skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Etrade isn't going to let me buy fractional shares of stock in 1999 in proportion to the market cap.

I think you should go check the absolute $ cost of those stocks in 1999. The fractional share thing is an outcrop of just how well all these companies did in the period we are discussing

>And have you considered Etrade was probably charging 6 dollars per trade? $2,292 dollars in expenses to own 382 companies means I've lost before I began.

Again, of that $10k, $1k of it was Amazon and that's now worth $56k. Let's instead assume that you in practice bought $994 of Amazon. That is now $55,650. Literally start in a $9,006 hole - only buy Amazon with a fee and literally burn the rest of the cash - you're still at an 8% market-beating IRR.

I don't know why you are choosing to die on this hill of focusing on how much it would cost to accumulate the long tail, when it's the primarily the big ones that make the money anyway.

>It's not really a strategy so much as a data mining exercise.

In 2023 it's a data mining exercise. In 1999, it was a strategy. That's how time works.

>It doesn't even seem to have resulted in a lesson you can apply today, you earlier said you don't even know if Nvidia is a good buy.

I'm telling you the lesson - don't invest in weird penny stocks or picks and shovels, invest in innovative companies that are driving use-cases forward. If you are having trouble finding those companies through proprietary research, the market is actually already pretty good at selecting them for you (though you still want to index to an extent).

You don't have to take that advice but you should (because, again, keep in mind we are talking about buying at the peak, nearly any other entry point 2-3x'es these IRRs).
I worked an inner city public school system's well funded IT department about a decade ago. Chromebooks had just been distributed to all students with grant money. After the first year, about 1/5 laptops needed major repair. None of them would make it to 5 years.
Wait. Am I reading this right?

Did he commit a crime to get less jail time?

Wouldn't this be like kidnapping the police chief's child to try to get less prison time?

Someone please tell me it didn't work.
It's everyone. We're all fragile mortals living in uncertain times.

Rich folks might be able to exert a bit more control, but I don't believe for a second that lessens fear. I'd actually suspect the opposite.
I think you can definitely find apps for this. A quick google brings up bridgefy.
You may have heard some not so nice things about us the past few days, forget all about that!
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
gamers don't want bad music either.

some go to video game music concerts or to fan covers
ah yes of course why should a school teach kids not relevant knowledge like computer?

Perhaps to make sure that poor kids can never learn it or what is your logic behind this?
Curious, what's your specs?
I would never use a Chromebook, but this is extremely appealing either way. I wonder if their other hardware and operating systems will receive this kind of support eventually.
There are some exploits that allow for gaining root access.

One that comes to mind is dirty sock[0]. It uses a vulnerability in the snap api to create a root user.

https://github.com/initstring/dirty_sock/blob/master/dirty_s...
Unlike you, the article is using "marginal" in the economic sense.
I'm not convinced Valve is all that interested in pushing Source 2 as an alternative to Unreal or Unity, and their organizational structure would probably make them a pain to work with.
I'm not sure how you possibly got that reading from what I wrote.

I'm am discussing a solution rather than a series of ephemeral and incomplete fixes. Not that developers can solve public transit issues but that society at large is the only one that can truly solve these issues.

The users are not wrong in my assertion nor do I think disabling lazy loading is the solution. Disabling lazy loading is an ephemeral and incomplete fix that helps some scenarios while degrading the experience in other scenarios.

The solution is improved infrastructure. I don't see why this position is controversial.
The Unity CEO and management team seem actively hostile to game developers. They view them more as adversaries than allies. Their first principle may be something like "How can we extract more revenue from our developers?" rather than "How can we make developers more successful on our platform [such that we all enjoy more success]?". I think that cultural value is the root of a lot of these tactical problems and missteps.
> There is abundant competition in the search engine market: DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yandex, Brave, Yahoo.

DuckDuckGo and Yahoo both use Bing's search index. (Which sucks whenever Bing randomly removes your website for no reason.)

Brave Search is a very recent addition, just within the past year or two.
Epic is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year on it and will eventually shut it down. The only reason it ran for so long was because it's not a publicly held company and Tim Sweeney never liked stores taking a lot of developers' revenue.
What do you use to generate the diagrams in the post? Super Neat.
Lower valuations make 2023 the best time to join a startup in years
Initially, this applied to every single update, every single reinstall, and anything that changed your IP. Every load of a unity web game.

All of those counted as a new install, and this was stated to be intentional by unity to all the journalists who reached out and by their internal developers on the support forum.

So the long tail of things like your customers buying a new phone == old apps get transferred == that counts as a new install and you get charged. Reinstall a game from steam or change the install drive or directory? Same thing.

Beyond devs and game types that are affected by legitimate usage, there is the clear problem of malicious installs (what a phrase) and abuse. Unity's answer to that was that proprietary secret internal models would solve abuse, but also that developers would have to reach out with proof of being falsely billed after it happened. And just kinda hope that unity would have the support and billing staff to ever actually deal with that problem.
I guess the IKEA bag was stolen too
demucs works far better than anything else I've used, especially with more esoteric kinds of music in my experience. plus you can run it with GPU support as well!
Ding ding ding, I met my current partner on OKCupid 9 years ago, don't think I will ever need to return. (fingers-crossed, knock-on-wood, [insert-platitude-here)

Seeing as I have a "face for radio", I doubt I would ever manage to date seriously on "swipe right/left" platforms.
> I don't share the philosophy of amateur submariners

That makes perfect sense in 2023. Not so much in seventeen hundreds, or whenever people first started to attempting it.

> A handful of humans (a few hundred watts of compute) succeeded at devastating the world from 1939-1945.

I wouldn't really count it towards how powerful a person is. Literally billions of people amount to almost nothing their whole life. Wars were results of historical processes. People are nothing than a match under the barrel of gunpowder filled with economical and societal forces.

If there are such forces that could end us what's the difference if the match will be biological or silicon?

> Just because 2 of the 10 chains restraining the cave troll are still intact does not mean it is time to make tea.

Imagined cave troll.
Unlimited PTO is poorly worded and always felt like a scam to me

It’s not really unlimited and people tend to take less overall
> This is more than capitalism, it's freedom. If you are suggesting that we spend more money on Ebola or public transport, that's tyranny.

Yikes. It’s actually exactly capitalism. We spent more money than god on COVID research basically from 0. That research didn’t restrict freedoms. We decided to co-opt capitalism and pump money directly where we needed it. This incentives people to research Covid within the capitalist market. We could do the same for Ebola or Public transportation but we chose not to.
I would watch the heck out of this Netflix series. Way better than Sherlock Holmes.
Regulators stopped a coordinated purchase, which they are totally within their right to do. And if Softbank and NVIDIA try to coordinate a purchase another way, they'll stop that too.

It's not as cut-and-dry if Softbank just puts the shares on the open market, and NVIDIA pays market value for them. Are there reporting requirements around NVIDIA buying stock on the open market? Freeze-out periods? Regulatory delays? If there's collusion it might be a crime but even if you're cynical and refuse to believe that there might not be, you still have to prove it.
Erm no - businesses can also be moral. In fact there's an enormous social pressure to look good. That's why people get fired for things that happen on Twitter.

The only difference is businesses get money for doing something someone else wants, and they need to keep doing that. Politicians take your money and can't even do the one thing they should be doing: be impartial and resistant to even more free money.
til "PIRG"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Interest_Research_Gro...
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It’s amazing.
It's to ensure that you, the user, know when the boot process has changed substantially, and that you have a simple way to get back into familiar territory.

If you want to get rid of Chrome OS and all its user protection measures entirely, that's possible with official and relatively standardized means. The open source firmware community provides documentation and tested firmware images for that (of course: no warranty), most prominently https://mrchromebox.tech/
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> suing Apple is what brought them shit all over them

It was and is strange to see Apple's stranglehold and forced 30% cut from developers being celebrated on HN.

Imagine an extra 18% of indie game developers revenue going to themselves instead of distribution, a good chunk of the 12% is payment processing.
For instance, Gurner was also the "millennials could afford houses if they stopped eating so much avocado toast" guy:

https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-property-tycoon-...
But this is a silly way of viewing tooling.

If I sell a million books laid out using Adobe tools, adobe shouldbt get a cut!
Online Privacy and Controlling Your Data
Except that they botched the most important part of the launch by releasing a bare-bones MVP too early.
> I can't see my primary fitness device being a paper weight if I forget to charge it for one night.

But Apple Watch owners are already very used to charging their watch every night. I think the aim would be that your "primary fitness device" is the watch you already have for other purposes, so while it's not a direct attack on Garmin's product line they'd be hoping to vacuum up a lot of casual users who might otherwise have bought a Garmin device.
Don't remember the AC.ID codes. Have a script generate a textfile index based on the file structure. Then you just look at the index. You look into a place enough, and you'll remember it eventually then.
Yes. On the other hand, there are plenty of legal business groups: trade associations, chamber of commerce, etc.
I've never understood this problem. To me, it seems that since you've defined a minimum "worth living" amount of happiness and unbounded population, it makes complete sense that the answer would be that it is better to have lots of people whose life is worth living rather than fewer. Is it not tautological?

Like it seems like you have to take "worth living" seriously, since that is the element that is doing all the work. If it's worth living, you've factored in everything that matters already.
Yeah the article has the line:

> The attention economy is the real economy

Which is exactly what I would expect a journalist to say... someone addicted to the loads of clicks. Maybe it matters more if getting loads of clicks is your job? Maybe it really is real power? I feel both skeptical and fomo.
Just tax agricultural output until their property values drop, then use eminent domain to seize it for pennies on the dollar, rewrite the deed's water rights, lower agricultural taxes and then resell the land.
Choose your ~~fighter~~ binding

https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext
https://github.com/godotengine/godot-cpp
Tutorials on Color Science
> OKCupid had a model that increases the likelihood of matching with someone and ...never using OKCupid again.

This wasn't necessarily true. I actually met my wife on OkCupid, all the way back in 2007 originally, and she wasn't even the first long-term relationship I ended up off of the site, which was back in 2004. OkCupid used to have social features, allowing you to maintain a personal blog and follow other user's blogs. A whole lot of us had a pretty nice community, couchsurfing, visiting each other when we traveled for work. That was even how I met my wife, through the blogs, not by direct solicitation of a date. We didn't even live on the same coast when we met, but eventually moved to the same city by chance and ended up together.

When Match Group bought the site, they killed these features and there was no longer any reason to stick around, but a lot of us had stuck around long after pairing off and marrying. For a long time, we even stayed in touch via other means and continued meeting up in person when we had the chance. Unfortunately, Facebook was the main place they all settled, and I did not want to stick around on Facebook, so mostly I've lost touch with these people now. But we had a nice community for a long time, even a nearly global community, with people in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Heck, even the reason I originally joined OkCupid wasn't with the intention of finding dates. It was because of an old vBulletin forum I was on for Armenians in Los Angeles where a bunch of people took the personality tests and compared results, so I joined to do that. But things were different enough in 2004 that I didn't need to seek out dates. Women just messaged me and asked me out because they weren't yet overloaded with spam and jaded from the Internet turning to shit.

The Internet was different in a lot of ways back then. OkCupid was founded by nerd grad students that mostly wanted to prove they could apply math to romance. But then they discovered math could actually make them rich, and Match Group never gave a shit and only cared about money from the start. I suspect much of what eventually became shit started that way. Larry and Sergey were probably legitimate math nerds, too. Mark Zuckerberg probably just wanted to hot-or-not his classmates. But then they all discovered they could get rich and investors killed the fun.
I can't overstate how much this reflects my thoughts. Perhaps a bit wordy in your response, but the points are spot on. The internet stops here!
Twitter usage is down 30% and probably still declining, so I wouldn't say their enshittification saw no consequences.

When something has momentum it takes a lot to slow it down, but that does not mean doing so is impossible.

Unity is a different case though. Unity is retroactively applying these new terms to existing licensees, even if their game already shipped years ago. Unlike Twitter, they are directly hitting their customers wallets in a very nasty way. And unlike Twitter, Unity isn't the only well established player in its market. Already in-development projects might not switch, but this is sure to give studios pause when evaluating potential stacks for future games.
I agree, but at the same time, this is an extension from 8 to 10 years. While this will surely buy time for many schools to upgrade, we can all be prepared for a re-hash of this kerfuffle in 2 years.
If the difference is getting sick or getting a little less sick, I would say I could benefit slightly but don’t need it.
Make it extremely easy, like with the addition of an API key, to swap over to your service during a failover/outage.
You're not losing fat because you're too sedentary. You absolutely can outrun your fork. You just have to run a lot further than you think. Show me a fat person who runs 50 miles a week.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37510958 - Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat
I just got back from 7 days in the wilderness with my Epix Gen2 51mm. I have 72% battery life left.

Would have been higher but I used the built-in on it flashlight several nights.
> because they're unwilling to address the fact that the corporation they work for and the ceaseless chase of "social media platforms" drives this behavior more than the imagined "Marl's" of the world ever did.

the fact that the corporations are doing that, and chasing the Marls is the foundational premise of the article. He's not blaming it on the Marls. He's blaming it on the companies chasing them.
Thanks, useful comment.
Site doesn't look legitimate. Risky click.
> Five days [after July 5], over 100 million people had joined Threads, making it the most successful app launch of all time.

Err, no. The 100m were mostly migrated from existing Instagram users (which has ~500m DAU/2.35b MAU), not new joiners. Gizmodo [0]: "[one month after launch] Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users... DAU down from a peak of 44m to 8m, and falling at about 1% every day. Engagement was down to just 2.9 minutes a day compared to 19 minutes earlier in July."

If 100m existing users who briefly came over from Instagram and then mostly became inactive is "the most successful app launch of all time", then by that metric was Google+ forcibly converting new YouTube or Gmail users/commenters the most successful website-based [social] launch of all time? [1] "1/2015: There are about 2.2 billion Google+ profiles. Of these, about 9% have any publicly posted content. Of those, about 37% have comments on YouTube videos as their most recent activity, and another 8% have profile-photo changes."

Can anyone cite third-party DAU and MAU stats on Threads, currently?

Or how many Threads users quit Twitter, and have remained active on Threads?

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/threads-has-lost-more-than-80-of-daily-a...

[1]: "Nobody is using Google+" BusinessInsider 1/20/2015 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-active-users-2015-1
>>It's possible for you to owe more to Unity than you took in from the sale. It's not tied to your revenue

I think you don't understand what revenue is. It's entirely possible for a revenue based percentage system where you lose money on every sale. In that sense this system is the same - under some circumstances you can lose money on a sale.

>> If a user re-installs your game too many times you will literally owe Unity more money than you earned.

I agree that Unity shouldn't be charging per install if the dev can prove all installations were done by the same user.
But they're not application level protocol agnostic. Based on my understanding, they require use of HTTP. If I want to get MFA using an email client communicating via SMTP and IMAP, then the email client needs to be able to interact with the HTTP API.
Thank you, this is the kind of insight I was looking for.
I agree, that course was fantastic. Unreal C++ was way less intimidating after.
Agreed - just think about the billions, possibly trillions of economic value (jobs, shareholder value, utility to society, etc) that a project like postgres or ruby on rails has created.
You can call them "scum" if it makes you feel better. But even if the greatest shame campaign the world has ever seen was to miraculously convince John Deere to change their ways, other companies would just step in and take advantage of the system the same way John Deere has.

The only solution is to change the rules.
I misspoke. I know that it works on any Intel computer that you can plug a USB flash drive into.
I mean, I'm very glad that open source (and also free) software exists. I don't think there should only be software with source available licenses, and I certainly admire and appreciate the giant amount of foundational work that has been done under those licenses.

But I think it comes with its own trade-offs. For instance, I might say that preferring open source is short-term thinking, because projects can become both critical infrastructure and essentially un-funded, and use one of the same examples you did, of openssh.

And I lament that people seem to be less critical of entirely opaque proprietary software than of source available software. I think if the only viable choices are nonprofit+open and commercial+closed, then we are going to end up with more closed software that is of higher quality than its open alternatives.

In general my interest in this topic flows from dissatisfaction with funding models for open source software. I really hate that so much important software relies on under- or even entirely un-paid labor to create and maintain it. I'm not under illusions that alternative models are a panacea, but I'm also not satisfied with the status quo. I get paid well for my work, and I hate that so many people whose labor I rely on aren't getting paid well for theirs!
That is trivial to spoof for a malicious user, as are the Android ones.

> if you pair it with some kind of online login system

Unity does not have that and there is no way in hell that they will be able to force all players of all games made in unity to sign up for one.
I know this is a tangent, but it’s unlikely great grandpa only lived to 40. Even 100 years ago, someone who was 39 would be expected to live another 28 years on average.

All those low life expectancy numbers were due to high infant- and childhood-mortality rates.

That nitpick aside, yeah gramps’ prior claim should not be given the weight it has.
I love Verizon's Edgecast cache feature. It just works so well.