skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter went from a 4.9k headcount in Dec 2019, to 7.5k in Dec 2021. Fact.

I don't care if you "like my graphics work" or not. You seem to be implying I owe you something, which is crazy. I have been publishing stuff online for decades and I can tell you, judgy and entitled people such as yourself have _never_ done anything useful in return.

What's amazing is you chastizing me for a "bad post", even as you dispute something you could've googled in 5 seconds.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong in pointing out that X is a better practise than Y, even if only by a small amount. As the tweet in the article points out, it’s really easy to multiply that tiny benefit by 1000 icons before you know what you’re doing. Why not start off on the best foot?

I don’t want to sound too negative (but I’m about to): this attitude in web development really bugs me. Shaving 5ms off render time on a crappy Android device should be a desirable goal, not something you have to be cajoled into doing. You should be motivated by that! But instead the industry is all about “DX”: is that change going to complicate my precious build script? Then out the window it goes.

We have an industry that prioritises developer experience over user experience and I think that has a role to play in the shittiness of the web these days.
>Given Jack Dorsey's support of the crazier positions of Elon Musk and RFK e.g. WiFi causes leaky brain it really does look like the best of a bad bunch.

yeah, I'm not sure why he's going all-in on a fringe candidate who's clearly never going to win
No, bonds held by the federal reserve are rolled over. The debt is paid back but it is immediately replaced with new debt of equivalent value, off of the open market. The process is described here: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/treasury-rollover-faq

>On the auction settlement date, the maturing Treasury securities are exchanged for the newly issued Treasury securities.

In net, the debt is only paid back when the central bank is actively reducing its treasury holdings, by rolling over less than the total amount of maturing debt. That is basically the reverse process of 'printing money', it takes the money back out of the wider economy.

>Why do you think people buy them?

Certainly 'people' buy them because they intend to get paid back, yes, but the central bank doesn't have the same motives. It increases and decreases the amount of treasuries it holds in order to control the money supply. That's the whole purpose of it holding treasuries.

edit: here's some bedtime reading https://theconversation.com/how-the-federal-reserve-literall...
Cursive handwriting is being lost in many countries, which is a pity IMHO.
I am from Italy, moved to Sweden a few years ago and I was shocked to learn that my daughter is not being taught cursive at school.
I don’t think AT and Bluesky have “launched” limited invites are evident of that.

The fact that they haven’t broadly got other servers they’re federating with - they’re not ready - is why they’re limiting signups.
I believe Microsoft Word originally did this, and it was a major pain as the file format evolved.
I noticed, but in the context it seems to imply a worse take.
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
oh god no.

posts not being able to submit images is a huge part of what makes HN valuable (to me).

once HN needs to handle images, HN falls apart
I remember Spolsky saying Excel .xls worked like this, but I guess this should apply to .doc files as well.

This is usually orders of magnitude faster than serializing to/deserializing from a different storage format.
I wonder, could an American join a satellite design competition team in a Chinese school?
This is great to know, thanks for the update. I will definitely look at the newest firmware then.
Any multi-party LLC I've been part of, and it's been more than a few, has provisions about tax liabilities and allowed the LLC to forcefully pay them. Additionally, LLCs rules would control equity holde payouts, and provisions around equity liquidation.
Thank you for your comment velcrovan, but I don't agree with this sentiment. I've been using Ubuntu for personal laptop for a decade, and whatever for a given corporate laptop, and was reluctant to dig into NixOS, until it clicked - the point is to have it done once, and you won't have to do it ever again! NixOS is the only one that allows so.
No motivation needed whatsoever. Just check out page 27, table 5. The data speaks for itself.
It's very common in old software and video games. Pre-97 office did that though with more formalisation than most (the binary format is now called Binary Interchange File Format, or BIFF, and is relatively generic, at the time MS almost certainly had utility libraries for working with BIFF).

This was a common source of portability issues for game saves (as well as blowing your saves on updates), as they'd commonly just blit internal data structure, with no formalised interface.
> “How have you been? How is everything going for you and for the team?" and then just fucking listen?

Because most people are just going to say, “Fine” and try to not rock the boat. If their manager is passive they’ll be passive back. At some point the manager has to tell the report that things aren’t going well.
>So I've been producing ads for a couple of decades, and I agree that they're basically psychological warfare. I justify it to myself because I usually get to make ads for products that help people, but the war over mindshare is absolutely depraved. That said, there does need to be a place for people to access information about products and services. I'd just prefer it be a place that people go to intentionally learn about products and services, rather than something ingrained in every aspect of modern life.

I spent a number of years doing market research for advertising, and I couldn't agree more. Data analysis is primarily focused on increasing "top of mind" and "unaided" awareness and linking positively-perceived properties and emotions to the product being flogged.

I got out before "social media" convinced everyone to share everything about their lives with advertisers and their enablers, but back in the day, ad agencies and the marketing departments of large consumer product companies each spend millions every year (cf. BSB Global Scan[0] as an example) collecting a tiny subset of that data.

Given the enormous amount of data available today, I imagine that the levels of manipulation have increased exponentially. And more's the pity.

[0] https://www.proquest.com/openview/46f87cae3614d373064294a43b...
You might wanna ask the north part of Marseille about that at the moment
Thank you for all the advice! I think this discussion has given me a healthy fear of oxygen cylinders and concentrators. I'm not sure I'll be experimenting with them now.
My understanding is that ActivityPub doesn’t have much to say about identity. ActivityPub is mostly just “less simple RSS”
which evidently can't be fixed by simply reverting relevant changes

Rumors suggest that part of the change is moving from GCP to something else. Something like can't be reverted without signing a new contract with Google (and paying the bill..).
Yes that's normal. Every year the entry period is in October, and closes in early November. At the same time it opens, they start processing the winners from the previous batch.

If you enter in Oct, your result is announced in May or June of the following year. If you are picked, then processing for your batch begins that October - 12 months after you entered.

So right now they're processing DV2023 winners. They started doing that in Oct 2022, one year after DV2023 participants entered. In October they'll start processing DV2024 winners who just found out a couple of months ago that they won, having entered in Oct 2022.

Does it make sense now?
Ugh I have news for you
Just include an SVG sprite in the HTML page. Then, like the article says, you can reference each icon with <use href="#icon-name" /> and they will be available far before your js bundle is parsed.
only 2 options: give in or fight. I'm not sure why you have problems sleeping.
This sounds great. Although, we basically have the same thing when people share links and people comment on them.

Classic Google though.

Gosh Google was the chosen one, how far they have fallen.
I game on wayland, using steam and proton/wine. Xwayland works, and wine-wayland fork is functional and in the process of being merged. What is holding you back?
Android is pretty open as far as I know. You can even run Linux distributions on it with Termux - although its future is looking unstable with Android's new OS versions changing the services it depends on.

I think (guessing) the main thing an OSS advocate might take issue with is that decisions are made by corporate bodies that might not benefit end-users in every case. For example, the aforementioned Termux issue and how Google recently deprecated the open source Messages and Dialler apps on Android, with vendors like Samsung giving proprietary alternatives.

That seems to me to be an issue with some other open source projects too (people complain about GNOME for example not listening to its users) but it possibly happens there on a lower scale since Android's a bigger project (likely most people in the world have seen or held or used an Android phone once in their lives).
I think the concept would be easier for me to understand if we talked about the inverse of entropy - i.e. some kind of measurement for the concentration of useful energy or "order". I think it would then be more intuitive to say that this measurement always decreases. Do we even have a word for the opposite of entropy?
Yeah, I have an AQI meter too, and my CO2 meter also tracks humidity. I'm pretty sure it's the CO2. It's admittedly a minor annoyance, I'm just trying to make the perfect work setup.
It doesn’t. Bluesky is not “launched”. It’s nowhere near done.

It has the potential to be, once it’s finished. But it’s not finished yet.
You don't have kids huh?
> Hey can you use per-year in both or per-hour in both for clarity? I'm not used to hourly rates so it's ambiguous to me what this means.

Life-hack: take your hourly rate, multiply by two, add three zeroes.

90 * 2 = 180.
180 + 000 = 180k.

That assumes:
- 40 hour work week
- 50 weeks / year (2 weeks vacation)
Tor metrics don't really tell you much about the actual human users of the networks. They mostly tell you about current bot/etc usage. It's why inferred tor v3 datarates have been wildly inflated (10gbps) ever since support was turned on in the release binaries despite 99% of human people using tor v2 (at the time).
YC is a for profit corporation not a charity.

Their sole purpose is to turn startups into highly profitable businesses.

So in that context "build what people want" makes total sense to me.

They are not offering you half a million dollars so that you can follow your passion but for you to turn that half million into 100M or 1B.

There's already way too much risk in the execution of an idea to also pursue one that ignores the market and doesn't prioritize value.

I also don't think YC is asking you to build something you don't want to build.

Pursuing passions is a good thing and some people can only be motivated to work on stuff they absolutely love.

That doesn't mean both things are necessarily mutually exclusive, you can build what you and other people want, just be aware at some point in time, multiple times, you'll face conflicting situations where you will have to pick one, and your decision could be life changing not only for you but for dozens, hundreds or thousands of people.
I'm guessing that there is some automatic system that works on certain words in comments. Flame detection has been mentioned before. Probably in combination with account age or karma. I also imagine that users vouching for these might offset the behaviour.
This is quite a huge improvement. Prior we'd have one relative take a picture and it would be lost to time.
The risks of embedded bare repositories in Git (2022)
Author here, I don’t use ChatGPT to write any of my posts.
>> Most hard ideas can't be practically decomposed.

Yes! This is the crux of the problem. If a hard idea CAN be decomposed, or even a non-novel but complex need, it's the decomposition that's the hard work. It's "how to draw an owl" all over again.
If society really needed them it would find a way to pay for them.
Introvert and bachelor
"What can I do to unblock you and help you achieve your full potential?"

This also assumes that the manager isn't the blocker. Replying "Do your job better" probably wouldn't go down very well.
> the point is to have it done once, and you won't have to do it ever again! NixOS is the only one that allows so.

Until the tooling introduces a breaking change or new cooler way to do things appear and people stop supporting the old way because "everyone switched anyway". Been there, done that.
Remember that people have shittier jobs than you.

If you’re a low dollar contractor on a work visa making $25/hr to sling J2EE or COBOL for the Arkansas welfare department, that’s what it’s like.

If you don’t play the game, you stand to lose a lot.
You want to scrape your own tweets, is that it? If so, isn't preventing scraping what's driving Twitter's recent changes? Maybe you're too late?

As for scraping if it's possible, I'm sure there are others on HN who can answer that better than me.
It's the shipping and returns. Easy button.
Just as the Raspberry Pi supply seems to be opening up a lot.

Although Zero2Ws are a bit tricky to get hold of
My claim is that researchers are unlikely to be operating the botnet
Wow, thank you for the tip! I'm going to look into the Purifresh, that sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Unfortunately I'm not in the Boston area but thank you for the offer!
Future headline: Supreme court decision (9-3) says Oregon County can go f*k itself. Majority opinion by Justice Thomas written after he rents his garage out to oil-execs for $10M.
Just the usual political flamewar that happens here from time to time, not sure why it escalates on some threads and not on others though.
The interesting question is if there is a bot net spreading in Germany since the 17th of June. What would be the likelihood of that going undetected. If you like conspiracy theory, the rise in one country could point to state actors.
For commenting, see http://hypothes.is/ There are others too.

A few observations of hypothes.is include

* Despite it being around a while, not a lot of people seem to generally, outside of let's all comment on this article/set of articles, use it. Notably, some seminal papers of social annotation are uncommented, by anybody! I remember more people using ICQ's long forgotten chat with others also browsing this page feature despite that being synchronous vs asynchronous comments.

* It has a 'group' function. You can filter by a group you're in. This is useful given the social constructivism that comments can give - it's constructed by a group after all, and different groups may lead to different results.

Kinda leading on from that, assigning a point is simply a numerical indicator. What does it mean? Aside from different voting types (only up? up/down? % up? what about neutral/not voted vs views? etc.), a vote's kinda positivist. So.. a badge of trust? From whom and why (the qualitative aspect)? Do you want social groupings for votes? Are all votes equal? Why not measure backlinks, or citations and do you trust these?

That's all ignoring stuff like bots, gaming, and there possibly being agreement from the entire internet whether something's good.

I visit HN because I trust the filter that's the community, a social filter self selected by choosing to be part of the HN community. As well as the front page, I also often browse new where a headline may take my interest almost as much as the front page; new is, after all, already community filtered by people that care enough about a link to submit (minus the spam). I'd actually quite like a Slashdot 'friend'/'friend of friend' follow option here - do any of the HN apps that that?

1. Often. It's often from search results.

2. No, I probably wouldn't use such an extension.

3. Despite looking into them, I don't regularly use any such tools that already exist.

Edit: Something I feel may be important that I've not really looked into: Where's the agency of the author? People directly commenting, as it would appear to a viewer, on their work. Would some authors oppose that and argue it's a derivative work [in the case of annotation]?
You’re describing the "ingénieur diplômé d’état" which is controlled. Everyone can be a regular engineer in France.
Even his scoring is bad. In his view changing placement of 5 buttons is the same effort as creating a Reusable “customer-create-or-lookup” UI component.

Managers will quickly game this by making a tons of useless small changes of button positions as this will give the manager a lot more velocity points than any real progress on the project.
What Roblox-like patterns have you incorporated? Sounds interesting and I wonder where else in my kid’s life I could apply those ideas.
It's becoming compulsory again in Ontario's curriculum this Fall (2023). It was made optional in 2006.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/ontario-cursive-reintroduction-1.689...
Is someone trying to compromise the Tor network?

I read that Tor needs a certain percentage of non-malicious nodes to function, though I am not sure if that is applicable clients.
I remember this, I always found the concept fascinating.

But looking back, looking at what the web has become, there was no chance this could have ever worked. At best, it being centralized, it would have become essentially a Google controled social-media-ish space where all the "inconvenient" comments would be removed anyway. Probably Google would even disable the comments on some pages, like disabling sidewiki comments on the pages of some big newspaper that demanded Google to do it because people were criticizing that giving media outlet. Let alone the sheer problem of dealing with spam, which, specially now with LLMs will get much harder to filter.

All these things could have been solved and dealt with it one way or the other, if we REALLY wanted. But ultimately, I think there was no interest on the people who maintain the internet, the people who create the tools that most use to access the internet: there is no reason why they would keep a tool that would allow people to voice their opinions.

On the contrary, what we have been seeing on the internet is precisely the oppose happening. They removed the dislikes, they removed comments in many videos. Hell, Netflix used to have an option where people could leave reviews on the movies they watched. The internet of 2020 is clean and "family-friendly" and "politically correct" and it fits the narrative and the current thing, and they knee before the big corporations and anything that could hurt their brand must be eliminated.

In the 2020s internet there is no space for a service like Google Sidewiki, and even if someone build this as an open standard, and even if the spam issue wasn't a problem... Google, Apple and Microsoft would never implement and built this feature on their browsers, and most people using the internet are too noobs to sideload an extension themselves that enables this feature to a point of it gaining enough of a userbase to matter and actually be useful.

In short, this whole product is a child of a more naive internet where people still believe that services could actually be better. Funnily enough, Gab launched a similar extension called "Dissenter" some years later and it got banned from Chrome and Mozilla extension stores.
Those are referred to as "retained earnings" (occasionally: accumulated earnings, retained capital, or earned surplus), and accrue to the not-for-profit organisation's balance sheet.

<https://www.wikiaccounting.com/retained-earnings-for-non-pro...>

<https://insidecharity.org/2018/05/18/earned-income-for-nonpr...>

Note that this may occur on a short-term basis given normal market variability, or over the long term The latter case is more interesting.

In the short term, such business profits simply accrue to accounts, and are typically held as cash or cash-equivalents.

Over the medium term, funds may be moved to various forms of generally-liquid assets (government bonds, equities, etc.), as part of the organisation's money-management strategy.

In the long term ... the organisation gets to decide how to invest those resources. There are several options:

- Increase wages, as you suggest. This is of course only one option.

- Increase benefits. Healthcare, daycare, commute / housing / educational supports, etc.

- Expand workforce. Hire additional employees.

- Expand business. This might entail expanding or improving a location, opening additional location, going into multiple lines of business, or aquiring other organisations.

- Expand endowment. This is particularly the case for many educational institutions, and those endowments may range into the billions of dollars.

Generally you'll find these options discussed in a long term capital plan or similar strategy document.

For specific forms of business organisation, such as a co-operative business (which may or may not be a not-for-profit organisation), there may also be dividend payouts to members. My understanding is that these are not equivalent to stock dividends, though I'm hazy on details.

What you don't see for non-profits, however, is a mandated and frequently automatic form of return to shareholders, through either stock dividends or inflating the value of a joint stock issue. That cuts two ways: not-for-profits don't have the financial drag of spilling out money to investors, but they also typically have less access to financial capital markets.