skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very interested in Pijul! Patch-based version control always seemed like a much more intuitive paradigm to me. That said:

From reading these comments, I would say that perhaps the number one priority for the project is an education/PR push. The best way to draw in more users (and thus more developers!) would be to have your very own Steve Klabnik. Someone to produce not just reference documentation or a manual, but a good, long(!) and detailed introduction with the tone of a blog post. The "why Pijul" section of the manual is a very good start, and the blog posts I've seen (particularly Joe Neeman's) are very fantastic, but it needs to all be tied together in a single section on the pijul.com site and expanded upon.

Those docs should include a good description of what Pijul solves that git doesn't. That is to say, basically anything along the lines of "git has a hard time with _______. Will pijul be a silver bullet for that?". (Examples for _______: monorepos, rewriting history, completely purging some file or commit from history). It's unfortunate, but a lot of developers seem to look for what's "best". You see this with new programmers a lot. Any programming forum will have fresh faces asking "I want to learn how to program please tell me what's the best programming language". I've found the JavaScript community in particular is quite keen to chase the new shiny that everyone likes. It's part of why Rust obtained huge momentum so quickly. If there's a really good description of where Pijul beats the competition, it helps with these sorts of people.

And finally, those docs (even the bits about Pijul vs. git) need to be written with the assumption that the reader has little or no understanding of version control or git. The docs may have to link to some 'git in 30 minutes' blog post elsewhere on the internet, if necessary. Writing in that style will not only draw in the new users who will help show where Pijul and it's documentation are confusing, but it will ensure that even those with lots of experience with git but little understanding of it will be able to appreciate Pijul's design.

This is by no means meant to be a put-down on the project or the way it's been handled so far. There's a lot of negativity in the comments here, but I'm certainly not one to be negative about the project. :)
>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?

That doesn't mean the app can't exfiltrate data (presumably data useful to advertisers) in the background.
Sure, you don't want to design a system that lays benefits on so thick that it creates a strong disincentive to work. But any worthwhile safety net is going to have some level of abuse, which is a tradeoff that has to be managed with rules/enforcement/management. On the flip side, any system that allows unfettered capitalism will be abused by the unethical. So you create a system of regulations to ensure a fair market, while knowing that some people/companies are going to find ways to abuse the system anyway.

The point of the safety net in my opinion is to ensure equality of opportunity, not equality of ends. So you want to strive to ensure that children have an opportunity to learn and become productive members of society, in spite of the circumstances of their parents. You want to make sure that people who experience bad luck such as unplanned illness, economic downturns, natural disasters, etc. are not left totally destitute.
Ayn Rand is reasonably good at diagnosing certain problems, but for her solutions, its hard to tell the poison from the cure.

Also, she has no sense of "Standing on the shoulders of giants", and how an eco systems make some things easier and harder.
Also, for those curious, the name is because the common explanation/metaphor is of a gambler at a row of slot machines which are sometimes referred to as "one-armed bandits".
7 Predictions for artificial intelligence in 2019
They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well. I used to occasionally visit /r/watchpeopledie as a reminder of my own mortality and some of the horrors of the world, but apparently NSFW wasn't enough for people visiting "watchpeopledie" to realize they might see something bad. So they "quarantined" it, which actually means totally breaking it, in my browser at least. RIP.

Discussion by others here [0] "I'm a senior mod at /r/watchpeopledie, and we can all see through Reddit's bullshit and hypocrisy" and here [1] "Just a few thoughts on the hypocrisy of Reddit's quarantine"

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditcancer/comments/9js8gf/im_...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie/comments/9js9j4/just...
Read that one a few months ago. Definitely recommended.
The Goal (by Eliyahu) - changed the way I thought about business operations and about how efficiency can be detrimental to throughput
Curious: how do you imagine people using this?
What can we expect to gain from these books? What did you get from them?
>The difference is when the teachers suck and students do poorly, the school doesn't go out of business, they just reduce the budget and it gets worse.

This is true, but it's become a partisan issue, at least in the U.S, to talk about testing teachers in some way.

I believe a huge problem is finding a way to differentiate a good teacher from a bad teacher if you're not allowed to look at grades/some kind of standardized test. If you can take those into account, as long as a teacher comes into work on time I'm not sure how you could differentiate the good from bad.

An example I like to use is my AP Calc teacher from highschool, who had an average score of 4.7 for her students on the AP test. The average in 2012 was a 2.9 (the year I took it, it seems to be higher now, I can't say to as if they made it easier or if people got better though) [1]. In many school systems though, if your teacher has an average score below the national average, you can't do anything about it.

[1] https://www.totalregistration.net/AP-Exam-Registration-Servi...
I wish the didn't use Sucralose in their protein bars; or even stevia, it's like a bad aftertaste on top of a bad aftertaste.
Because it wouldn't pass.
This always throws me off, too.

I've definitely heard horror stories about UPTO meaning "no time off", especially in crunch-happy industries where requests are simply denied. But people criticizing UPTO seem to describe it as an all around bad deal compared to allotted PTO.

Meanwhile, I mostly see companies (even successful, generous-benefits ones) offering extremely restrictive PTO. "Two weeks PTO for all uses, and you gain one extra day every few years" isn't an appealing offer in the slightest. I've definitely watched friends with graduate degrees and many years at one company try to decide whether to work sick or give up pay.

That doesn't make UPTO a reliable offering, but I'm not convinced that it's worse on average than the levels of set PTO on offer in the US.
Building habit, not pageviews, matters most for keeping subscribers
not only UX. programmers can actually learn a lot about building software if they see the meta in the book (replace door w/ interface. think about the mental model your library user is going to build for your library. make things easy to use when the correct pattern is employed and impossible if improperly done. minimize cognitive load) the book is brilliant
The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker. A mammoth book but this is because it covers so much. Everyone time I put it down I was left with something to reflect on human nature and how far we've come!
Great quote, Watts is truly inspirational. What a happy surprise when Ctrl+F takes you right to the first comment ;)

If anyone doesn't have the time or attention span to commit to a full-blown book, The Joyous Cosmology [0] and Become What You Are [1] present some of Watt's ideas in a more condensed format. The former is a ~30 page essay freely available online. The latter is a collection of ~15 very short essays (1-12pg each) - a perfect replacement for smartphone scrolling when confronted with 5-10 minutes of free time.

https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content...

https://www.amazon.com/Become-What-You-Alan-Watts/dp/1570629...
Show HN: Nanonote, a minimalist note taking application
Also the ‘Open Reddit App’ button at the bottom of the screen. Blocks content, can’t remove for the session, and a close button that is purposefully small in order to make it difficult to click. Enraging.
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When you mentioned Alan Watts and his quote, I thought I'd share a small animated clip that presented that quote well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoTmNU_5A0
If people choose to purchase through Amazon, it's generally because they provide a better experience (i.e. more value per dollar spent) than their competitors.

Sitting on cash is expensive, due to inflation and taxes. It's generally better to re-invest. People are generally compensated as a function of the value they add to the company. If someone else can do a better job for less money, it would be in the board's best interests to hire them.

I do agree, though, that unwise expenditure of resources (mansions and watercraft, et all) should be criticized, though not high net-worth per-say. The problem, though, is that the common man is also guilty of unwise expenditure of resources. E.g. taking a vacation instead of providing life saving vaccines.
Well, that was kind of my point I should have expanded on. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, et al have a -lot- of interesting tech behind them. From "creepy" suggestion algorithms, calls/video calls, face filters for pics and videos...the list goes on and on. Sure another company could do it, but it's got a higher barrier to entry. Reddit has nothing interesting or proprietary. An unreliable clone would probably take a single person all of a day or two.
Why Nations Fail really helped give me deep intuitions around politics. It taught me that political stability is immensely hard to achieve and very rare. I've since come to see every situation as a political situation. This helps me reason about my environment much more clearly.
In 1989:

> As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations ...

In 2018 [1]:

> If the rate of ocean rise continues to change at this pace, sea level will rise 26 inches (65 centimeters) by 2100 — enough to cause significant problems for coastal cities ...

So this is an example of mankind having a pretty reasonable estimate of impending disasters back in freaking 1989, and doing nothing, and thirty years later still blaming scientists because the predicted disaster, unfolding as we see now, did not yet hit (some of) us personally... right?

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2680/new-study-finds-sea-level...
How to Make Python Wait
It really is underappreciated how much 4chan has shaped Internet, and now mainstream, culture.
"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Not an easy read, but it deeply changed the way I think about incentive structures and the law of unintended consequences. It's a tough pill to swallow for people (like myself) who cling to utopian ideas, but the older I get the more I realize we must live in the world as it exists, with human nature as it really is. Dreaming of a better world is counter-productive if one does not engage with reality. We can build a better world, but only by being honest about the current state of things.
I'm actually quite amazed at this. I thought Reddit had gone the way of Digg some time ago. Isn't it mostly manufactured content these days? I certainly remember it had that feel about it at certain times in the past when they were trying to paper over a mass exodus.
Wow, that's pretty bad. I'm sure a lot of companies were affected. No ETA on a fix is really scary.

We currently use Law Ruler to send out our emails and have had no issues in the last 2 years.

If anyone needs a new solution fast I would reach out to their support ( form on website ).
I've used Reddit since day 1.

The new website is a usability disaster, and one that they don't mind shoving down your throat at every turn.

Moderators are increasingly beating anyone who isn't politically correct enough over the head with their moronic code of conduct and banning users for simply disagreeing.

Most of the people who still hang around are very negative individuals who seem to be there more to project their hatred in general than to learn and/or share. Oppose their abuse and they'll invariable mob up on you and make sure your posts never see the light of day.

If I was Aaron Swartz, bless him; I would be turning in my grave by now.
Looking at some of my current favorite subreddits (usbchardware, manybaggers) there are interesting avenues of monetization -- group buys, affiliates etc. Reddit is not doing any of this.
Also, when they created comments and manipulated their timestamps to make it seem like they were created far earlier than they actually were, for advertising purposes.
What did you get from reading this book?
Domain knowledge and scientific acumen. Working as an engineer in a non-tech company won't pay as much, but ageism is much less of an issue, particularly in academia.
Writing On Water by Mooji
Engineers harvest heart's energy to power life-saving devices
This piqued my interest.

At least according to this site [0] (which references a 2013 report [1]) for instance, to be in the 1% in New York state you have to be making at least $517,557. However, the average annual income of those in the 1% is $2,006,632.

In Mississippi, though, you only have to be making $264,952 to be in the 1% and the average annual income of the 1% in MS is $565,813.

Of course, you have to consider cost of living and what not, but 1% is definitely not the same everywhere.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to...

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-in-the-us/...
The problem is that the effect sizes for most anti-depressants is quite small and the role of pharmaceutical companies in advancing their use has been quite a bit larger. The difference between psychotherapy and medication and psychotherapy alone is small.

I would also point out that dialysis, chemotherapy, etc are also quite expensive, time consuming, and difficult to scale. We still consider them valid, life-saving treatments.
>Frankly, Democrats are being pulled to the left by the progressives and Republicans went hard right years ago with the tea party

The democrats have moved further left than republicans have moved right since 1994/2000:
http://www.people-press.org/interactives/political-polarizat...

What's interesting is that most democrats want a more moderate party and most republicans want a more right/conservative party:
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/01/gallup-poll-...

Interestingly, the GOP probably contains the conservative and right wing impulses of the base. And it certainly feels that way, among my friends, we hate that illegal aliens are entitled to health care at ERs. I want to see their countries billed for the care / or I want to see the illegals dumped at the embassy rather than hooked up to medicine. I'm certainly not going to get my wish granted by the GOP. However, should the party fail, there's a chance I could get the representation I want.
Percent foreign born isn’t really a good metric of the level of racial, ethnic, and religious diversity.
I would not be surprised. Reddit is easily my most visited internet community and go-to for many niche matters as well.

I use it through 3rd party apps or my PC, so have mostly avoided their dark patterns.

I love HN, but the limited scope of the discussions here (for obvious and good reasons) makes it far less frequented than reddit.

Reddit is like a slightly worse HN for everything else apart from CS/Tech.

I also love how everyone I meet in the US seems to feign ignorance about Reddit, despite it being the Alexa #5 website here (behind Google,Amazon,FB and YT)
It is almost as if people don't want to be called a redditor despite using the website a lot.

It is also the site with the 2nd greatest daily time per visitor (behind only salesforce), above YT, Facebook, Twitter or ...... pornhub ....
Im down there with you and want to take a peek upstairs. Im tired of being stuck in 1985. You've banged one bit, you've banged a billion.
“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Taleb. It is hard to compress it into a short summary, but it can be something like “be very aware about unknown unknowns”.
Wouldn't this be used in the same way as with any other language? I.e. customer only knows english sign language, but I don't, luckily my cash-register has a camera that can translate sign language to my language?
Institutional Knowledge: When employees leave, what do we lose? (2013)
Please do go on, you seem to have similar taste to mine (Why We Sleep and Design of Everyday Things) so I'd love to know which other books make it into your top 10 or whatever.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/kenyan-engineer-creates-high...
i.reddit.com bypasses all this
Signing up for an account is cool. But we are talking about installing the app.
They're more effective on a non-technical user-base where a larger fraction of users are unaware or less aware of those techniques.
Behind the Big Promises of the Micromobility Industry
'The Toyota Way' is the suggestion I give to anyone that asks me.
I think it'll be interesting to see if reddit can survive when they inevitably shut down third party apps.

If you don't think this is something they might do, just hop on over to their mobile site real quick. It's full of banner ads and misleading layouts (clicking the image in a image post takes you to a download the app page, you have to click the tiny link below it).
Ishmael (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)) - it changed how I view the planet from a species-centric perspective to one focused on maximizing the potential for sustainable life for all creatures
Sorry, but I think rather than clearing things up, your post causes more confusion. First of all, you're not giving a quick primer on the multi-armed bandit problem, but an attempt at describing of one specific algorithm for it. That distinction is important, because there are several algorithms with different trade-offs, hence the linked post. Second, your description isn't very coherent: probabilities have to add up to 1, and the probability to pick a machine in step two can't simultaneously be both 0% and 50%.

FWIW, the article already contains a very accessible description of what the problem is about: "Imagine you are in a casino facing multiple slot machines and each is configured with an unknown probability of how likely you can get a reward at one play. The question is: What is the best strategy to achieve highest long-term rewards?"
The approach that will continue to work for start-ups (both from Europe, eg Sweden is good at this, and the US), is to build out your service in the US first, monetize it there, and then push into the EU once you can afford compliance. This is already the ideal approach, anything the EU does to make regulation worse will merely increase the advantage of using the US as the springboard market. There's absolutely nothing stopping EU start-ups from first focusing on capturing the US market and then turning their focus back to the EU.

There's another approach that is less legally certain. Build up users in both the US and EU, and only monetize the US users while entirely ignoring all EU law. You allow EU citizens to sign up, and do not place any infrastructure in the EU or do any business there initially. Jurisdiction will be in the US. The monetized US users, which will remain lucrative, subsidize building out into the EU member state markets without any revenue generation. You capture the EU userbase in this approach, then later comply with EU law and monetize that userbase after you're compliant. Would work best for ad platform businesses like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc.

If I'm operating a service in eg Brazil, I have zero obligation to comply with EU law (depending on treaties of course), nor do I have any responsibility to block EU citizens from signing up for my service. Let the EU users come in, comply with EU law later when you have to in order to monetize the market. Retro fines are one potential concern at scale, however that ends up being the equivalent of a speeding ticket and you own the market.

One of the mistakes that keeps being made by EU tech promoters, is thinking that they should be concerned with competing with the existing US mega platforms (such that the EU needs to build a search engine to rival Google, photo platform to rival Instagram, mobile platforms to rival iOS or Android, etc). That battle was over a decade ago or more in some cases. The focus has to be on the next inflection point opening that allows for a creation of the next mega platforms. With platforms and the Internet, if you don't capture the US market first, the winner in that market will almost always smash you (or buy you) unless you bar access to your market as in the case of China. That's due to the enormous monetary value of capturing the US market (and you pretty much get Canada with it automatically, a $1.7 trillion economy), it acts as a perpetual well of resources to over-spend on then divide and conquering other markets like the EU.
TBH, Proverbs by Solomon (A Jewish King). It speaks about being a human & the repetitive behavioral patterns of humans, regardless of whatever century they were born in.
Seneca - Letters from a stoic;
Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf , Siddhartha and The glass bead game (Magister Ludi)
Most of the content on reddit's frontpage in 2016 was anti-trump just like it is today. Reddit changed its algorithm because reddit admins supported hillary. The donald subreddit is no different from politics. The only difference is that one has the support of reddit and the other does not. And even bigger difference is that reddit admins allow reddit's power users to spam anti-trump propaganda from multiple subreddits.

The idea that reddit helped Trump is absurd. Pretty much every social media company was anti-trump and many, like google, actively worked against trump.
>I’m a proud athiest

Might we say you are a religious athiest?
People are entitled to read what they want. The premise of this "Ask HN" was books that changed the way you think, not what what books offend anyone. Offense is taken, not given. Please consider Socrates' 3 Sieves before commenting with "racist" drivel, which adds nothing to the conversation.
I remember catching mackerel on a line while on a sailing trip once. None of us really knew how to do fishing, so we beat them to death with a bilge pump handle. It took ages. I don't think that was ike jime.
That's how you label your data. Nothing newsworthy here.
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman