skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more to it than "irrational exuberance," IMO.

Take Google. Their one, core cash cow is an oil strike. If you strip away all the unrelated and unesesarry.... It's an 80% profit business that represents most of www's monetisation.

Google already have all the market share. It takes >$10bn to meaningfully affect their bottom line and share price. Few of Google's many investments have an obvious chance of achieving this.

Still... The market (and Google's board) consistently prefer to retain (or avoid realising) earnings.

The fact that Google's growth requires almost no capital also generates an inward capital flow.

Google's culture was a good fit for this. First they let a thousand flowers bloom. Then the cultivated university-like subcultures. They alway knew how to spend big on blue skies.

FB is a little more awkward. They know where the bread is buttered. They invested more tightly around the core money maker, but they get to the same place as Google. Way more capital, credit and discretionary spending than they possibly need. Nothing more to invest in.

Well... All this is resources that aren't spent on manufacturing, tooling, energy, construction, etc.

Take chip fabrication, or computer hardware broadly... It's capital intensive. Factories change slow. Markets change fast. Prices continuously fall. It's a nightmare, comparatively.

I say "capital" but the real shortage is risk. Google/FB/etc are "hoarding" all the risk allowance. Where they can invest in highly speculative projects because the money is just there, analogue businesses are still backed by banks, bonds, specialised investment firms and tightly controlled payback schedules... Not an easy world to innovate in.

The modern system now reaches bedrock very quickly. When we can dig no longer we start depleting all our resources trying to dig anyway.

Reality is that were not getting more out of Google no matter how much resources they draw. That's what capital is to firm, resources. Over resources X and under resourced Y.
I love Jellyfin, though it often struggles with subtitles embedded in the container. They are recognized, but it fails to load them. If I retry it two-three times, it usually manages to do that.

Also, recently discovered it has plugins too, like syncing status with Trakt.
I've bought matched pairs of DJ stylus. The product descriptions waxed poetically about the reasons this was important, and if I cared, it might have even made sense. The sole reason I bought them paired was the simple fact that the pair was cheaper than buying two individuals. The exact same logic was applied when I bought a pair of monitors, and the fact that the seller offered a $50 item for free.

If you're into matched pair speakers, what about for surround systems? Do you have to have a matched 4 set or a matched 6 set?
I would imagine dogs could be a special case. We evolved together.
Yeah, my boss has latest and greatest iphones and airpods pro, and everytime he uses them compared to dirt cheap Jabra headset company gave us, I know. How? He sounds like crap, voice dropping, volume jumping up and down, sometimes audio disconnections, while literally everybody else on the call is fine. Pairing issues half of the time.

But he refuses to use what company gives to him. He ain't complaining, because he hears rest of us perfectly fine.

Btw all that hardware you listed, its in other phones too, for much less. My phone from last year has ie Lidar, that's not something fancy these days, and its pretty accurate for common stuff. I won't build shelves just by using it but otherwise measures OK.
I’ve noticed this pattern happening on tech blogging pattern, dev-dot-to being not the least:

“I’ve been through a web dev bootcamp 6 months ago and I’m three months on my first tech job ever, and here is my enormous trove of wisdom I’m about to bestow upon you.” What follows is, at best, very superficial, and at worst, just plain wrong and bad stuff.

This is recent. Back when I’ve been more active in hackintosh communities, one would very often encounter tutorials clearly made by people with no clue who just cargo culted it through, pass their cargo culted thing on, and have the chutzpa to call themselves “experts”.

Oh, and there are mediocre journalists (or sometimes even vloggers with no training) who start thinking about themselves as experts on something all of a sudden and start touring radios, podcasts, and TV shows, giving opinions left and right, these are probably the worst.
Most people have no desire to actually use their brain and think independently. For one thing, other people who've blindly accepted a point of view from some authority figure might be nasty to them. Also, they can't possibly imagine that somebody whom they really like/respect or who helped them get some code working might be wrong sometimes.

There are very good evolutionary reasons why most humans are wired to conform rather than to think. If you thought too independently in a pre-modern society, you were liable to end up burned at the stake or otherwise executed in an especially brutal and inhumane manner for "heresy" or "witchcraft". While this is adaptive for living in a pre-modern society, this is maladaptive for living in a liberal democracy where being able to think independently and to respectfully disagree with others are among the most critical life skills. This tendency towards mindless conformity is also adaptive for an industrial assembly line but maladaptive for a modern knowledge economy where productivity depends upon creativity and critical thinking not following orders and repetitively doing the same thing.
every concept will eventually have been expressed or referenced somewhere, so we have a system where every single possible scenario becomes a "trope" with a tidy label.

what - aside from gibberish or nonsense - isn't a trope at that point?
Not who you responded to, but I have a disability (Multiple Sclerosis) that pretty much precludes me from building a successful business. Starting a successful, profitable business usually requires both working around the clock at first in order to establish it and the ability to forego health insurance/healthcare for a period of time. If I'm lucky I have 10 functioning hours a day and I need to make money to not starve so 8 is taken up with a full time job (luckily I walk 5 minutes to work so no commute). I also still need to shower, eat, and exercise to keep my physical condition from deteriorating. On bad days I'm sneaking in naps at work because I have less than 8 hours of good functioning. Weekends are usually spent recovering (sleep/migraine).

Basically anything that eats up your time. Disability is just an example problem that nobody can blame on us.

Edit: It doesn't need to be severe, which is why I mention it. I'm actually better off than 95% of MS patients.
(thinking emoji) We need openable vents.
> an open source consulting company

Not sure how to feel about this combination, are they any good?
It highly depends on the definition you use, gather them from wikipedia and a few dictionaries and you will see. Looking at it from different languages is also worth looking into. I see it as an unavoidable (so far and in my opinion for a long time) disposition to go through a process. As such I would not consider aging in general as a disease. But individual processes taking place in aging would be in my opinion, especially since they can happen at earlier age in some people. I am much more interested in providing better quality of life to people impacted by those than to everybody (the societal impact would be quite dramatic).
I'm not sure about Italy. But right now in France the situation is that the French government certainly can take away anyone's citizenship, without much justification. They just, at the moment, don't do it. You have to be an "enemy of the state", but there is no definition what that means. I find it very hard to believe this is merely an oversight.

And like I said, all it would take is a change in the executive.
Plex is cluttered, messy, not free, not available on all devices, and harder to run on Kubernetes.

I can watch my Jellyfin shows from a Flatpak local client on my desktop, pause and move to my phone, pause and move to my TV. That's three different operating systems, and at no point do they transcode, because it's not going through a browser.
> Everywhere I went I was in a trance, forming arguments with people who only existed in Slack for me. The debates, the designs, the confrontation! Every time I closed my eyes I would start a stupid fight,

This was me at my last job. My managers made my job all about project status updates, optics, visibility, green buttons, t-shirt sizes, OKRs, missing things by 1 week, slack posts, number of kudos. That meant that I spent an inordinate amount of time inside my own head, playing these BS conversations, arguments, and counter-arguments over and over again.

As a result of usage of BS metrics, the work became more about inventing BS than about actually solving any technical problem. And what happens when you invent BS? You discuss endlessly, meeting after meeting, about what that BS means. Is this work X-Small or Small? Should this OKR be 70% completely because it was rolled out 1 week after the planned date?

There's no discussion about why the work matters, what customer will get affected, or if some things can be paced faster or slower for some legit reason. The only thing that mattered was BS OKRs and the months of discussions about the measurement of said BS.

It's sickening. Is this BS my life? Is this BS more important than time with my SO? Is this BS more important than me checking up on my ageing parent's health? Is this BS more important than me achieving my personal goals?
This article reads like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel. (See [0] for example.) The pop-up ads contribute to the on-brand, dystopian feel.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
Then who is going to fund market disruptors such as Pocket?
If Reddit silently replaced any outside human involvement with generative actors of sufficient quality and believability one day, how would you notice?

There is nothing about the service that indicates you are interacting with humans, aside from our knowledge of how it is likely implemented, and goes to lengths to hide that there are humans involved. That it is implemented using humans is just an implementation detail.
Sounds like a "bullshit job". Note that I did not say: it should be illegal, or that it’s not maximizing profits for ownership, so please go away if that’s what you want to say to me.
Super important, and vastly underrated question. The article does partly address this.
My First Impressions of Nix
Their robots can't even walk by the sea without being slowly destroyed by salt (and they are not really adapted to sand walking). So we are far.
Hello there, great work! I have been following since a long time, back when you were on Freenode IRC. If you do bridge your Discord to IRC, please do announce it somewhere.

One suggestion: maintain your compatibility with Linux, as this would likely bring more people to your browser and lower the barrier to work on the browser.
Not to defend Reddit (there's no way I'm using that godforsaken official app), but: who cares?

There is very little in the way of genuinely sensitive data I can imagine them having. So little commerce is done on Reddit that the risk of there being hundreds of thousands of CC numbers and home addresses is almost nil. User passwords? Half of Reddit is creating burner accounts every 3 months to dodge suspensions and bans.
I don't really consider the Vision Pro "AR" as most people think of it; Apple was probably smart to just coin another term. I watched the launch keynote and it seems more like an in-home VR+ as opposed to a HUD for people out walking around. Could it change? Sure. But there's a lot of technological distance between where things are now and what idealized outdoor AR looks like.
How do I know which is which?
I subscribed to Reddit Premium as my way to repay the lack of ads I was seeing on 3PA, but now I've cancelled my subscription and I'll turn uBO back on.

An easy solution, if they genuinely wanted to allow 3PA at a fair price (which I now doubt, from their stubbornness and contempt) for everyone, they'd have kept the API free for 3PA and add Reddit Premium as a requirement to use them, that way the developers don't have to foot a huge bill, and the end-user provide an alternative income source while not seeing ads. Congrats Reddit, you played yourself.
IP shouldn't exist
I'm more concerned about the people that need help with something, but don't ask on Discord for any number of reasons.

I suspect 1000 people use Google to solve a problem for every 1 that joins a Discord and asks.
Strong https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html vibes, which I highly recommend also reading if you think you might be in a toxic job or relationship.

I hope things get brighter for you from here, Robin!
I seriously can’t wait for Apple to be knocked off its pedestal. I can’t wait for the closure of Apple stores, layoffs in Cupertino, and seeing brand new MacBooks in the clearance bins.

I’ve had enough of this pompous and arrogant company. This is going to be good.
Drift of Earths Pole: Groundwater Depletion Significant Contributor to Sea Level
Maybe you'd be interested in reading about Guitar Center's concept of "jip". Unfortunately, no quick links.

How many times have I heard, "you know, since you're a cool dude, I can knock off X% for you"? Every. Single. Time.
I’d argue you will almost certainly lose it if you never loose it ;-). Loose it or lose it, I always say
Certainly feeling this right now.

I do not have parents to give advice, and no “marriage role models” to speak of. This has lead me into a situation where I was poached into marriage and used to fulfil another’s needs - one who does not take my own needs into account.

It’s going to be a mess to get out of, but lesson learned…
The Internet is moving towards a meat place replacement.
Ooooooh.
Law Enforcement has an alignment problem?
There's a youtube guy who goes around and landscapes people's yards for free. He does good work; it's a valuable service. But if he later returned to the house and demanded payment he wouldn't have a leg to stand on. That would be the same leg that the Reddit mods are missing.
This is a short story about thatquestion:

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
Nuclear waste falling into the sea isn't optimal but it also isn't a huge issue. Nuclear waste falling onto a city or exploding on the launch pad would be an issue.

The 2nd stage flight can be planned not to go over populated land.

But anyways, I don't think its a good solution but it would be possible.
Well written.

If I could suggest another article subject that I think very few people are aware of and would make good hay.

How certificate SKIDs work, and why everyone can tell from the transparency logs every time you reuse your private key and every certificate ever issued to that SKID.
Among other things, France called "terrorism" people fighting (including peacefully) to free their countries from being its colonies. Which they still maintain a fair number of.

Now they prosecute people demonstrating against a hugely unpopular government.
The full (very long) paper title:

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010

A less technical summary from Axios picks up on one aspect, "The spin of the planet tilted 31.5 inches to the east between 1993 and 2010 due to humans pumping groundwater, according to a new study."

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/17/groundwater-removal-tilted-...
They just stopped indexing. I believe they basically just figured out how to cut their database to cater to as companies then just crawl only keywords
Prowlarr is a deitysend. Instead of having to configure indexers in Sonarr, it does the heavy lifting for you. Goes in, configures an indexer, and that's your search setup done.
You have to be a good talker. If you are not you will struggle.

Find a friend who is willing to pay you, or consult for low-pay/free to build up a client portfolio.

Then try to get referrals. The hard part is not understanding new AI stuff, but building the consulting business.
ChatGPT and Google Bard give you free Windows 10 Pro keys
Not OP but also using GitHub Projects. Up until recently projects was just missing critical features like true epics and first class parent child relationships between issues. These are slowly getting added though. There is an entire product called Zenhub that exists to make GitHub issue tracking more sane. I will say the automation story in GitHub Projects is better than Jira imo
It's a valid point to consider, although I'm not sure that looking at average density across the entire country makes a lot of sense since you don't have to apply the same solution nation-wide. When considering transportation options for a denser part of a country, like the US east coast Boston-Washington DC corridor, it's irrelevant how much empty space there is in Wyoming. The same is true on a smaller scale as well. Sure, the fact that Denver is so far away from any other large population centers means building a bunch of high-speed rail lines there might not make sense, but there's no reason Denver itself can't have better non-car transit options to get around the city and metro area.

Edit: The US east coast is always a particularly interesting use-case since it's more comparable to the density found in a lot of countries with far better transit while also being significantly richer. The Bos-Wash corridor has about the same population as Spain but it is significantly more dense and with 3x the GDP. Yet Spain has far better inter-city high-speed rail and other transit options.
You really got issues with paranoia mate. For your own sake, please get help. You'll live a much happier life when you do.
Inserting branches to your code can only make it slower or equally ~fast but not faster than branchless code so what you say doesn't make a lot of sense.
Which model Synology? I am looking into one of the dual/quad core Celeron models because I heard the iGPU is critical for any kind of transcoding.
I use i3, and I can set any window to "floating" mode. You can have all windows in floating mode, which makes the whole desktop behave like a regular stacking WM, though you can't "minimize" them, so it can quickly become a mess. You can even take a group of windows [0] and have the entire group be a floating window, with the individual windows inside the group continuing to follow the tiling model among themselves.

But it's not something I find practical for some reason, even though I have a fairly simple keyboard shortcut to switch between tiling and floating. Maybe because this isn't really how you're supposed to use i3, so there's no "maximize", or "snap to edges" or similar. You have to move the windows around, adjust their size manually, etc. If you unplug your monitor, you're SoL if you need to retrieve some window that's now floating outside your viewport.

I just gave it a try right now, and Firefox became so huge I needed a good 15 seconds to resize it so that it would fit my screen.

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[0] Windows in i3 are nodes in a tree, so you can detach one node and its children from the tiling tree. The new subtree is floating with respect to the root tree, but the nodes in the subtree are still tiled with respect to one another. This works well in "tabbed" mode, where only a window among its siblings is visible and takes up the full viewport; the others show up as tabs.
Yes, right. It's ISRG root certificate that's present in my OS certificate store. I was trying to troubleshoot our new web server where we have set up a let's encrypt certificate but some clients report issues. SSL lab test identifies the problem as missing intermediate certificate. Chrome doesn't have any problem accessing the HTTPS URL though. The problem I was trying to fix is my Go code that refuses to access this URL stating it can not validate the certificate. Sorry I am on mobile so can't give exact details.

This was a timely article but still left me confused.
It's a submarine article for Deloitte Consulting's Cloud Practice.

The writer of the article is affilated them and I myself have had Content Marketing teams ghostwrite articles with my name on InfoWorld for "Demand Gen".

You will see tons of "thought leadership" articles this month as June is when infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity products are released as these releases are timed with industry conferences.
Thanks for taking the time to write a thoughtful, serious reply!

Sorry to offend you on the finance culture assessment. But, unlike SF, I’ll choose to be kind here rather than be nice. You may choose to talk about the family man in finance that works toward a career vs getting rich. And I’m not going to say that doesn’t exist: of course it does! Being able to talk about patterns doesn’t mean that individual exceptions aren’t possible.

However, you have to admit that your ”hard working career builder” statement was designed to somehow liken this character to someone who actually labors for their money. I have to ask…why not work hard building a different career? The draw of money is the entire point. It’s not like you or I actually provide real, substantial, critical economic value. We work in jobs that can only exist because other folks are taking care of the essentials.

So my point is: at some point, it’s not about any sort of perceived attitude working in the industry.(1) Having a city that only caters to eg finance or tech is what is problematic. It drives wealth inequality, it drives prices upwards, it makes homes and rents unaffordable. Ultimately leading to everyone else being forced out of their homes, desperately trying to find someone cheap enough to live while enduring ever longer commutes.

This process is what destroyed the SF bay. Even pre pandemic, it was common for working class folks to have 90m commutes into SF to work. It’s why things close at 9, 10p in SF: if you’re closing, you’re getting home at midnight.

It didn’t destroy NYC because NYC has a superior functioning government. NYCHA and actually enforced rent control does wonders as a counter force to gentrification. Building in NYC is lightning fast compared to SF, where it takes more than half a decade to build what NYC does in less than a year.

And we see this result in the culture. To my first point, NYC came back from the pandemic while SF did not because it’s multiple cultures is robust, resilient, and adaptable. SF’s tech scene scattered in 2020 and the majority isn’t coming back.

(1) it’s a little subtle, because I think it’s 2 things. The cultural / attitude mindset helps. But that’s not enough on its own. If the city embraces the rich folks and ignores the poor folks, it’s going to look exactly like SF when the good times go away.
Two other older AMD CPUs could be similarly unlocked:

- AMD K6-2+ with 128K of L2 cache can be converted to a K6-3+ with 512K. The CPU has a heatspreader that can be carefully removed revealing a series of zero-ohm resistors, moving it to the right location unlocks the cache. The CPU is still bound by binning as to whether or not it can be overclocked well.

- AMD Athlon XP could be overclocked with the "pencil mod", using a pencil to draw a conductive trace between two pads on top of the CPU, no delidding required.
They're trying to lobby and get regulations put into place that others won't be easily able to conform to so that they get some market lock-in.

They're big enough to be able to conform to the 'rules' but newcomers won't be able to without a lot of staff and/or money.
Nuclear doctrine is full retaliation because if you don't fire everything at once the other side can hit your ability to retaliate. Nukes are not just aimed at cities but also military forces.