skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only for economic profit. Normal profit remains even when economic profit is driven to zero:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/normal_profit.asp

"Economic profit is the profit an entity achieves after accounting for both explicit and implicit costs.

Economic Profit = Revenues - Explicit costs – Implicit costs

Normal profit occurs when economic profit is zero or alternatively when revenues equal explicit and implicit costs.

Total Revenue - Explicit Cost - Implicit Cost = 0

or

Total Revenue = Explicit + Implicit Costs"
I haven't done much digging but I don't see where I would go to only see content of people I follow.
Japan’s largest port stops operations after ransomware attack
it would be naive to assume that company like facebook/meta is gonna value privacy in long run.
Ha. Interesting reading through the comments.
I recently downgraded everything in Evernote after seeing that Evernote was reporting 3 different service tiers for my account in different places. I kept getting nagged to re-up. I finally did and in the process, with a HIGH degree of intention, selected the "monthly" slider fully planning to cancel my account while salvaging some of the notes.

Lo and behold, unbelievably, Evernote somehow still charges me the annual rate. Absolute transaction dark pattern happening in there somewhere/somehow.

This is after a long sequence of ineffective exchanges with support regarding my tier, and also a long period of being a customer (10 years?) and seeing basically zero feature development in line with long-running community requests.

Net/net: I'm done with Evernote. Just ain't working for me.
Sort suggestions:

karma / account age

karma / number of submissions

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Edit: this probably needs a weighting or minimum denominator to avoid new users getting launched to the top
I can’t say I am sympathetic about you having missed this Himalayan landslide. If you dawdled, it’s not my problem.

But if you’re willing to travel to the Alps, here’s one from a couple of weeks ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/huge-landslide...
Other than people complaining that the new twitter sucks, I have noticed no difference. Why is it terrible now, and why was it good before? The checkmark thing is whatever, I never gave checkmarks any deference.
> the job will take 10-20 times as long as it should.

But your CTO will think it will take 10-20 times less time than it should, because that's what the vendor promised.
Download blender, and learn how to make more complex polygonal shapes. I haven't reached the stage of making anything like foliage or utilizing curves yet, but just being able to make something like a door or a desk is liberating.

Similarly, you can do a lot of texturing work with just GIMP and a phone camera.
Toyota's patent on "shifting gears" (manual-transmission-style) is why I'm waiting on their big move before I buy a new EV.
I think the promise of threads is exactly what many people want. Hopefully the product improves to meet the expectations. Some things I'd like to see:

1. Native notes like feature for long form posts I can embed and share. I cannot stand the tweets threads of (n/27) about a topic.

2. Topic based feeds. Whether it's hashtags or some other type of categorization process. I think I read on HN the other day a twitter engineer had come up with something like that but it never got buy in from the decision makers. This would also help filter out things I don't want to see more broadly than manually muting users.

3. Enabling the option to only see verified accounts.

4. Private threads. Threads where you can tag an audience where only they can see the posts and replies. This would be a form of DM that isn't just another chat app.
Not sure about the veracity of this, but it is in-line with how people said Bending Spoons operates at the time of the takeover: they buy up apps and then raise prices to try to squeeze more cash out of the existing subscriber base while also cutting costs by firing development staff.

Seems like an almost inevitable end.

Evernote was a great app once upon a time. I'm still not aware of anything that works quite like it. Unfortunately they decided to take too much outside money, which put pressure on them to grow revenue by finding new kinds of customers. They started adding "team" features that no one wanted (work chat?) while neglecting the core features everyone relied on. Prices went up.

Nothing left to do but move on.
See, I love all those detail bits. I love to make tiny, intricate models that say a lot in a small space. I love grabbing a couple of random gribbly bits, sticking them together, deciding they look like the beginning of something, then sticking on more bits to make it more like the thing.

The "voxel sculpture" style where you just stack (mostly) rectangular bricks into a shape is perfectly valid, but it's less interesting to me personally.

Modern Lego supports both. Both are valid. They still sell big brick buckets, and no one's stopping you from buying one of those and doing your thing.
There is an ugly solution to noise, which is censorship. But it's hard to implement
I would be less surprised if they actually banned things like this given their attitude to E2E encryption..
The huge issue for me right now is there's no way to look at just the accounts you follow. Without that it's just as bad as the For You page on twitter which isn't great. It's the same issue making me hate Instagram at the moment you can only disable suggested posts in your feed 30 days at a time.
Aifont: An experimental AI-generated typeface
The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows.

Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are.

1: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

2: https://tvtropes.org/
You experienced a type 0 SMS. It can wake the GPS on a modern phone and return a GPS location.

Last time I checked cell tower triangulation is accurate to between a few hundred and a few thousand feet. Cellular A-GPS can be good to within a few feet inside houses usually but often its within a few tens of feet in accuracy.
Being a government employee carries a threat with it. I don't want those people making 'requests' to suppress others points of view in any situation, that's not reasonable to me at all. I'd rather they have their own press conference or whatever and counter whatever it is they disagree with and let me decide who I want to trust.

I don't trust anyone to decide what is misinformation or disinformation - that's also something I want to decide for myself.
You’re arguing the obvious and easy part. It’s fully settled law that intimidation can violate the First Amendment.

But under current law, intimidation must be proven (there must be an actual threat). The core question here is whether any statement, request, or demand by a federal official will be treated, by default, as intimidation under the law.

If upheld, such a standard would be a radical redefinition of the interactions between the federal government and private sector, and have some very weird and unexpected side effects.

For example, political speech is usually the most protected, but this standard would constrain tons of it. Imagine if the communications officer of a sitting Senator could get prosecuted because they asked a newspaper to alter a story they did not like. Something that happens almost every day in DC.
For comparison, this is between 4 and 5 times larger than the Osceola Mudflow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osceola_Mudflow) that formed the 550km² of fertile plains around the south end of Puget Sound (near Seattle) and knocked a huge chunk out of Mount Rainier. If you drive from Auburn to Enumclaw, for example, notice how flat the land is and think about how that was hilly Cascade foothills and glaciated drumlins until 5500 years ago. The Osceola event was way bigger than Mt St Helens, and this one in the Himalayas was way bigger even that that.

Back-of-envelope, that Osceola event released about 10^19 Joules of energy*. The scale of these things is absolutely incredible.

According to my father, until around the time he was doing Geology at university (late 1960s), the consensus was that these kinds of events (and mass wasting more generally) were geologic processes that no longer happened (and hadn't really happened throughout the Holocene). I don't know the history in detail there, but it does seem true that only relatively recently we've had a real appreciation for how active Earth's geology still is.

* 4e15 cubic centimeters of material, 2 g per cc mix of rock and ice, mean elevation change 1000m
We need a renaissance where voters wake up and remember that companies exist at the behest of the people. A business has no god-given or natural right to exist. They apply to their state with incorporation documents, and the state (in other words, the people) decides whether or not they should exist by granting them a business charter / license.

Companies are allowed to exist because they provide some common good, in exchange for us allowing them to profit and have limited liability. I think companies have forgotten this bargain, and feel they simply have the right to exist and that their only duty is to provide profit to shareholders.

The people should hold companies to a high standard, and demand that they also serve the public good in addition to serving their shareholders. And we should revoke companies' existence when they fail to uphold their side of the bargain. When was the last time that happened to a major company--that their business charter was revoked by the government for wrongdoing? We've gotten so used to simping for companies and not holding them accountable that they now strongly believe their only obligation is to their shareholders and financial markets.
not sure we have the same definition of 'malware'. the problem isn't copying/syncing the file from one computer to another, that works just fine. but obsidian can't read outside its own app folder IIRC.

i sync files with dropbox to my ios devices all the time.
...and this is why I still only do XHTML strict. I mean giving up predictability and the whole world of XML tools and libraries for these "benefits"... I really don't see the point.
While you are correct, I think this is one of those the user might not care, and a contributor to why being an upstart in this market segment can be so difficult.
Tell that to Stockton Rush's ghost.
GrapheneOS is a project that is hardening android and they mostly develop for pixels. If you are really paranoid, you can check that out.
I find that shorts pretty regularly suggest content I would like and it seems to largely depend on what I watch even outside of shorts. Ie when I watch a lot of dancing videos I get a lot of Shorts feed containing that, same with Korean or Japanese content.
> … the energy released would have been equivalent to around six times that of the Tsar Bomba

But how does that compare to an Olympic swimming pool full of double decker omnibuses being dropped from the same height?
But they can't? Not according to this judge:

> Some of the statements that Doughty deemed to be coercion were made in public by Biden and other administration officials. "When asked about what his message was to social-media platforms when it came to COVID-19, President Biden stated: 'they're killing people. Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated and that—they're killing people,'" Doughty wrote.
Not wanted here...you can keep it.
Besides, 30m people can't be wrong.

though it would be interesting to see how many Europeons do eventually sign up, once our inalienabile rights have been paid for, i mean 'guaranteed'.
That is indeed a serious question. Because if you argue that we have to influence climate change through geoengineering, then there are obviously limits that humans put on the climate, within which limits it is allowed to change.

Who defines these limits? Is it allowed to get warmer? Is it allowed to get cooler? If so, how fast? Are the changes defined in a democratic decision-making process?

So please - what is your strategy then?
Do you honestly think that people are downvoting the idea the middle class is hurting? They’re downvoting as it lazily and dishonestly uses poor people as a scapegoat. But I think you know that.
I also remember how that social network from google got to 15Milion users in no time... We know the rest of the story
Maybe this is my years of experience talking, but curious if anyone else sees a connection between a slow delivery (aka slower development time) and less bugs? The idea is that developers have more time to think about the solution, write better code and overall not feel so rushed just to get something out the door. In my experience, the more pressure put on developers to get the thing done, the more bugs are introduced.
These are likely nation state actors who have the ability to fund these attacks. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using advanced techniques to slow down the network and track the routes as they traverse. I would be wary of anonymity while using tor during one of these attacks.
The SpaceXpanse ROD coin has reached a significant milestone in its journey towards creating a thriving multiverse. With the successful halving of the ROD coin, the project has taken a giant leap forward, ensuring a sustainable and secure ecosystem for its users.
because it uses icloud drive. and that syncs poorly and on its own schedule. it would sometimes take a day or so to get a file from my mac studio to my macbook. it is crazy how bad icloud is.
> Can they really go lower by switching to AI?

Exactly, and at the moment an LLM might still be cheaper than human writers. If you're going to publish hot air you might as well automate it.
> if you can call it journalism.

I don't, hence my comment.
Lukashenko Says Prigozhin Is in Russia, Not Belarus
I am also not understanding what people think is wrong with current twitter. Nothing really has changed from my pov.
Does it? The OS must be able to send audio to the phone modem (bluetooth, homepod, etc), so it seems reasonable to me that it wouldn't have direct access to the microphone and that would go via OS also.
Stocks are down because speculators understand that the fed has two mandates: unemployment and price stability (inflation).

With a strong jobs report coming out, this gives the fed leeway to more aggressively attack inflation (via rate hikes).

When rates go up, capital typically flows into bonds and away from stocks, etc.
Are there any good lists of scientific, academic, hacker-news type people to follow? Was hoping to see Yann LeCun at least, but so far it’s just Mr. Beast, etc.
Common getting zero makes sense if pref holders had liquidation multiples ("we get 3x our investment back first"), but not if they converted to common, unless their conversion to common had some weird mechanic attached to it that massively diluted the remaining common down to effectively zero % (which sounds sue-able). I'm really curious about the mechanics of how your common holding netted out to zero if prefs also converted to common?
I count that as being the same as death. The name may live on, but the company is long gone and the name is meaningless.
> hilariously expensive for what it does

What Sync does is not only "sync", it also helps Obsidian remain profitable and 100% user supported. Subsidizing costs in pursuit of growth is what got Evernote here.
Giving up what now? All the tools you need for HTML5 have existed for many, many years. You'd be "giving up" your tooling in the same way you're "giving up your car" if you buy a new car. You have a new car now, what's the problem?
FSNotes for iOS and macOS, native and fast
This German webhost does not include SSL in it's bare bones package without surcharge. Thus my kita had no SSL certificate, and thus I could detect my ISP or some hacked router injecting ads (Berlin) when I used that site.

There are plenty of local http sites due to German's (reasonable) distrust of US companies and a propensity to roll their own

https://m.all-inkl.com/webhosting/privat/#&ui-state=dialog
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I would love to see some big rollup feeds of tech blogs like the ones in the lists you link above.

I am using Superfeedr toingest RSS/Atom feeds into YOShInOn, my smart RSS reader, which costs 10¢ per feed per month, I am ingesting upwards of 2000 articles a day with a $8/month bill. I'd like to subscribe to 2000 small blogs that publish an article every week or month but that's not affordable even with bulk discounts and even if I stood up another ingestion system it would ridiculous to poll all those blogs 100 times for every article I get, and if more people started doing what I do, the load on those blogs would get unreasonable.

There used to be "Planet" software that would aggregate RSS feeds but the site for the software is dead although there are a few surviving planets like

https://planet.postgresql.org/

I wish we had more of them.
Poll: What does the term “open source” mean?
Does "open source" strictly mean "Open Source", or has the word changed meaning within the last 5-10 years? No better way to know than to poll HN!
The term "open source" means that the source code is publicly available to read and use
The term "open source" means that the source code is publicly available to read, use, modify and distribute
The term "open source" means that the source code is publicly available to read, use, modify and distribute under a permissive license
The term "open source" means that the source code is publicly available to read, use, modify and distribute under an OSI-approved license
https://archive.ph/djT9f
>> It's extremely nice to not have to aim for the precise edge of a window.

> It's nice to be able to do these kinds of things one-handed.

Was that supposed to be snarky/mocking? It's the internet, so it's hard for me to tell sometimes.

In any case, I do agree that those grace zones are nice, too. I'm fairly sure that Gnome Shell has them as well.

I like to have both. I usually keep my hands on my keyboard's home row most of the time, so when I do reach for my mouse (I'm right-handed), my left hand is typically still sitting on a-s-d-f-space (or below space), so hitting Alt or Super (depending on the window manager and its settings, IIRC) with my thumb and dragging my mouse around is typically pretty comfortable and requires almost no precision whatsoever. Those grace zones are nice, but they obviously can't be huge, so you still have to do some aiming--especially on a laptop touchpad. Having the ability to enter into "resize and drag mode" via a modifier button where I can be super sloppy and know I can't "miss" just feels good to me; it feels like I don't have to change my concentration/focus at all.
Is a reasonable person surprised when their cruise control changes speed?
Sounds like perverse incentives? If your best coarse is to ruin your company and product to make a buck, you may as well be a telemarketing scammer or some other vulture of society that make bank off the mystery/rent seeking of others.

I have to hope that the original owners really wanted to make the best product possible and lost their heads with the power to create that they thought the investments would bring.
https://maxwelldulin.com/Resources - short summaries of highly technical security posts (4/wk)

https://portswigger.net/research - web security research from the geniuses at portswigger (1/wk)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ - project zero's research (1/mo)

https://hn.invades.space/hn_gems_rss.xml - top links extracted from comments on top hn posts (85/wk)

https://kevinlynagh.com/ - posts regularly contain a great selection of links (1/mo)

http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classics (1/mo)

https://www.bellingcat.com/ - open source research (1/mo)

https://pudding.cool/ - art using web technology (1/wk)

https://www.experimental-history.com/ - psychology (1/wk)
> The whole point of Lego was creative free form building. Remove that & it’s dull as hell.

The point is that Lego can be played with in a bunch of ways. It's parts that you can do whatever with, and it has instructions for one or more models that you can make. Some people like the sheer possibilities of making things up, and some people find that daunting. Lego supports both, and anything in between.

Following the instructions does teach you techniques that you can use on designing your own builds. It's a way to learn from experts.
How many of these posts do we need? Is HN to become an hourly counter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612615 Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610716 Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609632 Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
You can try to find the parts that stand out on bricklink[0], which will point you to the sets they were used in. It's pretty quick, once you figure out what the part can be called or what category it fits in.

If you can't figure it out, you can ask for help on the "bricks" StackExchange site[1].

[0] https://www.bricklink.com
[1] https://bricks.stackexchange.com/
Any non-invite launch will peak heavily to start, and drop very quickly after. One thing I'd be very curious about is what their WAU will be a month from now. This is the death knell for any social network - can you get ongoing engagement instead of just "Testing this new platform for the first time, here's a dog pic" type posts?

One thing that worries me for their longevity is that they don't actually offer any tangible user benefit. Right now their biggest sales pitch is that they're "not twitter". Many of those users who were looking for a solid replacements have moved to mastodon already, so it'll be interesting to see if they have long term stickiness.

Still that doesn't discount that this is a massive amount of users on day 1. Big props to the team!
Joplin does
Publishers and Advertisers Push Back at FTC’s ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Proposal
Actual article:

> The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries,

It's not talking about "greenhouse Earth". Anyways, for immediate concerns we only need to look at the Meghalayan age.
When I once updated Evernote in 2015 and it got worse, I just reverted and never updated again. I've been using the same version of Evernote for over 8 years for free and it's amazing.
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