skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same kind of arguments as for the bat cave theory.

Anyway, your argument here seems circular: Academics must not take the lab leak theory seriously, because only non-academics discuss it, because academics don't take the lab leak theory seriously.
Feels like reddit is at least has a larger percentage of memes and shitposting so there's less overall negativity, but there's also less substance.
Thanks for your comment, I think the HN crowd might be more understanding. In the general population, someone making 6 figures complaining about cost of living (particularly tech workers, since we are usually blamed for the problem) is frowned upon.
Ask HN: How to get started with developing Smart/IoT hardware products?
I have an idea for an IoT product that may or may not work for niche audience. My background is software, I have developed Dotnet(api), iOS and Android apps and lead engineering teams. Although I have learnt basics of microprocessor, computer hardware etc during my school, I have more or less no knowledge of it now.

Where do I get started if I want to learn and make smart IoT products. I want to make a ring with a touch screen and a button. For starters, It will act as a counter using button and remind users(notifications) on particular time of the day.
I also want to develop a mobile app as a companion that will help configure the ring, set reminders etc.

Where do one start to make something like this? Are there any open hardware that can be used for the prototype?
Or perhaps one could create opportunities for their future generations by building generational wealth in the hope of ensuring a better life for their kids and grandkids. It's a matter of perspective.
About a year after vaccines became available, only 60% or so of folks had received two doses [0]. Public messaging from the initial administration is an obvious contributor to the remaining 40%.

County / MSA hospital capacities, percent available ICU beds, ventilator use, admission increase rates, deaths, and various other stats were factored into restrictive policy decisions. However, this varies city by city and state by state (I suppose as an effect of federalism).

0. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
So I thought! But within an hour there I was completely baffled as to how it was going to ever make any money. The overall architecture seems a better fit for a deeply ideological small group of people trying to live on donations, than a commercial company.

So eventually it died, we picked it up, and now have a non-profit.
> But that works perfectly fine in XCOM! But there both elements are build up to the level player will be using it. The combat is main game, but while the "management" certainly wouldn't be enough to make whole game around it, for the few minutes between combat engagements it fits just fine.

People raise that in commentary about the rule (notably https://www.filfre.net/2017/03/whats-the-matter-with-covert-...), usually in one of two ways:

- XCOM is the exception that breaks the rule

- XCOM is the exception that proves the rule

I tend toward the latter camp. Meier's rule isn't "don't do multiple games", it's "focus on what the game is". To Meier, Covert Action wasn't as good as it could've been because of the lack of focus on what the game is — putting together the clues you collect in the minigames to not only solve the case but also arrest as many participants in the crime before they go into hiding.

XCOM and Pirates!, the game that made Meier think Covert Action's stitched-together design would work, work because they know what the game is. "The game" in XCOM is the tactical part, with the strategic parts being lightweight and sufficiently unambiguous that every action you take in it is tangibly, to the player, supporting the next tactical success.

Pirates! works because the game is becoming the biggest badass in the Caribbean, and every mini-game — swordfighting, raiding cities, romancing governors' daughters — supports the goal of having the biggest fleet, happiest crew, and that GTA-ish feeling of earning your way into dominance over the setting itself by playing the game well.

Covert Action is fun in the trenches but struggles with that top-line focus. Being good at Covert Action neither makes you better at the next game, or even phase of a single game, of Covert Action. Your character has a kind of pasted-on progression track that doesn't really reflect how you play. The procedural content aspect of Covert Action, which was ahead of its time, also predicted how little we'd enjoy procedurally generated sameness in games that rely on it but also don't "focus on what the game is" — once you start seeing the patterns, the more of the mystique wears off than in a more authored experience, and then you're fully left with how much you enjoy stuff like that chip-swapping minigame or you bounce off the whole thing.

So you don't have to enjoy the minigames in XCOM, or Pirates!, or other similar games that seem to "break" the "rule" like Rockstar's and CD Projekt's oeuvres, the Yakuza series, and whatnot, to enjoy the games because their focus on the core game loop is so tight.

To me, that's the meat of the rule, and that's where Spore's wheels come off. Not only does it lack that focus, it's startlingly clear while playing the game exactly where the design shifted from one that did have and reinforce that focus, to one that actively abandoned it for the kitchen sink.
My thoughts exactly. I do lots of "tinkering" with my web experience and have a few open source apps that I build and install, and the barrier of entry on apps is way higher than for websites. Even for an app that is open and friendly, it's still a major undertaking to get a dev env setup and debug/tinker. And once you do, auditing the app to see what it does is further difficult. With the web you don't even need a dev env, and an extension like uMatrix makes it pretty easy to audit the site and see what it's doing/loading.

I'm to the point where I boycott apps. I will only use an app if there's a real benefit to me for doing so, such as podcasts and music and offline functionality or those that use hardware features.
When the mouths are moving, watch the hands.
> Densificatoin causes enshittification spiral.

This is not a real thing. Please refer to factual, verifiable phenomena and not imaginings.
Aspartame has a negative effect on the myelin sheath of neurons: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014252/

As far as I know, all of the sugar alternatives have some (usually neuro?) downside that makes them scarier to me than sugar!
Communities tend to end up with a memes allowed and strictly meme free version of the community once they grow to a certain size.

It splits the community and the meme version will tend to have 100x the users but that's ok imho. You'll find the meme free offshoot will have the same feel as the early smaller community and will be much better if the topic really does interest you.
It's quite an interesting business model. Qudos...

Happy to see it at github: go server, javascript frontside.
Functime: Forecast in the Cloud, Instantly
How will this affect home chargers? Will future Fords require an adapter to work with a home CCS charger? Will this affect compatibility with V2H?
The balls aren't moving across sides in the linked pattern.

They are in this one, and it appears correct to me:

https://jugglinglab.org/anim?pattern=%3C2p|2p%3E;stereo=true
Yeah but if they include the biggest subreddits it will be affecting most of their users. The long tail of small subreddits doesn't really matter if the big ones are down.
Classy starter - Bulova Sutton - Skeleton https://www.bulova.com/us/en/product/97A162.html?cgid=mens
Something about this essay reminds me of a line from Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Iliad:

“It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.“
ChatGPT to the rescue.

I think the feeling at Reddit HQ is that as long as there isn't someplace else for the users to go they will be alright. I mean where else are you going to get a Reddit like experience? Digg? Tumblr? Livejournal? Slashdot? Twitter? Usenet?!? Nothing really compares to Reddit. Personally, I wouldn't feel too confident. I saw how fast Digg and Tumblr collapsed. Even if you don't know the name of the next big thing, it is probably out there already.
>It seems no company is happy with being the virally adored single product little niche 50 employee powerhouse.

There's Valve or JetBrains, which are not even niche or small but very successful that have stayed private, focused and avoided money from the public markets. But yes the software industry desperately needs a Mittelstand economy. Probably won't happen without actually breaking apart some of the platforms though.

Historically breakups have increased total shareholder value so it would even be a good deal for investors. In Spain for example where Uber is regulated they're essentially just a software vendor rather than trying to capture the market. If they were just a 100 person company licensing software worldwide that sounds like a more attractive business than what they are now.

It's kind of hilarious how few people even manage to benefit from the system as it is, which is mostly just VCs, managers at bloated firms and people who get rid of their stock at the right time.
>Okay, and what did they do next? Did they just stop hating people? Did they figure out a way to start meeting in person without Facebook to mediate the conversation? Did some of them become increasingly isolated that they decided to act out? Did some people who weren't members of the hate group happen to see this form of censorship and start to change their own minds?

Given that the target audience they were studying were users of the platforms, and the effect was the consumption and spread of hate speech within that population and on those platforms, I don't think that including n+ order effects across every other facet of society would have been necessary, or even possible.
Well, it's freedom of speech, not freedom of pics
Actually, a few other cars had similar voice alert systems e.g., Mitsubishi and Oldsmobile.On the Oldsmobile the speech synthesis (Digitalker) was engineered by National Semiconductor. This page has more on it https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/talking-car-from-...
I would've agreed with you 5 years ago. However, my weak connections seem to have thinned themselves out—the people I'd only ever see on FB have gotten bored and stopped posting there. Everyone else, I have other means of contacting.
How is it misleading when they're talking about "exposing more open ocean to incoming solar radiation and heating" specifically? How is it misleading at all when I've literally just quoted data from a really good site?
Life really turns on a few moments in time all told.

For my wife and myself, STEM degrees with in-state tuition (I turned down a prestige private university) with automatic test-score-based scholarship went a long way for me and my wife. Ended up with $40k in debt total which was pretty easy to pay down in a couple years in industry.

Parents haven't helped once financially past college (including home buying). They had some savings for me and sent some money for food. And they bought a new car and gifted us their '08 Civic upon graduation (still going strong!)

More recently, we moved out of an expensive coastal city to a suburb of a smaller nearby city in the first summer of the pandemic. When mortgage rates were sub-3% (with 20% down) and before the housing market got crazy hot. That was just luck = preparation (saved money and built credit and no debt) meets opportunity (turns out our savings were enough for 20% down if we looked to the burbs and we could get a low rate and go under asking for a 3k sqft, newish house). That's the best financial decision we've made since our college decisions.

It really is a combination of luck and a few consequential decisions. It helped that we were both pretty academically smart and lived in a state with great engineering and CS programs at in-state schools. But we haven't made 100s of savvy financial decisions with huge ROI. Just a few sensible ones and dodged some bullets such as private university, burdensome house, etc.
It does not. It clearly says it has gone down.
Slight clarification: Nicotine at normal doses is not more harmful than coffee - though at high volumes it is pretty bad. In the context of this conversation though what you said is totally true.
ok so you and cryptonector below are in disagreemeng.

Also I am not claiming I know any laws.

I am claiming the law needs to be adjusted, not censorship standards.
> This stuff is hard but probably worth it ultimately.

I think you're understating "hard."

What about the large proportion of contracts that are still signed in paper? (All of those waivers you fill out at the doctor's office? Paper. Buy a car? Paper. Mortgage? Paper. Hire a contractor for your house? Paper.) Is your scheme going to render those invalid? Are we outlawing paper agreements?

Consider also:

* Many people do not have a computer or smartphone.

* Any scheme (particularly one that does not involve pretty hardcore identify verification) is going to suffer from most of the same limitations as a regular e-signature, in that either side can claim that it wasn't actually them who clicked the button.

* Technology changes rapidly and the entities that are most involved in contracts change very slowly.

* Corporations have a huge incentive to push back on anything that adds friction to customers signing contracts.

Do you think we'll really push through all of that, just to fight the extremely uncommon circumstance where a party denies that they signed a contract? Especially where cryptographic signatures wouldn't even fully solve the problem? I think it's unlikely.
Give me a break. If the boycotts caused 99% of subs to close the remaining 1% would still easily have enough content to keep the front page fresh, and the algorithm could adapt smoothly. The assertion that Reddit is actually already dead at this point is wildly premature.
It appears that modern internet companies fail to understand that a "brand megaphone" is not a desirable product for anyone, except brands of course. The internet is sick now.
How do you differ from LaunchDarkly?
The documentation website is really nice, what did you use? Can you share the code? I have an OSS project, would like something similar!
More like a bud light!
As long as the IPO investors don't know that it is all good.
You could include the cost of energy in your statement, and then it says nothing.
>Monitoring - We're observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users. We will continue to closely monitor the situation.

>Jun 12, 2023 - 08:47 PDT

https://www.redditstatus.com/

>"A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue," Reddit told Engadget in a statement.

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-suffers-a-major-outage-after...
> and spent significant resources on a new UI design that is near universally reviled.

Not that I don’t agree with your post, or how bad the redesign is, but is that really universal? With statistics I’ve heard about only 5-10% of people using old? And with the current protest, I’ve even seen comments supportive of the blackout by people using new and the official app.
Rule number one for high traffic sites with a lot of pageloads coming from search engines: Aggressively cache content shown to unauthenticated users. Since they don't really interact with the site, they probably won't even notice if it's a bit stale.

They used to have a really good blog post about their caching infra which for some reason was deleted. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210205121832/https://redditblo...
To build on your Pepsi example: I could probably sell a chew toy that looked like a bottle of Pepsi with my "Pupsi" look-alike logo and the Rogers Test could be applied, but if I trademarked (officially or via branding) the Pupsi name and infringing logo by say, selling a line of Pupsi-branded pet supplies, it would not. Pepsi would then be able to pursue the "consumer confusion" argument that most people think of in IP/trademark disputes.

The SCOTUS decision is all about shutting down the short-circuit that the lower court applied, now requiring them to go back and decide on the confusion question.
Yes, that's it. Slope is positive.
This is one of the reasons I like Fossil for source control. It has a wiki and a ticketing system built into each repo. Any branch or commit can have its own wiki page. You can customize the ticketing system and use it as a roadmap. All of that lives right within the same system as the source code. It’s great.
Squire 2.0: A Text Editor by Fastmail
> Personally, I have never set foot in a place where Mc Donalds et. al. was the center of the culinary scenario.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1241898/most-popular-res...

"The large American fast-food chain, McDonald's, was the most popular among French people in 2019, as 48 percent of them visited it at least once in the past six months when surveyed."
Let’s see the last 200-400 years of climate data. Curious the fluctuations 1991-2020 has decent variance, there’s also 30 year solar cycles. We only see one cycle in this data, we need more data tip make conclusions
Recraft design tool: Vector graphics with AI
"mostly".
Shameless plug on the same subject if you are vim user fond of terminal:

https://github.com/Aperocky/diarycli

`pip install diarycli`

Alternatively there is a shell version if you are averse to python/pip package manager as well:

https://github.com/Aperocky/diaryman/blob/master/diaryman.sh

The only way I can get myself to write things down is to have it one commands away in the terminal.
correct, if you do the data export for your account you get all of the deleted comments/submissions in the resulting zip.
Many niche topics I have an interest in are still better represented by standalone forums, I have found.
Do we really know what portion of this isn't just correlation between nicotine and the fact that it has to be administered which usually involves smoke, fiberglass irritation, etc?

I think the main problem with nicotine is its addictiveness and the fact that that will lead you to accept risks in administration via cigarettes, toxic fluid vapors, chew with fiberglass, etc.
I worry that "1 step before that" requires a database of information about how to actually put the pieces together for a huge fraction of characters. And that without the database it doesn't work right, and with the database it's like the current system with extra steps and extra layers of complicated abstraction. You'd be able to encode some novel characters but that's a high cost.
Since you were much closer to it than a bit of google would reveal, can I ask you— what killed Digg?
Any books, articles you could suggest?
The SL server has an OKish open source version, opensimulator. Unfortunately nobody wants to work on the viewer because it is old , has tons of legacy stuff that has been patched up a gazillion times (e.g. classic/mesh avatars, "bakes-on-mesh" etc). The interface is full of stupid defaults (pie menus) and for today's standards it s extremely hard to use. The crowd that uses it is thus self-selected geeks or 3d artists
By not making decisions for them but instead just aspiring to provide them with better opportunities.
These conversations never seem to mention what seems to me a relevant and related problem: the growth in commuting time during the rush hour.

Yes, there are cheaper places to move. Yes, the price of my parents' home roughly matched inflation. Yes, after inflation, I earn about what my parents did at this stage of their life.

So, why not just buy a home like my parents' in my hometown? The commute time into the city (Boston) has gone from ~45 minutes when my parents bought in the 80s to 90 minutes today, with high variance. That's 1.5 additional lost hours per day with no compensation in inflation-adjusted salary, home price, or cost of education.

My father made roughly the same as me, inflation-adjusted, without a college degree or the associated costs. In comparison, I started my working life with ~100k in debt (they couldn't afford to help me pay).

It's all very frustrating because it feels like we have the technology to solve these problems and yet we're hung up on non-technological problems.
Do you believe slack messages are private? Or DMs on twitter? How about the content you store on Notion or Google docs. I guess what I'm saying is there's a lot of places where it doesn't matter as long as your data is stored securely and privately in a way that no one can access it and the operators are not mistreating it. At the end of the day we still need a way to ensure certain terrible content never exists on the platform which is illegal but we're also doing this because we're not happy with the state of corporate run systems at the moment. I think there's the potential for a "community interest" platform where we actually trust the people who run it and they're totally aligned in doing it for the public good. I'm still figuring out how to convey that message more broadly to people.
> How do they know what they want?

There's a LCD across humans, the bare minimum - a place to live, food, and clothes.
As I understand it there is a scientific consensus about both the causes and the potential effects of global climate change. Scientists say that we are headed for 2C degrees of warming in the next years. Scientists say that 2C degrees of warming would be disastrous for millions of people. Any random dude can put two and two together.
If you use windows it will routinely set edge back to the default browser. The web team of microsoft is absolutely disgusting in every possible way, and it has always been.
Another sibling comment was added 2 minutes ago, where Reddit themselves state that the blackout is the cause:

> According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

Maybe you should think a bit harder about the difference between "this thing that is actively happening could be the cause" and "aliens could be the cause"?
Weird, usually gson is super straightforward for me. I don't think you should be working with the JSON AST. Rather, have a class that maps to the JSON, which is a DTO, and then translate that to your app layer.
You're not wrong, but ads are already moving to a different model with either first-party URLs or random ones that are difficult or impossible to enumerate to get around ad blocking. With Apple's new thing that's going to bring the reckoning even sooner (sigh). This technique is much harder and won't last very long I'm afraid.
I mean, sure? But I don't think we'd accept people calling HTML a protocol, would we?
Not the fee for the certification but the recurring certification itself as a barrier for engineers to build something so buildings don’t fall apart for example.
How does one get a user account on Tildes?
If you want a hardened Linux desktop right out the starting gate, give QubeOS a try.

Your privacy is already secured for the most part and keeps your work and personal stuff separate.

It is what i use to ensure that Firefox is started with empty data cache/file-store but populated with bookmarks.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
Geo engineering is jumping from a cliff and hoping there is water down so you don't hit concrete.

Degrowth is the only sustainable solution, geo-engineering will create more problems than it solves.
> Most of these 'issues' are not with phones themselves, but just personal discipline and habits.

IMO that's a limited way to look at it.

Sin occurs at the intersection of desire and opportunity. One is easy to change, the other is hard.
It means you can tackle kids but you have to own it, pretty nice I think