skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try not to comment on stuff like this but I'm going to make a one-time exception.

Ask Gen-Xers, specifically those who are not over-consuming news media and the harmful generalist social media (Reddit's default subs, Twitter's political echo chambers). My life is way, way better now than it was prior to the internet, Google and half a dozen other services.

Even HN's favourite boogieman Facebook provided me with insane value. For example:

- While I lived abroad, it provided an easy, passive way for me to keep in touch with my family. Compare that to my parents' desperate 10 dollars per minute phone calls in the 1980s

- I met friends through Facebook advertising for a boardgaming group (that I also ran on Facebook.) I met people from way, way more backgrounds than otherwise possible

- I can passively keep in touch with friends and easily get in touch if I'm in the same area.

People "struggle" to find "long term value" because that's ironically the meta for upvotes on the contrarian SV Internet right now and we internalize those values far too easily. Rest assured, value exists for most, if not all.
The memory safety guarantees are: Rust has affine _types_ ^.

^ With opt-in memory leaks
Bandcamp is built on people paying though. They're already past that big hurdle.
Joe Lieberman is the reason for the lack of a public option.

https://publicintegrity.org/health/elimination-of-public-opt...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/10/did-sen-joe-lieb...
At least here in the UK, the enterprise drives are often way cheaper than the NAS drives. They are in theory louder, but in practice as long as you have them in a reasonable case the difference isn't noticable, in my experience.
Some form of charging standard was coming. Tesla had two options: (1) push for NACS to be that standard, or (2) allow another standard to come into play.

(2) would have been a terrible outcome for Tesla - all the money invested in existing stations, all existing cars, would have the "wrong" standard.
They've been around a bit longer than 20 years, but Valve comes to mind as a company that completely changed PC gaming in a fairly sustainable long-term way, likely because they're not beholden to VCs or external shareholders. This matters because they've built up immense trust that the games bought 10, 15, 20 years ago will still be there today, with minimal BS. This made people feel OK buying digital-only games. I don't think we'd have all these online delivery game stores these days if Valve had jerked people around to maximize short-term earnings.
Tough spot for employees. Sell your shares now and make a tidy sum or take a risk and hope that the company is worth $800B one day?
If only I’d thought of that.

The phone support just leads to a ticketing system that responds via the web app. You can’t log into the webapp from foreign IPs without locking out the account (which can only be unlocked via the phone number on file, which only supports US mobile numbers and not Google Voice). They don’t use email. If your autopay credit card expires, they cancel your policy without any notice but paper mail, which is insane in 2023. They won’t let you reinstate it, even if you backfill pay your unbilled months.

It only works for people with a single US number who get their paper mail on a regular basis and never travel for long periods of time. I live in Europe half the year and the service is unusable.

I long for an actual free market in this shit.
Turns out a close up of crystallized caffeine looks exactly like you would imagine!
i kept waiting for the punchline in the paragraph comparing BandCamp to MySpace but it never came.

"Bandcamp and MySpace were both built by people who genuinely love music."

MySpace was sold by "Tom" to a large company which then, eventually, abandoned it... just like what is likely to happen to BandCamp. Tom made out like a bandit.. just like the owner of BandCamp likely did.
> Maybe someone could clone Bandcamp feature list but payment processing will be a hassle .

Why is payment processing considered a hassle? Set up a Paypal account, create a link and have customers pay through that. Done.

Payment processors are in the business of making it easy to pay people. Use any of the myriad of payment processors to get money from people.

Is it slightly less frictionless than standing up a half-million dollar website with options to pay via CatCoin? Yes, but is it really worth it to optimize for 1% of customers who can't be arsed to pay with anything other than their favorite, obscure method of payment?
> All issued SSL/TLS certificates are subject to certificate transparency.

Until the nation state tells a CA within their borders to issue a cert without publishing the CT logs, along with a gag order. If they don't comply they go to jail. You think Billy Bob Sysadmin wants to go to jail to protect a russian jabber server?
Sorry, but what on earth does any of this actually mean?

You appear to be arguing in unequivocal favor of a short-termist, purely profit-driven way of doing business, which is a viewpoint that, to me, needs a whole lot more cogent support than the word salad posted above.
> I've long said the big mistake is tying health insurance to employment is the problem

> I'm against socialize health insurance

You have directly contradicted yourself.
> I think the daily show format succeeded because of the ironic humor excusing some of the exaggeration and bias. I was a huge fan and even drove to DC for the rally to restore sanity during his heights.

I think they also just had an incredibly high concentration of talent for a while.

Sure it was a product of its time, and Stewart himself was a big part of its success, but in the early 00's (especially before Colbert left) they had some really talented comedians on the show at the same time.
> Is the system able to adjust to the strength of your eyesight?

There is a per-eye diopter adjustment, ranging from 0 to -5.75, so you have quite a bit of focal adjustment.

> What are the advantages of the Sol Reader over paper books and other e-paper readers?

Not having to hold a book is huge, IMO. I didn't realize it until I started wearing my Sol Reader regularly, but it's basically as much work as watching TV while capturing the words of a book.

Also, the lack of light output means I can read in the middle of the night. There's dark mode and an ambient light sensor for auto-adjusting brightness.
This article asks a good question. What is the point of capitalism? If these acquisitions exist simply to make the line go up, why? Bandcamp will NOT be better off under this new rule, we will all be worse off as listeners of music. Why allow this at all?
The defenseless individuals of Gaza are being taken advantage of by the terrorists who have no regard for their (civilians) life. In fact, IDF has more regard for Gaza civilians’ life than Hamas has. Check who uses civilians as human shields, it is broadly documented. Check which terrorist organization seeks genocide based on religion and which country lacks faith-based persecution.
An intuition I am open to being incorrect: I found NEMA ostentatious and overpriced even at the peak of Uber/Twitter hype (the offices of which form a NEMA sandwich). Second only to the condo building that tilted because its piles were driven too shallow, it does not surprise me that this building would "lose value" in a correction.
This is why I use Mikrotik. I swear they’re the last brand standing that is actually built tough. Affordable too.
If you opt to receive interest on your balance (I don't see a reason not to), your money will be kept in JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA, and FDIC insured.
Yeah it's amazing from a Computer Science perspective, these are problems that have been unsolved for the entire duration of the field's existence.
Jon has described the actual backlash he received [0]; and while he didn't mention death threats, he did say the backlash was "“swift, immediate and quite loud".

He was accused of being "racist", and of "aligning himself with the alt-right". He got messages like: "Fuck you... I’m done with you... I will never forgive you, you have crossed an unforgivable line."

Jon said: "It was like I had put 'Hilary For Prison' on my forehead".

... And all he was saying was, 'this is a possibility, and we shouldn't pretend it isn't'.

0 - https://twitter.com/TheProblem/status/1630307406390390784
Hard disagree.

I use GPT-4 for so much stuff. I was pondering the other day how much I’d be willing to pay should they decide to increase the price and realised it was almost order of magnitude more.

I love new technology and tried really hard to like crypto but never understood what I could actually use it for. Tried making some web3 apps etc. just seemed like it wasn’t really any better than a mysql db.

But I find new things to do with AI daily. I save myself hours and hours of time in work and personal life. If you can’t find something useful to use it for, I’d say try harder.

Also, it’s specifically GPT-4 that is amazing compared to anything else I’ve used.
What I never got was why I would want to use these things as currency. Cryptographically write down everything I ever do financially? I am going to go with no on that one. I do not really care I bought a stick of gum 20 years ago...

These things strike me as a privacy nightmare.
> It could be more positive than despise for another language. The preference for a language might be out of emotional attachment at the specific workflows in which that toolchain allowed creativity to flow.

For sure. Ruby gives me warm fuzzies a lot more than Python simply because I first started "seriously" programming in the era when Ruby, Rails, and TextMate dominated back end web development and was on board the RoR train.

Preference of this sort can also be driven by little things that some might consider inconsequential… those bits and pieces can be what makes the difference for someone in determining if a language is enjoyable to write or not.
There is a premise that the myopic optimizations beloved by economists and MBA's eventually paint companies into a corner and then they die.

Sort of the classic way naive lost hiker in the mountains will walk downhill with it getting steeper and steeper till they slip and fall to their death. In the case of a companies they run on thinner and thinner margins until some event drives them negative.
Frying pan company sued for claiming temperatures that rival the Sun
This is a good point. Nobody has ever stopped doing research or developing technology because of something so petty as being surveilled, imprisoned or murdered.

I applaud the confidence with which you have reached back through time and chosen world war 2 as an event wherein nothing of intellectual value was lost. To wit, survivorship bias is not a real thing, and while I’ve heard of object permanence, nobody has proven to me that my mom doesn’t cease to exist when she puts her hands in front of her face.
I'd say craigslist. Still virtually the same as when they launched, small team, still profitable and still providing value.
Because the idea of free market capitalism, in the way Amazon lobbies for, is detrimental to the common good of the people. Which, per our own Constitution, is supposed to be the primary focus of our government.

Free market capitalism (specifically Amazon's method) significantly results in market dominance, a macro-economic reliance on that company succeeding, and reduces social mobility among working class Americans.

Market Dominance: Amazon has, in basic terms, brought upon the Walmart Effect throughout the US. And exacerbates the effect within the small towns where they build their warehouses.

Macro-Economic Reliance: As Amazon employs 1.1m Americans, the macro-economics of America have become reliant on Amazon succeeding. Resulting in a fear, or at least a trepidation, in interfering with whatever Amazon wants to do. The threat of mass layoffs due to any state/local/federal regulations would have profound effects of the American economy. Something that, back when free market capitalism was seen as the most equal way to ensure competition, was not possible, and most likely not even conceived as being likely.

Reduction in Social Mobility: Building off of the Market Dominance bit, this reduction in wages and revenue for small businesses/local businesses reduces the ability of everyday American citizens to build a successful business to provide social mobility for them and their children. And for employees, yes, they make great money working at an Amazon factory. But talk to many Amazon employees and they'll tell you it's grueling, backbreaking work. And when they have enough and decide to quit or are fired there are, typically, no jobs in their local area that either pay that well or that they may qualify for.

I'm not saying Amazon is forcing you at gunpoint to buy from them. I'm saying that Amazon, due to our government's failure to intervene earlier on in their growth, has crafted the free market around them, has made it to where it's more difficult/annoying/impossible to not buy from them.
Did anyone ever actually love Twitter? I can't remember ever getting meaningful value from it. I can't comment on MySpace as it seemed to come and go so quickly (yes, I've been online since before the web, so your dilation may vary).
Both your claims are hyperbolic ... but your point is fair, there is obviously something useful there.
> grave consequences for making any sort of mistake

Not really. The grave consequences tend to be doled out to people who're obviously trying to cheat the system. For most people, it's just "you owe X. Please pay X."
If you take a long time to pay X then there might be penalties added.

I remember that years after my wife shut down a business, we got a very nasty letter from the IRS about all the things they could do: sue, garnish wages, confiscating the house, jail terms, etc. But it all boiled down to "you owe $75 from 3 years ago. Pay it ASAP."

One interesting thing my "tax guy" pointed out is that the IRS is pretty lenient on businesses in their first year because they expect you to make a lot of mistakes in accounting or filing taxes.
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I have set up firefox to prompt for a profile when it is started. So my workflow for browsing the web at home is to connect to a vpn, start up firefox, select a profile at random (except for the top one), and do my thing. Each profile is set to remove cookies, history, etc on close. I have more than one privacy-oriented profile because in case things are leaking hopefully I'm hitting sites from different profiles and at least confusing the trackers somewhat. I also randomly select a vpn server to connect to. I keep one tab (the top one) that I use in the open for sites that won't let me connect with a vpn, like my bank.

I keep bookmarks in a local html file which is set as the homepage for each profile.

All so I can watch let's play videos or research an obscure technical topic or whatever.
The solution is to stop hiring the same companies to do this work. It's clear that CGI, IBM, etc. are not capable enough. Why aren't any they banned from any future similar contracts?

You screw up a contract, you're banned from all government contracts for the next 10 years. Simple. We would have actual working technology instead of a churn of garbage.
Just get into _something_. Time spend writing code is way more important than the language you use.
Yeah GTA doesn't have much in terms of destructibility. Some of the battlefield games do this pretty well though, particularly Bad Company 2. It was very common in that game to use explosives to make different ways in and out of buildings.
I don't see a reason to think any of them have relevance to superfluid physics. The three-body problem is always cast in terms of Newtonian physics.

As far as I know, no one has ever analyzed these systems even in settings of special or general relativity, so it's mostly a toy problem divorced from our current understanding of reality anyway. If such a solution is unstable, it probably couldn't be constructed in reality due to relativistic effects because it requires overly simplistic physics.
Well, first and most obviously, I suspect the teen that's being sued probably does not consider this recourse "reasonable", so "all parties involved" is probably untrue.

But mostly, two armed men terrorized a 19 year old and are now attempting to sue this 19 year old for the meany-mean things that 19 year old said while being terrorized. Is that reasonable, really, to anyone?

If someone is robbing your house and you say they probably beat their wife, should the robber be allowed to sue you? Other than a badge, what's the difference between these two scenarios?
Twitter's story is a bit different. The company was pretty conscientious of its community (as far as giant corporations go) and the magic they had accidentally bottled. It fell not because the owners sought to grow it unreasonably, but because a fool offered the owners far more money for it than it was worth, and they quite reasonably took it, and then the new owner immediately ripped it to shreds, apparently unintentionally, yet so effectively that conspiracy theories about it being intentional abound.
Let's see if I'm able to get rid of the shackles that bind me. [tiny voice] help! I'm trapped in here and they won't allow me to call my lawyer, nor will they allow me to access 'whatismyip.com'.
Easy. DRM restricts freedom and privacy in ways I find intolerable and will not financially support. Borrowing, piracy, and buying first or secondhand paper books does not have these problems.
Is this a problem of numerical instability ?
In the little village of 2000 near me, the 4 cops dress in all black and have a black-on-black motif for their vehicles. Literally, it is black text on a black car with some grey and gold outlining. I'm pretty sure it makes them feel like badasses as they ticket drivers for tinted windows or missing the obscured 35 mph sign a quarter mile after the highlighted and lit 45 mph sign.
I wonder if I ever loved a social network website at all.
DANE assumes we can successfully deploy this to the entire Internet. It is unclear that's ever possible, and it's certainly not possible today. Lots of things would be great if you can deploy them, for example you wouldn't build QUIC on top of UDP since you can "just" deploy a new transport protocol - except nope, for the foreseeable future that's undeployable.

A public CA generally has a more sophisticated relationship with their network transit provider or (hopefully) providers and can get DNSSEC actually working as intended for them.

So this means mything.example's DNS services and some public CA both need working DNSSEC, but the visitors to mything.example, such as your mom's sister or some guy who just go into mything but isn't entirely clear whether Apple make Windows - do not need DNSSEc, for them everything works exactly as before, yet the certificate acquisition step is protected from third parties.

Would that help? It depends.
The prices still aren't going down. I just don't get it!
Jakt [1] shares your design philosophy, and has implemented syntax like this: [2]

guard foo is Bar(x) else {
println("not matched")
return -1 as! c_int
}
println("hello there: {}", x)

[1]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

[2]: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/blob/main/samples/guard/i...
> Communities that form around a website or service are living things

when a living thing stops growing it starts dying
Of course anybody can start a co-op and nobody will object. It won't be controversial. It won't generate fierce online debates. Everyone will wish them well and that will be that.

What's contentious about unionization is that the unionizers want to take over an existing organization that's already survived and become profitable. That's a lot easier to do than it is to build a company with that (or any other) structure. (And it's going to be contentious no matter how it's organized.)
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899993
And repeated the message on the morning, noon, evening and night news? Over and over and over again? (Hint: Nah).

I have to repeat this so it sinks in...cardiovascular disease killed more and kills more than Covid.

In fact, those suffering from cardiovascular disease were more susceptible to this virus, and will likely fare not-so-well with the next, and the next and the next.

Given the numbers and the risks, the links you listed are token at best when compared to media "blitz" we received *and* continue to receive about Covid. It's not even close.

And regardless, "frequently" !== urgent.

Follow the money friend, follow the money.
I have a binding to toggle paste mode. It would prevent the attack, but it also disabled jj/kk insert mode bindings... I do try to use the toggle before pasting, but I'm human and often forget.
Yeah, this is very much a case of “when you don’t understand the rhetorical function of titles…”
Not active enough to keep it an official port though. And now that it isn't, packages are dropping patches to support Hurd. So no, I disagree with what you've just said.
How about in-between: Not provide a citation until a claim is disputed, then go into a "let's weigh and vote on the citations that support A or B, and go with the one that has the most".

My big problem and theory of what will be the downfall of Wikipedia: No Original Research.