skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if I'm reading the nifty infographic correctly, essentially all of the mass loss occurred between 1997-2000, and the total tonnage has remained consistent or even grown somewhat since 2000 (solid gray line in embedded timeseries chart in the first main figure). The article really tries to focus on the loss aspect, and the amount of ice lost between 1997 and 2000 is certainly shocking - nearly 10,000 gigatons in just a few years! But there hasn't really been any loss overall since about 2000. A complex picture, but maybe encouraging that things haven't deteriorated much over the last 20 or so years?
You don't see the reasonable conclusion here? They're going to stop punishing dissent from now on or what?

"You're reliant to pay your bills on a check we send you. We have the leverage to make you homeless if you dissent." This is not s reasonable connection of the dots?
I've had managers that were good at "protect their engineers from the organization, ensure they have the resources required to do the work" and in general doing a good job at deflecting bullshit. But I have never had one "make sure their organizational goals, development, and wellbeing are being advocated and cared for." In fact I'm struggling to recall any conversation I've ever had with any manager about my goals or development that was not a perfunctory one in an annual review.
Your view of bandcamp seems like a cartoonishly perfect representation of a consultant’s perspective with very little understanding of what the company actually does beyond the balance sheet. It’s the kind of no-skin-in-the-game perspective that ruined Boeing, and it’s why most folks absolutely abhor private equity.

Bandcamp has been successful because of the trust they have within the internet music community. It’s not a very complicated product, but people buy music there because the whole thing feels like it’s a part of the music scene, not the tech or business scene. Given that the Daily is well regarded in that community, I highly doubt those six writers, who were likely paid significantly less than the median staff member, were the problem here. Even if they didn’t have the purely trackable ROI, they were a huge part of the platform’s only moat: its goodwill with the artists and listeners who used it.

I would also add that Bandcamp was pretty publicly profitable prior to their sale to Epic. Given that they didn’t significantly grow the staff after the acquisition, they would have had to make huge blunders in a very short period of time they owned it. So at this point we’re talking about laying folks off purely for better looking numbers, not really for sustainability.
The Brain Cell Census
Agreed but from what I've seen most layoffs were on the content/writer/social side of things.

Sounds to me that the focus is now on being a platform and not an outlet.

I still have no clue what Epic wanted to do with it.
I have ebooks on GNU sed and GNU awk with plenty of examples and exercises (free to read online):

* https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnused/

* https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/

I also wrote TUI apps for interactive exercises (grep, sed, awk, etc): https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps
Everyone wants good usability, but what that means varies widely. When my vision was 20/5 (really, it was amazing), I wanted small text with lots of information on the screen so I could do more without context switching. Now that my vision is a pitiful 20/20 (how do people live this way), context switching with zoom is ideal on the phone and most of the time I'd rather use a laptop.

Interfaces cannot appeal to everyone. We can do better to make magnification universal, but that's not what the article means.

It's also funny to read this article as they think that older people want scooters. Most of the people who are experiencing problems are having issues with strength and balance. Scooters are the last thing they want.
A big enough battery that its designed to plug into your home not just to charge but also as a powerwall for your house. Just like the Maverick used to. /S
It's worth noting, though, that Justin can afford to not take outside investments for Reaper because he already "sold out" by selling Nullsoft to AOL for ~$50 million. I say this not to throw shade or anything like that -- I really like and respect Justin and am literally developing an extension of the Reaper API and a product built off of it as we speak -- but in the context of this discussion, it's worth noting that often the financial freedom to do awesome stuff and not sell out is enabled by wealth made somewhere else first.
They'll probably need some help moving those refrigerators and color TVs.
Makes sense, I think. I, sadly, never remember LinkedIn not doing that. I think I can find a tweet or other journal entry talking about how awkward the site is every time I ever find myself using it. Shame, as I do want to keep in touch with friends from old jobs. Doesn't feel like a good way to do it, though.
huh? what quantifiably is "worse"? I'm not defending him, but this seems extremely petty.
What if you did all 3 and now love life too much to work (but somehow need to make $)
I am a techno optimist and love to see the rise of it, even if there are risks associated with it.

But I also see the sky rocketing rates of mental health issues and suicide rates in the most techno developed nations. I don't now if there's a correlation or causation. But would like to understand. Is humanity built to be simple and at the mercy of nature?
The list is labeled "Patron Saints" — only a following sentence mentions "reading their works". Many listed aren't really "authors" at all. And Ayn Rand would have enjoyed having "John Galt" listed in her place, I think.

And this post is definitely about technology!
There's still the fact that a contract requires affirmative acceptance. The Invidious devs, as we have seen, have not accepted it.
If this is truly a weather related thing, seems like should be covered. Of course, the story sounds a bit sketchy.
Whats the best real time voice accent changer ATM
For telecoms
AMAZON!!!! <ducks>

Seriously though, aren't they making a play for this space?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Good! They are the worst private health care I ever had.
Public health care was better in the UK.
Land tax is a state level tax, so I'm not sure if it's everywhere. Stamp duty is ridiculous though, I agree.
You can find interviews with them talking about this, they really don't like that side of the business. I don't know what happens if the owners die mind you, but I'm not worried about them changing their minds.
> The company raised $5 million in funding this month from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners.

That doesn't seem like very much money to take on Yelp and Google Reviews.

> The app launched in March with a select group of users and is currently invite-only.

I guess your burn rate is lower if you're in private beta for 6+ months, but presumably the early adopters they're courting (Jessica Alba, David Change, Minka Kelly) probably wouldn't want to use a platform that is too rough.
The difference is that they are making more phones, more cars, more clothes, etc. They are not finite.

As the saying goes, they aren't making more land. With a constrained resource that nobody created, the least efficient way to allocate it is to just let whoever got there first have it. A far better way would be to have competitive bidding so whoever thinks they can do a better job gets a shot at it.
It has the hall marks of Ayn Rand philosophy. Not bad per say.
https://archive.ph/y8gBk

> how do they dare to invade privacy like this /s

Moreover, how adept is it at selling this surveillance technology the World over in order to circumvent privacy but were unable to deter the attack and still be able to justify their panopticon is something I simply do not understand.

This will be like seen as a 9/11 analogue for them for years/decades to come; a tragedy that was likely avoidable, and could of have been thwarted if their overly surveilled systems in place were actually effective (big if) but because of a criminal serving as PM who gets re-elected to avoid prosecution has enabled this in order to benefit from the status quo by allowing funding to Hamas has put not just his population at risk, but the entire middle east: we have to be now and admit this is honestly a humanitarian crisis that has gone on for decades, and has led to genocide being sold as defense--never mind that whole ethnic-cleansing and illegal forceful occupation in the West Bank.

The spill-over seems rather stark, but entirely on the table at this point. And it's stuff like this that makes it seems like it's intentional and using this as window dressing and advertisement for it's spyware:

> The Israeli military allowed a New York Times journalist to view the data-tracking system, hoping to show that it was doing what it could to reduce harm to civilians — even as its warplanes killed hundreds more Palestinians on Monday, including in southern Gaza, where civilians had been told to take shelter.

I wonder if there will ever be an Israeli Edward Snowden moment?
In iText's case this is not a misrepresentation - itext core is not a product like elastic or something that you interact with over the network, it's a library that you build into your program. And yes, in this case you would be bound by the license to release the programs you build it into, to the clients who interact with it over the network.

The handwavey part is - what is "the application"? And they are not going into specifics there - it is, of course, only the application that you build it into. It doesn't virally extend to other things that interface with it over the network, and they're not going to say that part.

You naturally can thus build a minimal "wrapper app" that just provides this library-as-a-service according to some interface, so that you didn't have to release your whole program, but, it is not a misrepresentation that if you use iText core then at least this program will be bound by AGPL and must be distributed.
He wasn't metal enough, for starters.
Ban on carbon double bonds with fluorine.

But there are lots of exceptions in it that you can use if you can't make your product any other way.
Hackers love techno-propaganda.
Except the people who are renting you the place you live in are probably doing so for a profit which accounts for the property taxes and thus you are still effectively paying a property tax regardless of whether you buy or rent a place to live.
I'm not suggesting that Apple has egregious hardware or software problems, but (as a fanboy of neither company) that you're cherry-picking by claim that Apple isn't "ship[ping] 90% solutions to learn very early what doesn’t work".

Panel gaps or whatever at Tesla are obviously something they know about, it's not like nobody at Tesla is aware that their fit and finish doesn't match a Mercedes S-Class.

Whereas Antennagate is something that shouldn't have escaped the lab, I can't really a similar incident with Tesla.

The recent Starship explosion was a success, if you want to see the cost of avoiding rapid iteration when it comes to rockets look no further than the SLS.
"Love doesn't scale" is crazy.
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Yeah it seems like it's going in that direction. The new generation seems fine with streaming services, now. I worked for a few customers who want to retain their physical music in their homes with a media devices and stream it to all their devices in the home. Slowly but surely many home entertainment devices that store music have been slowly removing those features in favor of streaming services. This has been making it very hard for people to retain physical copies of their music without some sort of custom solution that has to be maintained.

For me, I refuse to use music streaming services, I rely heavily on my digital music collection most of which comes from Bandcamp. Bandcamp is the last bastion of physical digital music where there is direct interaction between musicians and music lovers. If it dies, we are screwed. If its possible, id actually like to see it be supported from donations like Thunderbird is if it was possible. I don't like the idea that it relies on commercialism.
> highly abused combination of drugs known as “the trinity,”

Was odd to me that they didn't explain what it is: opioids, benzodiazepines and carisoprodol (muscle relaxant).
Except they have much less space inside
Isn't that precisely why brand establishment and range per dollar for EV from that brand seem to inversely correlate? i.e. Toyota < Nissan < GM < Ford < VW < Volvo < Tesla < Lucid.

All those cars do 0-60s in 5s, differentiation is in range and newer brands always mysteriously do better in that column. Can't be just lower Cd or magic especially when Toyota has been shipping Prius since 1997.
Ditto. Also GPM was a bit buggier and more bloated feature-wise than YTM, but the ability to clean your ID3 tags in the web browser was wonderful.

And now YTM is getting podcasts so everything old is new again... but worse.
Looks very cool, but I don't feel like I've had many problems with tool speed. Is this actually better than all of those listed tools in terms of features? I feel like I might just end up using all of them.
Exactly. And that's why taxing the land itself—and therefore access to all those improvements and amenities—is a good way to allocate it.

If somebody is sitting on a prime seat in the hot tub, and they don't really care very much about it, and there's a line of 20 people waiting to get in, we have a wasted resource. Revealing true preferences by having people put some skin in the game means that more people are happy, more people are productive, and society works better.
It's been a while since I saw Up, but isn't the moral of that movie that Carl is holding onto the past too tightly and that doing so has separated him from the outside world and the people around him and colored his perception of them? The emotional climax of the film is Carl throwing away all of his antique furniture that is metaphorically and literally weighing him down, and then the film ends by Carl dropping his house off of a blimp.

I do have sympathy, it's a understandable position for someone to be in, but I'm not sure that Up in specific is the best analogy?
Their YouTube demo shows a full 24hour flight.

They’re the perfect scrappy startup with fast iteration cycles.
Mastodon very much supports moving followers/following. Not all others do, but the mechanism is well established. It does not yet support moving posts (it supports exporting them, but there's no import mechanism short of an admin manually doing a database import), but there's nothing that makes adding that technically difficult - it's down to coming to agreement about how to do it.

That Bluesky in theory supports it is pretty irrelevant until they open up federation.
3-7 is considered the optimal number in high risk (emergency services) situations. Beyond 7, you start to lose insight into what all is going on.
We are using a fuzzing method in ClickHouse that involves sending signals to random threads: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/src/Com...

We immediately found bugs in many dependent libraries of one of three types:

1. A library does not check for EINTR.

2. A library that waits for something does check for EINTR but does not update a timeout, therefore stopping sooner than needed.

3. A library that waits for something does check for EINTR but incorrectly updates a timeout and waiting indefinitely.
Black takes a good 3-5 seconds each time to format for me. Very noticeable.
It seems that you are describing a utopia, where there are no more problems to solve, other than the purpose of our own existence, and the reconciliation of our mortality in our minds. Although I do think that we can get to a point where things are pretty damn good, perhaps even as good as you describe, I don't think that humans' desire for growth and appetite for problem solving will be quenched. Even if all of our basic and supra-basic needs were met, we would become preoccupied with preserving ourselves from extraterrestrial threats - asteroids, our sun burning out, our earth not being able to permanently sustain us in one way or another, etc. If that's the case, then the desire for planetary defense and intergalactic travel will ensure that techno-capatalist forces are alive and well.

If you are talking about a society that has gotten past that point already, then all bets are off as to what their lives are like.
Interesting take. What are your thoughts on government healthcare? Just or unjust. To what extent?
Amazing. This is the future.
Seems pretty obtuse no?
Hamas Got Around Israel's Surveillance Prowess by Going Dark
As someone who is kept off of that land by somebody else's ownership of it, I am personally the reasonable recipient of a share of that 2%. As is everyone else, including the owner of the land.

That share could come as government services, or it could come as a paycheck. But in either case that 2% belongs to all of us equally.
Argh behind a paywall!
If you think it's a break-through, it's announcements and papers should be public domain!
That way, the rewards and punishments emerge naturally.
Individual serving size is closer to four to six ounces so wild extrapolation is once a month for salmon, twice a month for shrimp. I’m at zero for both of those recently so someone else makes up for me. :) I’ve switched to sardines.
Good point. I don't know if Robert Henke still has a big stake in the company. If he does - the company is safe.
For everybody who stops flying on this side of the world, don't forget the multitude on the other side of the world who are finding the financial ability to fly for the first time. So many new 737s and A320s are being shipped to the developing world (https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/air-india..., https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65952879# almost 1000 airplanes ordered for India alone this year)

More energy should be spent trying to encourage more efficient flying and removing inefficient aircraft from the skies (like 777s) by helping Boeing/Airbus get unblocked on building more 787s/A350s. What about pursuing policies to get airplanes to not sit at gates with their APUs on, that'd make a pretty big reduction in emissions relative to a handful of outside.com readers deciding to take the train.
Eastern Mass resident here. Thanks for sharing this. I wish our elected officials were so transparent with these basic facts when they discuss road improvement projects.

In my city we pay a negligible “excise tax” on our vehicles. It’s like $100 for 2 older cars. If it were doubled or even tripled in think most people could afford it. This would seem to be the logical way to pay for road improvements, or a municipal gas tax.

Yes, people would skirt it (there already is a problem with people’s registering their cars in New Hampshire to avoid the excise tax, or driving over state lines to buy gasoline). But if even 80% of residents paid the taxes, it would make a real difference to municipal budgets for fixing roads.
You don't need a pickup truck if those are your deciding factors.

The F-150 Lightning is pretty useless as a truck, with the largest battery storing as much energy as 4 gallons of gas[1]. If you want a truck get a gas or diesel truck, if you want fast and electric you have better options that don't waste electricity hauling around a heavier vehicle and unused truck bed.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-elect...
This is something that has bit Rust as well: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/90308
It is only the owner who gets to decide the best use, whatever they want! But the land value is determined by what others are willing to pay to no longer be excluded from the area, or to be given a spot in the area.
Yet there are wooden trestle bridges that have seen traffic for 100 years
I thought only non-paywalled (or easily bypassed) articles were allowed on HN.

I tried archive.is with no luck.

How can we have any meaningful discussion on the article without reading it?
OTOH we are talking about the thing where once 'High speed' was a good 10-40x faster than 'Full speed', some confusion is to be expected.

To make things worse, D and E are potentially confusing suffixes for connectors, so instead of having good, meaningful classifications for connectors, we are having to research whether our USBC cables actually have the right connector on the other end.
Completely agree. Just use systemd-resolved which is the recommended way of doing DNS anyway.
Even absent contracts (which exist to enable collusion) the iterated prisoner's dilemma and its generalizations seem to be solvable by tacit agreement (in the two party case, by tit for tat).

The only people who maintain that markets have the perfect competition property are those who define markets this way. Their existence is left as an exercise.
I’m still grandfathered into my $7.99 per month plan. They did not raise the cost for existing subscribers. Which is the only reason I still subscribe. Google Music went away and YouTube Music is a mess so now I use Apple Music. I would not pay full price for YouTube premium but for $8 a month I can kind of justify keeping it. I kind of want to cancel it since I don’t actually use YouTube very often, but I know I’ll never be able to get back my grandfathered $8/month plan so I don’t cancel it. Yay loss aversion.
Not really though? You have a similar (but not quite as bad) multiple for ICE cars with engines/transmission/fuel.

Rockets it’s exponentially worse. Which is why the saying.
Any need of someone with a background in aeronautics/flight-simulation ;)
It's called being a scapegoat. Rather than treating drug abuse as a public health problem, the prevailing narrative is to just demonize the sources - liberty, and in this case healthcare, be damned. Here it will result in another chilling effect "nobody's fault" corporate-authoritarian regime like banking surveillance in the name of money laundering. A "private decision" has been made that you don't deserve the healthcare you claim you need, and that decision has been shared between all "private" actors so you have no actual alternative. A functioning government would actually prosecute this type of collusion under straightforward anti-trust grounds, but here it is encouraging it. Power coalesces, and such a regime is basically inevitable at this point with the foundations that have already been laid. Meaning the only ways to fix it are either to route around the whole dumpster fire (eg Silk Road) or absorb it into the government fully so there's no playing coy with the constructive reality and it can actually be litigated for the human rights violation it is.
I also don't see anything wrong or cringe with the explanation.
No -- this is bankruptcy, not disappearance.

They'll almost certainly re-emerge under new ownership. It's like J. Crew declaring bankruptcy in 2020, but consumers who didn't follow the news never had the slightest idea. Frequently in bankruptcy, retail locations never cease operations even for a single day.

It's not like Toys 'R' Us stores disappearing in 2018. That happened because big-box toy stores were simply no longer viable as a category.

While CVS and Walgreens prove that the Rite Aid drugstores are still entirely viable as a business, under new (better) management.
"Some evil megacorp is already carpet bombing maintainers with C&Ds and there is ZERO help for this."

Is it possible or realistic for a code host to not care about US copyright laws and for developers to contribute anonymously?
Good to know, thanks! I was thrown off by "American" bit so assumed to was fairly close to English.
I think Ezra Klein and Jerusalem Demsas are far better writers about the 'abundance agenda', without some of the bizarre baggage from this guy.

This is a good critique:

https://www.threads.net/@alex.stamos/post/CyeBy06PZGw

Also, wasn't Andressen's VC fund the one that sank all that money into crypto?