skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... They are that good. The David was the one for me. First time I waited in line for well over an hour. That was two decades ago. And it is still one of the best works of art I've seen. Made it back once more. Last time the line was still long so I decided to skip it. But I'd go again.
There are some things that aren't really worth the long wait, but there are some things that are.
And get there is still a ton of things out there to see
Your original position was "We don't typically write about startups gaining initial signups and then compare them to the active users".

I've given multiple examples of just such a comparison being made over a decade ago.

In both cases, the new launch was by an existing giant in the sector, with claimed performance being not entirely credible.

Google of a decade ago had launched [edit: or aquired, but in either event, run] Orkut, Friendster, Wayze, Reader, and YouTube. Several of those were modest hits, one remains a giant (YT), and one is much missed by its small but quite significant fan base (Reader).

The Social space is immensely fickle, and the ability of even an established industry giant to succeed with a new venture is fairly thin. Facebook has largely bought rather than made its own follow-on successes to date (as did Google in buying YouTube).

Note edit above. Poor language choice around pedants.
I do recall there being a trial in India that paused uploading but I am pretty sure that was resolved a year or two ago
Most people don't take their laptop to the bathroom.
I think this varies by groups of people and is very similar to everyone in the group having Nike shoes. It's a marketing ploy from Apple.
> I think you're defining consumer as the literal line of code where the field is read

I am.

> After all it's usually better to abort early than half way through an operation.

I realize this goes against common wisdom, but I actually disagree.

It's simply unrealistic to imagine that we can fully determine whether an operation will succeed by examining the inputs upfront. Even if the inputs are fully valid, all sorts of things can go wrong at runtime. Maybe a database connection is randomly dropped. Maybe you run out of memory. Maybe the power goes out.

So we already have to design our code to be tolerant to random failures in the middle. This is why we try to group our state changes into a single transaction, or design things to be idempotent.

Given we already have to do all that, I think trying to validate input upfront creates more trouble than it solves. When your validation code is far away from the code that actually processes the data, it is easier to miss things and harder to keep in sync.

To be clear, though, this does not mean I like dynamic typing. Static types are great. But the reason I like them is more because they make programming easier, letting you understand the structure of the data you're dealing with, letting the IDE implement auto-complete, jump-to-definition, and error checking, etc.

Consider TypeScript, which implements static typing on JavaScript, but explicitly does not perform any runtime checks whatsoever validating types. It's absolutely possible that a value at runtime does not match the type that TypeScript assigned to it. The result is a runtime exception when you try to access the value in a way that it doesn't support (even though its type says it should have). And yet, people love TypeScript, it clearly provides value despite this.

This stuff makes a programming language theorist's head explode but it practice it works. Look, anything can be invalid in ways you never thought of, and no type system can fully defend you from that. You gotta get comfortable with the idea that exceptions might be thrown from anywhere, and design systems to accommodate failure.
The comment two up was talking about regurgitating memorized solutions. If you can memorize a solution and then just copy it down, the problem must be not very involved I guess.
Just heads-up: the developer is located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. For some of us this could be pertinent for ethical, legal or security reasons.
Something tells me that death is built-in feature of many nested systems in order to prevent stagnation / local minima or maxima. In the case of social humans, death prevents bad people from remaining alive forever, cementing in power structures and not providing the needed substrate for continual growth of a society.

I don't mean to ascribe intention to nature, but rather state that social systems which get far enough for its members to discuss it freely on the internet likely converge on this feature.

One could argue that eternal life unlocks the next phase of a civilization, but I am unconvinced that humanity is even properly equipped for the level of technology we have today, much less tomorrow.
By the way, a very similar API has apparently been implemented in Safari
since 2022. Seems like better marketing does wonders, as I haven't seen
any discussion of this.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...

Some interesting bits:

> [...] We don’t actually need or want the underlying data that’s being
collected for this process, we just want to verify if a visitor is faking
their device or user agent. [...]

> [...] In the example above, a visitor opens the Safari browser on their
iPhone and tries to visit example.com.

> * Since Example uses Cloudflare to host their Origin, Cloudflare will ask
the browser for a token.

> * Safari supports PATs, so it will make an API call to Apple’s Attester,
asking them to attest.

> * The Apple attester will check various device components, confirm they
are valid, and then make an API call to the Cloudflare Issuer (since Cloudflare
acting as an Origin chooses to use the Cloudflare Issuer).

> * The Cloudflare Issuer generates a token, sends it to the browser, which
in turn sends it to the origin.

> * Cloudflare then receives the token, and uses it to determine that we
don’t need to show this user a CAPTCHA. [...]

Sounds an awful lot like WAI to me, but at least it's called a "Privacy Access
Tokens" so it surely must be good...?

EDIT: turns out there was an HN thread about this a few days ago, I just missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494
Hackernews ranking isn't exactly a fair ranking system. It promotes certain domains, certain types of posts (YC launches), and companies that have investments from certain investors.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/substack/company_fin...
From the Warren and Graham opinion piece on NYT:

> Our Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act would create an independent, bipartisan regulator charged with licensing and policing the nation’s biggest tech companies — like Meta, Google and Amazon — to prevent online harm, promote free speech and competition, guard Americans’ privacy and protect national security. The new watchdog would focus on the unique threats posed by tech giants while strengthening the tools available to the federal agencies and state attorneys general who have authority to regulate Big Tech.

I'd like to see the actual language of the bill. For now, in these public-facing articles, it seems as if the scope is too borad. For instance, what is 'Big Tech'? I'm also concerned about an agency responsible for 'unique threats'. While it's loable that there'll be an agency in charge of addressing the universe of threats that are not within the purview of any other government agency, this could be easily abused.
And the craziest thing is that every single new network or studio entrant just copies the same old format set up Netflix/Hulu ages ago, instead of trying to introduce any sort of innovation. Understandably, it's a tried and true standard but they could always introduce alternate modes for that sort of interactive viewing. Who knows, maybe they could drive greater engagement that way.
So what are these many ways to stand out that aren’t based on what you did when you were working?

> I'd hire a generic skillset developer who is a great communicator and teammate over a technical genius asshole who shreds teams apart 99.9% of the time.

How would you determine that if they can’t demonstrate their communication skills and their ability to work well with others based on their past experience - you know the standard “tell me about a time when…” questions?
What social media is Type 1? I feel like the history of the internet is social media apps starting close to Type 1 and becoming Type 2.
It does very much need a cheap development board.

Also, I might be blind, but while there are some references to the cores being 64bit, it doesn't seem to specify what ISA extensions they support exactly, anywhere in the pdf.

I am thus going to assume the absolutely minimum RV64E.
> Does anyone design dishwashers as a hobby, as an easy example?

I'm pretty sure Alec from Technology Connections would if he had the resources.
I still prefer my kid I'm camp or summer school over the kid on Netflix or Steam or whatsapp whole day. Or over me forcing them away from the above after which they still don't go play outside with friends, because friends watch anime or play video game.
Wow, this seems really bad. Did you ask for your money back?
Yep. I have a century-old pool table (coincidentally also made in Chicago) that was left in the house I lived in as a little kid. It is extremely rare. Thinking of taking it to Antiques Roadshow.
> vastly different usage habits by department

That will happen even when starting with a single instance. But that's also going to happen in real life. You can only embrace it...
this is a fatal flaw of Tor imo, it should be a question front and center to enable all browser installations to be relays
Is Juneuary June in January or the other way around?
>Do you also question why people buy quality shoes or mattresses?

I do. I am 99% convinced that the majority of first world people waste way too much money on shoes that aren't any better or worse than cheaper options. Shoes don't really get all that much better than they were previously, but somehow they always change and the cost always goes up.
Can you remind me how they got 100M users in the first week?

You seriously compare growth at the planet scale with a growth at few universities?
That it is possible to do something with your life.

That sounds a bit obnoxious but when I was younger I (and my peers) was told constantly that I would not get through college, or fail on that project, or not get a good job, fail at starting a company, on and on.

The guy (or girl) that good grades was told they could do anything of course. But what I learned growing up is that is relatively easy to ace a high school test if you put some effort in. In doesn’t tell you anything about what you will be able to do in later life. That A you got on Bio isn’t going to help you with your job now (even if you are a Bio engineer).

Life is so much more complicated than a few tests. People achieve great things all the time from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Sure you probably won’t become the next Steve Jobs but there are so many great things to do that are very achievable for an average person with a little work ethic and passion, and who knows maybe you will do something that connects with other people and you do end up changing the world!
This is why I continue to maintain that ops and SE excel at remaining distinct fields, though I certainly don’t mind overlap.

Most of my friends are software developers and/or software developers working on cloud-based stacks.

Two of those friends lead the platform engineering groups at their respective companies. One of them has a very basic understanding of networking and could figure out how to do subnetting that didn’t come out of the box, but they’d need to stop and go learn that.

That isn’t everyone by any stretch, but I see it more often than not these days.

I agree fully with the idea that younger professionals aren’t as used to the infrastructure underneath the infrastructure being as complex as the higher layers of the OSI model that they’re frequently more experienced with.

What I hope we don’t end up with is a future where all the data center people and all the network engineers (and so on) are almost exclusively employed by a small number of mega-corps. It’s important that knowledge and experience in the fundamentals of the networked world remain widely distributed and openly accessible.
Can Women Beat Men in Marathon Swimming?
If you watch US media it's obviously the latter. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many jokes about "pound you in the ass" prison. Prison sexual assault is often even cited as a positive when talking about criminals like rapists of pedophiles.
I don't think "complete" is the right word to use. Perhaps "whole." It seems to me that what you're describing as "development" is in many cases the process of healing from trauma, which indeed stunts one's development.

The emotional mechanism at play in my case is pretty clear to me but healing is a slow process and it takes as long as it takes.
Hey. Probably the best way is to go to university in the U.S. on an F-1 visa. The challenge is the strict limitations on working when attending school but after you graduate, you will get 1-3 years of largely unrestricted work authorization and the TN as a work option as well. Or go to university in Canada and then when you graduate, work in the U.S. on a TN.
Here are the public comments for reference. It looks like it's mostly emphatic pleas to extend the comment period or change course.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OPP-2021-0290-00...
I honestly think this is a very silly take. I don't think any of this is how any of this works.

Threads attracted two kinds of people: 1. People coming mostly from instagram / tiktok who had never considered using Twitter because it had an established reputation and they knew it wasn't the kind of product for them, and 2. People switching from Twitter because they love Twitter-the-idea but can no longer stand Twitter-the-actual-product-today.

Most of people from group #1 tried it and concluded that yep, it wasn't for them. There is zero surprising about that, and it's where the giant initial numbers came from. But if any of those people stuck around, that's pure bonus.

The more interesting question is what's going on with group #2. Certainly lots of them decided there were too many missing features at launch and kept using Twitter mostly. But that is not a "they'll never check back", those people are still in play for any of Twitter to keep or its competitors to win eventually. But the current DAUs wouldn't be where they are if a significant portion of this group hadn't decided to actually stick around. And that's pretty surprising.

For years the conventional wisdom has been that you can't actually convert users from one social network to another in the exact same niche. You can cut off growth - like instagram adding stories corresponding to Snapchat's growth plateau - but people stay where their existing networks are.

But not this time!
> you can't override a DoH DNS server when connecting to a VPN which offers internal DNS on Android, for instance.

True. I set my VPN server to force DNS thru the tunnel to an intercepting DNS server - and it replies as if it were the intended DNS server.

DNS server is setup this way in response to LAN devices that have their own DNS configured, but it handles Android's private DNS too.
Let's start allowing police departments to pay officers per arrest, then.
This is sound advice.

Taking a year off with no income and studying something that doesn't directly lead to a job will increase OP'e anxiety.

Instead OP should do job, and might want to cut back on other activities for learning these.
Ah true, I remember colleagues being in awe of it, me checking what the hell they're talking about, and being surprised this is a new feature.
I was the family remote control for years. This often led to arguments because I'd stop on what I wanted to watch instead of what my parents wanted to watch. "I said turn to channel 5!" "But I want to watch 'The Hulk!'"

My teen complains about special effects in MCU shows sometimes. I'm like "I had to watch a bodybuilder painted green for superhero shows, and like it!" (RIP Bill Bixby...)
I am in Europe, have friends in 4 different countries and extracurriculars are a thing in all of them.
My last two phones have been Galaxies. The first one was pretty great. The one I have now is not.

It's not about longevity, though. They all easily last 5+ years.
> Linux won't work except maybe for Ubuntu and Red Hat build if/once they get around to adding support for it

They could have stopped Linux support from Chrome at any time, or not created it to begin with. Plus there are lots of people at Google who are using Linux, not to mention Chromebooks which are built on it.

There is no reason to think that Google will kill Linux support with this or any feature.
The funny thing is in my social circle at least all the people who go to CF are young, extremely highly educated, well-paid immigrants -- For most of these reasons plus hours are predictable, seating is guaranteed, and there is food to satisfy most dietary restrictions. They're probably not assimilated enough to realize CF is declasse lol
Right. Hell, I wasn't among those saying Mastodon was going to be the "new place" or that Twitter was otherwise on its way out. Even with my proximity to tech circles, Mastodon seemed to me hardly a blip on most people's radars.

I only finally checked it out during all the Reddit protests and am thoroughly amazed to simply see content without all the cruft.

It is only now that I don't feel as sure; Twitter still has its login wall today. I reactivate my facebook account only when, say, I absolutely need to interact with a particular small page/business. I don't use Instagram. I have only since logged in to Twitter once to look at my Following list and make a first pass at building my Fedifeed by seeing who's moved over (incidentally, most of the people I follow that are still active). This time, I might actually check my feed regularly while logged in, since I'm not seeing a sponsored submission or ad every other post.
People have completely unrealistic expectations. Even if we find superconducting properties, it doesn't mean we can scale this material and its properties to the level where we'll use it for all those fantastic purposes like loss-free energy transfer for the entire electric grid, or effortlessly levitating trains.

Remember graphene. This is at best graphene 2.0. Meaning it's a small step and a lot of work left to do.
At one point, I had to make and maintain my own DNS zone text file, knowing only a little. Today, cheap providers give me various Web forms interfaces, but that doesn't mean it will always "just work", so knowing a little can still help.

I still had to break out `dig` the other day, when a DNS provider started answering records days past TTL, breaking email and Web.

To know when if/when that happened again, I looked around for a monitoring service, but didn't quickly find one that did what I wanted (and was overwhelmed by SEO, and very aggressive robo-sales emails from one of them), so I wrote a script that essentially runs `dig` and `diff`: https://www.neilvandyke.org/check-my-dns/

The monitoring script discovered one of a provider's DNS servers had ongoing problems, so I sent them a monitoring report, saying I wasn't a DNS expert, but perhaps, if there's a problem, the report would be helpful to their DNS experts. This seemed to immediately get past any "have you tried rebooting Windows" front-line flowchart response that I wouldn't have been surprised to hear, and they said they're working on it.
The Constitution has a word for those kinds of "jobs".
Organizers need to forbid it and refer to the (much better quality) official videos. No change otherwise; the narcissism is too strong.
Correct, but what the parent here presents is a theoretical upper bound. A working product wouldn’t even get close. When the theoretical upper bound shows that something could never aspire to more than a vastly inferior alternative to existing proven technologies, the correct approach is to abandon it rather than invest in iterative improvements.

I agree we should keep an open mind regarding creative ways of collecting energy from the environment. But we should also abandon those which are quickly demonstrated to have no meaningful potential even if we were to perfect them.
Unfortunately, I don't see any significant changes and I only say that because fundamental change in U.S. immigration law, even in the best of political times, is rare.
Also the CNAME if you have a cname you don't want any other records with the same name. It ends up being a confusing and ambiguous situation to be if. You are supposed to use the cname to jump the the actual record. but now there is also a MX record here are we supposed to do anything with it?
Ah, the Five-Fifths Compromise.
Google says “Twitter has approximately 450 million monthly active users as of 2022”.

I’d say that’s probably broadly the number of potential Twitter users.

If you think user growth should be exponential to all people in the planet, then that is false.
The culture shock of the Paris experience has less to do with vague aspersions against Parisian personality, and more to do with the sudden confrontation of the sight of thousands of unhoused immigrants under a bridge, or dozens of pickpockets at every tourist attraction. You know, the stuff they don't include in the tourist brochures and the movies about Paris.

Personally I found Paris extremely underwhelming - it felt just like New York but slightly more French. I had a much better experience visiting small towns in the south of France. But to be fair to France, I don't think this is an issue unique to their country - it's an issue with tourism to cities. As a tourist I've come to realize that most cities are largely the same across every meaningful dimension. The best travel experiences come from smaller towns and generally anywhere "off the beaten path." As they would say in Thailand, every city is "same same but different."
> , but "French Tacos" actually don't have any genealogy in common with Tex-Mex tacos.

They have a kind of connection beyond the name, even though neither is a linear descendant of the other. Tex-Mex tacos are a descendant of traditional central Mexican tacos, as also are tacos al pastor; but tacos al pastor are also descendants of schwarma, which French tacos derive from. So they're like cousins by marriage.
I've had a couple people suddenly taken from me, and it is soul crushing. Every time it happens it reminds me of how fragile life is, and how quickly things can change. I've started trying to enjoy the small things in life more, and while I don't neglect the future, I also try to enjoy the present.

He has left an amazing legacy that has touched a lot of people. RIP Ian.
I'd say it was a fair price. I have work to do to reach ROI, but after some hours of spreadsheet building, I project a reasonable upside on the investment.
Shoes haven't changed? Do you wear nothing but Chuck Taylors?

As someone with a multitude of foot issues, my options have exploded in the last couple decades.
Brand status is a continuum. Nike and Kors may not be “high status” but they are much higher than something like a Walmart house brand.
Real-time monitoring of aerosols generated from toilet flushing
Because all great developers create More complexity (-:
Everyone is busy at times, but if you are always frantically trying to get from A to B or overwhelmed, that's probably an issue in its own right in need of addressing.
A past employer had a memorial page for its founder where one employee related a story of how he did this and ran into a man at the reception desk who accepted his resume and promised to pass it along but wouldn't give his name. He got the job and discovered that he managed to run into the founder at just the right time.