skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to get into an argument with you and didn't explain the argument very well, however, it's not as if I'm just coming up with weird opinions on my own here.

The basis of my argument comes from the director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, who explains it all in depth here: https://www.ft.com/content/b7fdbb35-e104-47bf-9e03-ef5d8b324...

> Moreover, start-ups depend on acquisitions. Along with
> an initial public offering, being bought is the main
> way entrepreneurs and venture capital investors can
> “exit” the firms they have built. The harder it is to
> sell your company, the harder it is to make a
> return. Fifty per cent of US start-up executives said
> that being acquired was a long-term goal, and 90 per
> cent of US start-up exits in 2008-18 happened thanks
> to acquisitions.
>
> Empirical evidence suggests investment in start-ups is
> sensitive to rules on acquisitions. One paper found
> venture capital activity grows by about 40-50 per cent
> in countries that enact pro-takeover laws, and US states
> that introduced anti-takeover laws saw a 27 per cent
> decline in VC investment deals compared with those that
> did not.
I think so. Though it’s not nearly as sophisticated as you might think.

Are you interested in hosting an instance of it?
weren't people also implementing live chat with gifs back in the day?
Ask HN: Minimalistic WireGuard-Based Mesh Network?
Is there any wireguard-based tool that can

0. lightweight, and able to run completely headless

1. Deal with all the NAT traversal magic

2. Preserves most wireguard flexibilities. (e.g. I want to freely pick any CIDR to use, and assign any IP to any client)

3. Able to forward traffics thru the server in case NAT traversal is not possible

4. Compatible with vanilla wireguard client (in this case of course NAT traversal won't work so just let server forward all the traffic)

5. (Optional) support multiple servers for fallback.
It still requires “standalone” to send push notifications on iOS, yea?
I have all of my photos (with the exception of smartphone photos... ugh) in a nicely constructed set of folders \photos\yyyy\yyyymmmdd\ then the folder made by the camera, etc. I've got a small python script to generate the folders.

I use Digikam[1] to do facial recognition and tagging on them. It's finally gotten to the point where it doesn't crash all the time writing metadata, and the facial recognition is acceptable. It's nowhere near as good as Picassa was, but the last release had a horrible bug that sometimes swapped face tags if there were multiple people in a photo. Those would them lead to bad training data, and it kept getting worse.

At one point in time, I JPEG2000 compressed all my photos to save disk space.... it was a huge mistake, and now I've got to try to recover the original jpegs from CDs and old backups.

[1] https://digikam.org/
Agreed -- the article actually acknowledges this point, but the clickbait title is not very generous.

CJS was doing just fine in Node.js for nearly a decade before ESM came along and made everything more difficult by shoving browser constraints into a server-side runtime. ESM may be the right direction for the whole ecosystem in the long run, but it's a little backwards to say the perfectly good incumbent system is "hurting" the language because everyone who invested in it doesn't want to go through the pain of migrating to a new fashionable system that is worse in many ways.
If he wants to be taken seriously, perhaps Mr. Musk can post the data somewhere others can read it? Maybe a Mastadon server?
Pocket has been integrated into Mozilla for quite a while. Your efforts are either misplaced or extremely late.
YT can mwah, my ass.

Once the ad volume readily affects page load times, or disrupts casting flow (e.g. if my attempt to listen to Brian Eno & Jon Hassell's ambient works is intruded on every 10 minutes with an earbleed level ad for Papa John's Pizza), I just download the content locally and cast it via Emby.
Show HN: define – An OpenAI powered command-line linguistics assistant
> Briar Mailbox is a helper app for Briar messenger that lets you receive encrypted messages from your contacts while Briar is offline. Next time Briar comes online it will automatically fetch the messages from your Mailbox.

I never even considered that using Tor hidden services would mean you can't be sent messages when offline. Sounds like a useful addition.

"link [the mailbox] with your Briar account by scanning a QR code". Can a Mailbox receive for more than one device? Does the Mailbox get access to the messages (I assume not)? Sounds like having a few big servers would be useful here, and anyone who wants to self host can still do so.
Maybe the Hagakure observations were correct and afterwards morality improved only to decline again in the 20th century. Or maybe his observations are irrelevant to a 20th century phenomenon.
> Okay, I sincerely apologize

I don't have much use for your sorrys. It's better you think about what you're saying rather than running around in ignorance. Your narrow outlook prevents you from seeing better alternatives.

> And the plug is mechanically different in that it has one fewer pin

No, Type 2 has a different shape and two more pins than Type 1. CCS type 2 is used in more countries than any other EV plug.

Have a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System

Broaden your horizons.
1 in 9 is so absurdly high it calls into question everything about the study. There are about 42 million teenagers in the US right now. 1:9 would be about 4.67 million teens. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), SWAT teams in the US were deployed about 45,000 times in 2014. Not all of these would be "SWAT'ing" incidents (a prank call resulting in a SWAT team response), but it gives some context to the scale of SWAT operations.

Even if it was 1:10,000 you'd see like 4200 teens swatted. Back of the napkin math would mean roughly 1:10 SWAT calls are pranks. I kinda doubt that too.

1 in 9 lunacy. If 1 in 9 teens got swatted it would be a huge deal. (for a good time let chatgpt + wolfram do all the calculations and start comparing to the 240 million 911 calls made each year... you'd be looking at 1 in 100 911 calls being swat pranks....
Mandatory Urinalysis
Perhaps :) Point taken. Re-reading, it looks like I skipped a transition sentence from the comment to what I wrote. (Or maybe the parent comment got edited? Not sure.)

> You can get cancer from not getting enough sleep. There are plenty of innocuous substances that look fine chemically but disrupt sleep. It doesn't have to be directly mutagenic to cause cancer.

I agree with the comment as written, though it strikes me that virtually no mainstream publications use writing that clarifies or quantifies these kinds of indirect relationships.

I see a lot of intellectual laziness or dumbing down. Two categorical errors happen often:

(A) writing “everything is connected”. This can be true in some sense while also being useless. The more interesting framing is to ask “to what degree” and under what modeling assumptions.

(B) Writing about various linkages without clarifying probability and impact dilution.

The connecting idea in my head was something like this: when most publications talk about cancer they tend to lack even a basic statistical language.

Backstory: Having hundreds of interactions with ChatGPT, which is trained on much mainstream writing, made this interaction pattern obvious and tiresome.

Another way of saying my complaint: It feels like otherwise intelligent people hit a barrier where they start speaking vaguely. They pretend like this is the best we can do. It ideally isn’t; we have extensive scientific and statistical studies. There is no reason why we as a culture have to accept such statistical phobia as quality writing.
>It's getting to the point where every realistic path to success is rooted in gambling/chance.

I don't see how that's true? If you're well educated in something useful and you're conscientious, there are a lot of corporate jobs that pay more than enough to sock away a good amount of savings, especially if you're willing to stay frugal. And if you're not particularly well educated in the college sense, but are willing to work hard, good tradespeople are in incredibly high demand. But certainly, some sectors have become more difficult to make your way in.

In terms of investing/gambling, the Buffett method of buying solid companies that make things that people need at a reasonable price is still much more reliable than hopping on the latest hype train. The hordes of WSB/GME bagholders would have been much better off just buying into Berkshire and then doing something more productive with their time. But I guess that's less fun than chanting "apes together strong" and imagining that you're sticking it to the hedge funds.

Anyway, I hope we can channel some of this disaffection and anger into getting a carbon tax passed, with a rebate and border adjustment. In addition to being the best hope I see against climate change, it will likely make local manufacturing more competitive, and therefore give people who want to do those kinds of jobs more leverage to demand better pay. And since the rich are responsible for much more carbon generation than the poor, an equal rebate should leave the poor ahead even despite the inflation it would cause, and help reduce wealth inequality.
Fediverse identity is based wholly on URL. If you want to own an identity, you own a domain.
I like Karl Voit's methodology. He goes more deep into Personal Information Management than anyone I've seen.

> For a couple of years, I taught PIM in a lecture at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. My students are surprised, how inefficient they were doing even «common» things like handling email, managing files like photographs on your computer, or searching for information. It is so rewarding to see students realizing how much improvement is possible with some background-knowledge and a few hints here or there. Starting with 2021, that lecture started at Graz University of Technology.

> I hereby claim that I am able to save you at least twenty minutes of your computer time a day just by looking over your shoulder and suggesting more advanced tools, better methods, and efficient workflows.

https://karl-voit.at/tags/pim/
The specific thing that makes swatting a useful harassment tactic is that SWAT teams don't handle situations with subtlety and deftness. The sort of police who someone could use to harass me with a false report are the exact sort of police I wouldn't want around if I was being held hostage.
Yeah. Honestly, at this point you have to think the ketamine isn’t being microdosed[0], or the whole Twitter escapade is an intentional op to burn down an account independent forum that has frequently been a source of pain for those in power.

I suspect the later. We’ve seen billionaires do it countless times.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
I think gmail has been out more than three times in the last 15 years. I remember in like 2013ish was the first gmail outage I remember and it was so shocking that everyone just left the office. heh. I've been trying to fully degoogle for six years. It's hard. I was an early GHA adopter and have multiple domains and stuff. That journey is finally wrapping up and FastMail has been a fantastic solution for me as I inch closer to self hosting. I've been very happy to give them money.
I just whacked this together last night. I've been using it in another project but it was so useful that I wanted it as a standalone package.
Copper sulfate is sometimes added to wine. What word do you think I didn't mean to use?

In the Eucharist the words are "this is my blood".
My previous comment did engage with your points. It’s not about making everyone the same, it is about reducing the unfair aspects and power games that the majority group continues and has in the past, exerted on the marginalized.

If Someone says that siding with an oppressor is justice, I think they should relearn ethics.
I've been able to switch mastadon instances without any problems; most instances seem to handle whatever activitypub machinery transfers followers.

So as long as both your source and destination support account transfers, you can usually switch and even seamlessly bring along most of your followers without them noticing.

No idea about your admin question. All bets are likely off with a bad admin. If you want actual cryptographically guaranteed communication, that doesn't exist in a usable form (except for Secure Scuttlebutt, and that's reeeeally stretching the "usable" part)
This is why I miss Quantopian. They had a great discussion forum, an ongoing competition, and annual conferences.

I would be interested in some kind of regular meetup as well to discuss new techniques and to analyze publicly disclosed strategies, etc.

I recently posted this article on HN... There is so much more knowledge to share:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36344587
The argument is about harm to the general populace, not about harm to a specific group they dislike.

Are indoor smoking bans good? The justification is that second-hand smoke has significant negative impacts on the general populace.

Are tabacco taxes good? They encourage the same thing that smoking bans do, a reduction in smoking leading to better health for the population.

The parent commenter is just saying the same applies to cars. Cars cause a huge number of deaths, especially of pedestrians and cyclists, but also of other car users. They harm the general populace. Just like existing in the same room as someone smoking has health consequences for you, living in the same city as cars increases your chance of death.

You can, of course, legitimately argue that capitalist competition isn't the right way to discourage it, but rather having the government levy additional taxes and fees would be better.
Yeah, I personally suspect it will be a slow death march over the course of a few years, culminating in it basically becoming 9gag.
It's not that some subset won't pay, its that it wont "grow" at the idiotic volumes that SV VC-based thought requires.

The 'infinite growth at all costs' model has rarely been seriously challenged, and as a result its become blase to think of a smaller scale but more stable and consistently successful business, and instead everything needs to lead towards monopolized or cartel-like "Big Tech".

It's a farce.
No one's obligated to do anything. All else being equal, people prefer convenience. If the service is less convenient, less people will choose to use it. If the content is freely available, it will be scraped.
Likely more of a bonus. I doubt anyone at Twitter factored nitter into any business decisions.
> I don't know why it would take 18 hours, and I don't see a bug report linked.

It seem systematic to the current architecture or developer experience - since the build environment is different than the local environment, there's going to be stuff that leaks through. For example, missing info.rktd dependencies, native dependencies, not pushing changes to dependencies that were on your local machine but not on pkgs.racket-lang.org yet (breaking api changes, additions), sometimes one gets 5xx errors from the frontend so that doesn't help.

When one clicks the "rebuild" button it simply queues the package to be rebuilt. Then you wait and hope everything is working. And come back to address the above issues.

> Then, given Racket's emphasis on cross-platform and backward-compatibility, Matthew's decision to add the semantics support without breaking production for all of the existing users. That seems reasonable and predictable to me.

Bottom line, any language that tries to break away from filesystem semantics of your host OS, is going to cause footguns. Sometimes it's okay to break backwards compatibility.

> What didn't go well? Racket runs on a wide variety of systems. I once experimentally packaged it for plastic OpenWrt routers, and it was straightforward. https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-openwrt/

My rule is if it isn't packaged in my OS, it doesn't exist in a redistributable form. Racket isn't quite there yet; there's some effort underway to package Racket packages on various operating systems such as Nix, Gentoo, and so on.

> The author got Matthew Flatt and even Matthias Felleisen giving prompt attention to the bug report they linked.

It's true, however a formal process to discuss feedback and next steps for Racket would help folks like myself feel confident in the direction of Racket. Otherwise it's just people on the internet saying "trust me".

> Talk to the developer of that third-party package?

Unfortunately I have found not everyone is interested in fixing their packages. I think this problem might be best fixed by making changes to the package manager to improve the developer experience. My usual work around is to vendor code.

> Units/signatures are ancient, and you probably don't need to use them. Just use the very nice module system (including submodules), and then decide whether you need more.

Is it possible to set up a unloadable plugin architecture without signatures and units?

> There's more than that, including doing spectacular productivity and importance, but there's not many.

I look forward to learning more about these users.
>I'm pretty sure police are more likely to be shot than any other occupation.

I'm pretty sure gangsters and drug dealers are the most likely to be shot than any other occupation in the US as they make up the bulk of firearm deaths after accounting for suicides.
The most useful parts of the internet for me lately are focused hobbyist forums. The rest of it keeps becoming increasingly difficult to use.
It's not that simple, though, because premium represents a lot more money than a normal month of ad income. It doesn't make me sick when people want to avoid spending >$100 a year. $2 a month to a random patreon would compensate creators more.
can't a malicious bluesky admin steal/MITM users' private keys by messing with whatever frontend javascript users interact with?
not really, it'd be outside the garden wall, and thus not monetizable by reddit
The key here is that the environment of near-zero interest rates these services proliferated in is over, so there is a drive to wall up and monetize their content more aggressively. That will probably fail, because all value they had was in community interaction. Who would want to train an LLM on post-2023 twitter content?
The UI looks the same after all those 20 years.
AMC used to have the same format, then the same thing happened to it. Belatedly going the way of TLC and Bravo.
At least Google Images is no longer just Pinterest results.

The only time I run into this Fuck You pattern is Instagram refusing to let you replay a video.
It remains to be seen if treatment will be covered by Medicare, and how large the payment gap will be in practice.
Probably would have been interesting to relaunch the Apollo with its own backend as a direct competitor to Reddit. I think one simple push notification would've pulled millions of the most active users over to the new service
There are people who want to add distributed identity to ActivityPub. It was left out of the spec but there were things left in to make it possible to add later. That's my understanding from a distance, anyway.
It may seem so at the first glance, but such trading if carried out by many independent providers actually increases the liquidity if the market for everyone else.

Likewise with crypto. Personally I don't think that if you're calling an API over an Internet it matters if your trading bot is written in go or python (mine was in python). Use the language you're most comfortable in. The network and trade submission/execution at your broker will be 10x slower than your bot anyway. Unless the size of your operation approaches the size where you can get direct market access which seems to be reserved for big forms only.
> They're not nearly as price-sensitive as you'd think.

Not me, no I agree with you here. It's the authors of the article you posted that think that students are price sensitive.
This happens to coincide with the date that a new law (singed May 12th) goes into effect in Virginia requiring commercial entities that publish or distribute "material harmful to minors" to verify the age of the users. Commercial entities violating that may suffer civil penalties.

https://legiscan.com/VA/text/SB1515/2023
RSS. It’s quite good for an application like this where the publisher has the resources to operate a website, and it allows multiple different consumer applications to all view the published text.
Genuinely curious: which centralized businesses existed in 8000 BCE?
Work in finance. Nothing else comes close.
And meanwhile we let any governing official to tweet whatever they like to their followers.
The same was true of JS.

But AFAIK, there is only CSS and JS.

You used to have to declare the Script tag as JS, but you don’t anymore since HTML5. Because all scripts are JS.

I don’t think SASS and LESS count, as are not supported by browsers natively, and require pre compilation. :-)
Nah, how many people are using Twitter without being logged in compared to how many people legitimately change every link they receive to Nitter?

I used the 'redirect to nitter' Firefox extension and Android app but it got quite unreliable and nobody else that I know uses nitter at all. I think Nitter users would be a tiny, perhaps even immeasurable minority compared to casual readers that now are incentivized to either log in or fuck off (but... FOMO).
The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark
> On average, every American owns a gun.

That is factually incorrect. 4 in 10 Americans (at most) own guns. Few of them carry them around.
I've been reading. No clickbait. No ragebait.

Just Discworld and its hilarious inhabitants.
I think even the idea of significant economic disruption is edging into science fiction territory.

Even if (and it's a big if) AI art and prose evolves far beyond its current flawed mediocrity, there's a massive legal and legislative reckoning to come. AI companies are enjoying their free lunch now, but what happens when their training process is classed as massive copyright infringement? They have to cut deals, pay a lot of people, and then artists, writers, photographers, etc are all still around instead of effectively being expected to work for free to feed the machine.
None of this changes the fact that some jerk is putting a household in harms way by maliciously calling the police on them.
> metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit.

That's a weird connection to make. Reddit isn't be-all-end-all of open source (given that it or most of the major apps were never open source anyway)
Yeah I guess I should have clarified that I’m really just in a consumer scenario. I mean I don’t want data corruption but every article or blog post I have read about ZFS says you should use it with ECC RAM. I would love to use ECC RAM but the support with my particular AMD computers is iffy. I think it’ll work on my 5700X computer, but not my 5600G computer.
Unpopular take: large platforms can do anything, any kind of evil moves towards their users and still mostly get away with it. We can see that it generally works with Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and lots of others.

I don't know for sure if it is possible to fight it. Centralized platforms will always win because they are very convenient and UX is very smooth while user plays ball by platform's rules. Migrating to decentralized is mostly for geeks.

I am geek myself, but I still can't find energy to migrate at leas email to my own domain. Instead I keep using GMail, despite all the risks (I am citizen of Russia, so in my case risk of deplatforming from Google is even higher).
I have been trying to hook a client on a useful demo to get someone who is not me to spring for that big display. Lol. The portrait is like $300 though and it looks good on that.
Have you ever had Inca Cola from Peru?

It's in the same neighborhood as Irn Bru.