-22 in action, wouldn't it?
I think I’ve played this game.
There's an active fork of Elm in https://gren-lang.org/.
It's sad to see comments that are so obviously bait on HN.
Most sites don't let you register at all without an email.
> I've wondered if these incursions are intentional on the part of the Chinese to provoke a precedent setting response to airborne (and beyond) surveillance.

It's more likely a coordinated event to get people to talk about something other than covid and the last 3 disastrous years. Lets be honest here, neither china nor the US wants people asking uncomfortable questions about covid. Now that the covid era appears to be over, what better way to distract people than "war".

They did the same thing with 9/11. Uncomfortable questions about 9/11 was overshadowed by war and iraqi "wmds". Eventually people forget or move on.

Call me a cynic, but china ends covid lockdowns and all of a sudden we get "surveillance" balloons. And the entire media apparatus has us talking about silly balloons instead of wondering what the last 3 years of covid was about. My guess was a staged "terrorist" attack somewhere to transition us from the covid news cycle. Turns out we got balloons instead. Whatever works in the end.
Medium.com has great SEO but terrible UX. Loved by people who post their stuff there, loathed by readers. It succeeded because it was one of the few free traditional blogging platforms of its era. Many Medium users were kids when blogger was popular, so they don't know any better.
Why is Room Temperature what it is?
This is a landing page for a signup list. Let's please wait until there's something to try out and discuss.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Edit: something similar came up yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735331.

There have of course been hundreds of threads in this space in recent months—enough that "AI fatigue" threads are now on autorepeat in their own right. Soon we will have AI fatigue fatigue.

When there's a major ongoing topic (MOT) like this, our approach is to downweight the follow-ups and try to clear space for the submissions that have significant new information (SNI): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

In the context of the current AI flurry, I don't think landing pages and waiting lists can count as SNI. Let's keep the space for projects and products that people can actually try (and/or articles that contain genuinely interesting new information).
Neat, manga guides in general can be quite entertaining!
The person who brought the tags has a lot of them, more than the 3 they donated to Zeus. If we replace the firmware, we have to do this for every device, which would be a lot of manual work (opening case, adding probes, flashing firmware, ...). This is even more work per device if you have to desolder the uC from the PCB and solder something else to it.

Reverse engineering the communication protocol is a lot of work, but only once. After that, you can talk to stock devices, without having to modify their hardware or software.

I also didn't find any datasheets for the e-ink display or how to control it, so here also the stock firmware can come in useful.

Aside from practical concerns, I won't lie, I also took this path because it's fun to do and I could practice hardware hacking.