skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly the paywall has trained me to avoid clicking on anything from medium.com… I wish it was more nuanced than that, but the reality is that the content is not essential enough to justify a subscription.

The Substack model is more sustainable, but something about their incentive model or community design seems to result in impenetrable 9000 word essays.

In either case, "what if blog posts cost money" is a tough business—I wish you luck!
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24231017 - Aug 2020 (336 comments)
Living with roommates past 27 is also kind of a deal breaker, along with paying $5k for a dilapidated 1br apt, enforced by the asinine dating market as well. By asinine I mean most women expecting male suitors to make over $400k, have their own apt and have a social life by age 26 even when they themselves go broke just paying rent.

Also, the lack of housing is largely a result of landlords just not listing about 40% of their properties. Corporate landlords are just as guilty of this. It is genuinely more corrupt and rigged than the jewelry / diamond industry.
Do you protest when a hitman can't do another hit or access his corrupted proceeds to pay his maid or or pay his kid's dental bills?

If you are an employee or dependent of a violent organization, the 'unfortunate' effect is someday people may no longer want to do businesses with that organization or its corrupted money.
We haven't been provided proof that anything was confirmed on radar, nor what "confirmation" means. This is the same military that has a history of using alien/UFO conspiracy theories to obfuscate sightings of classified aircraft. It's not a case of the Navy being morons, but whether or not the military is being truthful.

My assumption is that sensationalized UAPs are illusions, but the reason the military keeps putting out press releases about them is not because they're aliens. The first reason is that there are unidentified aircraft entering US airspace. They're likely cheap attempts at both intelligence collecting and psychological warfare on behalf of US adversaries. Drones are easily mass produced and a nation flying a handful of drones in US airspace can easily send hundreds/thousands/millions because of how cheap and easy they are to make and deploy.

Since drones can vary in size and be flown in a ton of different conditions/patterns/scenarios/etc, they might be hard to detect. The mainstreaming of the "UAP mystery" narrative encourages civilians to look for, record and massively platform adversarial drones should they be seen by people, but go undetected by systems that are looking for them. The narrative also neuters whatever attempt at intimidation or psyops adversaries are waging against the public/military/etc. "Our militaries can send whatever we want into your airspace and there's nothing you can do about it" can be a powerful message that was effectively neutered with "maybe they're aliens lol".
Always important to remember: https://gwern.net/causality
That kind of finding is particularly satisfying.

The other time it's good to dip into the backlog is when the problem has become more serious due to shifts in usage patterns meaning the impact now justifies the work when it may have been borderline before.
The best of Medium is better than the best of the NYTimes and isn’t fungible at all. That’s not refuting what you see. To get those gems you see too many me too articles. You are right.
Is that the inclusive of the games? I used to pay them for access to the crosswords (they really are the best, but couldn't care less about their "journalism"), and as far as I knew that's under the same umbrella.

Of course, that was before I found out that canceling requires talking to an AOL-like retention droid rather than just clicking a button, and that's when they stopped getting my money permanently.
Yeah, I was also involved in blowing up Arwic. It just felt right!

Definitely miss the "weird" MMOs of the early 00s...
Too many fR right blogs posted only to havkernews
The New York Times's paywall is more than a decade old at this point.
Maybe to ensure a "bysailing" ship isn't accidentally damaged? Presumably a plan could detect a ship if it was near target and do a go around?
As the Technology Connections video linked here mentions, "if it’s more expensive to use the option that saves energy... that’s a problem".
"Why don't I use Medium?" is the question I asked from this, as I actually use HN as my chosen outlet for material that comes from a short lifetime in what I'd call "semi-pro" level writing. That is, I'd be writing professionally, but really, why?

The appeal of Substack is the appeal of good writing, and in particular, its necessary ingredient, conflict. What Substack offered, and Medium didn't have, was a bet on edginess that guaranteed them high quality writing, and to attract high quality writers. What I used Medium for was basically as long form LinkedIn, where that necessary essence of good writing is the one thing the platform is designed to dull. On LinkedIn, you have to look like everyone else, but with some slight variation and nothing remarkable or unconventional. To be a writer, you need to blow peoples fucking minds. This means taking risks, challenging conventions, knowing all the rules and then breaking them in the right order to produce something beautiful. To me, Medium is blandness as a service. Its entire brand is an expression of its quality, medium. Their market niche is to be the Olive Garden of content but without all the spiciness.

Taking risk in writing means I'm risking all the future money I am making on the platform, and the potetntial scandal-cost against finding other work because of the reputational hit of being booted. Together they mean I can't add the necessary degree of conflict to my writing that will edify an audience. The other thing about writing nobody tells you is that the world forgives you when you win and you can say anything you want when you are riding high, but if you lose publicly because of some insane political situation, you don't eat lunch in this global town again.

The genius of the substack launch was offering security to writers via their open political policy, which enabled great writers to take risks. Their work turned the platform into a desirable and elite brand, and the policy of openness guaranteed the platform would never stop writers from doing the one thing they have to do to live, which is writing. They gave writers a home and the artists turned it into a neighbourhood.

Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Camille Paglia, H. L. Mencken, Michel Houellebec, Glen Greenwald or really anyone's name I remember for being a great writer - does not survive on Medium. Hell, Matt Taibbi doesn't survive on Medium. It's content for people who buy celebrity scented candles.

Maybe they could launch a new site for experiemental ideas and provocative work, and some forums with rules that challenge twitter and reddit dominance. They can call it: medium.rare
The ISS orbits at ~420 KM.

Epotential = mgh = 420,000m * 9.8 m/s^2 * mass ~= 4,200,000 m^2/s^2 * mass

To reach that altitude, ignoring air resistance, you'd need kinetic energy, provided by the formula:

Ekinetic = (mv^2)/2

Solving for v, we get v = sqrt(8,400,000 m^2/s^2) ~= 2.900 m/s ~= Mach 9

That's the minimum muzzle velocity you need to send a projectile up into the ISS's path (Add a few more mach numbers due to air resistance).

It's certainly easier than getting into orbit, a single-stage missile could do it without any trouble.
I would expect specific hardware acceleration for LLM if it becomes very relevant. That would improve latency and costs.

I use ChatGPT throughout the day as a widely knowledgeable coworker that periodically eats a bag of mushrooms, and have paid the $20 / month. I’d note this description matches all the most useful coworkers I’ve had, except that they cost a ton more per month.
Just like selling a used book violates the copyright?
If there's a better i.e. more accurate and neutral title, I'd be happy to use it as long as isn't baity, but making accusations about intentional distortion is too baity (that's why I took that out).

Edit: this is a tangent, but it's also a weak claim since if you say something about someone's intent, they can just say "no it wasn't" and act like they refuted you. I finally learned not to do that about HN comments after experiencing this many times.

Edit 2: I changed the edited title from "Wikipedia editors and the history of the holocaust" to something that's closer to the actual title and better represents it.
It is not milliseconds on older devices and network is not always the bottleneck

Most of the time you read e-mails, not write them.

When you write e-mails, most of the time you don't need multiple attachments. The first attachment is reasonably fast to add.
> death as the price of life

IMO this is still casting it in an uncomfortable way. IMO it is much healthier to think of death as the reward for life, the final rest from the toils of living. The idea is to put them on equal footing as they are part of the same process and you should look forward to death as much as you look forward to living.
Well, yes. But the difference between a JSOn object graph and an XML Document Object Model is night and day in terms of size. Not even close to comparable.
Until they do some other halfbaked thing that's harder to follow along with. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

Compilers are supposed to be boring, especially when your language has ~exactly 1. If you can't trust the people maintaining it, it's too much risk to take. Having to do an entire rewrite in a different language can easily kill a company or a project.
Nice advert for "want to launder money? Bitcoin!"
I read you can't calibrate out the sensitivity... It's a voltage issue. They are too hot for the steamdeck to read properly.
According to CNN that’s because they weren’t noticed by anyone at the time. The US discovered them by examining retrospective satellite data for signals we found emanating from a recent (2021) balloon. Presumably that one didn’t travel over populated areas or it would have been noticed by the public as well. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/us-balloon-tracking-...
companies have to make money at some point, it's not coincidence all these same types of sites do the same thing once they've burned through their VC money and have to make money. Hosting this type of stuff is a commodity service, it's why you constantly see a churn of people from each VC subsidized service
Like a decent microwave antenna, for instance.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/wireless-hacks/05960055...
Dang also constantly gets criticized for not overriding flags on stories. He has to make judgment calls and ultimately that's a flawed human process. He won't always get it right, and furthermore people will often disagree on which instances he messed up (or didn't).
TXR Lisp:

(defvarl TIOCGWINSZ #x5413)

(typedef winsize (struct winsize
(ws-row ushort)
(ws-col ushort)
(ws-xpixel ushort)
(ws-ypixel ushort)))

(with-dyn-lib nil
(deffi ioctl-winsz "ioctl" int (int ulong : (ptr-out winsize))))

Then:

$ txr -i winsz.tl
TXR doesn't really whip the llama's ass so much as the lambda's.
1> (let ((ws (new winsize)))
(ioctl-winsz 0 TIOCGWINSZ ws)
ws)
#S(winsize ws-row 37 ws-col 80 ws-xpixel 0 ws-ypixel 0)
I lived in a neighborhood like this too, and it was fantastic. I hated the city, but loved where I lived. I've been wishing to find something like it ever since, but it was a very old neighborhood and everything now seems to be planned, isolated communities.

We need zoning revamped, and you'd see a lot more of this.
The previous one wasn't in civilian airspace.
Medium is not the NYT. They have a hundred years of reputation as one of the best newspapers in the world to build a subscription model from. People want them to survive.

Medium.com used to have a good reputation. But it never had anything like the NYT's and right now the only reputation you have is "hot garbage cash grab". Most people want your service to die. I know I did, before reading your responses here at least.

Sorry to be blunt, and I wish you luck in digging back out of that. But I would gently suggest that looking to the NYT as your shining success story is... Well I think there's a parable to match this but it escapes me now. Like an ant looking at an elephant maybe.
I'd totally agree w/ this from the "grow corn and then feed cows with it" standpoint.

This is doubly bad if you're displacing natural grasslands and grassland grazing with this. I.e. plant corn on your previous grasslands and cram the cows into some barn.

This came through HN just recently. Another way to do the same though is to go back to what the big buffalo herds were naturally doing. I.e. let your cows actually "trample and shit on the land" and that's what actually keeps it fertile. Then you harvest the cows for meat while keeping their number stable.

Win - win
No, it is not illegal, who told you that? There are Polish historians working on documenting everything that happened during the World War II, no one restricts them in any way.
SPA is to manage "CLIENT" side state, not about server-related stuff ?
The product designers don't realize that a lot of the backlash comes from the technically-minded audience, and that their usual approach of highlighting user benefits only further fuels distrust among that vocal community.
Yay! The first time an MMO lands for someone, it definitely makes an outsized impression. The combination of social outlet with a huge amount of free time is a recipe for something great.

It's funny you mention Valheim - one of my groups in had a core of people who I met back in the AC days and their friends. We got to some real old man gaming that probably annoyed their friends with all of the "back in our day..." stories while we were running around the landscape, running from trolls, etc.
I have been conditioned to expect low-effort, surface level, self promotion fluff when I click on a Medium article. The site feels like if Quora and LinkedIn had a baby. I don't know, maybe it's just because I mainly stick to programming posts, and nobody decent is using medium for those anymore (you just can't customize the articles well enough, format code like you want to, have any degree of interactivity). This happened gradually, I didn't always have this association with the site...
Such a typical example of someone completely rational, forgetting humans aren’t only about logic. People have emotions, doubts, suspicions, trust issues, affect, all of which aren’t easily quantifiable. The reason people don’t want telemetry in go is simply because of the brand google. That’s just a fact and there’s nothing one can do or say to change that. And yes, forcing it to the users will cripple go to death in a very short time, that’s for sure.

Google brand is what helped the language get traction, also simply because of google having the image of being a tech powerhouse.

That’s life, fighting against this is pointless, i’d suggest rsc to move on to other ideas for getting info on how to improve the language.
What also annoys me is they disabled about:config on the Firefox for Android Stable release..
They probably count on you not suing them in the offshore jurisdiction.
The goal of pipe is to allow the code to read top to bottom. I always found it hard to explain the way an OpenSCAD program reads upwards when nesting operations.

As for the syntax there are certainly a lot of ways it could feel. JS devs would likely be familiar with =>, F# and Ocaml |>, Java ->. In the end I just picked one that felt natural to type for myself. From my experience if you write in enough languages you develop the ability to switch as needed.
I might be one of the dozens of people in the world who actually shipped production software using XUL.
It's a generic admin software for recruiting companies, still has some 200 daily users.

At the time, in 2004, PrototypeJS was all the rage, and XmlHTTPRequest didn't exist yet.

XUL helped us ship a more rich user experience without extreme pain. The whole thing was even a pseudo-SPA, using iframes everywhere, which we also used to fetch extra data for some pages without navigating.
wrong. NYtimes revenue is growing after inclusion of a paywall. After initial years of decline at the start of the digital age, NYTimes finally have their revenue strategy right. It's actually the ad share of their revenue that is decreasing, while subscription is growing faster than ad share is decreasing. Print subscription is now stabilizing.
So you are wrong, what the market has shown is that priced appropriately, people will pay for high quality content. Personally I am proof. I pay for both Nytimes, WaPo, and the athletic, and together they cost less than $20/mo
I subscribe to the New York Times because I want to support the journalists who write for the New York Times. I don't want to pay some intermediary.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding where the money for Medium's paywall goes and you've actually been giving the vast majority of subscription revenue to the writers this whole time—but that wasn't obvious to me.
Ooh, interesting point. I can't find Newsawp listed anywhere on archived copies of Flurly's "discover" page, e.g.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221208201631/https://flurly.co...

But there are some incredibly suspicious "products" listed, like "Creditcardpayment", which makes me suspect that some clients were using Flurly as a generic payment gateway, or that Flurly was processing other payments under the table.
MATCH, for those outside the industry, is run by Mastercard as deny list, which means NO credit card processor is allowed to take you on as a merchant. It stands for Member Alert to Control High-Risk Merchants, and if you get on this list, you can't accept credit cards for five years.
I have never seen that.. should we be exporting (/presumably reselling) bulbs?!
When the US spends on the military, where does the money go?
Did you also not read that far where it explicitly says who the founders are? I hope you are not confusing founders with funders.
The Navy was directed by the Executive branch to release the videos. They released the videos and a non-statement about what the videos were.

My guess is that there's an internal report describing the FLIR system and how the FLIR system works and how the internal workings of the FLIR system caused the visual phenomena. But that's all classified.

So they did the absolute minimum the Executive branch required them to do and left it up to the White House Press Secretary to explain it to the American public.

To me it reeks of the brass not wanting to have any more of their time wasted. There's a great scene in The Wire where the metro police, the harbor police, the state police, and the county sheriff arguing that a string of murders don't fall under their jurisdiction; it's your problem you deal with it etc, subverting the trope of the local cops fighting with the federal/state police (usually the FBI) that "this is my jurisdiction" or whatever. I think this is the same. The Executive branch (I'm 80% sure it was Trump, coulda been Obama, too lazy to look it up) demanded that they do a thing they didn't want to do, and then they dragged their feet and did the bare minimum, and in the process made a mess that now the Office of the White House now needs to clean up. (which they didn't, because they don't want to explain a classified sensor system in a public briefing either)
It would be weird to create such a fork casually, but it's a bit surprising that nobody in the community did it by now. Isn't forking the open source way of dealing with political disputes like this?
No…you’ve been in a social media echo chamber and convinced yourself there are many others that think like that. The truth is that’s an illusion. Really, 99.99% of people don’t really care.
PabloDraw is amazing! I used to hack on the MSVC C++ codebase back in the day when it was hosted on Sourceforge and there was no real way to even submit PRs.

In fact, PabloDraw remains the only MSVC++ project I've ever cared to code for. Personally I'm a bit of a Linux / FOSS / Platform-flexibility-positive kind of person.

The collaborative mode on PD is pretty fun if you want to draw ASCII or ANSI together with someone, especially for NFO files. It's better if at least one of you has some skillz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nfo
Browsing HN on lynx (not logged in, haven't figured out cookie jar, settings, etc) in the early morning, it was a completely different experience: a dark screen, monocolored text, and comments.

It felt like a darkened cafe of inquisitive, sometimes humorous--at turns indignant or snarky--conversation: even intimate, close-quarters, sipping at coffee or wine.

That's what I miss about HN's past feature: we can't browse to a segment of a day. The front page changes across twenty-four hours, an ebb and flow of ephemeral delights.

I guess that's what I'll set lynx with next: sessions, printing, and a way to quickly save snippets of text. The comments are so valuable for follow-up.
If the rule falls down it's a sign your business isn't going to work. That's the entire point of the rule. It's supposed to highlight when you're beating a dead horse.
I've never seen such an openly hostile OSS maintainer team as Elm's.
This is a $300,000 piece of applied art, but the "Ad" or review video doesn't make it come alive.

Surely Andy (the designer) can find a reasonable video guy that can do a great job without breaking the bank ?
Something they should be very familiar with the size of, at this point.
The closure rate thing reminds me of a great scene in The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Flyer and they scramble jets to get him. After blowing by the Flyer too fast, the pilots get out and walk after it.
> So replacing “Zoom rectangle team members” with retinal image team members makes that much of a difference?

Are you actually unironically asking this? If so, we have live in very different social spectrum and there's absolutely nothing I can tell you that will convince you otherwise. You should, however, try interacting with everyone in your life (loved ones, family, friends, etc.) via zoom, since it's all the same anyway. Probably saves a lot on commute and travel expenses!

> Magically they become actual people once you see them with your own eyes, resulting in increased effectiveness and no resentment from wasted time commuting and forced interpersonal relationships with people they find annoying.

Commuting, daycare, housing, etc. are side effects of a larger systemic problem that isn't the scope of what is discussed here.

Calling it a “forced interpersonal relationships with people they find annoying” is such an immature take. This is just literally interacting with people in a society. Most people learn how to deal with others in school. The ones who don’t end up socially clueless and wonder why everyone else keeps getting promoted instead of them, the “10x” engineer who totally isn’t the annoying one.

The issue has nothing to do with seeing people as actual people or not. Without a common ground for camaraderie and fellowship, there’s no need to pretend it exists besides being generally a cordial person. Using the OP’s analogy of War, employees are no longer soldier’s fighting for a cause, just mercenaries making sure they’re getting their dues.
Oh sorry, it was only twenty feet.

http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode23.htm
> ...good luck trying to get your customers to use USDC instead of a credit card

It's already happening and Stripe, Coinbase, Stellar, Shopify, Woocommerce, and Moneygram are already using USDC in the real world.
Would you need to maintain a fork at all? Couldn't you obliterate the rule when building the compiler?
Remember to have your antiques regularly exorcised to avoid tsukumogami.
You need a license to produce and sell patented technology.

You don’t need a license to use patented technology which you either bought from a third party, was given or has blown onto your land by the wind.