skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sweet summer child" actually is a kinda interesting insult—it was actually coined by Game of Thrones, and yet has so thoroughly spread that most people don't realize that. I certainly was shocked when I learned that, because I have never even read or watched the series, and so the entire in-universe meaning of it was lost on me—and yet from usage, it was incredibly clear what it meant. And it's catchy, to boot.

(There were some sporadic uses before Game of Thrones, but we're talking like 100 years before Game of Thrones, and the meaning was a bit different.)
FWIW This stack monoid is more conventionally referred to as the bicyclic monoid in the literature.
I make about $10k a month with a one person saas. Self taught via YouTube and stackoverflow. Sales background career wise, although I was a Basic/VB nerd as a kid.

Php, jQuery, running as a SPA technically with php server side rending the html I have jquery squeeze into whatever div makes sense.

Runs on a $4 a month namecheap server, only because I ran into a stupid limitation on the $2 server.

Faster than most modern SPAs or websites you find on the internet.
So does macos: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/Int...
I was in a CVS a few years ago where they were selling a tincture which was supposed to help children stop wetting the bed. It contained mercury. I’m not sure how they could legally sell that.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur Clarke.
Roughly 30% are self made. The rest are old money or had some other substantial head start. See page 5.

https://ustrustaem.fs.ml.com/content/dam/ust/articles/pdf/20... (2022 Bank of America Private Bank Study of Wealthy Americans: The impact of shifting generational attitudes amid an historic wealth transfer) [Only 27% of the ultra wealthy are self made; 70% of Americans who hold more than $3 million are over 56 years old.]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-... (The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks)
Wait, what?
MFA - multi factor authentication- has existed long before Google was founded. RSA Securid tokens were introduced in the 1980s or so.

MFA is a easy and good way to prevent hostile account takeovers. Especially with the amount of data breaches, one time passwords are way more secure than memorized “static” passwords.

SMS based two factor is the one Google pushed. Even Google recommends other ways of MFA these days (using hardware like YubiKey or apps like Authy).

Public’s phone numbers are not that valuable for a company like Google . Until very recently they were listed in phone books publicly available.
Author here. We do this with some internal applications that share internal state -- no customer data. I would expect stricter restrictions depending on the type of data shared and how bureaucratic the company is.
I think the point is that PMF is a significant milestone on the journey. But it's not the destination. You can still mess it up despite achieving PMF.

And I don't think "keeping investors happy" is the key, either. Plenty of successful founders with unhappy investors.

I'm struggling to see how you could force adoption of a product in a way that matters. The example given was Pebble, who were struggling against Apple. Apple still needed PMF, despite their market dominance. If their product was so bad that it didn't solve the market need, then it would have failed despite their money and effective monopoly. I don't think PMF is irrelevant, it's just not the only necessary thing. You can still fail despite having PMF, but you have to have PMF to succeed.
> someone from your credit card company is calling and asking for something? Call back on the number on the back of your card.

This recently happened to me, and bizarrely they wouldn’t tell me what’s actually going on on my account because of not being able to verify me. (They were also immediately asking for personal information on the outbound call, which apparently really was from them.)
How do you know what would he do and what stopped him?
"... lossless compression can be a scorecard of prediction which is the same as AGI."

Having not read the papers, this sentence strikes me as a bit of a leap. Maybe for very constrained definitions of AGI?
One of the reasons for this is because you're not actually responsible for all that much as a middle class and below person. Yeah, get better fuel efficient cars. Yeah, eat less meat. Yeah, get the most out of what you can when you buy things. But that's not going to do much while corporations are still chugging along. It won't do much while coal and gas are the primary energy production. Sure, use less electricity and get onto renewables as much as you can but the offenders will buy these nonsensical carbon credits and such that cause issue.

The real answer is definitely vote Democratic, one cannot vote democrat as that's not a party in the US. But more than that it gets involved in the political process such that change to our policies are done with climate change in kind. You won't get that from Republicans.
From this article:

More empirically, Shannon's lower estimate suggests that humans might be able to compress enwik9 down to 75MB, and computers some day may do better.
These golden rules just remind me of every useless, content-free landing page that I find myself on when trying to research B2B applications, and even a good chunk of open source projects.

The main difference between the two being that the open source projects tend to have links to what I want to read about, and the paid software—sorry, “client solutions”—have about 10 menu items that all link to either a form to have someone give me a demo, or a form where I have to prove I already bought the goddamn thing in order to see how it’s supposed to be used.
Depends on the use of the text. If it's to transfer ideas, then fairly easy to rewrite things so they're more concise. For example, brevity can be used without hurting comprehension.
Mozilla patches critical zero-day in its browser and email client
Damn autocorrect! Also, I was amused that the parent's question is Google's current second result.
If you like something you should probably pay to support it in some fashion. The meme of “it was free at some point so I shouldn’t ever pay for it” is many things including deeply limiting.
I was in full agreement with your comment until...

> We should not be eating nearly as much meat as people do in rich countries.

My peasant ancestors were eating meat every day 500 years ago. You can find different groups of people all over the world that are documented eating absurdly meat-heavy diets historically.

Yes, at least some of us believe meat is very important for human flourishing. In strictly measurable health terms, I am extremely healthy, at least according to current medical science, so I'd rather not change my diet.
Cool. Did you buy the $10,000 feature that will let you summon your Tesla from across the country sometime in 2018?

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/autonomous-driving/time...
Brain Eating Ameoba!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53302773
Yes, it was in Florida.
Sweet summer child, it's been more than sporadically used in the American South long before Game of Thrones, and well within this century. GRR Martin just used what was already a well known phrase, and maybe the show made it trendy but he didn't "coin" it in any meaningful sense.
I'm not saying there's no value in the app, but there must be other ways of achieving that (though, maybe they're broken by the same). Do you have `ip netns` on macOS? Fwmark? There's the WireGuard app too of course, I wonder if that's similarly broken.
You're absolutely right. Thanks for the correction. I'd edit my comment but HN prevents that after a period of time.
Unless you wanted to pursue a career related to the physical sciences, what is the benefit of taking labs? I ask this as someone that took a large number of physics and especially chemistry labs before ultimately switching to computer science. The labs to me were more about how to game the grading process than they were about actual learning. And certainly I wouldn’t say I took anything from those mentally that I didn’t get out of, say, theoretical organic chemistry synthesis problems.
These diffusion models give an ability to create far more than can be communicated with MIDI + instrument. Riffusion gave a hint of this - rather than just notes and drum hits + some processing, it becomes one big pulsating, expressive mass which would not be reproducible without the granularity of a diffusion model. These are reminiscent of some of the serendipity of live recordings with lots of tracks where interesting things happen from interplay of many different layers. Generating a few dozen clips generally would give me 2 or 3 with a beautiful emotional passage which really lights up the pleasurable music part of my brain. Mass farming these clips seems like a good route to some amazing music.
Not sure if you’re joking or not, but the prize is for the smallest archive + compressor.

The best you could do with this approach is to use the best existing compressor and the compressed text (needed to check the input). With the extra test you’d end up doing slightly worse than the previous winner.
One thing I believe was true in the COBOL+JCL world of the 1980s is that you couldn't write a program that would read the name of a file, and then open that file. All files to be accessed had to be specified statically with JCL.

Am I remembering correctly?
Cleanfeed needs some updating and google groups is a major source of spam that needs to be depeered!
If someone made modern drop-in upgrade batteries I'd absolutely buy one for my Pismo.
I recommend The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia I. Postrel

She, and the acoup site make the point about the sheer cost of labour to make thread, and the asymmetry in costs to produce sufficient thread from either a staple or from a source of filament like silk, compared to the rate of weaving which itself is not exactly cheap labour.

Producing thread is probably the limiting factor in times past. It's unavoidably time consuming before there are 'machines' -the first machines are very likely to be the conical weights which combine with a spindle to make a spinning device to allow faster thread production, and finally the invention of the spinning wheel.

There's over a kilometre of thread in a pair of trousers.

Women are portrayed as spinning back to greek vases and Egyptian murals because it was a task which consumed as much of their working day as possible, alongside other duties. For complex thread production, Women could be paid more than unskilled men, for this task. (They were typically underpaid compared to men for almost all work)
Rewriting shaders, MonoBehaviors, animations, triggers, levels, and systems? Yeah, not too much trouble.
Cleanfeed needs some tweaks and Google groups needs to be depeered as it is a major source of spam!
> wasting up to half the memory

OSes generally implement overcommit - allocating a bunch of memory doesn't mean it's actually being used.
If anyone is interested in lossless compression competition, but is too intimidated by 100MB/1GB size and level of optimization already achieved here - you can try http://golf.horse/ challenges, which include Wordle wordlist, Pokemons and OEIS database
I'm all for promoting how awful the police are and making change..

But is this hackernews or Reddit? Because I go out of my way to avoid needlessly feeling awful. My brain manages that on its own just fine.
I've run out of room on my M1's upgraded 1TB drive and would love to upgrade.
But downtown.
Refreshing pragmatism re: macros

>This feature is intentionally listed last because while lisp programmers have historically made a big deal about how powerful it is, it is relatively rare to encounter situations where such a powerful construct is justified.
I offer USENET over VPN for C$10 a month
Do you know a single person who is a cop? Any Oxford grads you have in mind for highly vetted? Because those people don’t exist. And even if you found that unicorn, they won’t be one after a year.

I distrust the blues as much as anyone, but I grok why they are the way they are. It’s a shitty job, and all they have are their bros.
Email, using my domains for nearly all things. The one exception is a dedicated purpose gmail account for talking to one specific Youtuber.
The level of privilege that some people are completely blind to is just incredible.
HPAI (H5N1) infection in crows through ingestion of infected crow carcasses
The Stakes of the Google Antitrust Trial
Just noticed this message when deploying my application:

> * For application error tracking, we're about to provision a Sentry Team Plan account for you with a year's worth of credits. By deploying this app, you agree to the Sentry Terms of Service: https://fly.io/legal/supplemental-terms

> Your Sentry project is ready. See details and next steps with: flyctl apps errors

Seems really odd to just sign me up to another company's services without any prompt or opt-in mechanism
Especially not the information security team. They're the most likely to be compromised.
I am curious what issues you ran into. Also, there are about 50 games per year released with Godot on steam, so there are definitely people pulling it off
That's the big problem, isn't it? People think it's okay to give out information on an incoming call because often it is really okay. If it were unreliable 99% of the time, phishers would not use this method as an attack vector.
That really is knocking his efforts. How is that constructive?
It’s not just the department, it’s American culture. The whole country needs a heart transplant.
And further to the above, what to you sign in to Tailscale with? (Yes this applies only to a subset of people who care about Tailscale.) They don't want to be an identity provider so they don't offer an email account type. You can choose from Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Apple, or OIDC. In theory, you can choose something else that provides OIDC; in practice, I don't know how well that actually works.
Emulating Game Boy Games with Custom/Colorized Sprites
This is pretty much what many SPA were/is, dump entire app state relevant on first load and then offline is no problem.
“We’ll take our ball and go play somewhere else” is an empty threat.

300+ million people don’t just vanish because CEOs move their companies. The leverage they have is politically manipulated fiat money traditions.

The leverage the public has is experience doing all the work. Ignore the mathematical minority when they cry about gen pop and keep doing the work.

Corporates real role in civic life is distract people from marching on their state capital. They’ll play it because there is no moat against tens of millions with lots of guns.
What's the point of being "extra precise" here? Aren't you just giving deniers a talking point?
Apple sued NSO Group in 2021.

See https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61570971/apple-inc-v-ns...
Your comment is pretty vague but intriguing. Are you allowed to share an example?
So why buy 1 every 6 months? Just go buy 6. This sounded like you were trying to avoid the limits:

> Indeed. I've known that phenylepherine is worthless for a long while, and just make it a point to buy a pack of the real stuff every 6 months or so, so that I always have it on hand when I need it. In my state, it's controlled - you have to get it from a pharmacist (though you can do so without a prescription) - they take your driver's license and don't allow you to purchase it too often.
Yup, it's discussed extensively, predominantly as "val/val" (GG) and "met/met" (AA).
Didn't find this article especially helpful. Author admits to having no special knowledge so literally polls Twitter and shares the results. Doesn't really add much to the discussion.

I'd really like to see how alternatives handle stuff such as:

- Editor tools for non-artists

- Editor API for customization/automation

- Profiling CPU/memory

- Integration with things like FMOD, Spine, whatever else

- Tools for debugging

- How does level editing work, what tools are present to assist with visualization, organization, construction
Think “JVM, but better this time”. Better isolation, and more language-agnostic. So, Kubernetes with WASM application servers as an alternative to container runtimes. All the old Java ideas, but hopefully much better. It being originally made for the web has the advantage of it being built with security in mind from the get-go. The JVM was always unsuited for running untrusted code, among other failings.
No, you see grasshopper, Apple is infallible. If there's a problem with any of their devices or software, it's always someone else's fault. /s
Great questions and advice! Re: business plans, ideally we'll sell premium subscriptions for features you need a server for, like video calls.

The biggest difference between us and Skype is that Quiet is open source. But yes, open source businesses can rugpull too, as we saw recently with Terraform.

What about our stack makes you worried about the "enough tech savvy people to fork" piece? One decision we've made deliberately is to build on the most widely-used tech, so that maintenance will require less expertise than for a homegrown stack, and so there will be existing communities around the stack that are bigger than the Quiet community. I would love to know more about what problem you envision in building a tech-savvy open source community around our stack. Too boring?

If our business is upselling users to server-backed subscription plans, I think even the threat of a fork goes a long way to keeping us honest, especially since a community fork would not need to run infrastructure. If "Quiet Co." (or whatever we call ourselves) is suddenly no longer the most trusted purveyor of Quiet, we wouldn't have much of a business, which is as it should be in my view.

Re: the politics of providing these tools, I have been preparing, and I have some background in the political side of this from Fight for the Future. It's funny because I am actually quite eager to get to the point where we get to make the social and political case for Quiet to a partly-skeptical world, but first I have to make something that works well on phones! And find users! Ideally we can find some awesome initial users that really tell the story of why Quiet needs to exist.
What service are you offering?
or if your org doesn't have a platform engineering team lol
Which FIDO2 service do you recommend?

I get tired reading all these security articles. The more I read, the more I feel they are hiding something.
https://archive.is/UOvnS
Agree on the rendering speed, I was working on some experimental visualizers in LOVE which drew lots of individual pixels. I ended up having to rewrite a bunch of it in shader language to get decent FPS. This might be true with other frameworks too though, I understand graphics are not an easy thing to just automagically optimize.
This sounds very much like "you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide"
That airport station wasn't around for the entire record though. 20's was similar to present. I really don't think you can make any claims either way with just that data.
https://archive.is/AqHCn
I know the tone of the article was to be critical, but honestly, I found myself identifying with opposite emotions reading it. There's a lot of Musk's arrogance that really puts me off, but I do appreciate his willingness to push back on the BS and waste in our industry.
Is this not a solved problem?

https://scubagearcanada.ca/slate-glow/

EDIT: I guess the article is literally writing in water, not writing on something while in water.
Chinese clean energy subisidies were over half a trillion dollars in 2022 alone.
https://archive.is/sOxN1
Like paying for WinZip? I use 7zip because it is free and open source software.
I'm not really into this industry, but I've dabbled with Unity over the last month for some fun/expanding knowledge...

I've seen 2 articles in the last day about this topic with clickbait misinformation from sites I would expect to be more accurate... Including talking about how a "free game" was going to cost a developer millions... and how "independent developers" will be bankrupt...

But how? The fee page and FAQ [1] state "will apply to games made with Unity Personal and Unity Plus that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months".. If you are distributing a free game, by definition, you made no revenue for the game and you pay nothing to Unity. Key point: the metric is PER game... so it's not like your $5 game with 200k revenue and 200k installs will trigger your separate FREE game to cost 5 million in damages.

If you are an "independent" developer, or even a team of 5, then the $2k/seat-year Pro license means the threshold is now $1million... pay 2-10k/year upfront to pocket an extra 800k? These seem like a no-brainer...

Now, I can see this being an issue for studios that invested heavily in Unity with dozens or hundreds of developers.. and I appreciate discussion on this topic... I'd love to see more realistic reactions and discussions... and less "abandon ship" (like this article) and I-didn't-read-the-memo knee-jerk reaction stories for attention out there right now.

(And I know some of the early concern was download-bombing, but they have addressed that, and most of the articles I read didn't cover that explicitly)

[1] https://unity.com/pricing-updates
https://archive.is/KqKRf
If you compare to what extent the native population shaped the Amazon rainforest to the modern abundance in population, urbanization and explotation of the planet, I’d still consider the Amazon as pristine and untouched more or less…
Imagine how the people with 128GB feel
It's interesting that Source doesn't get a mention here, when it used to be a rather popular engine. Given unreal is second, it's clearly not an objection to closed source engines
The one thing I don’t see people take into account is a globally declining birth rate, very rapid declining birth rate. Fewer humans will mean less consumption, and therefore lower demand and less production. This could reverse many effects within the lifetimes of millennials and GenZ.
Which is 2 boxes * n years + 6 boxes available at any given time.

Im not saying it’s unreasonable, just that the monthly limit is probably higher than he realized and he doesnt need to stockpile them.
https://archive.is/kVNie
I don't know. I simply don't believe he would have or could have done it. He either lacked the military support for such a thing or he lacked the balls to do it.

It wasn't for a lack of popular support, I'll tell you that. I watched many of my countrymen get on their knees and beg for military intervention. Way too many of them. On brazilian independence day, I saw an insane number of people on the streets because of him. I thought brazilian nationalism was dead and buried until I saw that. It got to the point they tried to make it illegal to associate the holiday with Bolsonaro. All those people, they would have supported him. I'm sure of that.
Sorry that saving the planet might cause minor inconvenience for you.

There were far fewer factory farms and antibiotics 500 years ago, and 95% fewer people. What was sustainable then isn't sustainable now.
How not to be fooled by viral charts
https://archive.is/1UVx9