skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ran a business selling one-time digital purchases for years and have talked with many, many other people with similar businesses. We're basically unanimous on this: offer the guarantee, reap the marketing win, pull less hair out when dealing with very annoying customers. They have an attractive backstopping option if you don't offer the guarantee, which is calling up their bank and saying "Internet merchant didn't deliver as promised, give me the money back", which will get the refund anyhow and ding you on a fee (for processing the chargeback) and increment a counter at the payment processor that you very keenly do not want incremented above a certain number.

(Above comment in my personal capacity, not speaking as someone who is very professionally involved with that last clause.)
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins changed the way I see myself and the world in a big way. I don't necessarily see his approach as a pathway to AI (though I don't dismiss it), but I thought it had some easily understandable insight into how our minds work.

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries got me thinking about applying the scientific method to things I never thought of before.
As someone who has been on reddit for a long long time (10+ years). It's clear as daylight that the site is mostly comprised of teenagers and that is the dominating voice. As other mentioned there are still (plenty of)diamonds in the rough if you know where to look but the site lost its voice and the leadership their values. Since spez has returned the strategy has been to gradually move the goal posts to keep uproar at a minimum.

This was inevitable though. At some point the corporate overlords will want to cash out. Time for something new.
If the precipitation patterns stay the same (unlikely), this at least can be fixed with a few dams and proper water management.
Let's just take your first claim (I don't have all day). Hopefully that's enough to indicate that nothing that you're talking about is the obvious or natural result of basic economic logic, as you seem to think it is.

Point 1: Increase the local tax burden

Your response: "I don't think it's particularly contentious to say that a low-income person paying less in property tax means that a higher income person must pay more in tax to offer the same level of services".

This depends on the assumption that there is a zero-sum competition between rich and poor people. Every X number of poor people in a city, represents a subtraction of an equivalent number of rich people. Because rich people are presumably in a higher tax bracket, they pay more per person that do poor people. But there's no reason to think that there is a zero-sum competition between rich and poor people. That depends on complex empirical questions like the division of labour in the city, the availability of land and housing, if low-skill labour will attract businesses, and so on. And the fact that a poor person might not pay as much in taxes as a rich person does not make them a tax "burden" in any sensible use of that term - they may be net contributors.
The Red Queen. After reading it I was like "Oh, so that's why men and women are like they are"
I've found that most of the Einstein quotes I've seen online don't have a valid source, where did you find that one? Just as a heads up, since Walter Isaacson never mentioned anything similar to that on his biography of him.
Check out his sequel: https://www.ynharari.com/book/homo-deus/
You know that NNTP is a thing, right? It's not like the "chat-like threading" was Reddit's invention.
It's worrisome to me that a U.S. company helping the U.S. military is viewed as so controversial that it would cease to finish that work. I'm glad Amazon and Microsoft, among big tech cos, haven't caved in like Google has.

And yet Google has the gall to spend $5m on a Super Bowl ad touting how it helps veterans. Ridiculous.
Conveniently, I can just tack onto this list two more books and there we will have the 4 most important books on my life so far.

Sexual Personae By Camille Paglia

Capital: Volume I By Karl Marx
"The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal". Looking at humans as just another animal through the lens of a zoologist is eye opening
I actually hate Reddit these days. I've never really been into their various communities/subredits- and on occasion they're really useful spots of information or entertainment.

But...

Their current "force you into app" (which appears to leave you logged in, able to make account changes, even if you change your password) approach is fucking horrible. Their mobile navigation is broken by design and.... for what? What incentive do I have to sign up? Why should when its in such a hostile way. The incentive clearly is for them the organization to get new funding and not for me as a user since functionality has been reduced for NO reason. It's like Quora... that worked great for funding but has really done a lot to develop a mature business, eh?

... I'm gonna go pour out some coffee in memory of Digg.
The problem is that there have been alarmist articles like this posted for nearly a hundred years proclaiming gloom for days that are now in the past.
The app is even slower. It's amazing how bad their stuff is. I avoid Reddit on mobile altogether because of the terrible performance.
It remains amazing to me how Google, which has received a huge amount of media coverage for being an awesome place to work, can simultaneously draw a line in the sand and say "people who do certain tasks aren't Googlers, and will be treated with the minimum amount of consideration required by law".

I've seen it rationalized all kinds of ways like "engineers are high value and hard to recruit, so they need big salaries and perks, but an HVAC technician at a datacentre doesn't" but it all falls apart when you consider that nearly all white collar professionals at Google get generous salaries, benefits and bonuses, even those in saturated fields like law, marketing or HR and a trade worker at a datacentre actually is directly working on Google's business.
George Ritzer's "The McDonaldization of Society" -- Read it for an intro Sociology class.
reddit also injects unique tracking into every outbound URL click, allowing them to monitor individual user behavior and engagement (similar to Google Search results)
Roof rack with a hitch attachment lets a truck carry long boards.
(on the crypto note) is something like https://steemit.com/ what you are envisioning?

It does seem like we are stuck in a cycle where we are super into platforms until they become large and too beholden to investors, then we swap. Some kind of truly community driven (open source) federated service does seem like a real answer to this problem. Maybe we will all end up on Mastodon-like services pretty soon.
"Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error" by Kathryn Schulz. I especially loved the bit where she explained that if people see things differently, we 1) think they are uninformed. If we know they are informed, we think 2) they are stupid. If we know they aren't stupid, we decide 3) they are evil.

I also read another great book that talked about differences between conservative, liberal, and libertarian viewpoints, with a notion of different taste buds that are active when observing the world that was really interesting, but unfortunately, the name escapes me.
Is it really as common in the US as movies and shows would have us believe?

(The idea that we're still supposed to laugh at this like as though it's funny, rather than a tremendous travesty of justice, is pretty telling...)
Already have people telling me i’m not allowed to live in my 3000sqft house with my 2 vehicles in that tiny house thread.
Recently: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker, and The Elephant in the Brain (by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson), two books which share the quality of being bold and courageous in their claims, which go against huge parts of the "common discourse".
I see a huge difference between "not helping the military" and "not helping create autonomous weapons". And our drone program is hardly military, it's a mostly CIA-led project to assassinate people without due process in areas we are not at war.
And don’t forget tracking scripts too. Another huge reason.
One of the things that surprised me the most about Tokyo was the variety of “pretty good” cheap food. The “fast casual” equivalent was far better quality than whatever it would be in the US.
From another article linked in the comments:

> Compared to red meat and poultry, fish muscle is delicate. It needs all the structure it can get. So unlike red meat, where we like a little protein breakdown to enhance tenderness, anything that breaks down the structure of fish muscle is bad. Stress causes fish muscle tissue to break down.
I can answer this as an advertiser. Most reddit users don't log in or subscribe to subreddits, and thus reddit has a very small targetable userbase. Like, if I want to serve an ad to business owners, I can serve it to subscribers to /r/smallbusiness but that audience exhausts very quickly.

All of FB's users are logged in and can be targeted by interest.
they also hate TOR users

the captcha is not completable, and when it is, the next section says the captcha signature is invalid

but you can always circumvent that with a clearnet VPN, just need to isolate its use to just reddit, that session.
Good point.

If GG&S changed the way you think, I'd highly recommend following it up with either the book from that review (Eric Wolf's "Europe and the People without History") or Ian Morris's "Why The West Rules, For Now".
>Personally, I am waiting for HTTP/5, since the speed for new protocol versions seems to be set on "suddenly very fast".

Major versions look better on Googlers’ quarterly promotion case.
And they did not have the science and data to support them, now we do. Let's just hope we are being a bit too alarmist and it gets us to change our behaviour fast enough and not too late. We'd rather be wrong on this, you know.
But "somehow" it forgets my preference constantly and I have to 'opt-out of redesign' several times a day.

And, if you follow any links, it sends you straight back to the new version.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to go about monetizing an interactive course like this? And any comments on how successful it could be?
that's the idea!
No but TCP sends keep-alive packets or something in the kernel right? If you can't send anything by the timeout then the connections should drop?
"Walden; or, Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden downloadable in several formats here https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
the same way newspaper editors do - they apply a set of curated values - and people buy the set of values they think matches theirs most closely.

at least this way we are transparently surfacing the issues and there is ability for people to apply different curation criteria

Basically I would love to get the weekly report from the US national security advisor - that's basically what I think Inam trying to create.
Forensics is the only field of study I can think of where double blind studies aren’t routinely done.
"Das Kapital" by Karl Marx is still the most accurate analysis of the causes of economic crises. His labour theory of value gets to the root of what's going on behind the smokescreen of market forces presented as fact in western Economics courses.

"On The Road" by Jack Kerouac was a liberating, mind-expanding experience with no drugs involved. Kerouac's free-form style and open-ended approach to life made a great impression.

"Cosmic Loom" by Dennis Elwell debunked the narrow-minded, reductionist attitudes of scientists towards astrology and opened up my mind to the value of symbolism.
At least we can continue to use old.reddit.com for now on desktop. On mobile, I refuse to use their own app since it's hot garbage and stick to Apollo, which works pretty well so far.
Your reddit experience varies wildly based on which subreddits you subscribe to. If you don't have an account, you're likely seeing the unwashed masses.
Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/927/
Consider a few cases.

- you want to advertise B2B software to small/medium business owners.

- you want to advertise expensive fashion items to 20-35 y.o. women in NY/CT.

Will you pick FB or reddit? And then yes, lack of brand safety for non-targeted ads.
Every time I see someone mention tildes as an alternative to reddit I check it out to see if I can create an account yet. For [edit] almost a year now the answer has been "no."
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. I didn't say anything about doing it for recreational consumption.

I'm suggesting that if you can't afford a Ketamine clinic: a) Ketamine is generally unadulterated on the black market b) if it is adulterated you can often tell c) unless a professional is administering it, you probably want to snort it and finally d) snorting Ketamine should have roughly the same effects (anti-depressant or otherwise) as injecting it.
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
It has a strong character which put work above everything else in life, highly idealist one.
Wall Street firms get financial feeds from zacks, edgars, morningstar and a whole slew of other financial data providers. Finance sites, like yahoo finance also get their data from these sources. They don't have to scrape anything for data. It comes in structured CSV, XML, etc format already.

Also, journalists are supposed to provide the "facts", not analysis. They aren't financial experts so even if they provided analysis, I wouldn't put much stock in them.
Because there are some factors that are simply out of ones control that affect athletic ability. Should students also be graded on how much weight they can lift? How flexible they are? How far they can hit a softball? Is it fair to let that affect their GPA in districts such as mine where three years of PE (or a team sport) were a graduation requirement?

Back to the time constraint. Some teachers would FAIL students who were consistently unable to complete a mile in under 10 minutes. Effort was irrelevant. I wasn't a heavy kid, but routinely crossed the finish line bright red, gasping for breath, and light headed.

So yes, putting your student's future academic and career prospects in danger due to lower than "average" athletic ability is utter madness.
Doing Good Makes It Easier to Be Bad
The HackerNews community is more appreciative of these problems than Reddit's. But Reddit will suffer from the same problems that Facebook and Twitter suffer from, if not already. Reddit users are easily manipulated by engineered content and engineering content on Reddit is not hard if you know what you're doing. Evidently, there are power-users on Reddit (e.g. /u/GallowBoob) who know exactly how Reddit ticks and can get practically anything to the front page in front of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.

Reddit is huge -- I suspect they will be bigger than Facebook (maybe not in valuation, but usage) in the next 7 years and these problems will only be exacerbated. Facebook isn't what 12-13 year olds today are interested in. Reddit is a more apt model for online discourse and culture than Facebook ever was.
> An unstoppable tidal wave of poorly-targeted products

Good targeting = tracking.

I’m happy with poor targeting, thank you very much.
The UI is based on some open source repo by Reddit.
People are already building house components on an assembly line in a factory. By components, I mean entire rooms and sections of houses.

As in prefabs? Of course. But trailer/manufactured homes take it further. It's one single unit.

If "the VW Bug of" means a willingness of the manufacturer to modify the traditional chassis and body layout to better accomplish design goals, then GMC did build something along the lines of what you describe

Close, but again, no RVs. I'm looking at trailer homes, which at the moment all come kinda country and kinda kitsch. That's all you get. I think it would be incredible if there was something that was contemporary, reasonably cheap, and has personality. Like a VW bug.

EDIT: Forgot that double-wides are typically transported in two, so not one single unit, and they kind of are a trailer home. Yeah, nevermind then.
Tiny home = Small trailer in a trailer park... but marketed to the middle classes = Low-quality housing for those in poverty, marketed to the middle classes = sign of people believing in very poor prospects for the middle classes.
Replay, by Ken Grimwood. It made me look at my life and think about how I'd replay it if I could. It's about as introspective as I ever get.
WebSockets Now Available in App Engine Flex for Google Cloud
Hanabi Learning Environment
/r/the_donald should have been closed a long time ago, due to their users and their mods breaking the rules (hate speech encouragement, mainly) that the rest of subreddits have to respect. Reddit has a dark incentive to keep it open, because it's a very popular community that helps Reddit make money, via ads and Reddit Gold.
There are parts of framing that are safer and easier with 2 people, but there are a few places that I used a block and tackle to haul stuff around by myself. The only days that I really needed extra hands was setting up the posts & beams (most buildings now don't have these but I liked the idea), and setting the roof ridge beam, a 27' long pair of 2x8s that needed to be put 25' off the ground and 15' above the floor decking before any of the supporting structure was in place. Sheathing the roof would be smarter to do with 2 people but I didn't.
"Dumbing us Down" by John Taylor Gatto. The author is a decades-long schoolteacher. Throughout this book, I got to know the history of compulsory government-provided schooling as we know it and began to question whether such a system is even necessary.
The social media cycle. Get popular by being good, get bad by monetizing, lose enough valuation to be bought by the next big social media trend.
Trusted Xenix 4.0 Evaluation Report (1994) [PostScript]
Reddit seems to have a huge but very fragile audience. Monetizing the site would introduce changes that might drive off the users much the way Digg did.
Flip the Script: Drugmakers Blame Middlemen for Price Hikes
How much fossil energy are you using with this setup? That is the only relevant question for this topic.
230 * 100000 / 12 == 1,916,667

They're not making 100K / month. So how is 10M / month not slightly crazy? I realize we're not talking anything but staff here, but 8M / month in sales/marketing/office space/infrastructure? Maybe my notion of what it costs to run a site as large as reddit is just way off.
So by designing our own custom power conversion components we could reach 100 000 hours ?
I've noticed this as well. Really annoying. Or any website that immediately pops up a "sign up for our email list!" and blocks you from seeing the content.

Isn't there a ton of data that most people don't even use many apps anymore? Or they install them once and then uninstall them or ignore them?

I hope we can move towards a web that stays in the web browser. Apps are becoming really annoying, especially for interactions you only have intermittently (I'm not a daily reddit user, but I go there every now and then, or it pops up on search).
RAW's Cosmic Trigger and Prometheus Rising for me: I read both when I was 13 and was a recently-converted Southern Baptist. I quickly shifted my entire understanding of epistemology and the nature of reality.
The Lessons of History written in 1968 by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. They distill a lifetime of research into a small 100 page book. The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights into the nature of human experience, the evolution of civilization, the culture of man.
I highly recommend Jean Case's book "Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose." It's packed with some incredible stories (some you'll know of, others will be new to you) about people overcoming their fears to create change. (Full disclosure: I work for Jean so this is somewhat of a shameless plug, but I promise the book is amazing!) https://readbefearless.com/
encryption is configured per conversation. if you try to participate in an encrypted conversation on a client which doesn't support encryption, you simply won't see the messages.
There's always Carlo[1] as an alternative.

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
This might help: http://www.cookingissues.com/index.html%3Fp=5661.html (shared elsewhere in the comments here).
I'm sure amazon does provide value to it's customers, but it was at the expense of consuming and destroying local small business economies where the profit would have stayed and been spent there, not in Seattle, not on exotic mansions and watercraft, not on the latest Echo endeavor that may or may not ever come to fruition. Just as Nestle bottles water from local aquifers and sells that water elsewhere outside of that watershed, eventually depleting the aquifer, Amazon takes local wages away from the economy and either sits on this pile of cash or on lavish compensation for the few at the top of the company.
Highly Collimated Jet Spotted from the Red Square Nebula
Gene-Editing Scientist's 'Actions Are a Product of Modern China'
Yeah, it's based on the old open source reddit.
The psychology of computer programming.

I recently read that one and it made me see my profession as a software engineer in a new light.

At work, I catch myself using possessive pronouns about code a lot for example. It really shone a nice light on the human element and how we reason and think about code and programming.

Really recommend reading that one!
It depends on the subreddit.

If you only browse /r/all then yeah it's very likely you will be in a room full of teenagers.

Go to /r/askhistorians to be in a room with academics that take themselves very seriously.
Good points, but the fragment

> just want the order maintained within those conceptual streams and not the whole TCP connection, but routers don't know that.

seems to imply that routers inspect TCP streams and maintain order. I'm not aware of any routers that actually do anything like this, and things need to keep working just fine if different packets in the stream take different paths. Certainly in theory, IP routers don't have do inspect packets any deeper than the IP headers, if they're not doing NAT / filtering / shaping. The protocols are designed to strictly minimize the minimum amount of state kept in the routers.

As far as I'm aware, only the kernel (or userspace) TCP stack makes much effort at all to maintain packet order (other than routers generally using FIFOs).
On the American Football Game
Veneers are awesome looking but when I investigated them for myself, I found two "gotchas." First, they have to grind down your real teeth to tiny cone-shaped stubs in order to apply them. You can never get your real teeth back.

Second, they don't last forever. This article says 10 years. That means replacing your fake teeth several times for someone with an average lifespan, or giving up and going to dentures which make you look really horrible when you take them out.
Unbelievable. I cannot get over the absurd failure in having one person, only one person, keep the keys to the whole kingdom... I am sorry for everyone with BTC in this exchange. This sucks royally!
> And they did not have the science and data to support them, now we do.

We know more than we knew then. We don't (and can't) know the outcome with current climate science. It's currently impossible for us to model the complex system that is Earth's climate with ranges into the decades. We can't even model weather a month out. Claiming climate science is settled is incredibly disingenuous and it bothers me that more scientists don't step up and say "hey here's what we think might happen but it's impossible to say for sure".

> We'd rather be wrong on this, you know.

Oh I definitely believe you on that, it's just that taking away rights from people to accomplish climate goals is not a zero-sum game and it needs to be treated with care and caution, not alarmism.