skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money

The "great" entrepreneurs of our world have always been obsessed with money because it is literally the fuel and lifeblood of their endeavors. Only people with a lot of money can afford to pretend not to care about it while working strenuously their entire life to obtain it.

>But money is not the only solution

Money is literally the only solution its the only way to buy food medicine and live indoors.

> There's a term for this – greed

Greed is a natural response to a world so constructed that if you stop swimming you drown. It's as natural for people to be greedy as for a coyote to be hungry.
Steam recently underwent a large GUI refresh, vgui has officially been retired.
As Doctor Who fans know, she had amnesia after a struggle with a Vespiform and was in the Tardis for those missing days.
You posted really abusively in this thread, not only duplicating this comment several times but also deleting the text in other posts in a way that destroyed the context of replies and confused readers.

We ban accounts that do these things, so please don't do them again. Fortunately it doesn't look like your account has a pattern of this, so it should be easy to avoid in the future.
I think for many years people were also worried that abolishing tips means a one time negative shock to restaurant staff wages.

Thankfully, now that we have tight labor markets and blue collar workers feel like they have actual bargaining power and are not just begging for alms from power-tripping small business owners, attitudes are changing.
It’s highly functional because your account savings are backed by laws and strict regulations. It’s not about the tech.
Limewire, yes that Limewire, is back but with a twist
https://archive.ph/ivooz
Zero that were used for hijackings.
> I will stick with a bank which is regulated to protect my money, and heads will roll if funny business happens.

When did that ever happen? Did even a single head roll for the bullshit with subprime mortgages? Some people get a bonus when the scam is big enough.
IMHO this is the difference between real innovation and productization. The invention of the transistor is a real innovation, the transistor radio is a mere product. That's not to say products don't have value, but they're just... not as impressive to me.

Nothing that Dropbox does (or did? is it still around?) is technically innovative. I guess it's nice for that rich guy that he identified a user-friendly box that people would pay for.
I really enjoy knowing that all these critters exist somewhere, and also that I have a nice big ocean in between me and them
Do you have more data about why they are useless?

Safes are still useful even if they have never tried to be breached, and armed forces are useful even if a country has never been attacked.

Perhaps the fact that the TSA exists means fewer crimes are even attempted.
The industry is pretty bad at blocking RCEs (0-day is just inevitable, but preventing 1-day or just stolen credentials is IMO equally hard). The industry is better at detecting compromise by spotting post-exploitation behaviors such as reverse shells or exfiltrating large amount of data.

Your developer uses VSCode and sends a lot of data to vscode.dev or another Microsoft domain? Sounds totally normal, nothing suspicious here, move on!
We pay our interns the same rate as an entry level SWE, $185k, but divided up weekly for the intern period. There’s nothing wrong with internships at all.

You may mean unpaid internships specifically? I got my start when I otherwise wouldn’t have had an entry to my industry with an unpaid internship, but also recognize that it’s a privilege to be able to not be paid for months at a time early career. I would personally never not pay an intern, but think there is probably a place for unpaid interns.
India’s PhonePe launches app store with zero fee in challenge to Google
We send out notifications via our Substack here https://www.worksinprogress.news/
Just put it on a plate?
> The written answer from the Home Secretary was that ‘No members of the Metropolitan Police were specially detailed for the purpose, and no cost was incurred by the Metropolitan Police …’

Then

> Agatha’s husband, Archie Christie, responded to enquiries about his wife’s state of mind by explaining that she was suffering from a nervous disorder and memory loss. The police approached him to request a contribution towards police costs, but he refused saying it was ‘entirely a police matter’.

So which is it?
Service quality in most countries is completely fine -- just different depending on the service culture of the country. You're probably just used to how they do it in the States (which isn't immune to lousy service in anyone's bravest fantasy).
Yeah, the number of people targeting you matters, too.
I was here just to type this comment.
The article is really vague. Extraordinary claims should come with extraordinary evidence. That said, could it be that the ad has its own JavaScript that does its spying for the time it is visible on the page? Can adds do that?
> Your airports have security because your leaders learned the same things on 9/11 that the US did.

This isn’t accurate. Where I live, no ID is required for domestic flights and I walk through a metal detector. That’s it. New Zealand.

The rules I face going international are to keep other countries happy and my 101ml of water and potential bomb shoes are a bad joke.

The attack on the US isn’t something I’ve see replicated in the Middle East weekly that I’ve ever noticed.

If TSA rules make you feel safe, I suppose that’s good. Unfortunately they fail at their role 95% if the time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...
No, it's just that every time I drive somewhere, I try to maintain a low-priority thread in my head to work on the problem, "How would I write code to do what I just did?" Frequently the answer is, "I have no idea, and wow, I'm glad it's not my job."

That simply doesn't happen when I fly my quads. "How would I write code to dodge an attacking drone? How would I modify my drone to drop a grenade or a Molotov cocktail, or otherwise cause a large amount of grief to people below? How would I build a SLAM model that allows the drone to do this without intervention from the ground?" None of these engineering problems bug me the way driving a car would. They are all addressable with multiple degrees of freedom, both literally and figuratively.

Meanwhile, on the road:

"Hmm, the light at this intersection is out. There's a cop with an angry look on his face, flapping his arms at me like a dying chicken. What does he want me to do, exactly?"

"Huh, here I am in Seattle, and it looks like they have chosen to mark the stripes on the road with some sort of paint whose complex impedance at optical frequencies is identical to that of rainwater. I'm sure glad I'm driving, and not my lane-keep assistant, which I had to turn off because it tried to steer me into the median the last time it snowed."

"Whoa, where'd that ambulance come from. The law says I have to move right, but the only way I can get out of his way is to move left, and in any case, that's what the car ahead of me is doing. What to do, what to do."

In most of the airborne scenarios you mention, doing nothing is a fail-safe answer when confronted with a situation the hardware or software can't handle. If we approach driving that way, a few miscreants can brick an entire city, intentionally or otherwise.

I'm not surprised Karpathy tapped out at Tesla, let's put it that way. My guess is, I've thought about this a lot more than you have, and a lot less than he has.
Did you ever think these people want some feedback and admiration and recognition for what they’ve done? Being a solopreneur is really really lonely.

And no one cares what you are doing. Posts like this are about getting recognition. Making $42k a month doesn’t actually get you any recognition by itself. Maybe buying champagne in a club from it does, but a lot of people don’t like that kind of attention.

People on HN are just so resentful and want to see the bad in posts like this it’s really sad.
AFAIK nobody ever came out demanding the number of studies to be zero. Not even lunatic groups. The OP's strawman is is so obviously out of the cultural norm that it is screaming bad-faith construction.

And if he wants to claim that merely reducing the number of studies run by the people interested on a positive result to a non-zero amount will increase the odds of fraud, well, I'd be interested on honest arguments, because it's a revolutionary finding on either system or game theory.
It's also scaled to 1440x960 and... oddly for Instagram, not compressed to death. I imagine the noise would be more noticeable at full resolution or even printed relatively large and viewed at a reasonable distance.
It looked pretty nice, but I see no reason to switch when I'm already using a better upstream implementation (Mastodon).
If someone can access your machines physically, can login, play with an USB Stick or download malware. No form of monitoring your logs will keep your data safe.
I've been to Japan and the service was fantastic, with no tipping expected. It's almost as if tipping really doesn't correlate with service quality.
Ask HN: Is the ad monetization model dead?
Between GDPR, CCPA, YouTube dramatically cutting revenue share payouts to content creators a few years ago, ongoing accusations that Google is inflating ad views, Facebook's Cambridge Analytica fiasco, and now Musk is talking about making Twitter subscription-only. Is the ad economy dead? Is the world ready for the normalization of subscription-based websites?
>You couldnt ban the google owned nuclear SLBM fleet if it already existed and represent the most profitable sector of the economy.

Of course we can ban that. :laughs in EU:

There just isn't the political will behind it like it is on things like ICE cars or nuclear energy, because unlike the latter things, the politicians and voters don't understands it well enough to be outraged about it.
Of course it is - there is no duty to be useful. But it's even better (funner, more fulfilling, more likely to make you money) to make something that some one specific person you know wants. Could be you, could be a partner or a close friend/relative - doesn't really matter, as long as it's someone you know well.
With crypto he wouldn't need the bank to begin with. There's a reason banks have been so afraid of it, they need us to need them.
What? Most Americans despise the authority of the government and regulation. They object to tipping simply because they don't believe the people they tip deserve the money.
Go returning tuples as a norm and a way to handle simultaneously success and failure is the reason I believe go to be a fundamentally unsafe language. With a single binary return value you must successfully handle two cases, every time you increase the number of return flags, you double the complexity.
Let's be honest with ourselves, that's exactly what's going to happen.

Enforcement of minimum wages among tipped workers is famously lax, and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. Coupling this with taking away the tax dodge that is cash tips, and you'll see a backlash from workers who see no reason why they can't have both.
What part, tax inclusive pricing? Yes. It keeps the populace from realizing how much tax they're paying. :)

No tipping? No, that's social.

Workers paid a decent wage? I'm pretty sure that servers would claim they're not paid a decent wage. Australian minimum wage is AU$23.23, or USD$15 - USD$16.37 using PPP.

Cost of living comparison:

Sydney vs San Jose, CA

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
I appreciate your comment and understand your point of view.

What people that want a guide to money (aka reading self help "how to make a million dollars in 100 days" books) don't understand is that the lessons aren't a formula. My feeling for the commenter I originally replied to is therein lies a source of misunderstanding and frustration.

Being an entrepreneur is a skill. There are some very good serial entrepreneurs but they've all had 10x as many failures as their handful of successes.

Reading someone else's story isn't to be taken as a lesson of what to do to get to any MRR. It's a series of data points to be mused over.

Enough data points, along with time in the game (persistence, market viability, base level competence and work ethic) and you will start to have larger and larger successes.
It's not. You are misinformed and clearly have not used one personally.

I have one you do not need the rfid to load filament.

There is a hole on the back of the printer, you put filament in it just like any other printer and then tell it what you have.

It doesn't even have a rfid reader back there.

That's in the case you don't want to use the AMS. If you do want to use the AMS it's similar. Open AMS, put filament in, push it into hole, select what filament it is on the touchscreen. If the filament happens to have an rfid tag, you don't need to do the last step. That's all.

I have 4 bambu labs rfid enabled spools loaded now, 4 spools from matter hackers without rfid in my second AMS right now, works great.
I open-sourced Even the Ocean
Not only trust, also just knowing what the system does above board. The documentation can say exactly what it does, but who reads that? At least not until they get a "hey that's an interesting pic you took there" pop up
> I dont think all "success stories" should be celebrated.

I agree, and I never said so.

I get the perspective of being jaded by vapid success stories of "here's how I got rich, buy my book/merch/MLM and you can get rich too", but this is far from being the case here.

If you read the article, the author clearly states they were lucky several times, and towards the end:

> There is no formula to guarantee success.

This is not someone boasting of their success, or saying there's a quick and foolproof way to reach it, but sharing their journey with others and hoping it inspires people, in the same way they were inspired by similar stories.

> how little they have to work now or how little they had to work to get it

This was a 2 year journey, where at some point they were working 12 and 16 hours a day, and they said it took a toll on their personal and social life, so this is hardly working little, and having no sacrifices. If they now get to enjoy working 4 hours a day, and taking many days off, then that's a notable reward they get to enjoy from their previous hard work.

We should all be thankful that we live in an age where such a work/life balance is even possible. Our ancestors had to do back-breaking labour for 18 hours a day, or work a dead-end office job for their entire lives enriching someone else just so they could earn the right to a meager existence when they retire. Yet we live in a time when computers enable us to not think about our finances, and to do work we actually enjoy doing, rather than because we have to in order to subsist.

_This_ is the future technology promised us, where everyone gets to work less and enjoy life more, yet most of us are still stuck in industries with the same grind mentality from 100 years ago. Let's not criticize being able to work less.

> How little time it took.

They invested 7 years into their career, and did hard work for 2 years, with several failures along the way, so this is not an insignificant amount of time. It's certainly impressive what they've accomplished in 2 years, but this is not an overnight success story. How long would they have to have done "hard" work for their story to hold water?

> In one sentence: It's not helpful for me personally for this guy to boast about how much he makes, how little he works, and how quickly he did it.

I mean, that's your preference, sure. But companies are measured by their finances, and it's difficult to talk about growth towards financial independence without mentioning numbers. If they were discussing their fitness journey, they would need to mention their weight and exercise statistics, so I don't see how this is any different.

> This, and other content like it, serves them, not me.

Again, it's your opinion, and that's fine, but myself and many others find it very interesting to hear about someone else's road to "success". We don't need to be so cynical about their intentions just because it fits some preconceived notions about this type of content.
> I flat out do not watch ads

You must not have lived before the Internet or streaming video.

There used be this thing called Cable TV, where every few minutes the show was interrupted to show several 30 second commercials. You could not skip them.

There was no amount of money you could pay to avoid this horror. Only the strongest of humans had what it took to go without. The rest of us were brainwashed into buying detergent.
The bit about the phone getting hot and crashing hints at a vulnerability being used.

I would consider an android app sandbox escape bug to be the lowest level of difficulty in mobile phone exploit chains.
> The article seems to praise the iPhone a lot for some reason

It's an Apple news and rumours site, so not really unbiased.

> but to my eyes all its images immediately pop out as worse, except for the case where high depth of field is desired

Can only do so much with limited glass and computational photography. Dedicated cameras are always going to win in the image quality department, simply by virtue of having much larger photo diodes to capture more light with.

Smartphones will also never be able to match the bokeh, as the shorter the physical focal length, the more depth of field you have. Can't beat the laws of physics. They're great for flat-looking everything-in-focus photos, though. Can't replicate that with a DSLR / DLSM, unless it's an (almost) static composition and you do focus stacking in post
Yes, look at the number of hijackings by year globally pre and post 9/11. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240246/aircraft-hijacki...

Hijackings have been reduced since 9/11 but were always thousands fewer than the number of guns confiscated in the United States alone.

The most significant safety improvements (to the pilots' door, new training, changed passenger willingness to fight, revamped air marshal program) do not involve the TSA, at least not the 'retail' side to which most passengers are exposed.
Quite the story! I never heard about this before, and I’m a huge fan (admittedly that’s fan of the books though, rather than the author herself). The story/novel mentioned in the article (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) is famous in literary circles for $reasons - if you haven’t read it and you enjoy reading that sort of book, you’re missing out!

(It does look like she staged a murder scene from her books intending to frame her husband then came to her senses, doesn’t it?)
Yes, see the other comment.
albendazole will
Another set of entries for my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 gizmodo.com # G/O media
127.0.0.1 kotaku.com # G/O media
127.0.0.1 jalopnik.com # G/O media
127.0.0.1 jezebel.com # G/O media
127.0.0.1 qz.com # G/O media

> On June 29, 2023, G/O Media decided to implement artificial intelligence-generated content on its websites, in a move similar to BuzzFeed and CNET, as a "modest test". The move sparked backlash from GMG Union members, citing AI's track record of false statements and plagiarism from its training data.

No need for politically motivated, time wasting, AI generated bullshit.

I left the Onion unblocked because it's the only one that's honest about it being fake.
> misstakes
> seperate

I see what you did there.

Please never implement that idea though, it would be like the opposite of https://xkcd.com/810.
Do you happen to know the publication date of that report?

Internet Archive's first capture is April 2023.

The most recent references within the report are for 2021.
When I used a Raspberry Pi 4 with 64bit kernel+userspace and Wayland (sway), foot was the only native terminal that didn't eat up lots of CPU. I presume some kind of OpenGL vs OpenGL ES issue.
Related:

LambdaMOO Takes a New Direction (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856654 - May 2023 (15 comments)

LambdaMOO takes a new direction (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680965 - March 2020 (29 comments)

Lambda MOO Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405167 - July 2019 (1 comment)

Lambda MOO Programming Resources - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327975 - Feb 2018 (1 comment)

Exploring 3-Move – A LambdaMOO inspired environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075439 - April 2017 (15 comments)

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The "new direction" article was made famous by Clay Shirky in "A group is its own worst enemy". I won't list those here since it's a generic tangent but there are past threads at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
If it reflects back 100% of the incident light, it wouldn't have a blue appearance, would it?
that's what oven mits or pot holders are for...
In medicine, this is called an autoimmune disease. In social sciences, this is called paranoia. The latter is about about as helpful to an organization as the former is to a human body.
> like the quote in the article from Patricia Rankin: "[challenging] people's assumptions ... because that's really what science is all about.

Depending on whether the person being challenged is a scientist, and the specific assumption/"fact".
> but the rich keep fighting the majority on the issue.

Oh come on. The fiercest proponents of tipping I have met are service workers that get tips. Tips are like a slot machine gambling problem for them.
Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope
TG isn't spherical and wasn't designed to be. It's 2D and projection agnostic. Crossing the antimeridian is a user problem to solve. I recommend following the GeoJSON rule of antimeridian cutting [1].

As I said in the README. My goals are fast point-in-polygon, geometry intersections, and low memory footprint. Those are my bread-and-butter.

From what I know about S2, it has different goals. Such as being spherical and using discrete cells for distributed spatial indexes. Those are great things of course, but not really what I need.

This is the second comment that recommends using Shewchuk’s methods. And while yes I agree that that may be a superior way to go, and always on the table for the future, I'm still able to achieve my goals without those methods. At least for now.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7946#section-3.1.9
I find that the appeal of blogs was seeing someone's latest thoughts, often on other blog posts. That has shifted to social media, so the new way to get the same experience is to follow interesting people on twitter/bsky/mastodon.
You're asking this on a website that still runs Y-Combinator advertisements, so I'm going to mark it down as a "no".

On a more serious note, I don't think the ad monetization model will ever die. It's the simple principle of supply and demand; as long as there is a demand for a free experience, it will be profitable to provide an ad-supported version. It's why YouTube cranks out billions in ad revenue every year, even if they have a slightly insidious monetization model. This is what the free market settled on, and it's competitive enough to push both ad-based and subscription-based monetization to compete harder.
>some terrifying stuff out there like hendra and nipah viruses with >50% mortality rates.

These viruses are fortunately self-limiting. We should be terrified when a less deadly variant comes up.