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Normal price is a technical term I assume. Is it just a historical price, or is it knowable without market based price discovery?

It's more that definitions are made with an assumption of normal market conditions but what's happened in the DRAM market is extreme. Production of conventional DRAM package types has evaporated, while the demand is unchanged or increasing, because of new demand for HBM which is even more profitable.

So some common sense is required: yes under normal circumstances selling below the market price is dumping, but when the market price looks like a vertical line because of a sudden shock then you can't really take the market price too seriously. Mostly the price of DRAM is not set on the open market but is negotiated via contracts between the major players so there isn't really one price of DRAM at the moment. If you're a big customer like Apple you can get a price that is completely different from what you or I can get fighting for scraps on eBay.


I wonder how you think about trusting oj-hn as a vendor? The extension looks great.

I sympathize with the desire to release programs/code anonymously or semi-anonymously on the internet. I noticed you don't particularly tie the extension to any identity (unless I'm missing something).

Maybe extensions are more constrained than I realize. Specifically it looks like the manifest has "host_permissions: ['https://squeeze.oj-hn.com/*']," and then presumably the only leakable thing is private contact email or votes. Maybe the chrome api content of the tabs/history permissions also (seems silly for chrome not to scope that to the startUrls though?) Not 100% sure I'm understanding correctly though.


you're not wrong which is why i try to be transparent about it all on the homepage. good suggestion, i'll blurb myself, but i'm not looking for fame so i left that off. i just want the extension to speak for itself.

it is all open source and built by CI, including squeeze, which is just a few lines of a CF worker.

https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/

i'm also not anon and i have 16k karma here along with decades of history building open source that you're probably using on a daily basis without even knowing it (co-founder of java @ apache).

i also don't need money, so i won't ever sell this project to the highest bidder and i don't have plans or need to monetize it either. maybe add some ai features in the future that require you to put in your own api token. GPLv3 too, to prevent corporate takeover.

right now, it is just a ground up feature re-implementation of another popular HN extension that the author abandoned. i've done it with over 650 unit tests too, so it shouldn't be too buggy and stand the test of time.

up to you though. i use it daily. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


ya, thank you, I recognize the history! The extension just seemed isolated from another identity. So I was wondering the thinking. I wish chrome let you scope the manifest/permissions on the user side more.

i've done my best to keep it as minimal as possible. i wish i didn't even need squeeze, but there was some block that required it and it was easier to just do it as a few lines of code. i figured as long as it is all built by CI, GPL and OSS, I'll get a pass. it is the best we can do today.

try it out, let me know what you think. i promise not to hack your hackernews.


one other thing. the best thing you can do is just run it in a separate profile than the rest of your browsing. i don't do that myself, but it would be slightly more secure that way.

Separate profiles is perfect. Not sure why I haven't been doing this. The keyboard shortcuts are wonderful and enter to open the article is so optimistic! Thank you for dragging me across the finish line. Your extension is glorious.

Edit: I liked the j and noticed it even worked elsewhere (bestcomments is when I ran into it)! None of this is requests, just reflections. Still warming up to the keyboard navigating collapsed comments behavior. Also I think I remember the original HNMarkAllRead 'hide stories' checkbox hid stories after visiting comments. (And there was a hide comments checkbox that when marked only revealed new comments since the last visit) There are lots of workflow permutations to hn!


'j' to the end of the page to go to the next page is awesome. took a bunch of ai tweaking to get all that right.

i actually did this whole multi-layered object model to wrap around the dom to enable pagination more easily. took about 2 days of coding to figure that out. doing it that way made it so that you can even refresh the page and it will 'remember' where active article is. none of the other extensions are this well thought out.


oh and left arrow to open the comments is debatable, but i kind of like it. my reading pattern is to open a bunch of tabs... right/enter to open the story and then left to open the comments... then when i have time, i go through all the 'interesting' stories.

what i'd like to do is add kind of a bookmark and tag system so that you can store what you want to read later and be able to tag it so that you can search for it. favorites is close, but it doesn't quite cover the same use cases.


I started a golang TUI last summer with Codex Web/Cloud because it felt more like a closed loop. It was able to manage pretty well end to end.

Every additional complexity hop probably increases the attrition rate for successful development, so TUIs end up the most frequent bean to bar currently possible for hobbyists.

I really wanted an iOS app. I considered a web app, or a localhost app. Each additional hurdle (containers, packages, builds, testing, running, OSes, browser integration, computer use) feels like upping the required power of the models.


Wow cool. I have not heard of Mondo 2000 reading hn for almost 20 years. And did not realize Boing Boing was so old. Makes me wonder what else existed.

My family had a bunch of "Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia"[0] and similar things (BYTE, COMPUTE!). (Which seem slightly dryer, but maybe more like Paged Out.)

[0]:https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01/mode/2up


There was a small network of AI-intellectualism (and rationality) that grew highly relevant when AI took off post chatgpt. It feels adjacent to Tyler Cowen's network + tpot + hn/lesswrong. (I can't remember if Tyler specifically gave him a fast grant, but his first few interviews were GMU-centric.)

I personally liked that he stayed away from navel-gazing in politics when the blogosphere/podcasts went pretty heavy into that.

It did very well on twitter with a large number of high-follower-count tech people, and soon to be high-follower-count (basically AI employees). He had followed the zeitgeists general wisdom well (bat signal, work in public, you-can-just-do-things, move-to-the-arena, You-Are-the-Average-of-the-Five-People-You-Spend-the-Most-Time-With, high-horsepower). And he's just executed very well. Other people have interviewed similar people and generally gotten lower signal content. This moxie marlinspike interview is great though - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRi7mAGp7I .


Soranews24 is one of the best websites on the internet! So weird and looks like spam but it's not. This Dododo Land is so weird. Seems like Meow Wolf or Museum of Ice Cream but featuring little things that bother people instead of creative fiction or photo ops.

fta: "'dododo' is the kanji character for 'anger' (怒) written three times in a row".

Do other countries have websites like this covering them?


Is this another one of those weird bot posts I've been hearing about? 3 paragraphs, low-content but apparently interesting, ~50 points new account?

@dang what's HN's position here, I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site. It's a giga-eternal September, and idk how one can moderate this in a way that earns trust and buyin from the humans among us (I swear I'm a human, look no third paragraph).


Definitely not a bot or ai touched at all or ESL. And reading the comment as I wrote it, it definitely read oddly to me too! Maybe I’ve accidentally created a mini dododo land here with the comment..

I take a little offense to the low content. Maybe low effort, but I feel like the references were worthwhile and for a reply-less post (at the time) I thought soranews24 deserved more attention. It is a very weird and good site to me. And I guess I wanted to address the content of the article at least a little with my comment. I read dododo as the bird.

I appreciate the comment saying Meow Wolf is a cash grab. I kinda agree but I’m glad it exists. And the cracked citation, I agree it’s a kindred spirit. (What’s the deal with 3rd paragraphs?)


I didn’t think it was a bot, but I think a good rule is when in doubt, just move along. There are times when it’s necessary to verify the authenticity of the things you read, but this is not one of them. Certainly nothing worth getting paranoid about.

> I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site.

That’s a you problem.

You can either tell or you can’t. I don’t know what to say other than some people have this way of thinking intrinsic and some do not. I’m not sure it can be trained. The moderators of HN do appear to have it, Dan certainly does: I’ve had a few direct interactions with him. Tom I don’t know, never interacted with them.


Insightful comment!

But -- It's not a me problem, it's an us problem.

Let's be honest here, the erosion of trust spans across this and other sides. And your strong beliefs that you have 100% predicitve precision and recall smacks of self serving reasoning. Inspect your own priors and move forward, fellow human.


errr, is dang's name Dan? That makes... so much sense.

I don't know what you saw but the post you're replying to seems pretty human to me.

But then i see a comment below saying that the post was edited multiple times, so I'm late to the party.


Of course anything is possible, but I don't think bots typically edit their comments multiple times.

I don't think SoraNews24/RocketNews24 isn't that interesting in itself, but I'd be interested to know how these are popular as a phenomenon - there have been tons of these small shop couchsurfing news blogs on Japanese WWW since mid-2000s. It was obviously trivial to find a few college kids that could Google random stuffs and write up blogs that collect enough AdSense revenues, in Japan and in online ja-JP sphere.

Is it another one of those 7-11 sandwiches, or do there exist like, the webring and jump cushions and individual blogs and hosting colocations and all that infrastructure for each of all major languages? I suspect Chinese WWW might have some, but what about e.g. Indonesia, major Western European languages, LATAM as a region, or, most importantly, en-US?


I hear about meow wolf all the time and I seem to be the only person in the world who thought it was an underwhelming cash grab that is beaten by a half dozen events a year in nearly every major city in the US. Am I just missing some huge piece of it?

I quite enjoyed their Omega Mart in Vegas. Was there for work and gambling, shows, and gun ranges are really not my thing, glad there was something different. (I did wander round the strip but enjoyed the hike in Red Rock Canyon more)

When we went we got the priority tickets (can't remember the exact name of the deal) because there were no normal slots left that day; that does get you discounts on stuff but awkwardly the discount is at the gift shop _outside_ and it wasn't clear whether there were things at the fake supermarket checkout _inside_ that you couldn't get outside. It also gets you the card you boop for the scavenger hunt which makes you more involved in the whole thing. So yeah, they got us for some extra cash but it wasn't so bad as a one-off.


Which one did you go to?

The one in Las Vegas.

Not a perfect match but I instantly thought of ianVisits for London stuff. It's a similar vibe to this but is mostly transport-related: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/

Thank you! I think this fits the bill. I'll check back in on it periodically now. I love the double decker bus sale notification and the moquette doormats. It feels like it's straddling the content farm/blog well.

BrandoElFollito's legorafi.fr reference seems more pop-culture content farm-y some how? Maybe if I read french I could articulate/notice the ways it's not better. The two headlines sound like The Onion though, 328 steps to improve attention is pretty funny.

Edit: Ha. I went back to IanVisits and saw "Derelict shops in Aldgate to be redeveloped as horse stables for the police" and reference to "Boundary Dragons". I think this site gives me the same joy SoraNews24 does.


We have legorafi.fr in France which is a reference. To the point that some foreign papers quoted it :)

Some articles:

- resolve your attention problems in 328 steps

- according to studies, humans use only 10% of their smartphone

There are others that are very good but to close to France to be understandable abroad


My other hangout is cracked.com. Another corner with really niche and weird content.

They say elsewhere that it’s part of a series of reveals.

The ev powertrain last October, this, and the exterior in May.


Note that the exact date in May has not yet been announced, but there is a hint: in all the videos and screenshots of displays the date and time is shown as "Mon 25 10:10".

Now when Ive was still at Apple, the first screenshots of iPhone showed a time of 9:42 because that was the time they expected when the device was first shown. And that time was placed in all the official PR images well in advance.

Extracting from that, a Monday the 25th could be the time we'll first see the full car. Going through all 25ths of each month this year, May is indeed the only month where it falls on a Monday, so it's probably the 25th of May.


I asked for this last week in an hn comment and people were pretty negative about it in the replies.

But I’m happy with position and will cancel my ChatGPT and push my family towards Claude for most things. This taste effect is what I think pushes apple devices into households. Power users making endorsements.

And I think that excess margin is enough to get past lowered ad revenue opportunity.


I think I used to believe something like this. But I spent two decades living in this context and changed my mind.

There can be beautiful and effective expressions of culture and resistance that don’t tear down the commons people are trying to build together. And it’s hard to ask people to take care of the commons when other people aren’t. Instead we cede management of shared space to private enterprise (malls and gyms and retail as entertainment because your parks are torn up).


Yes, I thought OP was going that direction from the title. I keep reading posts hoping someone has found the solution but there's always a tradeoff.

I think it's important enough that maybe apple will announce something at WWDC. The AIs need better isolation primitives. Running software from un-trusted sources needs easier and more flexible isolation guarantees. Automated builds need lighter weight virtualization options. A dockerfile that you can specify includes xcode-tools, the accessibility APIs. Volume mounting. Network controls. etc.

https://github.com/dockur/macos is a little too clunky? Tart VM or manually doing apple's container CLI is maybe most of the way there, but images are huge.


I'm working on a Docker-like software for macOS Guests on macOS Hosts. Prototype's done.

No, Dockur is ancient for Intel macOS which is almost useless in today's development as some dev tools are only available for Apple Silicon macOS which cannot be virtualized that way.


Anywhere I can watch for its release?


Unfortunately, no public visibility yet.

And I have no idea what would be a good place to announce it besides HN


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