skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
strictly speaking, a monopoly by itself is probably not a positive externality, since it isn't external, other than the regulatory permissiveness that allows it. to me a vertical monopoly isn't necessarily a single business, even if the stack as a whole principally delivers a single type of good or service.

if a layer in the stack can thrive on its own as an independent ecosystem, then that's a "separate business", and trust busters should look askew at conglomerations across such boundaries. independent companies will make the whole industry more efficient in the long run, because of competition. in such a configuration, companies can make deals with each other across stack boundaries and even invest in each other as long as a controlling interest hasn't been reached.

ma bell for instance vertically integrated telegraph, telephone, transmission, real estate, consumer phones, answering services, and who knows how many other whole businesses together to form its monopoly. many, if not all, of those could have been thriving markets on their own.
Thanks to the author instead ?
This seems very backwards to me. The job of business isn't to do the "simple and fair" thing. It's a) to generate maximum value, b) to extract enough cash to pay the bills and then some, and c) work to keep costs at an effective minimum.

The marginal cost of a single API call is approximately zero. Reddit, like most SaaS businesses, is much more about fixed costs than variable costs. I think they are much better off following the standard freemium approach, where they give away what's basically free, and then use value-based pricing to get a fair share of the possible revenues. The sort of cost-based pricing you suggest a) doesn't match their cost model, b) overcharges for valuable things that may not produce direct revenue, and c) undercharges for things that are especially valuable to users.
Can anyone summarize what the stakes are here?

Is a loss for Coinbase a company-ending event? Or is being forced to register all the coins that aren't BTC or ETH a costly regulatory burden?

What are the implications of registering all these coins as securities? Does it affect whether they can be offered to non-accredited investors? How expensive is it? Who bears the costs?
Cleaving the Gordian Knot
Yep, e-books are just like hypothetical infinite energy and e-books don’t need authors who have mouths to feed.
I blew up my life when I moved to Denmark for an MSc studies.

I moved to a new country, amidst covid, without a social support system, without speaking the language, without having financial security.

I was terrified of doing that … but it was around the time in 2020 when r/WSB was growing, and saw people “yolo ing” more money than I ever had. So I said yolo.

I barely made it through; got super depressed due to isolation, lived on the brink of poverty, but some how (thanks GME) I survived. Though I did take a break for a semester.

When I “returned home”, 2 years later, i found myself a stranger, a foreigner. All my friends had moved on, almost everything had changed, and so had I.

Would I do it again? Absolutely. A bit differently; sure. But I’d do it again without hesitation.

And then I did.. I moved to $currentlocation, barely any money, didn’t speak the language. All because I got a job at FAANG because I found an email from some recruiter in my junk folder and responded back. I finished my MSc, leading a project and aiming for promotion.

In about a year or so, I will do it again; almost as if it is becoming a habit.

It is very lonely, I am not going to lie about this, but it is also an adventure.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03603...

The maximum possible efficiency of a fuel cell is 100%. It follows directly from the realization that they are not limited by Carnot's cycle. Hence why in the long run, it is pretty much a guarantee that a hydrogen based solution will win out. If two solutions are equally efficiency, than the only that is vastly cheaper will be the solution.

These types of comparisons of efficiency comparisons are ultimately just nonsense. Most of them are all over the place, from 2x difference to sometimes 10x or worse. That's because they are just cherry-pick numbers in order to create a narrative. It is not really based on any sort of real analysis.

In reality, a large portion of renewable energy is lost or never utilized, largely due to its intermittency. Without any way of storing it, renewable energy is very inefficient overall. They pretty much always have to be backed up by fossil fuels today. Adding a way to store vast amounts of it, such as hydrogen, makes renewable energy significantly more efficient and eliminates the need for fossil fuels.

But if you make that realization, then it also becomes obvious that running cars off of hydrogen does not imply any kind of major loss of efficiency. The problem basically becomes irrelevant, since you are running cars off of energy that would've been lost anyways.
No one flagged the current post! It was fine as a repost because the story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, as you correctly read the FAQ.

Listing "related" links is just because readers enjoy looking at old comments on the same topic. It's there to enhance the site for curious readers and there's no implicit reproach for the repost—on the contrary!

Does that help?
Here's what those IBM guys have to say about container and virtualization:

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/containers-vs-vms#:~:text=Con....

Carnegie Melon University chimes in as well:

https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/virtualization-via-contain...

Amazon AWS:

is container virtualization
You don't have to use 4chan as an example for this.
HN is the way it is because of its UI, it prevents too "Normy" people from joining.
For a time, sure. But once you've got kids, there are drastic consequences to blowing up your life.
Do you not see the irony in your comment? You are anti-censorship, but complain the front page is entirely spam. Sounds like you use 'censorship' to describe moderation of content you like, and 'spam' to describe content that you don't like. You tell the creator that you are not going to use the site because they haven't censored content you don't want to see.
Image posting should have never been added. This was called out from the get-go.

From the very start people warned that it would water down content and replace thoughtful discussion, and so it did.

It was great for engagement though, I guess.
This is how I work now, with my Quest Pro and my MacBook.

It's using local Wifi (or USB), so the latency is very low.
And how'd it go? :)
Yes, and with zopfli you could theoretically reduce the size, but signatures are on the whole file, and will be destroyed.
>There's a fine line between breaking out of the status quo hamster wheel and running away from your baggage.

Absolutely. I've had the urge to move from my hometown to escape baggage, mainly relationships. I've been close to pulling the trigger many times. But things got in the way and now I look back and I'm happy I didn't move. At least for that reason of escaping baggage. Odds are you'll have baggage anywhere you live if you live there long enough. Learning to grow and live with that baggage is part of being a human.
The data brokers it contracts are pretty harmless, like getting business data from Dun & Bradstreet or getting military information from Janes Online. These data brokers aggregate publicly available information that you or I could find for free by accessing the right web pages. The only potential 4th Amendment violation, the one the article pretends is happening on a mass scale, is from purchase of mobile location data. The document says that the provider doesn't remove US data, so the government does that itself because accessing that data without due process would be a 4th Amendment violation. Due process was also followed when the government obtained location information from Google.
This is particularly true when it comes to your place of residence. Moving constantly means you never "lock in" a level of expenses and will always have to earn more to keep up with inflation of housing prices (be it rent or purchase price). At least in Europe it is common to have indefinite rental contracts with a clause saying they can never raise the rent more than LOW_SINGLE_DIGIT% per year or even only for 10 years and not after.
Can you point out where exactly? Looking at this:

https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use

The only thing I found was:

You may not (...) (vii) buy, sell, or transfer API keys without our prior consent.

Apologies for sounding like an absolute nerd, but you can go with options 1 and 3 - as long as you ask OpenAI first and get their consent. Also the meaning of "transfer" is a bit murky in my opinion. If I take my API key and write it down in a napkin, technically I've just transferred my API key to a napkin - sorry Mr. Altman!
One time we wanted to benchmark SAAS X simultaneous uploads/downloads (versus our product), and find the bottleneck. This was like four lines of code. Try doing that in python!
I guess, if you're well off, perpetually single and childless, and have the sort of connections that allow for taking a 6 month break for no reason.
Good advice if you're already confident a number of things you find troublesome about your life cannot be resolved, such as if you've already gone through therapy or tried more focused interventions that have not worked. Sometimes you have to leap to the new platform, and its hard to see just how bad your context was until you've left it.

Question is what is the threshold for change, and are there 'blow up some things' changes that can be made prior to 'blow up everything'. Would love to see this in the form of a (How Much) Should I Blow My Life Up self assessment.
Yeah I agree with you. The thing that makes a village a village isn't (necessarily) seeing the same people over and over, it's seeing the same types of content over and over (which is something "seeing the same people" tends to do, so I can see how OP got them conflated)
I wanted to make sure I understood the design decisions.

I actually have no idea what the right choice is. I only know how I use these types of sites and I usually go depth first. So I'd start with one thread, read it until I get bored, then continue. Not great for your current architecture, but I could be a weird user.

I had to design comment systems quite a few times, so I'm always curious how other people do it. I don't think there's a perfect solution, always trade offs to be made.
I honestly don't know anyone who went into Mastodon, except for probably a few people from here?
As long as Substack keeps the "Keep reading" button, I much prefer Substack.
To reiterate my point in the original post: If a protest doesn't make the news what's the point?

1/6 hurt Trump, and the Floyd riots hurt the BLM cause. If only either of them did something positive with the attention. One affected me and the people around me, the other could have happened on Mars to billionaire reptiles. I couldn't care less for those elites.
Yes, but I would still be surprised if small towns in America don't have coffee shops, diners and bars where there are regular customers who are on first name basis with the staff. What the establishment sells might differ from location to location but the social aspect just seems to be a universal across the entire planet.
> One thing I will say is I really dislike the smooth-scrolling behavior that some sites build in with JS. It's usually broken on macs that already have smooth scrolling and it's just a dumb thing to add.

I'm fairly sure every platform uses smooth scrolling by default, and so I'm absolutely and utterly baffled as to why web devs think they need to implement it in JavaScript.

If you're on a platform without it, or you've explicitly disabled it, there's probably a good reason for it, so re-adding it with JavaScript is taking away agency from the user.
I don't know anyone going over there, except for the couple people on Hackernews who keep saying it's the next big thing.
Once again, you want to read into my words what you want to read and not what I wrote.

Conte wrote in his CV that he had been a visiting professor/scholar at some foreign universities, while it appeared that he had only visited universities (a curious case was at the University of Vienna, where he said he had spent time as a visiting professor, instead he went there for English classes). In the online resume he made available when he was a professor and had just begun his political career, he also claimed to be a follower of Padre Pio of Petralcina (I am going from memory here). All rather ridiculous, but largely inoffensive.

I wrote that his profile was not even comparable to that of Monti and Draghi (despite my dislike of techno-euro-bureaucrats).

You wrote, "Almost nobody knows him before being a puppet in the agreement between M5S and Lega." Here you are wrong: not "almost no one" but "no one" knew him. But the fact that he was a puppet is contradicted by his quick takeover of the M5S reins.

His experience as premier has been average, which was partly surprising, since he is far from being a political talent (I don't know about his tenure), but it is hard to see today (after Monti, unfortunately, since he was a "big name" he was given leeway that turned out to be disastrous) catastrophic leadership: there is a very narrow corridor defined by the EU along which a European government can walk.

Your commentary seems to me to be overall infused with bitterness (Stamina and the NoVax movement have nothing in common, apart from some weirdos who manage to jump from one conspiracy to another) and broad strokes that are not conducive to reasoned conversation.

If Conte, whom I repeat I did not vote for, do not like, etc., is to be condemned, what to make of former German premiers Schroeder and Merkel, whose pro-Russian leadership and sentiment-based policy of open borders caused humanitarian and financial disasters?
What about Sarkozy and his bombing of Libya?
What about Boris Johnson and his dastardly decisions during the pandemic?
What about Sanna Marin and his parties in the very first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

The decisions made by his government may or may not be to your liking, but at the European level there have been, in the consequences of government actions, many worse leaderships.
He didn’t just express a preference, he specifically said that

> inevitably the social justice is layered on so heavily that it becomes the plot

Which is both a specific criticism that might be worth exploring and surprising given shows like Foundation, See, Silo, and Severance. It doesn’t make any sense to me unless the only show they’ve seen is Ted Lasso or it’s a dog whistle (hate to Godwin it but that’s the first thing that came to mind given some of the cast diversity).
> turbocharging securitization by skipping the step of finding something worth securitizing

Best description of web3 I’ve ever read
Right, but isn't this inherent in the hypothetical requirements here? Being able to query individual usernames for block status?
The entire point of Congress writing laws and delegating the specific rulemaking to agencies is so that informed experts can make the laws, with input from affected parties and the public, instead of uninformed legislators.

And note: Congress has the opportunity to reject rules passed by an agency that it determines conflicts with the intent of the governing law(s).
Did Edge remove this in a recent iteration or something?

In the current Edge on Windows x64, macOS x64, and macOS Apple Silicon does not have this option.
this post could have been way less that a million lines long. maybe if it had a nice colored scrollbar it would be more pleasant to read.

kidding aside, it is longer that it could be, to get the point across. maybe the browser just needs a similar setting to the macos and windows one, to never use css on scrollbar, and we're good?
It's part of the current trend of hyper-moralization. "Moral exactitude is now so important that we examine all art with a fine-toothed comb for any possible transgression." I don't mean that book revisions are unthinkable evils, they happen all the time. Plenty of famous works were revised both by the author and posthumously, often to appeal to a wider audience. After all, authors like money too. And in the digital age I'm not too worried we'll lose access to the Nth edition of anything far reaching (books I mean, I do think other media can disappear).

What's interesting is the trend itself, after decades of liberation why are we on eggshells? Is this emergent or a purposeful effort? What is this doing to current art? How much longer will this persist?

I suspect it's related to the extreme "partyism" we see today. Moral issues are now political issues. And while our personal lives have been liberated, our politics are both judged harshly and used as our identity. I think new art is suffering, that interesting things don't thrive in a partisan environment: this is the popularity-fueled echo chamber you're probably aware of. I don't want to believe this will last long, I want to say that people are losing interest in their dogma and want to hear new music again. But I'm not confident in that at all, I feel the trend has yet to peak.

The quote above ( https://artofericwayne.com/2020/08/01/hyper-moralization-the... ) is talking specifically about people actively removing art, but I see the same hyper-moralization inspiring these book revisions.
The SEC is not part of the executive branch. It is an independent agency. While it is also not part of the legislative branch, the legislative branch is the one that effectively controls it.
You can absolutely have concurrency bugs in async JavaScript code, don’t kid yourself that you can’t, or even that it’s hard to do.

The reason I mentioned the concurrency model making the JIT easier is that the concurrency model makes it easier to manage the replacement of methods on the stack when an assumption has been invalidated, and this helps with the speed of the compiled code. The same also applied to various languages with green threads or global locks, but outside the JS world being able to use multiple cores has proved more useful than the difference in single threaded code.
momentum going down is usually what makes people unhappy, blowing up your life up kicks momentum in a new direction
I wonder if this could be used to launder money for a cost of $1 per month. :)
> But companies are explicitly designed from the ground up to maximize profits at the expense of everything else

I don't think this would be as much of a problem if said profits would be used in the companies interest. But instead the money is used to make some rich CEOs & shareholders even richer while semi-legally avoiding as much taxation as possible.
I don’t mean to overly uncharitable to OPs work but the “AI” stuff jumped out at me too. Especially in the context of their previous post about building a “web3” Reddit alternative:

https://jsavage.xyz/2022/07/28/im-building-a-web3-reddit-zsy...

Now that “web3” isn’t in vogue that’s de-emphasised and AI is emphasised instead. I’m wary of anything that chases buzzwords to this degree.
In certain contexts this is called “doing a geographic”. Notorious trap for people who look solely for external causes of their discontent and ignore internal.
Hah yeah that'd be less than ideal.

> I'm curious if Apple will utilize the gyroscope to try and detect movement faster than a certain speed and show a warning.

The Vision Pro is doing SLAM at all times so it actually always knows exactly where you are (relative to its origin) and your speed!
To be slightly more charitable, the argument is that big changes come off better than random chance would indicate, because the psychology of status-quo-bias/loss-avoidance makes people stick in bad situations too long.

On balance I believe people who are impulsive catapult themselves into worse outcomes. This article could be dangerous advice for people with poor impulse control. I'd phrase the most workable advice as something like, 'If you are loss-averse and tend to stick at things, blowing up your life to do something new could be a good choice'.
Why would the latency be lower on the AVP?
My number one piece of advice: don't ever present your product in terms of who or what you're competing with. I don't want a Reddit or Twitter alternative. If you have something new to offer, then say that explicitly. Otherwise you come off as a knock off.
Nice, that's always a good reason to do something. It just seems odd that at least 5 of these have been posted in the past few days. I'm a luddite, I'd have implemented the API and not bothered with the front end at all, but that's just me ;). (Redreader is a good mobile API client, and I think Gnus can also talk to the Reddit API).
United and Air India should trade aircraft ;)
I think it's probably worth thinking a little bit about whether it's worth incentivizing making a comment that Amazon thinks is racist in order to get free returns. Some of the time, the comments will be actually racist, and I'm certainly not on board with the "call your delivery guy the n word if you want free returns" philosophy.
There are several examples of “ghost planes” where the flight crew is unconscious due to the cabin depressurizing. The flight then continues on autopilot until the fuel is exhausted. By the way, one of the initial side effects of hypoxia is euphoria. You can find examples on YouTube and there is a great video by 74gear demonstrating this - see https://youtu.be/nz5d4Q_ykFc.

Depressurizing the cabin to incapacitate the other crew is definitely a possibility and I think the leading theory for what happened. Like you say there is no proof either way - so we may never know with 100% certainty.
"security is a process not a product". YES. (same with thinking you can just buy XYZ DevOps product and you're suddenly going to be "agile")

...at the same time I'm annoyed by the lack of quality and care in most products. Security products having pre-auth RCEs and other dumb things are really annoying.
Right, this is exactly the dilemma facing pretty much any site of this nature. Some level of censorship is required otherwise the site will be unusable but exactly how much is “right” is an endless debate.
That was my thinking as well, and assuming they're still cloud-heavy (it's been years since I've checked) this could potentially be an expensive event for them. That opens up a very interesting for of protest/attack that reddit really won't like; "privating" then "un-privating" a subreddit several times a day.
Well, you have to ignore all the ideological stuff (read: propaganda) and think about actual advantages. FYI, if you’re considering other citizenships I think it’s safe to assume you’re not struggling financially. (If you think you can just move to Canada think again, it’s not that easy.)

In practical terms, it’s a good passport. You will be able to travel to many countries visa free. Not the best passport (Japan’s is, but much harder to get) but still pretty good.

You also have work authorization in a highly developed economy. Probably the highest pay for Software Engineers.

The US is also a good place to start a company. Large market, mostly homogeneous, pretty developed.

The US isn’t great when it comes to economic equality but also not the worst. However its anti poverty programs aren’t great and companies can be predatory with little by way of consumer protection.

Buying a house is still achievable in the US but getting harder.

Schools are pretty good if you live in a nice neighborhood. If you’re poor, good luck.

You will be surveilled. Pretty much every country with the means to do so will surveil its citizens, so that’s not a differentiator for me. The question is how much, and how that information can be used in the future.