skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is quite a lot of crypto that holds a very consistent value in a trustless, permission-less way and that people (including myself) use as a stable store of value. I suppose you might not be aware of them but it doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm not sure that volatility in layer 1 is a bad thing. You don't buy, for example, Ethereum expecting that it will be worth that same number of us dollars today that it is tomorrow. You buy it to use as computing resource on the ethereum network. If you want something that is stable against the US dollar (which itself pretty wildly volotile lately, thanks to the many Cheeto fingerprints of central bank currency manipulation) you might onstead buy DAI which you can be confident will be worth the number of US dollars you paid for it tomorrow. The ecosystem is maturing and there are valid, elegantly engineered solutions in the crypto space. Don't let the scams and speculation make you ignorant to the real work talented people are doing.
It lasted 3 decades and they always knew that this is the number one reason why people buy from them. I think it's safe, but let's see.
easier to just not use twitter
> Apple's is also not un-exportable. I've twice exported my password database

Well, have you tried exporting a passkey? Passwords and passkeys are not the same thing in Apple's implementation, and I don't think there is a way to export the latter by design.

I think they can be shared via AirDrop these days, but that doesn't provide a migration path out of their walled garden since I think that process is mediated by Apple somehow, i.e. it's not just a JSON-encoded private key or anything like that.

Unfortunately Apple have been pretty bad about updating their "Apple Platform Security" document, which is where they'd normally share such details, so I haven't been able to figure out how "passkeys over AirDrop" actually work under the hood and whether there's a path to cross-vendor migration there.
Honestly at this point I've ceased to see even marginal improvements and now observe almost exclusively regressions. They keep taking away functionality, maybe the CPU is faster but my ability to accurately manage the device i own to my personal specifications is forever being reduced. I've encountered many settings that claim to have been "moved" since upgrading windows that just are no longer there. But the old control panel controls that would've given me enough information to proceed debugging are replaced with soft cornered, sterile, white boxes with single toggles, giving the absolute minimum of information possible, and refusing to provide any means of forcing it to elaborate further!

Every app i use consistently gets worse every update, especially social media. I had been saying it for years, but even my non tech friends now are beginning to agree with me which tells me it must be getting really bad.

It seems that every piece of software that can be updated synchronously to the entire population of users enjoys a brief period of success as it actually gets more usable, before inevitably being consumed by profit interests and falling deeper and deeper down the engagement and micro transaction rabbit hole.
LLM = Large Lunch Menu = $$$
Mind if I ask how you go about testing this? Seems like you would either need access to multiple adjacent units at once (which seems rare unless the building is new), or you’d have to go by the construction type but that isn’t really a “test” so I assume you meant something else.
GP here. I said by default it’s not there. There’s the “secret chats” feature that is E2EE, but it has to be explicitly chosen by the user. The default chats are stored on Telegram’s servers in a way Telegram can decrypt those. Secret chats are also tied to a single device. There is no “secret chat”/E2EE available for group chats, unlike in Signal.
Did the serie Breaking Bad inspire a trend, showing a seemingly innocent/efficient way to clean money ?
Three Questions
1) Have you ever considered monetizing the unused data your startup generates? Yes/No.
2) What challenges does your startup face in managing or analyzing data? (Open-ended)
3) How important is data privacy and compliance to your startup on a scale of 1-10?
I’ve thought about doing this as a more general IPO strategy on the assumption that there’s going to be a sell-off of employee owned equity.

I’m sure that there’s a way to estimate the number of shares vested by employees and come up with an estimate sell-off volume for day 0-1
Did you try any other apps? The official Reddit app didn't even come close to their usability. As far as saying that no single dev could build it in a year - well I don't know how long it would've taken for the latest codebases, but to my knowledge RIF and Apollo (perhaps the most popular unofficial apps for Android and Apple, respectively) were developed by single people, and they were widely praised for being far more usable than the official app.
Not sure about onesignal, but I’m pretty sure BuildZoom long predates the zoom video conferencing tool being a household name.

There’s an element of luck, but also the names are part of the culture from the time they’re created. Multiple people often come up with very similar names for different things just because of what’s going in the world around them.
Austin Powers warned us about the Dutch in the 90’s. Elsevier is part of Dr. Evil’s empire.
in secret, yes
And was the outage at Tesco related?
European Union. Few capitals, and various major cities with around 500k inhabitants.
The big change is that news in general has been 'unbundled', since everything you could possibly get from a newspaper or magazine in the olden days can now be gotten on its own via the internet (usually for free). The hard hitting journalism aspect was basically subsidised by all the other stuff there, like sports and entertainment news, classified ads, property listings, comics, etc.

Now all of those things have free competitors that usually offer a better product, so we're left with the issue of "how do we fund the journalism that matters, if most people don't want to pay for it on its own?"

The other issue is that because the internet has lowered the barrier to entry for writing and news reporting so much, people have no real incentive to pay for anything. This has also hit many of the things unbundled from the newspaper above, since so many people want to write about tech/celebrity/entertainment/sports news that there's no reason to pay for it; there'll be an alternative that's just as good for free elsewhere.

Also probably doesn't help there that in quite a few fields, companies and organisations are just skipping the middleman altogether, and offering their updates straight to the consumer. See stuff like Nintendo Directs and State of Plays in gaming, or Apple Keynotes and stuff in general tech. When most outlets are just listing things announced in said presentations with the minimal amount of analysis, there's not much reason to get the information from them anymore.

Not sure what the solution is sadly. The problem is that there's certain types of reporting that only work with enough funding/corporate backing to make it viable, but most people don't care enough about it to pay, since that's a tiny minority of the stories in most newspapers and magazines. And with so many competitors, it's hard to justify charging for anything when so many others are just offering it for free.
uBlock Origin already blocks them by default at the request level, no need to hide the actual HTML element
While there’s an absolute comparative advantage, this analysis ignores a subsidized comparative advantage from VC money. It talks about comparative advantage changing over time, but that’s not quite what I’m getting at.

Most LLMs are currently run at a loss as far as I know. If a company can do that long enough to put an industry out of work, that’s a huge problem.

Combine that with advertising that the AI is better or safer than a human doing the job, and humans might not be allowed back in the industry even if the AI competitive advantage becomes unsubsidized.
It'd be cool to see a remake of Masq[0] in this.

[0]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/have-you-played-masq
Diving into flame graphs being worthwhile for optimization, assumes that your workload is CPU-bound. Most business software does not have such workloads, and rather (as you yourself have noted) spend most of their time waiting for I/O (database, network, filesystem, etc).

And so, (as you again have noted), your best bet is to just use plain old logging and tracing (like what datadog provides) to find out where the waiting is happening.
I guess not.

I'm just a bit too old to be a fan of Spongebob but I'm still a little sad to see how he ended. :-/
Supermicro has been around since forever and is like one out of one and a half OEMs who actually sell server building blocks on the open market.

Stock market shenanigans are also hardly a new experience for this symbol, either: Already forgot about the discredited 2018 Bloomberg hit piece? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
I hope that mock-up isn't from Apple. It's terrible. Ironically, it demonstrates why nobody needs a huge screen like that. If Apple can't figure out how to fill it sensibly I'm not sure who can.

Then there's that huge gear indicator and the tiny climate controls right at the bottom...
"...are these guys actually having some legitimate products or services?"

rsync.net is built entirely on supermicro head units and, until a few years ago, their JBODs.

Then they got greedy and tried to do the old "certified drives" bullshit with their JBODs and that was the end of that ... now we use the celestica JBODs we source from IX systems.

Head units are still supermicro, though. Fingers crossed ...
The exodus started with a change to comment threading that made the comment section a place for reactions rather than a place for conversation/analysis.
Did you ever go to one of the older theaters like a Fox theater? New theaters have the ugliest architecture and nothing is fancy, if anything it feels like being in a fast food restaurant. In contrast, I remember going to a local Fox theater when I was a vid that had velvet carpets, chandeliers, and just felt like a big 'experience'. Sure, the chairs are bigger now and you can reserve your seats, but everything about the experience feels cheap and gross.
True if you replace “lazy” with “ROI-driven”
Their competition is the enterprise hardware divisions of HP, Dell, and IBM. SuperMicro makes reasonably good quality, lower-cost server equipment. They are, IMO, a pretty good value if you don't want high-end support from the hardware vendor.
I’ve used several of their sever motherboards and RAM. They are good products. There’s one in my NAS right now.
No, that's how optional flags should work. I mean how specifically -i works. With GNU sed:

-lN, --line-length=N, -l N, --line-length N

All work the same, set line length to N.

-iSUFFIX --in-place=SUFFIX, -i NEXTARG --in-place NEXTARG

Don't all work the same. The argument is only actually taken if it's attached to the flag directly. In the latter two forms, no backup is made.

GNU mktemp is similarly annoying, but different, with the --tmpdir flag.

-pDIR, --tmpdir=DIR, -p DIR, --tmpdir NEXTARG

Only the last one is different. If you use --tmpdir literally without attaching an argument to it, it defaults to $TMPDIR, otherwise it takes in DIR.

This is inconsistent and unpredictable. A flag should either take an argument or not.

I also dislike Python's argparse variable-length nargs behavior for similar reasons. Even with an integer nargs, it makes for an ugly command line, but with variable-length ones it just gets hideous, and can make it impossible to pass an argument beginning with a hyphen to a flag.
& bacteria. :)
old.reddit.com

What’s are the chances just before/after IPO, old.reddit.com shuts down?
For this discussion, Vietnamese sources are credible.

The issue is accessing said sources are difficult as the Vietnamese Government kinda sucks at digitizing and presenting financial and economic data.

Also, most of these subsidiaries are not publicly listed, so any revenue attached to them will be listed within the division it is a part of (Eg. Lotte Cultureworks VN revenue will be treated as part of the larger Lotte Cultureworks SEA bucket in any listings)

My hunch is they probably provide good data to Korean and Japanese financial data aggregators (eg. Mitsui or Shinhan), but I can't be bothered to brush up my Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese on a Sunday for a random comment on a forum.

This is effort that companies pay people to do. I ain't doing it for free on my weekend
Twitter ads are so spammy that I right away know that its an ad nowadays.
I feel like this is much worse than normally reading.

Firstly what I usually do is I quickly scan with eyes over the page I'm seeing and it gives me understanding what to expect.

Secondly, different words and different sentences require different paces of reading, so the pace can't always be constant like this. And for different people, different sentences, paragraphs have varying ease of understandability based on past experience, so I don't think it would even be feasible to adapt the pace by "how difficult" a sentence is.

It more like makes me feel claustrophobic and as if control was taken away from me, almost in panicky way I feel like I have no control over the content or ability to think about the content for any time.

I'm frequently seeing this UX being trending in many places, besides reading as well like filling out forms - TypeForms?? If I don't see the whole list of expected inputs/forms, it's much harder to know in many cases what data is exactly expected from and for which reason.

It seems it just makes everything worse as it removes all the info about the context so you are left without any feeling of control or context, just randomly doing something.
Even more insidious on Twitter: actual user posts (videos specifically) being promoted into your feed, with no ad label. However, the actual ad (which is not particularly well disclosed) is the pre-roll ad on the video - the user post is just the vehicle to do so. [0]

In your feed, it is indistinguishable.

Because I have Mr Beast blocked, I kept on getting posts from BANG! Showbiz, because the video selection available to Twitter isn't particularly high quality.

[0]: An example: http://web.archive.org/web/20240302013005/https://twitter.co...
How is this hyperbole? There’s a wall being touted at the southern border of America for chrissake, the country that has a statue engraved on it that it takes in refugees. Every temperate climate western country has a border “crisis” right now.
AI is heavily bottlenecked by hardware right now, the good stuff requires non-consumer GPUs, the hobbyist stuff requires high end gaming GPUs. The user wants to run these things locally.
Between phosphorus being rare and oxygen being n
Between phosphorus being rare and oxygen being needed for fire which is needed for tech (but too much oxygen prevents life from evolving through constant forrest fires) I think the Fermi Paradox has been solved.

Also, our sun is freakishly stable.

We are very, very rare.
I have a friend in Pawtucket who is a tech consultant and seems to do OK. Maybe he would know about local meetups.
Yeah I really think basically all the moderation problems go away (from my very particular perspective of what the problems are and why they are problems) if you at least give users the option of fully controlling what they see (i.e only posts from users they have specifically followed etc.). But that option results in lower "engagement" and time-on-site, so social media companies will probably never go back to providing it.
Fun thing is when you block enough of these ad accounts you start to get some really freaky ads.
It only works when you have a coherent vision of your product. "We can't be assed to optimize our code because we value DX above all else" certainly isn't that.
I’m a firm believer that the MBAifcation of the world is one of the great evils of our time. That extracting every last option, selling everything possible, exploiting your environment, running as lean as possible with no concern for difficult times… is a lot of what is going wrong.

So what I re-pose to you isn’t “Why isn’t Reddit selling just data or just ads” it’s “Why would their executives ever consider leaving money on the table?”
thats very interesting, i never heard of this, i wonder how many other towns are off-the-radar. and in China probably even more now.

i wonder if the EPA could be better off if it gave grants instead of fining people.
But it is subscription apps. If we take all apps?
It's decent fun even if you're younger (in my experience :))
That's not information I'd heard before. Do you have a source?
I love the pragmaticism in your comment.

I also agree; optimizing my sites to nothing is probably a waste of time. Those sites are already at the level you suggest.
Toot, trot, tort, and moot aren't legal?
Calling 'stupid' cartoons that very accurately describe Hitler's doublespeak only proves further your dishonesty. Le Pen would have done no better, or even worse, while puffing up the immigrant/woke menace to distract the attention away from the treason of her promises. I am not imagining things: all far-right wannabee autocrats have done the same trick, all the time, everywhere.
Decent products with decent service, no gimmicks and fair pricing is a moat
Thanks for reply.

When will this reach PI or e or sqrt(2)?

(There are infinitely many numbers that will not be reached by this procedure)
Of course but the point stands. There are opposing forces here and it would be foolish to care about one and ignore the other.
While I agree that old.Reddit is the only way to use that unfortunately-required site… it will not fix the obvious and subtle shilling.
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> In 2021, Bahlsen’s redesign was acclaimed by the design community for its clean, bold modernity (even winning them a D&AD award). Nonetheless, the rebrand resulted in a 12% drop in sales the following year. This decline was attributed to a variety of factors: low on-shelf recognition, reduced emotional resonance, and smaller, less appetising photos than the original, “dated” packaging. In other words, even if the branding was good, it didn’t feel right.

Or, you know, maybe sales dropped, because inflation caused by Russia invading Ukraine hit and people spent less money on more expensive foods like Bahlsen cookies.
Yes. Addressed later

From other post.

Thought on re-reading OP comment, 'them' could just refer to generic 'media', and not be right/left.

It shows how even language is getting warped. Frequently right leaning news uses 'They' for every type of boogie man. So if a comment has 'They' it sounds right leaning.
> With all the data that’s being put up for sale by Reddit to AI companies, why do they still focus on ads?

Why would they leave money on the table after the bulk of their users proved to be docile in the face of so much recent enshittification?
Lexus LC 500 Factory in Japan: Engineer Explains How Lexus LC Is Built [video]
I don't understand the reference. I do in fact want to own stuff. What does this have to do with snakes?
So if you're a teacher who wants to chat with Heinlein, you don't write to him directly.

Instead you tell a student that he will fail your class unless he gets Heinlein to help him.
Just like storage units?
It is certainly possible on some days to hit the "Solid" score, which is the terminal rank for free users, with only a pangram.
I don't mean app time, I mean officially support the option of using a privacy-oriented phone, along with any required services, through an app acquisition and update system which is not significantly more difficult than the current distribution. I want that company to be as equally subject to privacy laws as my mobile phone provider, my internet service provider, or my electricity provider.

> I will soon no longer be able to use BankID because I'm not a Swedish citizen and the new version insists on scanning a Swedish ID

I am a Swedish citizen and I do not own a device which is able to scan a Swedish ID.

What are they going to do? Force me to buy a smartphone with terms of service I do not agree with? Shut off my bank services?

Have you gone to the bank and said that you are going to get rid of your smartphone, and want to switch to BankID on a file? I'm curious if that's even a valid option. It seems everyone who has a smartphone is so addicted to it that they can't give it up.

> Actions speak far louder than words after all. It also helps in giving access to services here and now instead of maybe, later.

People have been using your suggestion for years. Has it improved the situation?

No. You said BankID no longer works on Linux (even with Wine?).

Because the rejoinder has been "if you don't like it, you don't need a smart phone." For you, a smart phone was important enough that you accepted the risk of future problems.

For me, a smart phone is not that important, and I don't want to accept the risk of future problems. It isn't like what I'm asking is impossible - there are existing phone providers with terms I can agree to, but only if I know that it's a viable long-term solution. Which it isn't now, as you've said.

It requires forcing Swedbank, etc. to support alternative, which I can't do but the state might. Especially since the state want to have a contactless id card, which mongol mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727561 . The document is clear that depending on commercial interests like BankID is one of their concerns.

Or Sweden can pass laws saying that mobile store operators selling in Sweden must follow strict privacy laws against targeted marketing and advertising, and that privacy cannot be opted out.

Or Sweden can pass laws which say businesses must have comparable options for those who do not have a smart phone. (For all I know, that already exists.)
F-35 Cleared for Full-Rate Production 17 Years After Its First Flight
I'm stumbling over a couple of annoying problems when opening the DNS server subpanel via search (because without search it's pretty much impossible to find that panel, but that's a separate issue).

One is that occasionally there's an error popup "Extension process Network(4433) exited." just when clicking on the 'DNS servers' search result.

The other is that when accidentally hitting "Enter" after entering a new DNS server address the entire DNS Server subpanel will close even though I want to enter a second address (which sucks from a user perspective, but might even be consistent with the UX guidelines, but OTH I would expect pressing Enter on a text input box would not close the UI panel which contains the text input box, but maybe that's just me). But then clicking on the previous search result 'DNS servers' to open the DNS servers panel again, the click does nothing this time.

One has to clear the search box, enter the search term again, perform a new search, and then click the search result 'DNS servers' again to get the subpanel for entering DNS server addresses.

I guess the search is also broken like this for other subpanels, but changing the DNS servers is about the only situation where I'm using the search box.

In the old settings panel all that worked as expected (and apart from that, everything also was a lot snappier, somehow Apple engineers managed to create simple Settings window that suffers from performance problems, but again, different issue).
When they go to that link

If that server is compromised, the whole thing is compromised so it's not really e2e.
Even with apps, you still do not have the fine grained permissions you'd think you'd get. Have you tried?
Jury is still out on an astronomical explanation for the apparent 26M year periodicity[0] of mass extinction events. Lisa Randall has an entertaining theory[1] that it’s due to the sun passing through dark matter in its orbit around the galaxy.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC344925/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_and_the_Dinosaur...
No, LBR is an Intel-only feature.
Have you ever trained a GAN?