skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love PG's writing, always a good read.

First - his example of the 'hater of the pop singer' I think is wrong.

Someone likely 'hates' the pop singer because their popularity is not justified, i.e. lacking talent or authenticity.

They don't 'hate' an obscure pop singer, because there's no point.

This is not arbitrary disdain.

I think a better example would be the comments section in HuffPo or Breitbart on politics. It's just pure political identity and nothing else: all actions of the opponent must be bad.

Second - I think his characterisation of 'loser' might be very wrong as well. A lot of very rich dudes got that way by being obsessively competitive, sometimes full of arbitrary rage at 'the other guy'. 'Vendetta' is not a word we usually associate with losers, I think it comes from the same place.

It just might be that anger is a little stickier and motivating than other things?
The singlefile-ness of Bottle is no longer unique.
For example, the modern day Fastapi built on async ASGI (and ranks top in framework benchmarks) is also single file.

https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi

or Fastapi for that matter - https://github.com/encode/starlette

However, it is a bit tricky to run Bottle with production grade servers like gunicorn/uwsgi.
weird comment. spend the first half picking trivial semantic fights, then conclude with seemingly implying that the original commenter shouldn’t feel negatively about their father’s addiction. Odd
> sometimes it seems like on this site 80 percent of people fall in one of those categories for someone like elon musk. for trump it’s like 99 pct. it’s a shame people can’t just be objective and call out good/bad

I actually, uncharacteristically, disagree with a lot of what Paul Graham has said about fans and haters. His basic premise is that we should judge people/endeavors based on critical thinking and solid metrics, rather than how we "feel" about something.

There are two problems with this:

1. Who gets to define the metrics.
Any endeavor can be made to look great or horrible if different metrics are used. People who wish for "critical thinking" in public discourse are really wishing for their own critical thinking to be applied. e.g., building luxery high-rises is good because it raises a community's average home value... lets forget about the people who are being displaced.

2. There are no good metrics.
For most new endeavors, we have very little data about what they are doing. No one knows the details of SpaceX's starship and how it will turn out (probably including SpaceX employees). In politics, no one knows what Trump will do next, or what his strategy (if any) has been. No one has any good data if the next VC backed social media company will be a hit or not.

Generally, in all of these areas, all we have is a leader and sometimes a vision, but rarely a plan. A "fanboy" is someone who believes in the leadership, and a "hater" is someone who does not. It's true that neither looks at the hard details, however those details often don't exist. A fanboy/hater just trust/distrusts the leader and vision, rather than taking a close look at the individual steps that they've made.

This is actually a good thing. Someone offers up a vision and their own credibility, and you make a decision to support them based on them, rather than specific moves they've made. You trust the person first, rather than what they do.

Apple Fanboys are who they are because they believe in Apple's vision of good design to create better electronics. Startup haters are who they are because they see a lack of discipline in the space. It's entirely natural, and probably preferred, for people to make decisions this way rather than unknown data.
Our main apps are internally facing and need to remain usable during an internet outage. That makes most of these products unusable.

Some of these products also seem designed and priced around more complex use cases, such as SSO across a bunch of unrelated apps with different supported protocols. Not everyone has that sort of problem.
Doesn’t becoming a fanboy in certain ways requires you to be a hater too? Case in point Windows vs Linux?
I think this is who put it more succinctly:

"Casper is a very inefficient wealth transfer from venture capitalists to prestige podcast makers"

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1215734138981928960
Hi Hackers. Hammerspoon is a wonderful macOS automation tools. But writing large Lua scripts become a terrible experience.

So I create and publish a TypeScript declaration file for Hammerspoon APIS. With the help of typescript-to-lua, we can now writing hammerspoon scripts in a better way.

Since there are lots of APIs, I need some help complete them. If someone are interested, pull request is welcome!
You hardly need to be "state-level" to spoof bgp or dns.
Show HN: Feshto – Email Templates for E-Commerce Shops
How is it not? "They only blew up one plane and tried to blame Iran, obviously they would never do it again."
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (2006)
Yes, these days organized hate is usually led by paid social media influencers, who are often easy to see through for people with critical thinking capacity.
> I think a better example would be the comments section in HuffPo or Breitbart on politics. It's just pure political identity and nothing else: all actions of the opponent must be bad.

I don't actually think this is a better example. People have a lot on their plate, they can't be expected to investigate every issue to extreme depth. They rely on institutions. Many people join Breitbart politics because they trust Breitbart, even if they know little about it's underlying reasoning. Similarly, many people trust the national academy of sciences, even if they know little about the underlying science.

Even a critical reader can't know everything, and so they must trust people and institutions to represent them.
They were offered money by Apple back when. In the end they refused. https://www.macintosh.fm/episodes/12
I know what you mean, but we're talking about someone's perception, not the mathematical way to see things.

Also, winning the lottery and almost selling your business don't have nearly the same probability.
Thank you. I'll check these out.
Beautiful comparison. I fully agree - one needs some degree of hubris and ataraxia to trace a new path.
Before you go abroad you could notify your bank. Then in period you declared you are abroad they should lower expectation from "in person and ID" to phone call and other means of verification. After that period you are automatically back to normal security.

That is for example how my debit card works. If I want to use it abroad I have to turn that feature on for whatever time I am abroad.
I have a counterpoint from my experience in France.

A few years back I have lost my phone and went to get a new SIM. The attendant in the shop only had a quick look over my ID card. He didn't scan it nor did he enter the ID number in the computer to check anything. I think he only verified that the name was the same as the one on file and the photo looked like me.

The same happens at the post office when you go to collect a parcel / registered mail.

On the other hand, in almost every bar I've been, staff would do a quick check with a pen on every 50 € note they would get, and those notes are fairly common (two cocktails in a random bar in Paris can often cost more than 20 €). I don't know how effective that is in actually detecting counterfeit bills, but there's clearly more effort that what the other clerk did.
Now imagine you live in a housing project and need to get to work and nobody will pick you up.
FWIW the physics of trying to store and transport H seemed plainly absurd on the face of it, to me at the time and I haven’t seen any breakthroughs since then.
Cuba was removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list in 2015, but it remains under heavy economic sanctions and travel restrictions -- enough so that mentioning "Cuba" or "Havana" in an electronic payment memo will probably get your account locked temporarily while the compliance department takes a look at it.
Hi, sorry for the loss.

I know of similar circumstances and am wondering how much of alcoholism is caused by some other psychiatric condition.

Or perhaps pure idleness and boredom.

What do you do when you're a pensioner, you never cultivated lifelong learning so you're not equipped to take on a new challenge, there's no place in society for your residual skills? Maybe you kick back, relax, and pour a glass or two. After all, there's nothing else for you to do anymore.

Does alcoholism creep in at this stage?
Ideology is another word for narrative, and Holmes worked very hard to sell a narrative where she was a disruptive genius who would revolutionise [stale old thing that needed to be disrupted] by sheer force of will and outstanding talent.

Does that narrative not sound a little familiar?

Being a woman genius took it to another level.

It's possible Holmes actually sold the narrative to herself at least as much as she sold it to everyone else.

(But that's not an unfamiliar story either.)

The worrying thing is that Holmes blanked out legitimate criticism. Perhaps she even labelled legitimate critics as haters.

That's an overtly cult-like move. Outsiders who are not aligned with the goal of the cult - often powered by a cult of personality - are dismissed, when in fact their criticisms are realistic and appropriate.

In fact what makes fanboys and haters so annoying is obsessive irrationality. They're noisy, but worryingly content-free.

But not everyone is irrational, and both outsiders and insiders may have valid and considered non-obsessive opinions. Those opinions may be positive, or they may be critical - both for perfectly valid reasons.
Your surmise is correct in re he EU law. I was responding to a comment saying “if you want EVs, fund EVs” which was an unwarranted assumption.
'I'm the last censor in the western world': NZ's David Shanks tackles the C-word
I saw Craig Wright recently.

Whether he is Satoshi or not, he certainly did a brilliant launch of BSV
Want to point to the Google blog article about the effectiveness of different 2FA techniques. SMS is between 76% targeted -100% autoamted bot effective.

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-research-how-eff...
I think there's three factors:

1. Your source of fame is one-dimensional. You're famous for a handful of achievements, they're unambiguously positive, and that's pretty much all that most of us remember.

2. Nobody perceives you as having power over them.

3. They hope that you'll make a 4.4 release of bsdiff with an improved suffix array construction algorithm. Maybe divsufsort, as it looked good in "SACABench: Benchmarking Suffix Array Construction" (2019).

At least, that's my personal guess. :P
I did not write this as a casting of blame. Merely as an observation. One can observe that having a broken leg is not optimal for locomotion without blaming the person who is in that condition.
Scrolling through a few, the title of this one caught my eye:

University of Notice of Data Breach to Consumers

https://ago.vermont.gov/blog/2019/10/02/university-of-notice...
But that's SoCal, which is a bit different in that respect.

I'm not sure how exactly... maybe in NorCal she'd go rock climbing or something.
Wrong, way more depreciation comes from mileage than vehicle age. I used to build statistical models for this.
Oh interesting. I guess I’m mistaken about the “it’s open source” bit. Should caveat and say I mainly use it for personal stuff.
Propagating? Can you find evidence of anyone who has had this theory before me?
I think longevity is vastly underestimated. Besides the natural innate desire to live longer, every extra year of healthspan is an opportunity to reap benefits on long term investment in friends, family and financial instruments. Knowing that you may live to 150 changes how you might approach investing and spending your time in money and skills development. People with the conscientiousness and forethought to apply themselves to important but not urgent tasks might experience compound interest the likes of which we have never seen before. Imagine if Warren Buffet was only half way through his healthspan.
> "Casper is a very inefficient wealth transfer from venture capitalists to prestige podcast makers"

___[Big Well Known Consumer Products Company]___ is a very inefficient wealth transfer from ___[Blue Chip Stock Investors]___ to prestige ___[Traditional Media Companies]___
Huawei hires a traditional car firm exec as chief auto strategy officer
That old quote is relevant here: “The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.”
This is like when people yell at the customer service rep about a company policy. They're a driver, take the sass to Uber.
To be fair it should be mentioned that only a first runway and a few improvised buildings were created in this time frame. The Tegel Airport of 1948 ist in no way comparable to a modern airport.
(I'm in England so all of this is somewhat from an English perspective)

There are roughly two camps when we talk about a human rights approach to mental health law, and they're not compatible with each other.

The more mainstream version is to look at the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which flows into the EU Convention on Human Rights, which flows into national law. Under this system we can still have detention under mental health law, forced medication, and substituted decision making. But you do need some protections in place to prevent arbitrary detention and to give people a right of appeal.

The less mainstream view is to look at the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Under this approach you cannot detain people under mental health laws, you can force them to take medication against their will, and you can only have supported decision making, you cannot have substituted decision making.

There's some discussion on the CRPD here: https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/disability-...

https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-...
Not sure what your point it - this seems irrelevant.

The Dutch are the ones who led the investigation and are now charging Russian citizens
The Grey and White Books: Ian McKellen's Blog from Filming LotR (1999-2003)
That’s true, and the public anger at Smollett that I see as unreasonable might have to do with that suppression of questioning. But I think the anger has more to do with a) white people who feel defensive about being called racist and b) law-and-order types who are offended by the attempt to deceive the police. They are taking this opportunity to push back against a falsehood, even though it’s a stupid falsehood.

The story was just uncomfortable for me, so I felt relief when contradictory testimony was found. I live near Chicago in an area both white and black, and mainly left-wing. I didn’t dare bring the story up with my black neighbors, and never heard about it from them either, despite its high profile. It was a very self-conscious couple of weeks. In contrast, when Obama was running for office people couldn’t help talking about that, and the sense of pride was real.

There was really no benefit to expressing doubt either; actual tragedies and abuses (Laquan McDonald murdered by the CPD, for instance) are still fresh in everyone’s mind. If current events weren’t as horrific people might be more comfortable expressing doubt and maybe even laughter over a guy with basically a homemade lanyard around his neck.
What? FastAPI is certainly not single file: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/tree/master/fastapi

The issue is talking about Bottle the framework itself being a single file, bottle.py.
We're trying to build a platform where content can easily be exported & imported (hence the cards) and free spatial information can augment brainstorming / communication activities (hence the boards). I know the price isn't for everyone but I believe we've made a unique product that has connected with many people. But as you probably can tell by the rest of the comments here, we currently have a problem communicating these qualities and we will work on clarifying our message based on the feedback on this thread!
We will add better board navigation soon!
wordpress.com

Yeah its a non HN answer but that is what the general population uses in 2020 for a personal blog. If your blog gets traction or you want to expand into a full website, then you can think about changing that.
Aether is a Go app, we use Electron just for the GUI. We do no processing in it - we do the processing in the go backend daemon. It’s pretty snappy and light.

I tried AppImage first, it didn’t work.
I replied to

> Because the mattress sellers in the bad part of town still charge 3x more [than casper].

Which is not true. I understand there are premium choices, but this was not what I was replying to.
> I think longevity is vastly underestimated.

Many people would give up their entire life fortune, any inheritance to their children, just to live for a few more years. People have been killing and dying searching for the fountain of youth for centuries.

Everyone is going to die eventually, yet the extremes people go to extend life is unlike any normal supply and demand curve.

I'm not sure there's anything more overestimated and over-hyped than longevity.
On Being a Good Newsletterer
I'm based in Europe but together with a partner I'm a buyer of small tech businesses. We have bought businesses so are credible and are always interested in buying more. We could pay $8m if an interesting business came along.

The issue is that a lot of smaller deals fall through, either because of unrealistic final price expectations by the seller or because some metric that is super important to the business was calculated and supplied in the wrong way (i.e. churn). Or there are issues in structuring the contract because the seller (or his legal advisor) "overengineers" the contract -- lawyers can and sometimes do end up killing deals.

As a buyer, if I pay you a $25k fee, you now have leverage over me. Because if the deal doesn't happen I'm out $25k. If I don't pay you anything you're incentivized to get the deal done and try and draft a balanced sale/purchase agreement that works for seller and buyer. That means both parties making concessions on terms. In my mind, that is healthy, because if we finalise the deal you're getting a bag of money.

Let's say there is a clause we just can't find each other on. No worries, we can jointly decide to walk away. If I paid you and you're not willing to budge, then I'm out $25k if I walk away. It doesn't keep the discussion balanced.

Add to that that some people might (in the end) be unsure whether they even want to sell or not, and you end up in a situation where it's all mostly uncertainty (for both parties) until the deal closes.
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What I see here as a huge problem is (and not only in this article) that the word hater is used to disqualify a genuine and true criticism with good fundamental basis. Haters gonna hate, right?

In todays society pop culture is what is mainstream: think positive, smile, listen songs that dont mean anything but are also not hurting anyone, be happy, even if something is negative concentrate on positive (X company is adding toxic chemicals to their food but they have such a lovely packaging), but bottom line, pretend that everything is nice and fine and you will die with a smile on your face.

The problem is that the society is going into endless circle of self soothing minds, that are not only ignoring the hell of a lot of things that needs to be fixed (from society, environment, companys... products) but are also satisfied by someone selling them intelectual or physical product that is a junk but offers them a dream that there is nothing wrong with their lifestyle/thinking/... and are furious protecting that illusion from anyone daring to criticize it. This was a funboy a decade ago. I am observing with horror that now it has become mainstream.

Once the options to contradict logically are gone, as a last scream of mind defending their ego is an etiquette "you are a hater".

In that moment everything seems fine again.

"It is not me.", "It is not the product I love.", "It is you.", "I can go back to my illusion now.".

So Graham. Smile. Be happy. Be positive. Dont be a hater to haters. As maybe... they are not haters after all.
Huh. What do you mean by that? I think of Elon Musk's haters as more coming from the perspective of thinking he's overly self important and irresponsible (I like Elon though, for the record). I don't really think of his haters as ideological per se. What kind of ideology do you see in his haters?
It’s a rather privileged position to believe that you have the luxury of other options.
The post clearly ignores the use of any form of sensitive language, which in this case I thought helped to illustrate the points quite well.

Personally, I can’t imagine calling somebody a loser, but in my head I have a very clear idea of what a loser is. To me a loser is anybody that, in spite of the opportunity to do so, doesn’t take any control over their own life, doesn’t take responsibility for themselves, and blames others for their failure/lack of success. Such people can become marginally successful, but they’ll always be losers, because they’ll never get what they want from life. To me, this idea seems very similar to what he was getting at.
For public companies, growing > 40%, ARR > $100Mn, NDR>125$ revenue multiples are sky-high ATM.

For private companies at around $1Mn-$3Mn ARR growing sub-20% YoY there are very few buyers in the first place.
I have a relatively popular single-Python-file, no-dependency-beyond-PSL project myself (slightly smaller than bottle.py, ~3.5k lines). It would certainly be shorter and easier to develop if I added a bunch of dependencies, but I’ve resisted the urge over time, and being able to just download a single file and use it with any Python installation that’s less than five years old is ultimately worth the effort IMO. Also got me closer to some lower level PSL modules.
FastAPI and Starlette both have tons of files, and even subpackages. Bottle ships as only a single bottle.py file, with no external dependencies (only Python standard library). FastAPI depends on Starlette, and both have a set of optional external dependencies.

> However, it is a bit tricky to run Bottle with production grade servers like gunicorn/uwsgi.

Uh, no? Bottle has docs for deployment: https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/deployment.html#switching-the-...

They have automated support for gunicorn. uWSGI requires adding one line (`app = bottle.default_app()`) and pointing uWSGI at that.
oh my bad. That's interesting, but im not sure about utility.

Because everyone literally uses package management to install and maintain bottle.

Bottle has code like this - https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py#L81... - which does check for external dependencies (which predicate a package manager)
Tribes, Fossil, 9front, Bell Labs
I know a few people who work there too. I can have an intelligent conversation/debate about almost anything with them, from tech stacks to software development methodology, but bring up privacy and Cambridge Analytica, and all of a sudden the wagons circle and it’s all “we’re so misunderstood,” and “the biased media is out to get us,” and “we do so much for user privacy and always just get shit on!” Its as if they all went through the same training and got the same talking points. Spooky!
Tesla’s have this as part of the selectable “Hold Mode” since an update a few weeks ago. Let off the pedal completely and it slows rapidly to a complete and very smooth stop. It’s surprisingly easy to get used to and one can drive for days without ever touching the brake pedal. It also makes the car slightly more efficient.

The brake pedal in Tesla’s controls only the friction brakes, the accelerator controls acceleration and deceleration via the motor(s).