skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not odd. It was specifically brought up in the conversation. It's what the person you are responding to was responding to.
Have you looked at the hospital maternity wards and high schools lately? It seems they just keep pumping out new kids that will compete with workers for a zero sum slice of the economic pie. All these high schools graduates are coming to take our jobs
Here's the 20 top sites from 2008 in the HN front-page archive:

2008: Distinct sites: 3458

Site Stories Points ( mean ) Comments ( mean )
------------------------------ ------- ------ ---------- -------- ----------
n/a 1304 33699 ( 25.82 ) 44937 ( 34.43 )
techcrunch.com 440 12437 ( 28.20 ) 6954 ( 15.77 )
nytimes.com 333 7457 ( 22.33 ) 4817 ( 14.42 )
wired.com 124 3166 ( 25.33 ) 1818 ( 14.54 )
readwriteweb.com 103 1794 ( 17.25 ) 889 ( 8.55 )
37signals.com 101 3794 ( 37.20 ) 2079 ( 20.38 )
economist.com 82 1686 ( 20.31 ) 858 ( 10.34 )
wsj.com 76 2329 ( 30.25 ) 2047 ( 26.58 )
alleyinsider.com 75 1597 ( 21.01 ) 980 ( 12.89 )
arstechnica.com 74 1602 ( 21.36 ) 672 ( 8.96 )
codinghorror.com 68 2284 ( 33.10 ) 1578 ( 22.87 )
cnn.com 64 1620 ( 24.92 ) 1249 ( 19.22 )
gigaom.com 58 1147 ( 19.44 ) 562 ( 9.53 )
sethgodin.typepad.com 57 1548 ( 26.69 ) 841 ( 14.50 )
youtube.com 57 1915 ( 33.02 ) 760 ( 13.10 )
guardian.co.uk 53 1410 ( 26.11 ) 914 ( 16.93 )
businessweek.com 52 1248 ( 23.55 ) 809 ( 15.26 )
cnet.com 52 1108 ( 20.91 ) 630 ( 11.89 )
bbc.co.uk 49 1059 ( 21.18 ) 757 ( 15.14 )
yahoo.com 47 1070 ( 22.29 ) 880 ( 18.33 )
mattmaroon.com 45 1762 ( 38.30 ) 1880 ( 40.87 )

The only one from your list that's missing would be PBS (ranked 93 for 2008).

By 2010 you could add theatlantic.com (#11) and npr.org (#23).

Source: own research based on the HN front-page archive.
I'm happy with TB and its Foss.
You don't need 50 you need just one. Thunderbird itself checks all the boxes.
This is a company that spends millions and millions of dollars every year, shaving a fraction of a millimeter here and a fraction of an ounce there. The absolute last thing they want to do is add new hardware functionality that won't be used by the bulk of the market.

When you squit out 50 models of something per year (like Samsung phones), you can afford for some of them to be more niche products that won't get as wide adoption. When you have only two or three variations on a single product for that year (like Apple), you can't afford that.

Instead, you have to make sure that all the features you offer are either used or usable by the majority of the customers, or that adding those features allows you to add enough to the price that the small number of people who would buy that product for those features will give you a sufficiently high return on your investment that you will be able to at least maintain your profit margin.

There just aren't enough people in the market like you who are unwilling to tether and that fact alone is enough to push them to hardware being made by a different company.

I want the integrated SIM or e-SIM myself, but I'm willing to tether if the integrated option isn't available. So, I'm part of the market that Apple is addressing. In contrast, you're not willing to tether, and so you buy hardware from a different company, and therefore not part of the segment they are addressing.

Apple has repeatedly demonstrated that there are segments of the market that they're not willing to chase, and this is one of those situations.
My kids laugh at me because I still buy CDs and rip them and some bandcamp. I rip to flac, not for some audiophile reason, but because I can rip a single file for the album with metadata included and space is cheap.

I never have to worry about an internet connection or if an artist drops from a platform.
source code:

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Is taking land you don't own also violence?
The screen and battery are too small; you really want a laptop or subnotebook form factor where the screen opens like a book so screen and keyboard can both be large enough to be useful.

A5 format (like a book, slightly less than most laptops) seems a sweet spot, also for keeping it in a larger jacket pocket.
Self-driving cars cause a traffic jam in Austin, Texas
I do run Grafana + InfluxDB at home and I agree it’s not trivial to setup. Grafana in particular makes creating informative, easy to read graphs/dashboards a PhD worthy endeavor.

Yet, I run some hobby projects that collect data and this setup is absolutely perfect for it. I even challenged myself to use SSL for the InfluxDB server (run small CA).

Also, I use slack-based alerting through Grafana, for example if a disk would fill up, or something is down.

So it’s really about what your needs are.

And often, basic metrics about systems like CPU usage, load or network traffic doesn’t tell you anything useful or actionable.
A lot of the comments in here are about the debate on whether companies should be remote or in-person.

That's an important debate but orthogonal to what I wrote. The YC batch is not a company. It doesn't really have a close analogue, but if you forced me to choose, I'd say that doing YC is more similar to going to college than working at a company. And as all we all know, while many companies are staying fully remote, hardly any university is.

Having now done this back-to-back, I can tell you exactly the ways in which in-person YC turned out to be better than remote YC.

1). Most founders in remote YC didn't make strong connections with their batchmates. When I ask founders from remote batches "how many founders in your batch are you still close with?", they typically give an answer that's 0-3. When I ask founders from in-person batches the same question, it's 10+.

2). When YC really works, it's because it not only conveys some factual advice, but changes the way founders think and behave.

When founders go through in-person batches, they're usually significantly different by the end of the batch - tougher, savvier, and more formidable. Whatever causes that did not translate well to zoom.

3). In-person YC is simply more fun. YC has always been in part about being fun experience, because startups need to be fun or they'd be too difficult and demoralizing. Zoom is very effective for communicating information, but no one has fun at Zoom parties.
We will see when Apple starts shipping their own modem. I know what I am betting on. Would you like to take the other side of the bet?

I do appreciate your faith in the EMH.
Well... it's certainly interesting to ponder. As a personal anecdote I had zero parental supervision growing up and I spent an absurd amount of my formative years on the dark corners of the early Internet. During that time I got hooked on pornography the effects of which I deal with to this day. If I replay the scenario but insert the possibility of stumbling across what amounts to a pedophilia creation machine I... really don't want to think about it...
I wish there was a good alternative to gstreamer for building a "zero copy" computational graph and media pipeline. Even though the bindings are very good, it's far from ideal.
"A cover up"???

"Teeny group of squatters get evicted" isn't exactly headline news in most places.
S. mutans was named in 1924, long before the idea of genetic mutations was established. It was likely named that because it converts sugars to acid.
If it didn't do what was advertised someone would have already posted it here, it isn't that hard to analyze these things.
That's difficult in practice, because existing companies can standardize on pay, and unlike software it's difficult for new competitors to emerge due to the capital- and infrastructure-intensive nature of the auto industry making it candidate for a natural monopoly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
The company I started working for a few months ago wrote their whole web app with Elixir/Phoenix LiveView. It's been a real pleasure to work with after years of React and Next.js. The main thing I miss are types though.
> In contrast, you're not willing to tether, and so you buy hardware from a different company, and therefore not part of the segment they are addressing.

I use the tethering almost daily and hate it. I have almost every kind of Apple device. Many of them have modems.
AI cannot by itself create anyting unguided by non AI agents, it’s just a fools errand to go in that direction. Now if AI is guided by human counterparts it becomes just another tool, a very complex and able tool but nonetheless a tool. An autheur would be in charge and in control of this tool.
You're correct, I confused it with LLAMA being more business-friendly (at least in theory) than some other models out there.
Undoubtedly, but those aren't real libertarians. They're anarchists.

Libertarianism is a free market economy, with the government serving as enforcer of property rights and contracts. The government also enforces individual rights.

Such as the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I think this is primarily a problem of the domain owners/sysadmins, all my domains have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and I also keep them monitored for any blacklist/alerts, if you are not aware of these, you should hire someone to audit it, email protocol is broken by design and all of these are duct tape solutions to prevent OP attempts. This whole document gives me nostalgia back in the late 90s early 2000s how there were tools you install to spoof emails!
> Can you explain what you mean here, then?

Exactly what it says: the legal system has not caught up. Even in a post-Brandenburg world, the standard is still that the threat must be both explicit and imminent. They're still struggling with the "stochastic" part of stochastic terrorism, even though the phenomenon itself has existed for centuries.

> I’m talking about the current legal system here like you, so I’m wondering what’s fundamentally so new that censorship is the only answer here?

Never said, never implied, not even relevant in this particular sub-thread.
> the reaction from the general public will be something like “Meh, cool. Now what about the economy or who is dating who?”

That wouldn't be annoying me much, if at all.

The possibly infinite conspiracy theories and misinformation making it probably impossible to follow the developments without getting confused on the other hand...
Very interesting, thanks!

Do these include subsystems with fairly high-performance requirements (GUIs, high-volume network services, etc.)?
Nice article! FTA: "One for one indicates that if a child crashes it, it and only it should be considered when restarting."
What is "it" in this context?
Here's a Manifest V3 extension to block Google Analytics. First, the manifest.json file:

{
"name": "Block Google Analytics",
"version": "1.0",
"description": "Blocks Google Analytics.",
"declarative_net_request": {
"rule_resources": [{
"id": "ruleset_1",
"enabled": true,
"path": "rules.json"
}]
},
"permissions": [
"declarativeNetRequest"
],
"manifest_version": 3
}

And the rules.json file:

[
{
"id": 1,
"action": { "type": "block" },
"condition": {
"domainType": "thirdParty",
"requestDomains": [
"analytics.google.com",
"google-analytics.com"
],
"resourceTypes": [
"ping",
"script",
"xmlhttprequest"
]
}
}
]
> Self-determination is a core principle of international law, people arguing against it are almost always repeating propaganda points.

Arguably, the core principle of international law is, "everyone's got some slice of the planet, now let us all agree that past is past, and stick to the borders as they are now, so we can all focus on something more useful and mutually beneficial, instead of continuing to spend blood to adjust them". Attempts to change borders, or to create or remove countries, are quite a big deal.
I live in the Sydney Central Business District.

1 USD = 1.55 AUD. All other numbers below are Mbps.

I pay 99 AUD per month for 250 down, 25 up.

If I want 1000 down, 50 up, it's 149 AUD per month.

If I want 1000 down, 400 up, it's 329 AUD per month.

If I want 1000 symmetrical, well I haven't even bothered to check because that's a business service.

Meanwhile I believe people in Zurich can get 10000 down/up for approximately what I pay for 250/25.

Of course, Australia is much larger than Switzerland by area, but that's no excuse for such slow speeds in Sydney. I would much prefer 1G or 10G symmetrical even if it was shaped down once leaving Sydney or Australia.
> No, what I want to do is assess whether broad screening programs actually make people live longer. Overall survival is the correct metric. Evidence in favor of the claim is lacking.

Correct according to whom? If you want to choose only one metric quality adjusted life years is likely the best one.

While OS may be your goal that's not the primary endpoint of screening programs.

Some examples of why OS is limited: breast lumpectomy vs mastectomy and systemic therapy or polypectomy vs neoadjuvant therapy and colonic resection are both associated with very high morbidity that is very important to patients. The vast majority of patients care about quality of life.

> "Sufficiently powered" is relative to what size of effect you want to detect--which you haven't specified, so I'm not sure how you can make the assertion that none of the studies are sufficiently powered.

We do not expect any one screening program to have a large change on overall survival because there are many ways to die, very few studies are powered to detect the small differences expected. The reference below does some modeling and discusses cancer-specific vs all-cause mortality for your perusal.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cam4.2476

> These outcomes ignore negative effects of screening on people who don't have cancer, which is why I'm not interested in them.

See morbidity discussion around delayed diagnosis above.

> And yes, there are negative effects, and no, they are not negligible.

As you're choosing to limit the discussion to overall survival, do you have any data to support the claim that screening has more than a negligible negative effect?

There is a better argument to be made for other harms of screening like cost and stress but if we want to discuss these negative effects of screening we also have to step back from overall survival and discuss morbidity benefits.

ETA:

> 2) that I'm misinterpreting something, given that I didn't really offer any interpretation at all.

This is your interpretation, and is an incorrect one:

> The evidence in favor of mass screening programs in the hope of early detection is actually weak to non-existent [1].

The evidence you cite says nothing about early detection and treatment paradigms.
Cool, that was my read as well. Just making sure I wasn't missing something!
Sorry: I'm confused. Are you saying this is why an organization like MITRE cannot build contextual knowledge and expert judgement into itself? Or are you saying this is how computer security differs from radar and/or communications systems engineering?
I would buy more CD if they were available but many artists don’t even press them.
Drive through soda is a lot easier to drink with a lid and a straw.
> I have uniformly found people kind and decent

There's a whole ton of assholes out there. You can get ripped off in any culture if you don't watch your back.
I'm not sure if they literally mean crond, or something vaguely cron-like but easier to manage like systemd timers.
You can combine this "update" with a "where taken = 0" to directly skip taken rows.
The internet took off in aus due to social networks. The popular ones were all the cc field of email. Many had work addresses first before deciding they wanted that at home. Hotmail worked ok too. There were a lot of weaknesses to that unstructured and decentralised approach to social networks but also something to be said for it that has been lost.
I am glad that someone else on here recognizes this.
It's a question of size. I use Fastmail, and even if they do that (and I hope they don't), it's a relatively small company, so the impact is also smaller.
Congratulations on parenthood. I thought the decision was very much overkill myself, but it's impressive you had the determination and skill to execute it while in the state you describe. I doubt I would be able to.
The FAQ has more info about what else is required, and what the money is used for: https://walkoffame.com/faq/
> Or dare I say it: we disband the notion of private ownership of the means of production and give that ownership back to the people.

Lets be explicit about this lunutism kills millions of people, directly and indirectly, collapses on itself and then hopeful is salvaged by hardcore capitalism.
Not even remotely.

The Google Analytics JavaScript (gtag.js, analytics.js) runs on sites using Google Analytics, to share site-usage data (which can be gathered from either consented cookies, or "legitimate interest" exceptions) with Google Analytics.

The EU-mandated cookie box/popup literally lists Google Analytics on sites that use it, and this categorically states you can control refusal of that by using the browser add-on -- which is clearly informed consent, because you can choose not to install it, knowing the data (which could be gathered by other means anyway) will then be passed on to Analytics.

Of course this is for the average non-technical end user, who hasn't -- for example -- already used something like NoScript to block the JavaScript from running in the first place...
Having been involved in commercial construction in the late 90s, OSHA had a lot of regulation and focus on masons - especially cutting concrete block. It’s surprising that 25 years later that understanding of the problem didn’t translate to the other trades.
I agree with this, but I also think we’re going to start to see a social rejection of AI being applied this way if things continue.

It’s threatening so many people across so many industries that I think it will become a brand risk to companies, particularly in high profile industries like entertainment.

Anecdotally, I watched the new Indiana Jones movie and I found the de-aging scene to be so weird and creepy, the friends I was there with felt the same and it was widely discussed among reviewers and critics. It really represents the planned uselessness of humanity in the AI era and I think more people are going to wake up to that reality as time goes by.
Which parts of Signal are not open source?
Point taken. I think they strive for high impact, at least high market impact, in the application phase. What they end up with doesn't reflect what they want, kind of by definition. The extreme majority of YC startups fail.
That's what's in the article.
You can do something like UPDATE row SET timeout = NOW() WHERE NOW() - taskTimeout > row.timestamp. You're not stuck with comparing bools.
This is a known regret in Rust. It’s too late to improve it, because even though it’s technically possible, it would be a massive churn of all source code, and leave the language with two syntaxes for years to come.
Yeah sorry I was referring to the dental floss comment I responded to. There’s a lingering belief that PTFE is bad for you, which had more to do with its original production method than the substance itself. Modern PTFE is safe.
Where are you that has wet bulb temperatures of 98? That’s near or past the point where lethal hyperthermia sets in for otherwise healthy persons.
Interesting. There are so many Rust game engines. Does none of them handle text rendering properly? (I haven't studied this aspect of Bevy, while I really should have since English isn't even my mother tongue...)
I'm not convinced that they will ever be shipping their own modem. Or, if they do, I suspect that the reason will be that antitrust laws have forced Qualcomm to make changes to their business model which causes cracks in their ecosystem which Apple is then able to take advantage of. Even then, I think it would be a decade or more before Apple could start shipping their modem.

Either that, or Apple gets fed up with the whole situation and just buys Qualcomm outright, then maybe strips the components and IP licenses they want, and then turns around and sells the dregs back to the market. But then that would endanger Apple to be the main target of those same kinds of antitrust laws.

Given as entrenched and both Apple and Qualcomm are, I'm not willing to make any bets between the Irresistible Force and the Unbreakable Object.
The problem with using “lucky” as a single term is it loses all nuance.

If I am a successful entrepreneur, it is likely I have been lucky. But the luck factor is less than a trust funder, born to rich parents. Or someone who won the lottery. And the lottery winner is less lucky than someone who didn’t buy a lotto ticket but won publishers clearinghouse (ie they had to at least buy the ticket)

The worlds rewards depend heavily on luck, but all too often I see things decried as “lucky” when that was only one piece of the equation. If we reduce luck to a binary, we may as well just do nothing and wait for good fortune.
Thisnudechilddoesnotexist.com?
I don't think he would or should. I was just thinking if he applied, he probably wouldn't get in.
I helped start an early (1998) Australian ISP in Sydney (a modem bank connected to an ISDN line) with a Linux 2.0 infrastructure (Slackware…) and Perl based billing system running on Postgres 96. I was 16.

The early Australian internet was a lot of fun.
I'll ask the opposite question: why not?

The idea that businesses exist for shareholders and then only incidentally exist for the benefit of their employees or their customers is not handed to us on stone tablets from God. This principle is no more valid than a principle which insists that an employer must act in the pursuit of the interests of its employees.
It wouldn't solve the issue, but it would remove all the things in the way of one competent person sitting down and writing a spec.
True - but Richard Rhodes (author of Hedys Folley) was an advisor to Nolan for the film and I imagine his books on atomic history were very helpful.