skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Videos are evidence of the many problems they have run into getting it to work reliably.
One good reason to hold back would be intellectual property/stealth mode development. They have many patents but have had some patents rescinded after skeptics objections about "breaking known laws of physics" as if there is ever a final unimpeachable unimprovable laws of physics.
Even so the theory is openly published and samples of hydrinos are available to qualified parties I understand.
> There is much more to you as a member of society than your single vote. You get to vote for many people in many different elections. You also can get civically engaged in many different ways.

Civic engagement requires more than filling out a ballot
It's really up to the community and mods what counts as tech news, and clearly they disagree with you.
Fair enough. I just have a Nix Flake to handle this stuff for me now so I just do `nix build`, but obviously that's getting into territory that is super geeky.
You worked on Geocities!

HELP! Do you have any idea at all where the backups ended up?

Can you think of anyone - any names - who might know how to find the backups of geocities?

It's classic Internet history lost to time. If only we could find backups!
The FUTO license does not allow for the freedom to view, modify, and distribute the software's source code. It allows it for certain groups and activities but that is the same as not allowing it.

> You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purposes such as personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, all without any anticipated commercial application.

This severely limits the freedom to modify the software or even use it as only certain ways of modifying it are allowed.

> Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

This limits the ability to modify the software in any situation.

> I do think it would be more accurate to claim that software with terms limiting commercial exploitation is “open-source” per the original definition, but is not in compliance with the OSI’s Open Source Definition (OSD)

No it wouldn't be. You can read all the things said regarding free software for more history since open source was per it's original definition merely a renaming of free software.
You answered your own question then: the reason for overleaf is that not everyone finds installing latex easy.
(Just for completeness, ShareLaTex and Overleaf were two different products that merged, and the result was... surprisingly fine. It wasn't a rename as such.)

I've used Overleaf before the ShareLaTex merge strictly for the collaboration feature - setting up and using LaTeX on Ubuntu was easy enough, especially since pdflatex (just tex -> PDF, no more tex -> DVI -> PostScript -> PDF nonsense!) and me or a collaborator usually compiled the final PDF locally IIRC.
> fully informed, smart people elected to take on and plan for.

In practice, this is completely false. When I was about to graduate not too long ago, there was an entire cottage industry of (perhaps unwitting) propagandists pushing student loans on highschool students as a "no brainer" investment. "You'll make the money back in 2 years, tops! Now go and find yourself"

Placing blame on any of those students who were not able to make the money back quickly and are now struggling is either a display of ignorance or lack of empathy.
Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit
I remember memorizing some ridiculous URL to a geocities site a friend of mine made in middle school or high school. He called Beanie Burn. It was a punch of pictures of Bernie Babies on fire, all done with animated gifs.
Its not important and I didn't say the reasoning was good, you’ll just be hard pressed to get that level of validation from any provider until that intermediary space gets more regulated

In the mean time there are a separate category of people that take advantage of that structure, resulting in a high cost low trust environment, where people are willing to take gambles anyway, as the upside is always additional liquidity
I did that for 5 years in DC one of the interesting side effects for me was it limited the amount of stuff I could buy due to what I could carry home on my bike so I ended up living a more minimal life as well, it was nice to declutter my life :)
which is exactly what Perplexity did. I am saying this out loud because it'll be a few years before people wrap their mind around the circus over there. not because its awesome.

1) pay google scraper api (~1000 searches/$1)

2) run the crappiest llm people won't notice is crap

3) vc dollars

4) buy users by any means necessary

5) rope some earnest people into $40/month

rinse, lather, repeat
I can't speak to his beliefs or identity without further research, but Messianic Judaism is a thing, and most identify as Jewish (source: my wife belongs to such a congregation). From this writing, I'll assume that's his belief, as a common tenet is referring to Jesus by his Jewish name.
Half the problem has been lack of standardization. Without a common standard to build to there's more business risk and less return.

Now that North America has standardized on CCS with the J3400 plug there will be more incentive to build infrastructure and deploy better chargers (like Alpitronic and Kempower models):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW3C5yYSENw
> "The turns do not take very long at all and teams of players can get in 2-3 turns in a normal work day."

Game does sound very cool, but lol, author has different game-playing expectations than I do.
The three CEO situation was supposed to be temporary to get them to a buyout. The buyouts fell through and Paramount is now in a pretty terrible position.
My guess is that this is more about practicality than anything. There's hardly a need for such high elevation locks I think, and where there is, tunneling is better.
> an underappreciated fact is that extensions just work, and are very easy to install and configure

This is partially because of cultural reasons. VS Code was originally a code editor made for web developers, by web developers. It follows directly in the footsteps of Atom. Web developers, for good or for bad, value the user experience of software working out of the box so they tend to bundle everything. Systems engineers, those of the C/Python camp tend to optimize for efficiency and prefers the user to manually setup out-of-band binaries.
People with alcohol use disorder are many times more likely to commit suicide. Alcohol makes depression worse in the long run, even if someone finds some temporary comfort from a bottle.
All engineering intersects with the real world, and having multiple perspectives is crucial to making "good" strategic decisions. For example, those who executed quickly on their vision of social media and advertising lacked the alternate perspective that algorithmically strip mining human attention and relationships could, in fact, lead to a worse world.
Only $4,000 to relocate? That doesn't seem even close to the amount it would cost me. Breaking leases, selling your house, moving belongings. Much more than $4,000.
> All or almost all carmakers are switching to the NACS port/charging standard (the Tesla one, basically)

No, Tesla's charging standard is dead. NACS is CCS with the J3400 plug. Here's a deployed example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-0xRTduPI
So the 500 lines removed was literally just removing functionality in the first place (you should always validate on both sides anyway).
That's why your stuff isn't broken.
Didn’t they buy their open source competitor, Sharelatex, adopted the code only to cripple the free functionality like git support behind a paywall?
I may be wrong but I think they were proprietary before the acquisition.
default/official pages were under 26k?
The western US states all have urban growth boundaries for this reason.

> just push us further down the path of using as many natural resources as we can?

Using more surface area is using as many natural resources as we can.

Energy = mass * distance. The further people live away, from each other, the more energy is consumed, for doing everything.

A land value tax would incentivize density, and density reduces the use of as natural resources.

The people living in 10x10x10 homes in Honk Kong are using magnitudes less natural resources than hundreds of millions of people in US suburbia and exurbia.
This idea that a website could be 'done' was very much part of the old mentality from software people that software had to be shipped on floppy disc or cd-rom, and you had no guaranteed patch ability after you shipped.

The web 2.0 craze was largely about realizing how web is different than old cd-rom based distribution.
I don't own any newer console, but I remember people abusing the P2P nature of PS3 Call of Duty MW2 to make ridiculous custom servers that you would randomly connect to. So at least on the Playstation 3, games would connect to arbitrary IPs. Maybe this has changed in the PS4 and PS5, probably for this reason.
Like a sibling comment mentioned, it sucks for synchronous work with colleagues. Async is fine though.
The prospects for making money selling as an artist (author, painter, athlete, musician, actor) are so poor why do they care so much about copyright law?

The route to riches for, say, a musician is to become famous and charge for the coliseum seats to hear him play. To become famous doesn't it make more sense to give the music away? Being famous means you get high consulting rates, get paid for personal appearances, get paid for putting your name on sneakers, etc. A famous author could get paid for writing movie scripts or snagging a professorship or teaching seminars.

If copyright law disappeared tomorrow, would the artists really be worse off?
Dark Moments and Counters
Hey Lee - I tried setting up a self hosted POC today and it looks pretty tricky:

* The shared cache loader is left to the user to implement (instead of say, just pass a Redis URL)
* The revalidate XYZ doesn't seem to work with Cloudfront etc
* The image lambda is left to the user
* The Cache-Control header isn't correct
It's a shame it's not as decent as Google Docs in terms of collaboration.

Google Docs lacks some bibliographic management to be a complete solution, an area where Word 365 is also a mess.

It's surprisingly hard to find a complete collaboration setup that also works for non-technical users.

When working on my own, AUCTeX + git are great.
Leigh Hackspace Collapsable Arcade Cabinet
We already do it with property tax, there is a land portion of the property value assessment. It is not perfect, but it is easily doable.

The only work that happens is that land value gets multiplied by another number. Any dispute about assessed land price gets adjudicated like it does now with any property assessment dispute.
I did a remote calc class and nerd sniped myself into learning latex via using overleaf to do homework instead of taking photos of handwritten stuff. 10/10, would self nerdsnipe again.
Thankfully my PhD advisor is fine with just using Git for collaboration on papers. The collaboration features of git (change tracking, commit messages, etc.) are super convenient since I'm already using them for code. (Doesn't apply so much with overleaf git integration since the commits are not human generated.) And no need to have internet access whenever you work on it.
You don't think people from a certain place tend to share similar genetics?
All optimizations have cases where they are deleterious. The number I used for loop optimizations is assume the loop executes 10 times. It works reliably well.
> Maybe other tools do some of these things, but having all of them in place is nice.

Emacs. I have almost everything you mentioned out of the box with doom Emacs, and the other stuff should be trivial if it doesn't already exist.
My reaction was "Huh? What multiplication?"

The answer is that we're treating this as a Galois field/finite field of order 2^128 with the reducing polynomial (2^128 + 0b10000111).

Under that framework, the left shift and possible XOR implement multiplication by 2. (An example of general multiplication here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field_arithmetic#Progra...)
Normalized Stockholm syndrome.

Notice how many desks will have pictures of and/or drawings/things from kids but their partners are absent or minimally featured.
I imagine the point of this algorithm, like a lot of algorithm research, is to prove the upper bound of complexity for this problem. Not to be used in practice (despite what this article seem to suggest).

On a similar note, there's a lot of work put into optimal matrix multiplication algorithm. We know the lower bound is N*2, the obvious upper bound is N*3, the best (complexity wise, not practical at all) current algorithm is N*2.37, but we don't know how fast can it really get. Is it possible to write N*2 algorithm? We don't know.
Coffee helped the Union in the Civil War
I went down a weird rabbit hole. On that second link I noticed an entertaining little logo for the "HTML Writers Guild" at hwg.org, which seems to have began in 1994 as a "guild" of people who write HTML, helping each-other make better webpages.

Going by Internet Archive snapshots, it seems that over time, HWG grew into providing various services including some sort of training and certification. You can see how the front page changes over time, and their services expanded and updated over time, but the core idea remained the same all the way through December of 2023.

It was apparently an amusing enough concept to be made fun of on Something Awful in 2011.[1]

But then, between December 4th 2023 and December 6th 2023, the page was replaced with a Wordpress instance, first hosting just some filler content, but in just a few days, it was molded into yet another crypto blogspam publisher. Lest you think I am being too harsh, the navbar at the top doesn't even spell "crypto" correctly as of this writing; it is truly a low effort operation. The "About us" still references the original guild, but everything else has been wiped clean.

So what happened to the guild members? Well, apparently, at some point rather early on, the HWG "merged" with the "IWA", the International Web Association, and while information about what exactly is going on with that organization, it does still seem to exist in some form[2].

It kind of gets weirder though, as if you crawl around you can find that some original HWG pages are indeed, still online at their original location, some of them last updated as far back as 2001.[3] Wow! This hints to me that the domain was not obviously hijacked or purchased, though it's unclear what the deal is.

[1]: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/html-guild-writers/

[2]: https://iwanet.org/

[3]: https://hwg.org/member/
Exactly. I had the same thought so I checked the website again and there is almost none to no mention of "open-source" or their GitHub repository link anywhere. Quite likely being done to drive more users to buy subscriptions instead of self-hosting it.
https://archive.ph/qI5Lx
Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
With the punctuation marks have you tried enabling symbols dictation?
There are two main sets of legal teams in bankruptcy cases: the estate, usually represented by the court appointed trustee's legal team, and individual or groups of creditors who can afford legal representation.

The Trustee in this case wanted to sell everything and be done with the case, handling it as a standard fiat bankruptcy. I believe that it was only due to creditors with enough sway (i.e. whales who could afford their own legal teams) that pressured the Trustee to value the assets accordingly.

To your point, the consequence of the successful persuasion has resulted in a high number of billable professional services hours from all sides which has definitely been a drain on the estate and creditor wallets. However, anybody (else) implying that it was the [nebulous] "lawyers" who orchestrated an evil scheme to perpetuate their billable hours from the get-go is being disingenuous and/or lazily finger pointing, unless of course they have some evidence or sources to back their assertion up.
I have bad news for you. Most code you tend to come across is at that level.
How often are you working on the same section of a document simultaneously?
Futo keyboard has much better word prediction
That is ok for some but others want to feel like there is some point to the 2/3 of their life that they spent working and preparing to work (i.e. school). For some, punching the clock and collecting a pay check isn't enough.
What is the most likely scenario in which you see Bitcoin changing hands for ~0 value, or I suppose not changing hands?
But the good news is that when they fire you in one of these states, they don't have to pay you much severance.
> The company said it's trying to improve team culture and support business needs.

AKA, "lets force people to quit so we don't have to pay severance and save on payroll this quarter"
Because it's hard to fully comprehend or feel complete certainty of what is going to happen.
It’s not the death that is scary, it’s the Judgement Day that’ll come after. Because you don’t know whether you did enough good stuff to go straight to heaven, or first have to suffer in hell to account for your sins. Not all of us believe in a religion that says you are already forgiven and you’ll go to heaven, because God sent himself down to Earth to become His own son to sacrifice Himself to Himself to convince Himself to forgive you.
I think some of the stars for your complex conjugates fell foul of HN formatting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I think you're missing my point, which is that in the middle of describing an environment where you can't be confident of anyone's honesty, you acknowledged that even the "legit" actors who aren't trying to scam you are trying to keep things a secret from their "community" so that it can appear to them that everything is happening organically.

What that says to me is that you're in a community of scammers, so it's hard to tell the difference between someone who's out to scam you and someone who's just out to scam some plebs.
Even if the $6/customer is recurring revenue, you need to retain every customer for 4+ years to make back your CAC.

So with costs of $65k/mth and revenue of $20k/mth you are going backwards at $45k/mth. But you say your burn rate is $500k/mth. Which suggests that there is a further $455k/mth being burnt on whatever. I just don't see how you'll ever become cash-flow positive.

Based on your numbers, I'm guessing you have about 40k customers. Even by the most optimistic estimates you need over 1 million retained customers to break even. To get there you will need to invest a further $20M based on your CAC.

Sorry, the numbers just don't make sense. Of course, I could be reading stuff between the lines that is wildly incorrect. But for me it is red flags all around.
It’s sad their employees are paying the price for the corporate mission that got the company so much good press. No one would fault them for donating slightly less if it meant taking care of their employees. Happy employees are good employees, which should lead to more profits, and thus more donations, in the long run.
I mean, if you don't care about the company, product, or project, then yes, you are right. Lay low and move on. Some fights definitely aren't worth it. If you do care about more than your paycheck, maybe it is.

And do you really care if some incompetent hates you? I hate working with incompetent people, so some mutual feelings are perfectly fine. It may even improve the situation, at least temporarily: They'll reduce their interactions with you to avoid conflict, since most people are rather conflict avoidant.
I have a friend who is very into these types of games, having dedicated about 1200 sq ft of their home to them. The commercial ones are usually centered on specific historic battles, and often follow a sort of "script" where things happen at specific turns e.g. the introduction of new units or weather conditions, that sort of thing.

They seemed interesting, and I came away with two main observations:

1 - A game can take a very very long time. Turns might even take days or weeks on particularly elaborate ones. Thus there is a major time commitment during which you must leave the game out and setup for an extended period of time.

2 - My first thought when encountering these was "why aren't they just using a computer?". But I quickly learned that the ability to spread out a map, that might be many square meters, and see everything happening on it at once, without having to slide a monitor's viewport around (or zoom in and out) has a number of massive advantages -- and (at the time I was looking at this) there's really no display technology today that can replicate this.

I feel like both of these observations have changed significantly with the advent of cheap, high-resolution, networked AR/VR headsets. I don't think I'd want to wear one entirely for the length of time a game might take, but we're much closer now to having truly digital versions of this that eliminate many of the downsides.
Seems like a scummy tactic to force people to quit (so Patagonia doesn't have to pay severance or unemployment). Guess they aren't quite the wholesome do gooders they market themselves as.
>"The reality is that our CX team has been running at 200% to 300% overstaffed for much of this year," she added. "

It's a thinly veiled lay-off.
Most (if not all) blocks in Gutenberg are react in WP
Arazzo – OpenAPI for Call Sequences
Is there anyone here in the HN community who was connected to Geocities in the old days?

Does anyone have any idea if any backups might have somehow survived?

Any names of anyone associated with running the Geocities systems or Geocities development? Anyone know who used to do the backups?

Geocities was such an important part of the early Internet.

Some archives have recovered bits and pieces of Geocities but it would be awesome to recover the entire thing.
What?

> growing population of singles—defined herein as individuals not actively involved in a romantic relationship.
>Workers were offered $4,000 toward relocation costs and extra paid time off. Those willing to relocate were told to do so by September 30.

It looks like just saying yes buys you an extra 3 months and paid time off to interview to find a new job.
It's a death trap. Commercial real estate pushes higher interest rates into SMB rents, but many SMB customers are super price sensitive and will go elsewhere if prices increase. The only businesses that can survive this are the already-huge ones.