skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been at a company that transitioned from normal release cycles to arbitrary yearly release cycles. Every year became a literal race to fix issues, improve existing features, and add new features. It was a gigantic mess. The yearly release cycle only really gives a few months to do all of that, because the other months are doing integrations, testing, and bug fixes to get the release out the door.

I can certainly see that if the emphasis on new features greatly outweighs that of bug fixes and improvements, then you can extend the implementation months for larger features because you can just bleed the bug fixes and improvements into next year's release. But then that year's feature set takes precedence and dept accumulation occurs.

My own experience with macOS is that it stopped "just working" a decade ago Apple stopped caring about it and poured everything into iOS. And then this is exacerbated by today's mode of operating by just treating features like they're free and frequent release cycles.
I have an idea for a service called ChadGPT that filters or tailors messages you send to not come across as needy, desperate, or boring.
> nobody has cracked microtransactions

It's hard to agree on this one.

Personal anecdote: In 2010's I worked in a micropayments broker linked with all telecom companies.

The whole thing was: that NSFW creators used a shared SMS shared code (i.e. a SMS number that receives messages for several creators and the code (for instance HNCODE25) was used to move money to a balance account) and for each of the payments that people used to do with them the telecom company got 15% slice, and the rest the telecom moved the money to the broker.

Another point: In Brazil due to the PIX [1] almost all of those payment platforms (Paypal included) are becoming irrelevant because you can generate random tokens that can be hard to trace, and all the payments occur instantaneously giving enough time for withdrawn before any attempt of censorship and or any policy change. [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867120
...

About the article itself, it's surprising to me (and I assume some sort of intentional ignorance here) that even in the current state of technology we do not have a "dumb pipe" payment system as before and we're still relying upon those middle man actors or not-so ergonomic alternatives as P2P crypto.
I think part of Patreon’s value-add is solving these issues. And it’s not like this is unprecedented. In the music world there are artists who are anonymous but when you buy a record you’re buying it from retailer which is where you go if there are issues and a record label, who presumably knows the legal identity of the artist.
> unless the tl:dr; is in response to it being a badly structured wall of text.

It is, yes. It does contain a lot of information, but the fact that it's one big wall of text makes my ADHD go do something else. Even a table of contents, or some better-structured headlines would help.
Yeah maybe in North India.

South India it's pretty impossible, since it went through the self respect movements and basically got rid of surnames. Most south indians have surnames based on their fathers names.

But it is definitely common to use surnames as proxies in North Indian communities (unfortunately)
Google Hardware as been on the market long enough. From Pixel to Chromebook that is at least 10 years since their introduction. And yet Google still dont cares about getting there products working in other market. And that is a company awash with cash. Even a small router company does better than them.

I guess some, may be a minority of people wants competition to Apple. But neither Amazon or Google seems to be serious about it.
And Whose reality exactly is that?

Have you lived outside the US? Socialites in expensive lavish cities are the minority in the world by far. The majority is what you just described, poverty, and lack of education to start.

To them you are like Maria Antoinette telling them just eat cake from your cushy little San Fran bubble.
>It's a popular taste in gummy-like candies

It's also the "salt" in salted licorice.

>but it's an acquired taste

Yes, because it's objectively unpleasant (if it tasted good there would naturally be no need to acquire a taste for it). Of course, that's not to say it's pointless to add it- provided it's done properly you can add a salty flavor to places it can't normally be (chocolate covered black licorice being one of those places)- but it's also a taste that imposes a relatively small n where (enjoyment gained from eating n+1 pieces) < (enjoyment gained from eating n pieces) compared to candy that's actually designed to taste good.
Patreon took venture money despite being bootstrapped.

That is behind everyone of their dumb decisions.

They had a great model harvesting nickels and then they sold a vision of Taylor Swift being on Patreon to VCs.
Such a stupid system. No alert should bypass specific instructions for a phone to be silent. Or at the very least they should do a silent alarm before doing this
Show HN: A Live View Native Flutter Client
Hey, I thought I would share what I'm building right now.

For those who don't know, Phoenix Live View introduced Live View native, a framework where you can build mobile apps straight from a server view, everything gets synchronized live like Live View on the web. For the people who don't know what Phoenix Live View is, I encourage you to check it out, it's a great piece of tech.

I'm releasing now a tech preview of a Flutter client, you could build a mobile & desktop app using the exact same backend code as the web and just change the view, every diff is getting replicated live over a websocket, same as a Live View web client.

https://github.com/alex-min/live_view_native_flutter_client

I have a video demo of a simple counter being synced between the web, mobile and desktop on github, this demonstrates the concept clearly.
Crypto could provide a competitive edge to certain features in Patreon (and Bandcamp).

- Instead of 4-7% payment processing fees, it can be effectively zero[1]

- Instead of 8-12% fees (or 15% in case of Bandcamp), crypto industry standards tend to be in the 0-5% range. It’s not always clear to me as a creator and patron why such a significant amount of value needs to be captured for a digital asset sale.

- Users of the platform could be given more control such as forking the OSS protocol if the core devs go off the rails or try to extract more than what users feel it’s worth. This is especially interesting given the recent polarizing changes to Patreon and Bandcamp’s business structures.

- Settlement times can be measured in minutes or hours rather than days, weeks, or months.

- Anonymity and local-first data privacy could be achieved, at least theoretically. Practically, very few L2s have yet to reach complete privacy using zero knowledge proofs and related cryptography.

- Mitigating centralizing factors such as Patreon’s control over what is a morally acceptable revenue stream. Content like NSFW art might be currently acceptable, but this could change on a dime if the company decides to change its values.

Subscription and recurring payments are notoriously difficult in crypto, but “by-work” as the author puts it, i.e. “microtransactions per each published digital object” is already happening in crypto and with much lower rates than Patreon et al[2].

[1] https://l2fees.info/

[2] https://teia.art/about
I had a look over the years - the libre can pretty unreliable with levels, so I am concerned about someone else’s life being in jeopardy if I made a mistake (would be different if it was my own - I’d have done it a long time ago)

She’s waiting for a closed loop system from her hospital - should be within the next few months (omnipod is due an upgrade). That said, I’ll check out androidaps and loop kit, thank you!
A sane algorithm would at least say there are different answers depending on who you ask.
Yeah, this is what I’ve also experienced. You can have a great team, and a lot of influence in that team context. Scaling up that common feeling from 5-10 people gets harder. Realizing this, I’m not really interested in working in larger organizations anymore. All the overhead that bogs down speed just sucks the life out of me.
> rebuilt every component from scratch. And we use styled components, not tailwind.

Honest question: Why?
Add parenthesis around function composition?
The real feature of centralized services is anti-fraud. Conversely, the real service of crypto is easy to commit, hard to trace, irreversible fraud.

(also, you've missed all the points in the original article which crypto does not provide!)
AI offers improved civility for polarizing online conversations

Another heading on the front page of hacker news right now...
That ignores that the Unix and Mac ecosystems weren't so small. So I wouldn't call the RISC processors back then 'specialized'. We tend to look at the present and say 'this is the only way it could have been' but that just isn't necessarily the case. Companies have been in good positions before and fumbled and other companies could have competed differently.
Still, film disintegrates, so I would hope they digitize it for archival, at least.
Actually, yes! Thank you for asking.

First I should point out how utterly ridiculous it is that with all the data we have access too, all our analytical capability and ability to model and simulation, there are not many people working on alternate systems, and anything people come up with is not taken seriously. People would rather poke holes in anything new, even if it has less problems than our current system.

I do have a rough idea for a system, it's based on a lot of research, but only exists as a lot of rough notes - I haven't taken the time yet to properly organize and write everything out, it's a big project.

Basically though, it tries to solve some of the problems of representative democracy like we have in the US. Some example differences (which I'm not sure if I can devote time to defending in this thread, I just list them as examples) by:

- Removing elections for many positions, having them appointed or offered to people from a qualified pool - possibly even assigning them the duty of serving in such a position, not unlike jury duty.

- Giving people in positions of power more power to act unilaterally, while still having their actions subject to review, a cross between SCOTUS and a jury of qualified individuals randomly selected.

- Ensuring leaders must act based on current science and knowledge, not personal feeling or intuition - these are not things the general population should be voting on, even indirectly.

- Many more referendums for big issues, rather than just having elected representatives make the decision, or worse, fail to make the decision.

Basically, many more elements of a meritocracy, much less influence and say from the population, while still ensuring they have a voice. It would be a much less democratic representative democracy in the best way possible, although I suppose it could still fall under that same umbrella.
You stated you are in favor of rigging elections in order to prevent a person you don't want to be president to become president. Nothing you say on this topic is worth listening to.
Wisdom can be written down and read. Those who seek may find it. Philosophy means The Love Of Wisdom.
Love the various recommendations. !!!!.
What opinion is getting pushed by these extremely open questions?

I can see how many teenagers wouldn't like to openly discuss sex or politics with their parents because they already know what kind of answers their parent want or don't want to hear. But I don't think the article claims that asking a few questions can undo years of bad parenting.
It seems like identifying failure modes could work if you could model the likelihood of the company going bankrupt in a certain amount of time because even if the enterprise is working on failure mode, public markets have been popularity contests for a really long time.
This article made me think about how there is an unfortunate side effect of the rise of data science. that is the belief that all these statistical models represent the system under study as opposed to the variance/covariance the model is able unravel. I often have conversations with people who believe their statistical model is essentially the same as a physical model. For example, linear regression and Newton's law of gravity should be held in the same regard.
I think this is a great idea, but at least for Crypto the issue is the ergonomics because it needs to be (1) convenient for the creator, (2) convenient for the payer, (3) offer liquidity/withdrawn venues for both parties. All of this discarding the extra friction to make it operational (QR codes with the codes would help here, but I am not sure).
Why Microsoft doesn't use their own tools and framework to build their apps? They deprecated and made dozens of frontend framework in the .net ecosystem.
I bought when it dropped 5% because I thought it was "a clear buy signal". Then it dropped even more and I couldn't spare any cash to buy more. How could you have known at the time that 20% was the bottom?
> Are you sure about that? I remember in Doom 3 era Carmack was rocking a fancy NeXTStep computer and doing cross platform development. But before that I'm pretty sure everything was a strictly Windows affair...

By Doom 3 NeXTSteps were way obsolete and the company had already been bought by Apple long before. He did show the Doom 3 tech first on a Mac at a WWDC though (and later did the same for Rage).

NeXTStep was used for Doom 1 and Quake 1 but by Quake 2 they had switched to Windows NT based computers (with a second Win95 computer for testing - and some artists still used DOS-based software like Deluxe Paint).

> I think Romero wrote a lot of the tooling.

AFAIK Romero wrote the editor for Doom and previous games but Carmack wrote most of the editor for Quake (the whole "brush" idea was Carmack's). Romero has mentioned a few times that he wasn't happy with the editor's usability. AFAIK by that time Romero spent more time on working on the levels (which were more time consuming to make than the Doom ones) and the QuakeC scripts.

> have you read Masters of Doom? It goes into a lot of this stuff and is a great read.

Indeed, i have read MoD, it is a neat book. One of these days i want to also read Romero's "Life in First Person" too.

> I couldn't find anything online but I doubt this was anymore more than some xor + rot13

It was a little more involved than that, there is a blogpost series[0] about it from someone who tried to reverse engineer and reimplement the original qcrack (which calculated a decryption key). The original qcrack was made almost instantly though.

IIRC from Masters of Doom, Carmack didn't really like the idea (most likely he expected people to crack it quickly).

[0] https://faehnri.ch/finished-with-qcrack/
I’m never going to unhear the vocal fry in that song, which I had never noticed before. Your comment should have come with some sort of spoiler alert…haha. Unfashionable opinion (for my generation): I love(d) that song.
The problem is that "civility" or "tone" is a surface issue and the offence is more fundamental to what's being discussed. There's a well-known "euphemism treadmill" where certain words are deemed bad, a replacement is developed, and then people start using them as a slur instead. It's possible to be perfectly polite while arguing for genocide.
Great resource, but it's hard to practice there as a beginner because there are no solutions (unless you solve the problem yourself). So you might have to get comfortable with being stuck. Which is fine when you're experienced, but will demotivate you if you're just starting.
>Sturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is crud, and that explains almost everything.

I used to think it was an 80/20 split, and later in my life it goes up to 90%. Now I think it is more like 95%. Where it fits the normal distribution curve.

It is sad, but I am also surprised and inspired how 5% of people are pushing the progress so 95% of people gets to benefits, most likely without them knowing it.

The author said 10 years ago. HN used to discuss a lot of these things pre 2015, and it was mostly gone from 2015 - 2022 because it doesn't fit the general Silicon Valley narrative. But I am glad it is back.
I still have the game in the original box on my shelf - could not part with it when I gave away my DOS gaming collection - it was one of the games that made me think a lot as a teenager.
Hmm, not my choice of sketch to demonstrate this. That is more about crap padded TV. "ChatGPT I have 1 minute of content, please pad out to 25 minutes".

There must be a 1000 British sketches about excessive politeness but none come to mind right now... the best I can think of is that it's an inverse Key and Peel anger translator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qv7k2_lc0M

We will need the anger translator in our client software to translates back out of the polite version so we can efficiently understand what is truly meant without confusion.
It's not anyone's reality, it's reality, period.

Yes, I've lived outside the US - I'm not even from the US. I've lived in 5 different countries.

I don't really care how it seems. Ignorance, and offense at having that ignorance called out, is not a sufficient reason to burn a country to the ground and violate the rights of citizens.

If it were up to that poor uneducated half of the US, most of them would push for the US to be closer to Gilead.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Sorry to Bother You.
dark reader heavy user here haha
People like the service that the middle man provides. They may not like the middle man, the fees, etc. but tell someone that "your transactions are not reversible, if you lost your money that sucks I guess, even if we messed up" and they will be happy to pay that transaction fee with another provider instead. Even with the small amounts, you either have to approve each transaction (which leads to another category of scams), or trust someone with access to your account.

If you care about spending just $2/mth and not more... that may not be a risk you wanna take.
Guerrilla Promotional Tactics
Just one more thing:

One of my favorite Columbo episodes, "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star", involved the murderer's girlfriend faking an alibi by wearing a paper mask of the murderer and running through a traffic light with a speeding camera, which Columbo figured out because the shadows were wrong.

The Mask of A Murderer | Columbo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Zk90re50A

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101602/goofs/#not_a_goof

>Incorrectly regarded as goofs

>The killer's fake alibi hinges on a speed trap photo. An accomplice drove his car past a speed trap wearing a mask, a flat photo of the murderer's face. This is demonstrated by Columbo towards the end of the show.

>In that demonstration, it is clear that the person wearing the mask can't see, and Columbo helps her to exit his car. The photo of the speed camera also shows the killer's eyes, there were no visible holes in the mask. Allegedly, this means that the accomplice supposedly drove the car fast enough to set off the speed trap, while completely blind. However, a person can see reasonably well through the mask by simply poking a few pin holes through the eyes. These would not be visible on the police camera but are sufficient to allow the driver to see.
The Machine Stops, 1909 by E M Forster (room with a view/Howard's end) could almost be a sequel to this. Ideas are often older than we think. (Short story/novela length. Not a gripping read but a nice quick length and interesting for the age)
Not quite. It's not just about personal preferences. It's about someone who is a clear and present danger to our way of life and the security of the country.
The browser is the new X Windows / RDP client, and the dream of all SaaS providers, back into the timesharing days, this is why this kind of ports is happening.

We are back to the thin clients from 1970 - 2000's.
> No hour a day (conservatively…) lost to meetings and other activities that exist to generate data for managers to make pretty graphs out of.

IIRC even in the Doom 3 and probably also Rage days Carmack had mentioned that they didn't really do any meetings, if they needed they just discussed things in the kitchen (or something like that).

It did help that the team was small though (IIRC Doom 3 was made by ~25 people total).
So use is allowed but abuse it is not.

And since when is Azerbaijan in EU ?
MGM didn't pay up after hackers broke into its system and stole customer data
>No alert should bypass specific instructions for a phone to be silent.

Why? Don't you know that bitter custody disputes qualify as national emergencies on par with the outbreak of a natural disaster or nuclear war? Surely the fact that 99.999% of the time it's only used for the former increases the chance the alerts will be taken seriously.
> Targeted, specialized attacks are rare.

But people basing their routines around the assumption that it won't happen to them, is why some notable attacks have succeeded.

Obviously you need to base your practises around your own risk profile and their will be a point of limited likelihood of useful return on effort that will be different for different people/organisations, but some should be paranoid enough to worry about that other 1% of attempts.
It's not. 350k is 3% for the entire USA [1]. For somewhere like California if your _household_ isn't making $1M you're not 1% [2]. Even in the poorest state (West Virginia) if you lived alone then you're not even a 1%-er.

People really do think of themselves as at the top when they're not. You're very good but not the top.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_States

[2]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-top-1-percent-in...
Someone seeking wisdom is different than someone stumbling across wisdom before they are ready.
Patreon creators actively voted against crypto.
Under what circumstances can people be banned from PIX?
I loved Flattr ~10 years ago. You said "I have $40/month" and then these funds were allocated based on which things you flattr'd during the month (there were little buttons on the websites/blogs). Of course you could also say "include this content creator every month".

It was so simple and elegant. As a consumer I had cost control, too. Plus there were no micro-transactions, only one charge to me.
Cloud makes economic sense in two scenarios.

For startups that don't have a a clue what they will need because still searching for market fit so it doesn't make sense to provision hardware not knowing what is needed. If you suddenly find market fit and usage grows 100x+ in a few months, you totally want to be on cloud.

And in larger coporations, those that have extremely spiky usage. For example a company that has 90% of their usage at the end of each month, it doesn't make sense to own hardware to meet the peak load if it will be idle 28 days of the month.

Most corporations are not in those two categories though! If you are not, you are vastly overpaying for compute, storage and network compared to owning your own hardware. It is sad that such companies are rushing to overpay for cloud just because it's hip.

Objectively analyze your needs and usage and make a data-driven decision. Don't rush into cloud just because everyone else did.