skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real wealth is a bit like a grain silo - if the owner stops filling it with grain but takes a cup of grain out every day to cook with then they might not run out for years.

Any metrics they care to use - apart from the level of the silo - will also be really rosy. They are doing less work (no need to find grain to refill the silo!) and potentially get much more benefit (instead of finding grain for the silo, maybe the owner can go and learn to play a Ukulele; so they get grain, fun and fullfillment).

This illustrates the problem with a building wall of debt - if there is a problem, by the time the problem is revealed at the point in time when options disappear and a crisis is forced. Until the moment of crisis life has been going on the way it has been for a while and everything seems work or maybe even to be getting easier.

In the real world wealth doesn't behave like my imaginary grain silo, but by golly it makes me nervous watching people invest so much energy into billion dollar cash-burning machines like Uber while debt levels keep climbing. If people with money think that is acceptable, are they actually investing in building up real wealth? iPhones are lovely, but they are pretty small in the grand scheme of what is needed for physical comfort.
> Haskell and variants are on the rise in popularity; but make no mistake, if you are optimizing for overall delivery throughput over time -- even experts are swimming upstream with these languages.

Untrue - the guarantees & style of programming Haskell supports have made it so I can work professionally in Haskell and barely use my brain to solve entire sprints' worth of programming work.

I'd argue that becoming a Haskell expert can help your individual throughput quite a bit. It allows an individual to wrangle more and more complexity without becoming overrun. That's what abstraction is for, and Haskell is a best-in-class language when it comes to what it can abstract over.

This has been my experience anyways. The professional development I've undertaken in Haskell is soon going to be useful in the realm of personal projects and art. Individual throughput is especially valuable there.
Simple: keep things bookmarked and save things you find interesting but don't notify yourself that they are unread. If you so desire on your own time to go through the things you saved, you can do that -- it's like your own personally curated reddit!
Another Haidt book well worth checking out is "The Righteous Mind".

Great for grey thinking and better understanding. And I think it's one of those books that if everyone read it, we'd all be better off. Like an antidote or inhibitor to tribalism.
The problem with talking about averages is that it hides differences between people. Apparently some people save too much (there is a lack of profitable investments and interest rates are low due to supply and demand) while other people save too little (they don't have enough savings for emergencies, let alone retirement).

It sounds like inequality to me.
Threads.js, Make web workers and worker threads as simple as a function call
On one hand, I can see how the politicking and playing the game seems to be in the best interest of the company - look! We’re getting stuff done and it looks awesome!

Often, behind the smoke and mirrors, not much is actually done. And then you may end up with a disastrous product launch like Google Stadia. Unfortunately most projects don't have similarly useful public evaluations to show how poorly they are actually delivering. Those who would put in the time to develop a good product wouldn't be promoted.
Can people who aren't technical geniuses build complex systems?
Unfortunately this fork loses the changes history of the countless people that have contributed during the decade that RC exists. To say the truth RG looks more polished but not something that couldn't be done on RC.
Well I’ve only installed the widescreen patch. I’m not sure I have the time to get into all the other stuff they have!
'How to Speak' by Patrick Winston
I wonder if there is some seedy group of people in power actively driving us towards one of these outcomes.
You forgot the most important reason: telemetry. An app can exfiltrate an order of magnitude more kinds of interesting data on you than a webpage ever could.

And the second most important reason: push notifications.
Winners Take All -- Anand Giridharadas

Weapons of Math Destruction -- Cathy O'Neil

Race After Technology -- Ruha Benjamin
I recommend this approach as the emergency nuke. As long as you commit to keep inbox zero afterwards.
Infinite expansion with finite resources. What could go wrong?
Bookmarks are just bookmarks, follow a course
Why should I use this library over the more well-known free and open-source cross-platform GUI toolkits? With wx I can get fully native widgets on Win/Mac/GTK/Qt/even embedded systems. With Qt and Qt-quick I can have rapid development (and native enough widgets). Even GTK is at least well-documented. What's your edge supposed to be?
I tried this. At least for larger sizes, the price premium is often 2x and finding HDR - and sometimes even 4K - is hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664952
Civ 3 came after Firaxis got the Civ trademark. They made SMAC in part because they didn’t have the TM after breaking away from Microprose. The contemporaries to SMAC are the Civ: Call To Power games.
Gates' family was in banking, Zuckerberg attended Phillips Exeter. Neither were hardly "Middle Class".
Their pen writes that plant-based burgers lead to man boobs, but what they are thinking is "please, please do not abandon meat burgers."

Culturally, that is a type of false fear tactic used by some parents to get their unruly children to avoid a behaviour.
I read Crime and Punishment last year and found it incredibly disappointing, considering its massive reputation. Simpletons, idiots, caricatures, buffoons and victims performing lots of hand-wringing, posturing, dithering, swooning and assorted drama. Hard to identify with or care about any of them. Call it entertainment, but I prefer Dickens.
It does not work for everyone unfortunately. Scribus is terrible for design work. Fine for setting prose but doing more complex layouts is pain. Unfortunately typesetting is so niche that there is no way it would get better.

I wish affinity was on linux.
If you have very little income, health insurance actually becomes affordable. The trouble comes when you make enough not to qualify for subsidies but work for an employer that isn't large enough to negotiate good rates.
The issue isn't about a mobile site. It's about desktop site. Mobile browsers like Chrome and Firefox have a "request desktop site" switch that makes them fetch the site meant for desktops. It introduces zero support burden if you're already supporting a desktop site, and you have to go out of your way to break this feature.
I truly believe there is a shared reality separate from our experiences. The further you are from that reality the more "stupider" you actually are.

It's not all apples and oranges. Some people are right some people are wrong and some things are better than other things.
I tried Gimp but from an UX Perspective it is just a horrible mess. Its ways are so idiosyncratic its unbelievable. Power to those who use it, but it is hardly surprising that it never gained traction in the graphics industry.

Affinity Photo is the first true contender; It optimizes for reliable and recognizable workflow, and the devs are committing to keeping it lean.

I wish there was an foss alternative, but there isn’t. I would love to see an app build around image editing like Blender is doing for 3d.
There have been talks at GDC and elsewhere about this...my memory is that humans don’t like being surprised by a smart AI that silently builds up resources and suddenly and mercilessly betrays and annihilates them, which is the obvious winning strategy. Humans don’t even like the random battle results to be truly random but expect them to hew very closely to the outcome of the odds as presented. The AI is grindy and unsophisticated on purpose.
Yes I think I'm in a minority on the issue but I'm not alone!
The post you're replying to suggests that an independent LTE connection will be bundled into every device, so that none of the interventions you've listed will work. Good luck maintaining your bubble.
Given that the hypothesis is true for vast majority of Android apps, including the vast majority of popular ones, including well-known vendors like Google and Microsoft, it's a really good default hypothesis.
I guess part of the problem is brand recognition. 95% of a TV is the screen, and Samsung, LG, Sony and perhaps a couple of others own that market between them.

I see neither Samsung, LG, nor Sony getting on board, so you'd have to be buying their panels and do a good job with the electronics for people to but then.

That's fine in the ultra-premium space, the price to the consumer will cover the R&D, but mainstream, you'll just be Hannspree or something that has good panels but nobody knows our cares about you.
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - I really liked his views on transformation of happiness throughout history.

- Babi Yar (full version) by Anatoly Kuznetsov - after my discovery that the version I've read earlier was heavily censored.

- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

- Collapse and The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
Spot on. Static typing has benefits, but it also has a cost. Python's optional type hints have all the complexity but only some of the benefits - in my experience, runtime type errors are still common.

> To me it feels like python is running as far away from simplicity as fast as possible.

Despite its reputation, Python hasn't been a simple language for a long time.
This sort of propaganda can also backfire because inducing breast growth on girls isn't exactly something that's frowned upon by society.
It should be noted that this research was likely published with a specific agenda in mind: https://twitter.com/mark_ledwich/status/1210743217982803970?...

> My new article explains in detail. It takes aim at the NYT (in particular, @kevinroose) who have been on myth-filled crusade vs social media. We should start questioning the authoritative status of outlets that have soiled themselves with agendas.

From the linked Medium article:

> These events, along with the promotion of the now-debunked YouTube “rabbit hole” theory, reveal what many suspect — that old media titans, presenting themselves as non-partisan and authoritative, are in fact trapped in echo chambers of their own creation, and are no more incentivized to report the truth than YouTube grifters.

The paper itself makes a fundamental flaw of using logged out recommendations and attempts to disprove 2018 algos even after substantial changes since, which invalidates the research entirely.
Assuming the aren't well programmed, it might be preferable to spoof them with junk data.

Is anyone MITM-ing and publishing the data these devices are sending? It would be nice to reverse engineer and document their APIs. Somebody needs to be watching the watchers.
Can't imagine confusing orange with yellow. Do you know what the general consensus is on the color?
Didn’t expect to find Derek Sivers on HN. h/t for being awesome

Seriously HN, listen to this guy about books, and check out his site.
It is not possible to access your workspace from your mobile browser, we're afraid.

This isn't the first time I've seen a thinly-veiled-fuck-you attitude from them, and it's something that definitely won't make me want to start using Slack.

"Afraid of what? You broke it!"
With that rule, the "leading zero" problem in the article should have been caught properly as well. Why wasn't it?

edit: I guess because "01" isn't a valid token.
It seems like this is some archaic service that provides song titles and album artist information for some physical DRM-free uncompressed audio format from years gone.
I was you some years ago.

I decided to change.

I deleted EVERYTHING.

It was hard but my life is better now.
Should anyone want to parse the dataset as it is today and do something with it, I recently wrote some Go to that end:

https://github.com/alrs/freedb
I've seen things like this (https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinyfpga/tinyfpga-bx) crop up on CrowdSupply. Not sure how close it is to what you have in mind.
Well you want to see what you are doing. RGB shows more colors than you can print. Theoreticaly when if you have cmyk profile from your printer and calibrated monitor you should see somehow accurate representation of how will things get printed.
I love all these books except the four hour work week. I do not believe Tim understand what it takes for a person in low income class to be successful.
Mobile friendly web based fractal explorer
I'm guessing sales & marketing (and the usual O(log n) amount of management and administrative positions to support that).

It's one of those hidden costs of advertising being a zero-sum game. The waste only grows as you try to keep up with the competition that tries to keep up with you.
And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary government, from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet. In former times the energy monopoly was called "The Power Company"; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning.

-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"

I recently read the book about Enron and kept thinking about this quote when it came to their lobbying efforts. "Power company" indeed.
I can't believe the paucity of comments on this article. Surely, this is of interest to HNers? Am I just the only one that's never heard of this? It sounds awesome, and confirms my personal bias that an Apple+Sun merger (prior to the Oracle acquisition) could have been terrific. We all complain about Apple's slipping quality these days, but they used to (?) have some amazing engineers.

Edited to add:
Does anybody know why this got nixed? Would love to know the backstory to this.
That's a real pity, but they didn't stand a chance against musicbrainz:

https://musicbrainz.org/

I ran a similar service for years (daz.com) and eventually shut it down because musicbrainz was not worth competing with though I think we did a better job of tying the links between the various bands by tracking artists from one act to another, also studio artists which made it quite nice for music discovery.
This just inspired me to go clean-up my bookmarks. Only have a couple hundred, but, still nice to throw out all the unneeded stuff.
Why don't they just put a leaf blower on the front of the train? Maybe a dumb question. Could be due to stuck wet leaves?
I'd say TVs, like mobile phones, are the sort of thing people spend beyond their means on, this makes it an even more expensive purchase, and a lot of people probably don't have the tools, the knowledge or the experience to crack open a flat panel TV without damaging it.
I actually like Dart even outside of the context of flutter. The toolchain is on par with go in terms of ease of use and simplicity. The language is really high level and simple to use, it can compile to native, and it's only getting better.

What sucks is the ecosystem, hopefully that changes so it can become my goto language for more general-purpose programming.
I first read it as freeBSD!!
From a quick google search Vancouver has a homeless population of under 3000. Seattle, which is close climate wise has 4 times at around 12,000 and San Francisco at around 8,000. Vancouver has a homelessness problem by Canadian standards but it’s many times better than west coast US cities.

So lower rate of homelessness plus better living conditions while being homeless seem like both good things.
Steve Jobs is an example of a non-technical genius? He obviously wasn't as brilliant technically as others, but he was still elite.
Such is the market's race to the bottom.
How is MusicBrainz doing? The blog has recent updates, that's a good sign. https://musicbrainz.org/
One way of looking at this: If you could only take action on those items, you wouldn't have to improvise; you'd be better prepared and educated for the future.

Yet this ability to improvise and dive into the unknown got you to where you are today. It got you a leg up and advanced your career.

And regarding the interest, that's also a factor worth considering: Somehow the feeling of interest quickly gives way to a fearful feeling of imminent loss of contact with knowledge which may be necessary in the future. However IMO given your skill in the tech area in general, this question of necessity should probably be itself held in question.

One alternative path is to build the capacity to create your own knowledge as needed, through tactical, specific problem-event-based analysis. Doing so narrows the time scope and the applicable scope of available outside information. In effect it narrows your filters to both limit your exposure to impossible swaths of "maybe I'll need it" information and also increase your leverage over the specific problem in question.

If you want any more help with this feel free to drop me a line.
> If still after applying the suggestions it does not work, it is just a bad tablet manufacturer. Krita adheres to the standard APIs provided by the Operating System. Unfortunately, your tablet manufacturer is a stupid one

Same here, if my software breaks it must be the stupid hardware.
I took a speed reading course one summer when I was in college. My mother thought that it would give me an edge. First they test you and my reading speed was already on the high end of normal.

In the course I did theoretically more than double my reading speed. But my comprehension was based on the test they gave me. Plus I noticed that I tired quickly doing speed reading. I was a kid who loved to read and had no problem doing it for hours on end without tiring.

After the course I quickly discovered as I suspected that my real world comprehension suffered greatly by speed reading.

So what value did I receive from the course? After college there have been times I needed to quickly get the gist of a document and was under extreme time pressure. I found speed reading worked fine though in my business career I doubt that I used it more than once a year.

Bottom line my personal ROI would have been much higher if my Mother have hired a tutor to help me over the summer learn to paint or play blues harmonica instead.
I'm also interested in books you hate but are for some reason very popular in the last decade.
Outside of very large cities where filtering is legal, the maintenance costs eat up any money you save over an economy car. Tires are especially brutal- my commute makes me have to replace both tires every winter.
Professionally influential:

- High Growth Handbook (general company building tips)
- Traction (the one by Weinberg and Mares; engineer-friendy guide to marketing and growth)
- Understanding Michael Porter (great intro to business strategy)
- Monetizing Innovation (pricing advice)

Personally influential:

- Thinkertoys and Cracking Creativity (how to be more creative)
- Atomic Habits (how to establish good habits)
- A Guide to the Good Life (friendly intro to stoicism)
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There (building self-awareness)

Fun:

- Richard Feynman autobiographies
- The Martian
- Shadow Divers
- Ready Player One
- The Myron Bolitar Series (mysteries with a good sense of humor)
Burrowing Owls [video]
Maybe you'd be like Bob from Fight Club.
Stopping the war was never the intention, that would betray the fundamental lessons trying to be taught. In context of the story, the idea is that they still have free will but it was a lesson to be learnt for both sides.

If there was a superhuman in real life who could avert all wars (literal and metaphorical), that would be great, but we don't live in a world where we can pray to fix away our problems (my humble opinion of course, not to offend anyone). This sets a basis for the story upon which life lessons can be learnt in the form of the Gita; fundamentally stating that time has no beginning or end, therefore everything on the battlefield has come and gone, regardless of your input in life (" I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy. Even without your participation all the warriors standing arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.").

I think it's why the book is so powerful, looking at a wiki list of people it's influenced, a common theme is a day to day reference of spirituality more than actual religion [0]

You're right, I didn't mean to imply it's the only philosophy or religion but I would posit it's the largest. Also, the Matrix thing was just a flippant offshoot but I never noticed until I heard them playing the Sanksrit shokla :D

Agreed, Hinduism is a catch all, often misunderstood. It's completely different from Abrahamic religions from a fundamental point of view. You can be any religion, or atheist, and still be a Hindu, in essence. Most (if not all?) branches of Hinduism considers God to be the ultimate reality of which we're all part of as opposed to an external entity, hence in the Gita, Barbarika said Krishna was the one who one the battle despite not taking part directly. Whether you use the Bible, or Vedic scriptures, to reach Moksha (Englightenment) isn't prescribed, it's your journey.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_Bhagavad_Gita
The leaves are often partially decomposed into a sticky slime that end up compressed to the tracks from what I’ve read elsewhere.
The theory seems to be that there is quite a lot of estrogen in the plant burgers (44 mg in the impossible whopper), tho I cannot find a reputable source for this using neither Google, bing or duckduckgo.

That being said, a lot of vegetarian and (especially) vegan options do contain soy which is suspected of mimicking estrogen in the human body.
I don't know where you got that number from. Germany had a population of around 65M in 1933, so probably closer to 10M young Germans?
I never said it weakens it, but it's trying to keep the strong type checking while making the language easier. Python is the opposite, it's easy to write but doesn't have the strong guarantees, and it's trying to become safer while keeping the ease of writing.

This ideal "middle state" I speak of is a language that is both as easy as a dynamic language but as safe as a static language. Static languages are making it easier to write and dynamic languages are making it safer.
Angular is (loosely) a superset of what Svelte provides: it's a templating engine, it has a built-in forms library, built-in routing, dependency injection, baked in i18n support, and better XSS sanitization than other frameworks. Angular's templating engine is fairly complex too; it, for example, has a concept of "pipes", so you can write something like this: "<div>{{data | json}}</div>" which will take a JS object, data, and pipe it through a function that returns a stringified version of it, which is what is used in your template. (Compared to other frameworks, this might seem obsolete since JSX is syntactic sugar for JS: in React, you'd just write: "<div>{{JSON.stringify(data)}}</div>").

It's commonly used with Angular CLI to have simple commands like "ng serve" and "ng build" to bundle your application. It also heavy handedly imposes constraints on the architecture of your application-- to some, that's a benefit. All Angular apps kind of look the same.
Just wanted to say the same. This is the last time to update all the clients relying on FreeDB to use MusicBrainz, it's about time.
Bayes vs. Frequentists – An Empirical Test in Code
I loved being able to build a spy unit that was submersible.
Few years ago they had an IRC gateway, so they seemed like a user-friendly startup, and not another exploitative walled garden.
> Can you suggest some modern, best practice C# projects for me to see how the language should be used?

I'm curious about this as well.