skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Information asymmetry is everywhere. In some cases this asymmetry is through organised structured hierarchy (employee vs manager/boss vs ceo/founder vs investor) and in some other cases there is no apparent overtly visible hierarchy – like open markets.

Markets are "efficient" at transferring money from "stupid" to "smart" people. Here "stupid" or "smart" is directly related to lower or higher in that information/power hierarchy.

This hierarchy is also self-amplifying in that it grows the asymmetry gap rapidly such that it becomes a very tall/pointy pyramid. So you could call it a "pyramid scheme".

Some schemes are overt/explicit pyramid schemes where flow of value from people lower in hierarchy to people higher is explicitly structured and visible (like most MLM schemes) and some schemes are obfuscated/implicit in this aspect (like corporate job ladder with perf/promo process within employees and between employees vs founders/execs and investors).
Codeium has a self hosted enterprise solution that gives the enterprise the ability to fine tune on their repos within that self hosted instance!
Well, some companies have made a business out of selling networking libraries for game development, e.g. RakNet.
Basically all SLAs are as you describe - I've never heard of a contract that directly bases SLAs on a status page.

The reason providers don't want to update status pages is because it provides easy ammo for customers to say "look, YOU said you were down!" even if they weren't actually affected. It effectively greenlights an SLA lapse for every single customer.
Shell, Exxon, and BP reverse on climate amid record profits
> If they can actually prevent piracy, maybe I'll actually package my app for Linux.

... Neither MacOS nor Windows do this; what are you targeting now?
Folks I know that have PlayStations completely overlaps people willing to play with VR. Folks I know on Facebook... Not so much.

They made a solid move into vr. But vr will be gaming well before it is anything else. To try and break into that market as anything else is just not a likely entry.
This is novel, but maybe not as novel as it seems. EEG will show if you are looking left or right in the raw signal, and the technology for making a rat move in certain directions with implanted electrodes is not new. I still think that the motto ‘just because we can, doesn’t mean we should’ applies here, and I’m a bit surprised there hasn’t been more ethical pushback; having one mind control another, even with relatively crude technology and outcomes, feels like an ethical stepping stone that should be more carefully examined before proceeding.

also, just looking now at the date, it is a relatively old paper
Intelligent people, male and female, can be driven to emotional and mental instability by social media and can be ripped off by scams. The narrative you're trying to dunk on only exists inside your head, along with the straw feminists who seem to live there, rent free.
Why don’t such companies just create a venture fund with 49% ownership to buy all the small actors? They could even call it “funding the competition so that there is some”.
I worked at an “MLM” (we called it Direct Sales) SaaS company for a decade. We provided an e-commerce and commissions platform for many of these companies that you’ve probably heard of.

I’m well aware of the criticisms of the industry but it surprises me that no one ever tells the story of the hundreds or thousands of women in each of these organizations that are variously getting rich, making a living, or getting decent side money doing this.

Maybe they’re all exploiting the women in their down lines. Fair. But why are people reluctant to tell their stories?

I promise you - with the women at the top, there’s a lot of cocaine and sex and wild stories to tell. But that doesn’t seem to be enough of a draw for anyone to show a balanced picture.
I don't, but Google is presumably not pleased to hear the FBI say "Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results". https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

The FTC, other regulators or courts in the countless cases against Google may also use such a statement as validation that fraud is rampant.
People are notorious for underestimating how many calories they are eating. Modern food is so cheap and delicious it isn't hard to eat 1000 calories in a few minutes. I lost weight by only eating food with accurate calorie information available that I could weight to the gram. I then used MyFitnessPal to track it and keep a 1000 calorie/day deficit.
Power user here. Windows is the power users OS, because, almost everything is tweakable using registry and GPO.
My fat ass cannot fit into them, stop fat shaming me, I came for the technical discussion.
I pretty doubt Steve was doing any soldering. He was the marketing guy. And of course his parents were putting the garage.
Type 2 diabetes is fundamentally caused by eating too much of carbohydrates. Most type 2 diabetics can put the condition into remission by changing their diet.

https://www.virtahealth.com/research

There are many people who have cured their obesity with a little bookkeeping and self control. Sue Reynolds and David Goggins are a couple of prominent examples, but there are many others. It's not easy, but it's certainly possible.

https://suereynolds.net/book/
https://davidgoggins.com/book/
I'll buck the trend and downvote.

I dislike the hard-link comparison to startups. I personally know people who got sucked into MLMs and are almost exclusively lower income families. There are literal playbooks, talking points from the organized MLM's themselves on how to "recruit" your families and get them to buy their own product so they raise in "status".

If you're connected to military moms' or lower income groups you know how pervasive and destructive these MLMs can be to these families. Not sure if you have any idea, but it is incredibly frustrating, disheartening to talk to them about how it's hurting them. In my case, it was their own cousin who got them involved and ultimately into debt. Not a 20's single-no-attachment, but this friend has a family to care for. I get angry simply remembering this. The only thing worse was for profit education.

Startups simply aren't at that level and even bringing this argument into play detracts from the focus of how destructive MLMs are.
Nice! I have more links but those will have you reading for a bit :)

Also, do not forget that there are loads of people both online and offline that are able to help. Connect with other parents in neighborhood that have the same situation, the office that diagnosed your son should be able to help, there tend to be groups that you can join, and "educations".
Not spend $10B/year on AI, not change the name of company from Facebook to 'AIBook', not launch equivalent of ChatGPT instead buy Occulus and then launch MetaQuest.. and similar such bets?
I don't write CSS (normally) and yet I understand every single statement, and can easily find which statement I'd need to change for a given. It's that simple.

You could argue "well you should learn CSS!" but at the end of the day, I don't need CSS often enough to want to bother. Frameworks like TailwindCSS have been great for people like me.

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Also you went and dug into its guts to find the implementation details, the actual usage is nowhere near that complicated: https://github.com/konstaui/konsta/blob/master/kitchen-sink/...

I can't even imagine what raw CSS lovecraftian horror captures all of the corner cases the classes you linked are hiding away from me (and to be clear, I'd rather not know or care)
The people at "the top" of dropshipping aren't AliExpress/Wish/etc; they're rather the job-shop owners making the junk that gets sold on these sites. The supply chain originating from these factories existed long before these online dollar stores came into being as middle-men in it; before the online-ification of dollar stores, these factories used to directly contract with buyer-importers working for the brick-and-mortar dollar-store chains!

These factories have never done too well for themselves. There's a reason they never achieve "escape velocity" into having brand recognition. Even before giant online dollar stores, their production (injection molding not-very-detailed plastic parts, etc) has always been a commodity; whoever's ordering runs of 10000 Alf stress-balls or what-have-you could swap Factory A out for Factory B at the drop of a hat. (And this is why you never hear of factories in China with genuinely good working conditions; the margins are too low for paying a living wage to be sustainable for the employer. And yes, this does imply that the businesses themselves shouldn't exist.)

Also, while AliExpress/Wish/etc do make a profit, they do so on the back of a market distortion — the Universal Postal Union's special rates+tarriffs exception for ePackets shipped from China. Remove that, and such companies would collapse overnight.
Ask HN: What Happened to Gitlab?
I used GitLab in the (not so distant) past, and it always was like GitHub. A web based collaborative software version control system on top of Git.

Today I visited gitlab.com and it now redirects to about.gitlab.com which looks like a sales page for an enterprise SaaS product.

It has a "Get free trial" button which leads to a "Free 30-day trial".

What happened? Is GitLab not a place anymore where you can publish open source code so everyone can fork and contribute?

Is Microsoft's Github the only gang in town now?
I think there are two other factors that people forget.

1) Most (if not all) FPSs at the time (Quake 3, Halflife etc.) had respawn times of around 10s after death. Counter-Strike introduced the idea of rounds which only ended when your whole team died. Scenarios would often play out with 8 players dead watching 2 players camping out the round.

2) IIRC, the default round timer was 5 minutes. This promoted conservative game play which slowed the pace of the game, especially for new players. I stopped playing CS for years but when I came to CS:GO, it was so refreshing that the round timer had been reduced to 3 mins. I spent countless hours being dead watching other people play out rounds.
A lot of them are viterbi estimators, you lose predictive power when you do character level only.
Tinder fungus is as strong as wood and could replace some plastics
> the biggest practical impact may be to the Ukrainians having to connect to the internet using IP addresses that are suddenly considered to be Russian. These users may encounter problems accessing services that have been blocked to Russian IP addresses

Blocking Russian IPs possibly ended up hurting the very same people it was ostensibly meant to help. Like so many bans and restrictions that companies imposed in the wake of the invasion, this was little more than cheap virtue signalling.

> The Russian government wants the world to believe these internet service providers are operating on Russian soil. Changing the registrations of these IP ranges to reflect that worldview is part of a wider effort of the Russification of captured Ukrainian territories.

I don't see any evidence offered to support the claim that this is Russian government policy. In fact, earlier examples contradict this notion:

> Today you can find Crimean providers announcing IP ranges registered as Ukrainian and others announcing ranges registered as Russian.

Crimea has been under Russian control for for nearly 8 years now. It is fair to assume the Russian state would have cracked down on ISPs advertising UA if this actually was policy.

> In fact, one Crimean provider wasted no time to change the country field of its IP addresses. Based in Sevastopol, Lancom’s IP registrations were changed from Ukraine to Russia on March 18th, 2014, the exact same day Russia signed the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia.

Does that sound like the result of government coercion? I guess verboten to acknowledge that there are people in these regions who want to be part of Russia.
While dang does a great job, I think he's helped a lot by the self-moderating community. Users here generally want the site to have civil and interesting discussion, so any comments that deviate from that are usually buried or flagged very quickly.

Of course, this sometimes has the echo chamber effect where it's difficult to get an alternative point of view across, but I'd rather have that, than see threads devolve into wild tangents and shout matches. There's always Reddit for that.
> It isn't illegal to take money from stupid people.

I don't care, it should be. Humans shouldn't be expected to be experts in every domain of their lives just to avoid being exploited.
Holloway's Open Guide to Equity Compensation is a fantastic resource and exactly what you need: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation. It's a lot, but there be dragons, so read carefully and future you will be thankful.
if you compare Meta to wall street firms and a bunch of other rent-seeking firms, Mata is actually causing much less harm. Somehow those other worse companies get a free pass.
>non-aggresive spirit

It's more like passive-aggresive here. It's also harder to tell signal from noise if someone has to write a 500-word essay instead of saying "you're an idiot".
Because I can? Also I don’t have power right now so I go to HN at such times to kill time.

As for the game, I’m all in. I love the game and it’s fun. I’m super competitive and have no problem going back to lobby after a bad game to find a new lobby. I’m playing ranked/hardcore/we it’s called, not single player or un ranked. I’m not a gamer so idk the terms.

As for the late stagers it’s just my observation. It’s what I have observed and they definitely spend more time doing the same things. Usually because they’re doing anything but the work. They have nothing to lose nor any tangible stake.

At small scale there’s no ego. Software engineers answer support queries and help with sales. The goal is to turn your shares from a penny or less to $100.

At late stage is when all the middle management bloat comes in.

You add more and more levels where the level above just wants high level updates. Then managers have associate, manager, sr manager levels. Then you have director, associate director, etc. each level is a sad reminder of what could have been possible. People are more concerned with becoming managers instead of contributing. It’s why many companies become stagnant imo.

Personally I’m done working at companies bigger than 5k people. I was already feeling the pain at like 2-3k people. I can’t imagine working somewhere with 50k plus people. Sounds like hell.
As someone who grew up with these maps when my parents went hiking in the alps with us kids, I get so many good feelings from them.
> I promise you - with the women at the top, there’s a lot of cocaine and sex and wild stories to tell.

Damn - now you’ve piqued my interest. Someone needs to make a “Wolf of Wall Street” movie but for Amway.
AI in the classroom: ‘I require my students to use ChatGPT’
Is there a chance that there's something out there so fast that we wouldn't see it coming early enough, and big enough to significantly impact us?

Like 2023 BU earlier this year that almost hit us less than a week after discovery.
Dang! no response from Dang yet!
I'm having a hard time squaring this statement:

> I've been a mobile developer for 10 years, a web developer for 2-3 years, and I've done perf with C++/Asm for years of my career, so know that I'm not coming from a place of naivete on either performance or mobile/web development.

with this:

> Is the DOM – from which is derived from HTML – not also a component tree? Is it a graph or some other topology I'm not aware of? When you specify a design in Interface Builder, Android xml, or even the DOM-differ-like SwiftUI + Jetpack Compose how is the topology different? Check a DOM object, it's a node with children.
Many embedded systems hardly have any shell, and even when they do, it isn't bash (which isn't POSIX anyway), rather a tiny subset with the basic tooling for maintenance.
The biology will give you the capability but not what you actually learn from others. That is called culture I believe.
"It is not just about eating more calories than needed for a long time."

Yes it is. It really is as simple as that, people just don't want to hear it. Historically food was scarce that it was nearly impossible to sustain a calorie surplus long enough to get fat. But some people did, that is why the rich used to be called "fat cats" but now calories are so cheap and delicious and lifestyles are so sedentary that it is very easy for almost anyone to sustain the caloric surplus needed to become very fat. I had a cousin who reached 650 pounds and then died. He would spend hours every day eating and almost as long shitting.
Woz later claimed that story is a myth and that most of the soldering happened elsewhere, though he never gave any specifics as to where it was done.
The author mentions near the end that “…only issue that I have right now is that the content of the block is not getting parsed since I’m just putting it into a string variable and spitting it out in the HTML variable as-is”. It might be as simple as calling the top-level AsciiDoc render function on the content.
AppImage is far from great, the great one is having a foundation that doesn't break every 5 years and programs relying on that foundation.

AppImage is just the least bad solution - if nothing else it doesn't need some weird infrastructure to run. As a developer you just upload the binary to your site and as a user you just download the binary and run it.
It’s not better. The numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/sudh3r/mary_kays_i...

~98% are making ~$255 or less PER YEAR in commissions. And then losing a tonne on expenses.

Then the ~2% making ~$25K/year in commissions are likely making a lot less once you account for expenses.

Only “Independent National Sales Directors”, ~0.044% of the salesforce, are making a good income. So about 1 in 2000, with the other 1999 making somewhere between “not much” and “large losses.”

FWIW, these numbers aren’t unique to Mary Kay, they’re pretty typical for MLMs. There’s some decent studies out there on MLM earnings, and all the big MLMs are reasonably similar. An exceptionally small number of people making legit good money, a small number making a little bit (still worse than minimum wage, after accounting for expenses), and the vast, vast majority losing money.
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I've had to deal with USAA for insurance claims a couple times. Every single time, without fail, has been amazing. It really feels like they care, and want to help. Plus, in my experience, their rates are good. Well worth it if it's an option for you.
Many crypto "communities" that reinforce an in-crowd mentality and simultaneously pitch buying into a coin/NFT as a path to financial prosperity are stunningly similar. They generally just target male aspirations instead of female ones.
And the product they were selling was a bare (well, populated, but not enclosed) PCB which the user was expected to wire up to power, a keyboard, and a monitor themselves. Long-term reliability was more the responsibility of the owner than the manufacturer.
I abhor capitalism as much as you do, but economic system and political system are separate although interlinked. Why shouldn't we count Singapore just because it's small? They have a parliament and all other branches of government just like any other nation. HK is different though as it is ruled by a CEO.

My point is capitalism itself is not necessarily the root of all evils; it is puritanism, dogmatism, and when it comes to the US, it's their puritanical approach to "freedom" that ironically makes the majority of the population less free and less democratic. A communist, planned economy is as much capable of creating an incompetent government and society if there were no political, ethical and cultural wisdom.

To summarise, capitalism is abhorrent, but there are other dimensions.
Perhaps not ChatGPT, though it does show admirable skill, but it seems quite likely that its successors may well be able to do that through sheer size.

Certainly, in many conversations with ChatGPT, it is indistinguishable from a human changing their mind.

Since the process of "reasoning" is not particularly well understood, it seems a bit premature to declare it different from LLMs.
Ah, refreshingly cynical. RedHat and Canonical would rather protect their smol kingdoms than expand the greater Linux ecosystem.
"Calories In Calories Out (CICO) doesn't explain obesity."

Yes it does, because it is basically just repeating basic laws of thermodynamics. Obesity is actually just the body working as intended by storing the excess energy for future use during a famine. CICO is why obesity used to be very rare in past when calories were expensive and is now common when calories are very cheap and artificially delicious.
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I'm not surprised, many animals used to freak out at the flickering of old-school CRTs too
The key is there has to be a decent product at the end for an OK price. Makeup has a high enough retail margin that it can absorb the MLM overhead while being somewhat cost competitive.

My ex was into Mary Kay. We lost a lot of money on it, but I wouldn’t say it was particularly abusive.
> the Union State thing has been in the works for a long time

yes but it wasn't explicit I guess?
Win32 is POSIX! => "everything is a handle."
Also, I think his note about all the .wad files is wrong - from memory, you list all the .wad files you want to use in Hammer's configuration menu somewhere and that entire list gets inserted into every map you make, regardless of whether you use it or not.
Can you expand on that? Which parts did you find wrong or misleading?
The gap between how old you are and how old you think you are
https://archive.ph/nC2bL
Anyone notice all the gambling sponsors? Looks like they're fed from OpenCollective (see BACKERS.md in the github repo). Feels like they're trying to get backlinks as their URLs end up as anchor tags on the site

Such a weird ecosystem the sponsorships have created. I see a lot of other sites with irrelevant sponsors and non-trivial amounts of money, there just for the SEO/ranking
Ah, no idea.

I wasn't really expressing a judgment on the person or the journalist, just an observation.

What actually happened I don't think we'll ever know.
Sure there are, one only needs to actually bother to learn about the history of computing and other platforms, to validate that.
Uh, yeah, it absolutely is a taboo subject, at least in the USA.
Isn't this extremely common advice? All the way down to "just do it all manually then build the software" where applicable (obviously not in AI). No one cares if the code is crap if it does what they want and you can always iterate on code after securing a revenue/funding stream.
It is simultaneously impressive and sad and hilarious that security of millions of people depend on the work of one volunteer software developer (gorhill – ublock origin) and a bunch of volunteer block-list maintainers.
What other glaring issues can you think of up the top of your head that you caution against using asciidoc? The one GitHub issue linked seems like quite a nitpick.

Been using it for years, and I haven’t run into any issue thy would make me want to use anything else.