skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but query me this batman. Lately, I have been inundated by ads for anything to do with Kayaks. I do not own a Kayak. I do not want to own a Kayak and have never even spoken the word as far as I can remember. But for some reason, I am seeing ads for a Kayak carrier, a Kayak launcher, roof rack, you name it. It is so weird. I cannot figure out why suddenly these idiots think I am remotely interested in Kayaking. Kayaking, it is just so random. But way back in the 2000s, a friend of mine worked for a web site dev company. Her job was to visit with clients and take pictures of whatever they were hawking, write some copy and the dudes back in her office would turn it into a web page. She would occasionally ask me to come along and stare at whatever crap they were selling and act like I cared about it while she snapped some photos. I joked that meant technically I was a model. But then one time she was doing a web page for a marketing company that did focus groups. That was back before we had smart phones tracking your every move. I posed in a fake focus group with some other people and after that, the dude that ran the place asked me if I wanted to be in real focus group and I agreed. They seemed to think there were certain connections that made no sense. For example, they were sure that they could market adult diapers to nerds that play video games who were to absorbed in their game to get off their ass to take a simple dump. Apparently that is actually a thing? Then I went to this one focus group where they were asking if you own a dog and buy a lot of peanut butter. Read between the lines. So gross. So, I am guessing, some marketing weirdo thinks there is some weird connection between something else in my life an Kayaks. It would be interesting to know what that is. But, I think, a lot of times, they might be right about those weird connections that make you feel like they are reading your mind. Just in this case, whatever it is, maybe that I watch a lot of documentaries and that means I like Kayaking? I guess they only have to be right some percentage of the time. Just not in this case.
I've heard HL3 will be released along with Doom4.
Maybe the algorithms simply concluded that you might interested in things your friends are interested in.. that's part of why you're friends?

If any of your friends searched for something online, and you're connected to them in a social network, they might show you the same ad by proximity.
The website showing two "forward-thinking companies already using our API" and both of them showing "© 2024" at their footer is... perfect.
I ended up seeing this on /. and was surprised it wasn't still on the front page of HN anymore. Seems to have dropped off quickly.
I think it's implied with FUM that you have enough money to not work for the rest of your life. This is because without the need to work you have total freedom to set your schedule.
I have never felt a productivity roadblock from terminal. It’s important to distinguish “oh neat and shiny”/“I like this more” from “actually makes me work faster”. If your terminal is a real productivity roadblock, it’s likely your workflow is optimizing for the wrong things because it just shouldn’t be taking that much of your time.
Find a Spring
I extracted the TempleOS font (which itself was mostly ripped from FreeDOS apparently) and used it for all the text in my browser with a CSS override addon a few years ago:

https://github.com/rendello/templeos_font
Wait, so the Department Of Government Efficiency spent time and money recruiting a millionaire who left after just 4 weeks? Talk about inefficiency…
A default would be a silly thing on a national scale. You'd essentially reset your debt and piss off a lot of foreign powers, but the economy would continue working as before, since you'd immediately print a whole bunch of new (virtual) money. Chances are a great deal of countries will just go along with it to not grind their own economies into pieces when they suddenly can't buy/sell from/to the US any more.

This is assuming you never get to the stage of hyperinflation, but you can probably just print a whole bunch of new physical currency as well.
That sounds great.

Many people overly focus on what they want to retire FROM - work, but not what they want to retire TO - hobbies/volunteer work/etc.

Basic eating healthier, exercising more and consumption-based things like travel are not going to fill the gap left by a full-time job. One can quickly get bored and/or run out of money with that kind of mindset.

Given enough money, or whenever I do retire .. I'd spend my time making music, photographs, do even more reading, etc. Anything that occupies your time and exercises both your body & mind are important.
someone probably googled “kayak” from your wifi?
Since plastic vs wood cutting boards is what kicked this discussion off, I’d also point out fine wood particles will give you lung cancer too
What social media apps does she have installed? Just curious
>Which is exactly how it’s supposed to work in the first place

I don't think anyone can seriously argue that the internet is a "state resource", by any reasonable measure. Stuff like this is exactly why federal steps in and established communication standards. because when communication is fractured by the rules of 50 states, we aren't really "united" anymore.

Nevermind the monopolies with ISPs and that a federal anti-trust would solve 50 problems at once rather than states taking their time to try and clean their backyard.

>T-Mobile basically threw throttling in their face and they had no choice but to pretend it was fine

and you don't see why this is a problem on a national level that needs proper standards, instead of a state free for all?
Yes I use them together, iterm has a great tmux integration. Tmux vanilla does not have great UX (in my opinion).
If a company says they make money “selling cars” you don’t assume they get those cars through theft. Same deal here, saying they get affiliate money doesn’t imply they overwrite existing affiliate links which is about a clear a case of tortious interference as you could find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

So, no Honey didn’t disclose what people are complaining about.
Building on your idea, it’s also important to look at how wikis use Mediawiki. Different wikis in the Wikimedia ecosystem apply different sets of patterns appropriate to their size and purpose. Wikivoyage is a useful example of hierarchical information. Wikibooks shows how subpages can be used effectively.

Aside from Mediawiki.org, Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, has written extensively about wiki patterns. He’s also created a reference implementation for a federated wiki that attempts to solve the fork & revision control use cases centralized wikis struggle with. See https://github.com/fedwiki
As a follow-up, it is always sad to see large volumes of community-driven content deleted especially when the motives are likely for selfish or nefarious purposes. Being somewhat familiar with the latest releases, Autodesk has been pushing their cloud services (Forge, or whatever they’re calling it this month) and AI. They are probably deleting the content after having fine-tuned an LLM on it and patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
It would be rational to do that only if that could be done profitably. It usually can't be profitable due to large fixed costs that can't be paid for by the sale of the stored power.

Unfortunately the investment costs of storage are high, when you sell stored energy you still compete against other marginal energy producers, and the free power needs to be available often enough to be attractive.

The same argument occurs for Bitcoin mining: the fixed cost of the rigs can't be paid for by the value mined during the few hours of free-power operation.

Instead of assuming the market is irrational, you are better served by investigating your own thought processes.
Many years ago, I reported an issue where iTerm2 leaks sensitive search history to preference files [1]. The issue was quickly fixed. But until this day, I can still find people unintentionally leak their search history in public dotfiles repos [2].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/8491

[2]: https://github.com/search?q=NoSyncSearchHistory+path%3A*.pli...
It's also the case that having enough money not to work makes it very simple to engage in self destructive behaviour.

If you have a 9 to 5 then you're waking up at sunrise and going to bed some time after sunset. You're probably commuting, getting out in the world, chatting to people even if it's just the colleagues, Starbucks drive through, supermarket checkout clerk, that sort of thing.

If you have retirement level money and you're alone there is absolutely nothing stopping you from waking up at 2pm, sitting on your computer playing World of Warcraft ordering takeaways, not going out for a walk or seeing the sunlight, getting slightly more depressed each day in a spiral.

There's also nothing stopping you from going out drinking every day or every other of the week, shrugging off the hangover then hitting the next one. And so on and so forth.

People easily underestimate how much their sense of well-being is related to simple things like just going for a walk in the sunshine every now and then or eating properly.
A lawsuit settlement does not indicate any kind of guilt. It is purely a cost/benefit calculation falling on the “make it go away” side.
Short AI timlines by LessWrong
And probably met with apathy, as always. They won't realize ISPs are giving traffic to the highest bidder. They will just complain about [non-market leader] being slow to load, and move to [market leader] because "it's faster". All according to the plan of the real rulers of this plutocracy.
Only if they actually communicate what they’ve learned from it and what changes they’re making to prevent such mistakes in the future / catch them before release. Until then you can assume that they’ll keep making similar classes of mistakes.
You should chill for a few years and really consider the meaning of your money.
I also just signed up for Math Academy a few weeks ago. So far it's been pretty good. Just need to get a good daily routine going with it.

Is there a Discord group? If not, is somebody looking into setting one up? I'm definitely be interested in that.
No, you cannot make the comparison between having money and not having money if you have never not had money. If you have always had money, you have never known the difficulty of living without it.
> Money doesn’t buy happiness but most people are subjected to artificial misery by this society and money does make that go away… at least, a fair share of it, probably 80 percent.

I've been the young immigrant who arrived to a foreign country with the clothes on his back and whatever fits in a suitcase; occasionally splurging by buying used clothes at a thrift shop and buying a slice of cake at the supermarket once a month. If anything, I was probably happier then: healthy and hopeful for a better future. Now I'm in significantly worse health and rather jaded.

Thank you for sharing your own experience.
Really beautifully said. Wealth does indeed carry the responsibility of giving back to your community the same way the community gave to you to gain the wealth to begin with.

Bettering your community not only benefits the receiver but also, I strongly believe, one’s own conscious and sense of belonging to said community.
>My wife and I, just being goofy, have an inside joke featuring a relatively uncommon name that we ocasionally yell out, like a few times a week. Two months ago we got junk mail addressed to UNCOMMON NAME + our last name.

Are you sure it's not because of an opsec fail? eg. you used your nickname when registering for some service, and that made it into some sort of mailing list? What you're seemingly implying (ie. that there's some sort of secret listening system that can figure out your nickname, tie it back to your address, and then send spam to that) makes little sense. Your name + address is already readily available. It's in the public records. You freely hand it over to random websites (eg. for online shopping). There's zero benefits in anyone making such a system to figure out people's names using surreptitious listening.
There definitely have been CVEs in Terminal.app, over many years:

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0042

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1898

- https://infocon.org/cons/Disobey/Disobey%202017/Mikko%20Kent... [video, I can't find a reference to that in Apple's release notes]

- There is also https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/216 -- which led to a vague credit for Federico Bento in https://support.apple.com/en-ng/103758 proving they don't give everything CVEs (fine, but when the issue is public already it would be helpful to have a bit more detail).

I reported https://dgl.cx/2023/09/ansi-terminal-security#apple-terminal... to Apple ~2 years ago and they still haven't fixed it. It's not as serious as some vulnerabilities though and likely doesn't deserve a CVE, would be nice if they fixed it though.

(Finding this can be hard because Apple only link to release notes for currently supported versions, the pages are still around if you know the URL or you can find them via searches if they happen to be indexed still.)
long exposure I took right out in front the last time I was there:

https://imgur.com/a/p2h6T

if you want to go deep on it this was a great read (Ghetto at the Center of the World):

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo112348...
SEEKING WORK | US | REMOTE

Location: Oregon, USA.
Remote: Only.
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Linux, Docker Python, etc. All the Stuff a modern SRE should do.
Resume: Upon Request.
Email: mike+jobs@garfias.org

I've been doing Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE (the names keep changing on me) since the mid 90s. I've worked for big companies and small startups (one was even acquired!). I've run ops departments and been a cog. These days I'd like to be some kind of lead, designing things, and helping my juniors implement it. I believe in incremental improvement, not the ONE BIG CHANGE that will fix our lives.

I'm looking for some PT AWS IaC work to help pay for the family's health insurance premiums while working for a body shop while looking for more permanent work.
It’s not true at all, why in the world would you capitulate that?
> I think his problem is his identity (founder of Loom) suddenly disappeared.

This is spot on. And I think it’s probably the biggest thing he’s going through

However, the money is definitely a big factor as well. Not because of the amount of money, but because of the suddenness that it happened with

In a very short amount of time, he found himself not needing (and realizing also not wanting), to maintain his identity at the time

The money and the suddenness also put him in a situation that is pretty hard to relate to for the vast majority of people

So not only he lost his identity, he also found himself alone (and made it even worse, by pushing people away or ending some relationships)
Nice try, Meta.
To be fair, needles at the time probably weren't as fine as they are these days, so you may still have a gap a millimeter across instead of a fraction of that.
That sounds awful.

Dryness is also an issue - we had a lot of people in the building who weren't keeping their units humid enough in winter end up with the planks warping significantly.

The other day my wife spilled, MAYBE 2-4oz of water MAX and took 1 minute to wipe it up.. next thing you know we had a plank warp a full half inch upwards. We had to place barbells on it for days while it dried out to remediate.

Oh and these idiotic faux wood plank floors are also what they put in the kitchen & laundry closet so water damage is basically guaranteed.
My pet peeve is code along the lines of:

if err != nil {
// handle errors
}

Or:

try {
// something that can fail
} catch (Exception e) {
// handle exceptions here
}

It's usually laziness from the author, but not stating _what types_ of error may occur and how should typically handle them is a plague on documentation and tutorials.
> Although I sincerely worry that empathizing with people like this is a trap

What exactly is "people like this"? I thought this was a very genuine account from a regular person who worked hard, made a ton of money from it, and now finds that the money didn't give him the satisfaction he expected. It's honest and, frankly, extremely unsurprising and straightforward.
It ain't, trust me. No one who promotes Libp2p ever knows how it works much like users of all of Protocol Labs products. The average "engineer" today rarely looks deeper than the title of the tech they use. They are just glorified plumbers plumbing together pipes filled with [redacted.]

You'll waste your time on Libp2p because it already works almost exactly like your own project. It uses a network of relays as a fallback. It does add in hole punching but no one at Protocol Labs understands how a NAT works. So it only works for a subset of NATs (full cone; restrict; specifically with source port preserving delta behaviours.)

Protocol Labs is filled with big egos and midwits. In 2025, I have zero time for bullshitters and I'm going to call them out for it.
But then why bother with any of this at all instead of building a perfect hash function like BoomPHF
Pie also removed its footer reference to being the team that made Honey and then deleted all of the team photos from the who are we page. They seem to understand cookies and affiliate links well but aren’t versed in the way back machine.

The ethical standards of everyone involved with Honey/Pie are deplorable and they should be outcast from the software industry.
This is pure capitalist brainworms.

And I say this as someone who's not even particularly anti-capitalist.
>We live in public housing, no luxuries.

>Gucci

Gucci is classified as an "aspirational luxury" brand. In other words, luxury for poor people. It makes total sense that it would be pushed to people in public housing. If you get recommendations for European brands you've never heard of selling $5000 t-shirts, then I'd be worried.
Feds Say the Technology They Use to Control the Weather Doesn't Work
> Finally, security bugs are in a class of their own. Giving out free junk is OK. Giving out free secret poison is not.

It is not if it was done maliciously. If the code you got for free contained some mistakes it's ultimately your responsibility - You didn't have to take that pill you got at the party.

Accepting donations could change this, but I would say it depends on how they are presented - "campaign donations" ala Joey Hess or "Hey thanks for the the party last night, here's $40 to cover some of the booze!"

Alternatively, I'm curious how you feel about companies offering you "free email, free search, free image hosting, free social media" etc, (actually, in exchange for all your behavioral data) ((actually, even if you never directly accept anything from us))?
Where exactly do you see the ego tripping? He's literally saying he'll offer his advice to people who may want it, with nothing expected in return.
as a keeper of their closely-guarded 400 year old alloy she doubled down, “The secret part will remain a secret.”

Nothing a little mass spectrometry won't reveal... and metallurgy has advanced a lot in 400 years.

It's interesting that in the first picture with the cymbal being cut on a lathe, there doesn't seem to be any precision measuring instruments visible. I suppose they've already simplified the process to preset stops and go/no-go gauges.
might just be bad timing. It is the day after the US holiday season.

May be by design too. 2 days ago, we got more formal reporting on how Russia may have been involved in manipulating elections. Again. But it was on New Years' Eve. (not that I expect that news to last long on HN).

If I wasn't so tired of all this falling on deaf ears, I'd chuckle at the irony.
Why would anybody own an asset with unresolved security budget issues?
All the rich kids these days seem to be in to a healthy diet, exercise, and stable relationships. Whatever happened to harems, drugs and gambling?
> Humans need activities that produce meaningful outcomes, they don't need careers or work.

Human needs purpose in life, does not matter whether it activities for meaningful outcomes, careers, work, family or God, it's in our very nature.

The blog post appeared to me of someone who have achieved mostly what they have aspired to become (rich and freedom from jobs) and at their top apex from their own perspective, however the main dilemma is that after achieving the goals still something important is missing i.e. purpose.
I'm tickled by the fact you can express your acceptable time zone range in a simple UTC offset.
Give your money to me. I'll put it to good use! Lol
> as my favorite joke says in the punch line “what do you call someone who only knows one language… uni-lingual… jk: American”

"Another thing to keep in mind, when you get to feeling bad about being monolingual, is that the fair question is not 'how many languages do you know?' It is, 'of the languages spoken by five million people or more within a thousand miles or so of where you live, what percentage do you know?'"

https://structuredprocrastination.com/light/biling.php
Ah, you're right. Hooray.

CA's net neutrality law was challenged in court and found to be lawful due to Mozilla Corp. v. FCC, and I knew that case hinged upon Brand X. At the time, Ajit Pai was trying to prevent states from making their own net neutrality laws.

Them striking down the state preemption was separate from the Brand X use, it turns out.

> In neither case [Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co and Arkansas Electric] was the source or existence of statutory authority for the agency to preempt state regulation at issue. Nor do those cases speak to a statutory scheme in which Congress expressly marked out a regulatory role for States that the federal agency has attempted to supplant. If Congress wanted Title I to vest the Commission with some form of Dormant-Commerce-Clause-like power to negate States’ statutory (and sovereign) authority just by washing its hands of its own regulatory authority, Congress could have said so

p140 https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/18-10...
Yep and you can come in and make a fully open and compliant competitor product, because your closed and uncompliant incombent is forced to charge a price which should give you enough margin to succeed.

I am admitting that yes closed beats open at money extraction/harvesting from customers, which is why you only ever see closed hardware. The whole idea is to kneecap business models which depend on handcuffing owners with digital locks. This is economic lawfare, I am not hiding that. We The People are not animals on a farm to harvest dollars from occasionally, as if they were milk and methane.
> The whole word means something like "Cymbalistson"

it means, literally, son of the cymbal maker
Sent you an email with the invite.
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In the accurate historical sense of the term, yes.

In the much more currently commonplace use of the term as "a bunch of resources that people can just use", no.