skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In March of 2022, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games

That's one way of putting it. Another might be that the original owners/creators of Bandcamp decided to sell it, to a company that didn't have any connection whatsoever with Bandcamp's business or mission, and a less-than-stellar reputation.

If we're going to play the blame game we might as well start here.
Dolt is Git for data

2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31847416

2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370572

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731928
I think the point of author is proving Golang type system is weak.
Needs an RSS feed. I hate email newsletters.
I think that the way the EU seems to be trying to make such laws is no good. Requiring the web page to request consent for such a thing doesn't makes sense. Rather, they could require that: web browsers allow user to disable and configure these things easily, that you could figure out how to access it using your own software (e.g. so that they could not block something like youtube-dl), and that web pages that do not need them should avoid such scripts and cookies where possible.

Furthermore, they could make illegal that businesses use up the customer's power for their uses (advertising, spyware, DRM, etc).

> If anything, using an adblocker should be "more" illegal than what Youtube is doing.

I don't think so. If YouTube wants to run their software on your computer then it is your own job to decide how that software runs (if it does so at all). If you run your own software, to display it differently or whatever reason, then you can have the right to do. (If you tried to put it on their computer without their permission that should be illegal, just as much as the other way around.) There might be some reason to prohibit it if it involved using up their power and bandwidth, or by repeatedly sending bad data, but if you are blocking ads then that reduces the power usage instead, anyways.

Rather, what should be made illegal is if they sell or provide to you the software or hardware that uses up your power for their use instead, whether for spying or ads or implementing unnecessary restrictions or whatever. (This does not apply to the old style ads on TV and radio which do not involve specialized software on the client side to display them; they are just a part of the show. If you want to block ads you still should, but you would have to add that by yourself.)
100%. I've been buying music on Bandcamp regularly for a decade. It's where I discovered and became addicted to the synthwave scene. Frankly, there was no other place I could easily discover this kind of niche music over the years and support it the way I could on Bandcamp. I'm also an Album Guy (dinosaur, I know).

But I never cared about or wanted anything other than 1) my music I bought and 2) their not great but good enough search. That's it!

I've worked for publishers most of my career, so I know what half those employees are going through is painful. It has happened to me before, too. But as a customer of the site, I was completely and blissfully oblivious to any editorial staff.

My process:
Load bandcamp.com
Immediately click on the Heart icon, where all my purchases live.
Listen.

This was true on the app, too. I found their homepage utterly useless. None of the artists I'm into ever appeared there. Not cool enough, I'm sure.

Long live bandcamp.
Entry level is still entry level, regardless of the employer.
honest question, what would be an alternative to Okta?
I believe that's AirPlay (video streaming) and not AirDrop (file transfer).
We can do that and also be mad at the people and systems doing the killing. Everyone dies in the end, but I'm still mad about murder, etc.
From Ars[0] (emphasis mine):

"It's worth clarifying a few things early here. First, NorthPole does nothing to help the energy demand in training a neural network; it's purely designed for execution. Second, it is not a general AI processor; it's specifically designed for inference-focused neural networks. As noted above, inferences include things like figuring out the contents of an image or audio clip so they have a large range of uses, but this chip won't do you any good if your needs include running a large language model."

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/ibm-has-made-a-new-h...
"Fungible in one direction" is a roundabout way of saying "non-fungible".
Do you really think this kind of sarcasm laden commenting style, while attempting to deflect substantive points in a mocking tone, will be well received on HN?
And tying back into the article and the former parent company involved with Bandcamp, that's precisely why The Epic Games Store has failed so quickly. Epic changes policies to get the most explosive expansion whenever possible, only for things to collapse because the actual users are the support structure. Epic forces exclusives, Epic very heavily try to stop games from storing data locally, Epic can revoke your purchase at any point, Epic can ban you from EGS and thus all access to your games thanks to their DRM, and Epic has no rules other than "no porn" leading to a flood of shovelware, asset flips, and NFT/crypto scams.

And the thing is, Epic are following industry norms for this. All digital storefronts are trying to enforce the same sorts of policies. Get as much "stuff" in front of as many people as possible and have them fork over money to rent that "stuff" with tenuous if any protections for their purchase. Valve really are the outliers in this, and the only others I can think of that do what they do are Itch.io and Bandcamp, one a tiny player catering to a lower market and the other essentially the only survivor in their particular niche. Gamejolt and Soundcloud aren't even really competitors for each of them respectively.
Eh, this one seems a reasonable trade-off to me at this point. If you try to handle every potential issue upfront, you'll never release, and this seems entirely fixable down the road. Persistent coroutines is a pretty challenging area to explore (tried this with Lua in a previous venture), and this seems a pretty minor point in that overall complexity. I'm curious, what else have you come across that justifies the "really brittle" conclusion?
You can still have unhealthy growth.
price gouging, hoarding, diverting raw materials (brass is brass)
Thanks, I hate it. Really, that has to be the most perverse, backwards thing I have ever heard of.
There is no simple rule that tells you what's worth preserving and what can be thrown out. There are incentives to not break things that are working as long as they make money.

But incentives only go so far. There was little incentive for Musk to do what he's doing at Twitter, but he did it anyway after he got caught in a trap of his own devising.
In the extreme case of a Wiki with two articles, one about WWII and another about the 14th meeting of your HOA to address hedge height limitations, there will never be enough interesting properties of how uninteresting the HOA article is to achieve interest parity. I'd expect the gap dynamics and further will get geometrically less interesting, such that the sum of all levels will never exceed double the first.
I'm not allowed to know the real number. There are hints, so I can get close, but even at that, $1000 is a lot of money for almost everyone.
Check out this building in SOMA, it was finished, sat empty waiting for permits for 2 years because the City sucks, and during that time the condo market crashed and so now the builder had to hand it back to the lender. Full brand new condo building one block from Oracle Park with like 24 luxury condos in it for 16 mil now:

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/16/brand-new-san-francisco-co...
I don't understand the question. How could capital create additional value on top of labour if labour was not involved?
I’m curious on the swipe at Elon. What’s the story with the legacy accounts she references? Also what’s the bit about news organizations and verification? I feel like I’m missing context here. What are these issues about precisely?
Habitat 3.0: The next milestone on the path to socially intelligent robots
maybe some of the protestors accidentally found $1,000 in cash each at the ralley
JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey Visualizer
No screenshots? The website has a screenshots page buried in a menu, but they're all very out of date.
Have not read it, and won't. So apparently I do have a choice.
Are capital controls as onerous as the poor liquidity and fraud minefield of crypto?
If an unencrypted laptop is lost or stolen you have to assume all the data on it is compromised, send breach notifications to affected customers, etc.
I actually used Geany as my main editor for Ruby on Rails and ruby in general.

Python has pycharm, Java has intelliJ, but ruby has just RubyMine which doesn't have a community edition and also isn't very good (at least when I tried it like 5-8 years ago).

Geany was nice because while it didn't have autocomplete for anything but just text symbols, it did have enough Project-related features that it matched how I liked to view my files as a directory tree rooted at a project dir. And the syntax highlighting was good and so on.

I ended up switching to vscode (well, vscodium, anyway) after I used vscode at work. Maybe I should check up on Geany again as of this big 2.0 release. I'd like to use an actually-free editor, though I settle for vscodium-style "free" when there's a big delta in productivity and features.
They aren't just $11B company, They are $11B company with security as their core product.
> When Singh asked how much the company was short, SBF said this was the “wrong question,” and the better question to ask was “how can we deliver?”

How can they deliver 11B? ... Get it back maybe?
> because I don't want it that way.

- some editor probably

In my handful of encounters trying to contribute to wikipedia it's always been such a frustrating experience.

"not enough people monitoring for quality" is one way to put it, but I've often found it to be one very zealous person monitoring for their idea of quality. It ends up quite frustrating, especially if you're a domain expert.

I've corrected articles where things I've written have been cited and had the changes reverted. It was enough to just give up.
Also a theme in _A Confederacy of Dunces_, but applied to the military.
Do you remember asking for directions, and then, trying to follow them?
There's no single "cabal" in "control" of federation. Federation is mostly "controlled" by drama and gossip engines, as the case in any truly distributed system. (It's still far more anarchic than "control" is the right word for.)

Just about no one wants to be the target of great drama or huge gossip so there are definitely cultural mores and norms that collectively form to skip some of the more common cycles and some people just "obey them" without question. It's hard to call that "unrepresentative" of the general population when by definition organically-grown cultural norms reflect a cultures values.

Sure, many of those norms are standardized and stabilized in "Code of Conduct" documents that individual instances post and mandate in their instance's internal moderation and that obviously then gets reflected in their external moderation as well, but that's still a distributed "vote with your feet" culture. The population on an instance with a strict Code of Conduct believes at least implicitly in that Code of Conduct or leaves. They've agreed to the Code of Conduct. It doesn't matter if there are only a "minority" of Codes of Conduct and those documents are mostly chosen by "fiat" by instance admins, if users don't believe in their instances' chosen Codes of Conduct they are free to leave to other instances.
Combine this with the performance hit from continuous Windows Defender scanning and whatever spyware (e.g. Carbon Black) that IT installed, and you quickly get to an actively productivity-antagonistic performance situation on Windows.
You seem to be answering a different question entirely. dapp or centralized doesn't matter; it's the corporate structure that's important.

Bandcamp 2.0 can cut the labels in, or not.
So if a company uses slave workers, child labor, sweatshops it's non of the customers business?

Isn't it part of the market mechanisms that customers punish bad behavior?
That's because they botched the proof. You need to sort the articles not by interestingness, but some separate canonical property, like creation date. Then you get a (here chronologically) first uninteresting article, which is interesting.
I guess it comes down to your definition of "exploitation", whether that's bad, and whether you consider employment to be a mutually exploitative arrangement (which I could get behind, though I think it's not a bad thing).

If the employer is paying you more than the value you would generate without being attached to them, then you're benefitting from that substantially. If your earning potential would be $1/hr on your own, but by joining ABC Corp you are leveraged and can earn them $3/hr and be paid $2/hr, then is that exploitation? To me that seems like a fair exchange that is mutually beneficial and grows the pie for everyone. And to be clear, ultimately the fact that you can earn more when attached to a business derives from the fact that you are able to wield and command some of the resources that the business is capitalized with, which you otherwise would not have access to.

The immediate objection will be that the surplus value is not typically fairly split between the employer and employee; maybe in some cases that's true? But from what I've seen, that's not as true as it may sound at first. The majority of people are able to earn essentially zero unless they are attached to a Real Job(tm), because most people at least in modern society have absolutely no idea how to optimally generate value on their own: there's a reason people get so upset when they're laid off or fired, it's far from trivial to figure out how to make your own money, it's much easier to just find another job. And the margin on labor costs are typically not >50% in most industries, which means that the actual divvying of surplus value is not really that abusive, it's a lot closer to the situation I mentioned in the first paragraph than most anti-capitalists would suggest.

I'm sure a lot of people would reject my framing altogether, and argue that it's only because we live in a capitalist society that it's so hard to get by without joining a company, or they'd argue that even if my logic holds workers deserve a lot more than an equal split of the surplus value, but I think this at least explains where a lot of us who do think capitalism works are coming from. It's not an unconsidered position, even if people disagree with the underlying moral framework.
image the sales point: "Our app can export invoice data to your antiquated backoffice"
Sorry my question was not clear - I’m curious about the difference between experiencing Ketamine administered during general anesthesia (like I did) vs administered when conscious (same dosage).
Not really, no. The root of all evil is so called "limited liability". LLCs and Corporations should be illegal, only privately held companies where there's no boundary between what belongs to the owner and what to the company should be allowed to operate. And the owner should be criminally responsible for the actions of his company.
Funny how this article points that Okta was notified by a third-party of suspicious tenant activity, Okta did not find evidence of the breach, and only after some persistence from BeyondTrust did Okta re-investigate and identify the breach.

Okta published a blog post here: https://sec.okta.com/harfiles and kicks it off with

> Okta Security has identified adversarial activity

and no mention of the notification from the third-party. Nice transparency!
> Okta’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer Charlotte Wylie said Okta initially believed that BeyondTrust’s alert on Oct. 2 was not a result of a breach in its systems. But she said that by Oct. 17, the company had identified and contained the incident

Nothing like disclosing a hack to company that's supposedly an expert at cyber security and authentication (within 30 minutes!) only for them to tell you that you're wrong and not admit it for 15 days while a hacker runs amok.

Do better, Wylie.
Everything is unnecessary until you need it.

Why pay cops if I’m not being murdered or robbed?

Why keep nukes behind launch codes, nobody’s trying to launch them?

Why eat every day, I don’t start to die until like 3 days in…
> both ideologies have failed miserably.

Y'know the ACA originally had a public option in the bill. Guess which side killed that? Why did we even need an ACA-with-private-insurance-companies anyway? The ACA was initially copy of what was implemented in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney. It's frustrating that Democrats had to compromise just to end up with a system that only somewhat better than what it replaced, and then get blamed for the result.
In the case of the EV1 the conspiracy wasn't to get you to keep buying gas, it was to get you to keep paying for repairs. Tesla squared this circle by abusing copyright, patent, and trademark law to ban third-party repair so they could make the repair experience worse[0] and upsell you on new vehicles.

The thing about swivel-eyed loons[1] is that they can be right for the wrong reasons. You can reasonably suspect a conspiracy exists without necessarily knowing who the conspirators are.

[0] e.g. by locking out more intricate repairs that require more labor training cost but are way cheaper to do, thus shifting more repair costs onto the owner of the vehicle

[1] in the sense Cory Doctorow uses the term
Like growth needs to continue because just maintaining value is not acceptable for shareholders, maybe the problem is that the founders/sellers need a big payday because just having a steady income is not acceptable (to them).
This is the fault of archive.is — they’re using an outdated DNS load balancing approach that is inherently not robust. They’re mad at Cloudflare specifically but the reality is that there are many other similar failure scenarios.

The mature thing to do would be to switch to something like anycast IP routing, which is robust against issues like this.

I suspect the “problem” isn’t actually that big a deal to begin with, and the archive folks are making a mountain out of a molehill for philosophical reasons.

In other words they hate Cloudflare and will find any excuse to start a fight.
Our current economic system is not some immutable law of nature, we can change it if it's harmful to our society
Using GPT for your job search
Did they forget to tell the hackers that? Could have saved us all some time.
Money turns into goodwill all the time… just not usually in terms of company buyouts.
> Now, if you think this is just "3rd world shit-hole being a 3rd world shit-hole"

I think this is "complexo de vira-lata", there is nothing "3rd world shit-hole" about it.
Perhaps the idea here is for the high performers to leave and be replaced with obedient cult members at a cheaper price?
Fructose survival as a mechanism for unifying the varying obesity hypothesis
But this is just Windows 11 Pro, though, not Enterprise. I guarantee you gamers (who are probably a big contingent of people who buy Pro but not Enterprise) are going to be turning this off so fast.
You can’t have the former without the latter unfortunately. Freaks make the world go round. Nice guys merely shuffle after them.
I thought there was something like that already (although much softer), if a company is deemed H1B dependent any additional application for an H1B becomes harder.
The initial version of NYT article parroted Hamas' statement that "Israel Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital", and also used a stock photo that had nothing to do with the hospital.

If this is not narrative, I don't what is.

And I quote the word "progressive" because I don't think that's real progressive. Progressives care about truths, and don't jump to conclusions that fit their belief.
Part out some, repair others. So. For quite some time. Note Cubans still driving 1950s cars...
No one said you can't. And no one said people can't debate the issue.
> What's really upsetting is this lie that these crypto people push

Yeah, thieving scum are upsetting to normal good people.
Which his parents had also thanks to... capitalism. And, you know, today countless investors are ready to give YOU millions if you are willing to do what Bezos did. This very site is known for something like that.
Over time, I've come to see that Wikipedia mirrors the broader internet: initially heralded as a game-changer, but when it really counts, it can be just as unreliable as the things that preceded it, if not worse.

I keep thinking of that quote from the Office:
"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information."
The ACA increased costs far beyond what they otherwise would have been. It made the cost of good health insurance go up 25% overnight where I lived. The discontinuity in price increases before and after ACA were pretty stark, and not in a good way.
If someone breaks into my car and steals my laptop I can sleep better with bitlocker on. Has nothing to do with the clicking links or not.
Destroying Hamas isn't genocide, it's the opposite.
Russia is welcome into the West as long as it gives up imperial ambitions in Eastern Europe. Putin and other Russian elites are not interested in giving those ambitions up. Certain factions of Russia do want to give up imperial ambitions and join the EU. They'd be welcome to, if they can renounce imperialism. Maybe one day.
See this blog post (linked in original article) from a security firm that was one of Okta's customers, and alerted them to the breech, when they detected suspicious activity on their network shortly after sharing the HAR file with Okta:

https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/okta-support-unit-bre...
That’s just because you don’t know product genius when you see it
I’m a gamer and have it on.
I like how the phrasing of "$1/year for X" implies that what you get in return is an unknown quantity. Today it's blue checks, but that will be exceeded by others announced at a later date.
"Is your Windows 11 PC encrypted? The answer is surprisingly complex" - https://www.pcworld.com/article/624593/is-your-windows-11-pc...
People are social animals.

Besides, wireheading will soon be possible. Best to re-evaluate your pleasure from time-to-time, while you can.
other article on the site suggests that this is not war related

"As of today (6/16/22), this is being “considered”, and not in effect. However, there are rumors that the plant is already halting sales to the civilian market in preparation for the “rule” to be enacted."

https://stapledefense.com/lake-city-ammo-plant-ban-556-m855/
Your chart doesn’t contain 2022 data that the article references. It also appears to be of a different source maybe?
This is unfair to all of the Republicans who refused to vote for the plan too.
Oh interesting. When I was in California, my 1 Gbps plan came with only 1 TB of bandwidth. They did sell "unlimited" as an additional upgrade but IIRC it was $50/month.
240Hz is the new 120Hz: It's time to buy a high refresh rate monitor
Ethan Diamond says they sold to "provide the resources to bring a lot more benefit to the artists, labels, and fans who use the site"
like vinal pressing .."Epic ticked all of the boxes"

He sold for money. He planned on continue to lead the team (CEO). So he was part of the plan to fire everyone before Epic sold to this new company
Sense-Making and a Top% Information Diet with Michael Guimarin [video]