skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I posted while you edited your post so you added a couple of good examples for a better literal translation.

But this is exactly the point, it's hard work, it's not always done by people who understand the actual concepts or history, and they are doing it in their spare time. Imagine spending this much time and saying "I translated one message".

Thus, I'd encourage you to contribute your suggestions upstream :)
OK, I'm happy to hear you say that. It's definitely possible that I've made a totally spurious claim of a common cultural thread. I mean that sincerely: I didn't want what I was worrying about to be true and I'll remember that you say Mozilla's not like that. Thanks very much / respect for responding to this anonymous and rather odd/unfounded criticism.
I have a paid Chrome extension and recently implemented an uninstall survey to see why people are leaving. For people who indicate that cost is an issue, we explain that many "free" products are either supported by advertisements or by selling user data. We then ask people if we offered such a "free" option if they would choose that over our paid option (which costs less than $2/mo).

Almost all of the respondents indicate that they would choose the "free" version. I was surprised that the feedback was this one-sided, especially after making the tradeoff salient (and especially for a browser plugin that sees every page you visit). Apparently most people just don't care about their privacy.
3% is the going rate for mom-and-pop, not large business, those run in the 1% ballpark.
I'm not sure if the phrase itself is novel. The idea of having good taste in problems is certainly not; and is very useful -- Richard Hamming (cited by Sam Altman) spends a great deal of time talking about how to choose problems [1].

The basic idea is that you need to work on an important problem. But an important problem isn't what you think (e.g. time-travel, teleportation, antigravity, etc.) -- instead it is a problem for which there exists an "attack".

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
> How many ads for hearing ads you have seen on TV?

When I watch Redbull TV I see zero hearing aid adverts. That's about the only commercial TV I watch. Likewise when I more frequently watched commercial TV 15 years ago, I didn't see a ton. In the years since, the demographics of network TV viewership have shifted massively and the over 65 crowd is massively over-represented. As demographics switched advertising switched.

I suppose when I occasionally go to CNN or CNBC for news, I see hearing aid advertising, but the sites I generally frequent (should) know their readership better than blast us with that sort of advertising.

Which is ultimately the point context based advertising delivers 90% of the benefits of target/ tracking based advertising without the performance degradation, risks, and other nonsense.
Wow, what a great concept.
WhatsApp Last Seen and Online Features Not Working
Whatsapp's last seen and online features are currently down for some. Some are also unable to update last seen status.
Yes that's exactly the problem. Thinking that if something is good, more of it has to be better. Its the same with regulation. Of course too much registration is bad but this fundamentalist idea that good will just emerge from pure free trade is nonsensical.

It's like seeing the benefits of event sourcing and then deciding that if we use that everywhere a stable system will just emerge.
my last job built this plus much more... almost fully controllable OBS with scripting in the browser with webrtc. we were deploying GPU instancs in the cloud and starting headless OBS with a vnc server also available in the browser so you could edit anything that's not in the web interface.

sadly all closed source.
It looks like the BTFS in the OP was the "original", with its first commit in July of 2015. Could be wrong, because the GitHub interface doesn't make it easy to get to the beginning of the 13k commits for go-btfs.
> Taken a little deeper, your statement would imply that people should build and maintain their own data centers and host all services by themselves

One doesn't need a data center to host these kinds of services. Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi works just fine.
The researchers already did the hard work! Programmers should see this as an opportunity to thank scientists and develop their own polished version. We shouldn't expect to receive everything ready to import directly into our projects.
Rather than repeating yourself, I think you need to dial down your threshold for paternalistically stepping in to chide commenters for benign statements. I am American, and I took no offense to the commenter's criticism of American culture. I saw nothing nationalistic in the comment, nor was there anything that looked remotely flamebait.

Unless I missed the initial edit that was full of swastika emojis and telling people to "go back to their countries," or something, I'm pretty sure you just pushed someone who was posting in good faith off this site over nothing. While I didn't see the second or any subsequent comments, I found the initial comment worth upvoting. I'm pretty sure you also just marginalized someone in a vulnerable group (those with invisible disabilities) to which I also belong, and, to which you probably do not.

As I have stated in the past, IMO, this site was far, far better when there was little to no active moderation beyond downvoting and flagging by the community.
I too was fooled by this mind virus until I got curious recently and looked at the stats. I was surprised at what I found and I felt played. The whole thing is a massive lie, and a highly successful manipulation by groups with radical agendas, and the well-meaning masses that they have managed to zombify.
I believe that you're thinking of Michael J. Cahill:

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse444/08au/544M/R...

This became the basis of PostgreSQL's serializable snapshot isolation feature:

https://drkp.net/papers/ssi-vldb12.pdf
Maybe they could sell their old one to help finance the new one. I'd go in for a few shares of a particle collider.
WWDC 2020 Predictions
It is so strange that corporations fights for what essentially is iPhone owners freedoms.

The right to repair - fix app store owner decisions.

And that's not the worst. Apple sells devices with limited support. Perfectly functioning devices with no way to change OS once it become unsupported. Devices with expiration date.
If your market segment is customers who are willing to pay for a high end email service, Apple's share of that customer segment is probably much greater than 50%. Large enough that not offering an iOS app will cripple your business.
I guess, but as a kid, I practically lived in the thick woods around our house.

As a boy, it was awesome to live in a place where carrying a khukuri (or small sword) wasn't so out of the ordinary, and I have fond memories of bushwhacking trails, coming home smelling of earth and picking the inevitable spiders out of my clothes.
Sure, but why have a pretty date at the top and then make it incomplete? I don't want to scroll down to figure out if a blog post is recent, or look at the URL. This theme (or a variation) is used on many blogs, and not all of them use pretty URLs with a year in them.
Ha, I really like this analysis. Has a Venkatesh Rao feel to it.
> No, because any world in which such a trade was acceptable is not a just or fair world that I would want to live in. You have to reason at multiple levels.

But in the same way that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you, the universe is also under no obligation to be just or fair to you; it simply exists. One of the primary issues here is that all meaning is subjective, and therefore all value judgments are subjective. People are not fungible. You would certainly save twelve of your closest friends and family if it meant the death of a complete stranger, but we could guess that the complete stranger's husband would pick his wife over what appears to him to be twelve random names on a list. If that man gets to make the choice, and he makes it, it was a fair and equitable choice for him, but unfair and unjust to you. That is the nature of our universe, whether we accept it or not. Imbalance exists because all meaning is subjective. This consequence holds even if the subjectivity is only marginally variable.

And because meaning is subjective, and therefore all value judgments are subjective, life itself has no inherent value, except for the meaning and value we each assign to it. Whatever our differences in opinion, this is indisputably the case. The inherent objective value of any given life is precisely zero United States dollars (and the same is true of those dollars). This is a really really big hurdle, and I'd venture an estimation that most people in fact go all the way to their grave believing the opposite, or at least believing that the opposite "should be" true (hint: words like "should be" are the language of value judgments and therefore in the realm of the subjective).

It is at its core primarily an issue of control, and illusions of control, and the complications arising from this. Control -- real control -- does not extend beyond the boundary of your mind. Most people go through life without truly grokking what control means, what it looks like, where it exists, and where it does not exist. It follows then that because of this ignorance, most people do not have control of their own minds. And being only human, we project so much of ourselves and our thoughts onto our perceptions of the universe, that we can fool ourselves easily with illusions of control.

I think this is where most criticism of free speech is rooted: Most people are unable to control their own minds, their own thoughts, because they don't understand the nature of control, and therefore they are subjected to literal mind control by the external forces creating the storm of words, ideas, internet memes, gossip, propaganda, tweets, comments, et cetera, coming in from all directions. And so it's a simple matter of imagining that everyone else is also powerless against this torrent, such that people need to be protected from "dangerous" ideas and speech.
This is ridiculous trying to pin the prevalence of violent crime in some communities as the fault of the police. What evidence supports this?

Maybe you can say that violent crime is an offshoot of poverty, but a lot of poor communities don't have the same violent crime as others..so that's tenuous at best.

The big experiment would be to reduce the poverty of all groups and see what happens to violent crime, maybe then we don't need police and can have un-armed social workers. But until then, the correlation is community with high violence...incites violence from police, suspicion is then generated against that group. Simple statistics.
This looks pretty awesome. Does it work with private trackers?
I think they should better explain how this thing works... It accelerate an electron!? And then there is some sensitive equipment to measure the charge!? Get a curve on a oscilloscope and if the curve is different it have discovered a new particle!?
I'm very curious about the so called gravity particle aka Higgs boson, but Cern would need to explain this in layman terms in order to get funded.
Kindle: you can load books from other sources, you can also read Kindle books on other devices

Steam: you can redeem keys purchased from other stores, install apps from other stores, and they don’t mandate using their system for in app purchases

eBay: do they have any policies like this? I haven’t heard much about them or made an eBat purchase in a decade.

Amazon Marketplace: There actually is a strong argument here that they capture so much of the market that opting out is not an option. This is very similar and already under much scrutiny.

Game Console: Also very similar to this. I expect they will lobby hard on Apples side for that reason.
I think it will be hackers just like you and me, and our motivation will be making information accessible and the world a better place.

It may seem optimistic, but I'm also optimistic about what our reality "optimizes" for.
My Funwheel: A OneWheel work-alike using basic shop tools
Yes, it's an actual thing and you can see lots of photographic evidence [0] [1] if you look it up on google or read some of the many papers written on the subject. They're visible on many places on Earth, some even without any excavation needed. It sits pretty much as a clear separation between the previous geological epoch (Pleistocene aka Ice Age) and our current epoch (Holocene).

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/1/40/F1.large.jpg

[1] https://capeia-usercontent.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/07/...
"Cognitive Ability Is Related to Supporting Freedom of Speech for Groups Across the Ideological Spectrum"

I don't have access to the paper. How do they define "cognitive ability"?
> Every time the sound track from the movie comes on I get tingles down my spine ...

I don't think I've heard any of those songs since I saw the movie when it was in theaters, but you've reminded me how much they've stuck with me. Eddie Vedder's vocals are so raw and vulnerable and there couldn't have been a better choice.

I'm going to listen to the soundtrack this afternoon -- thanks for the reminder. I'm also looking forward to reading your travelogue.
For comparison, the budget of the Department of Defen(ding US interests) is $721.5 billion, which is to say one could instead do something useful with all those billions instead of spending them killing people who made the mistake of being born near natural resources.
Collider as a Service. You pay per collision.
The interesting thing is google knows alot about what is popular on pintrest
I joined a small startup headed by a former professor, financed by a mix of SBIR grants and seed funding, and he was really poorly suited to running a hardware company. The biggest gap was the ability to push for schedule and manufacturability vs perfecting one of prototypes. Sometimes you have to say “this solution may be better, but the tooling costs and schedule impacts are untenable. Run with what we have” In his mind as long as we had money to keep making prototypes that was what we should do until it was absolutely perfect, it made for a great demo product that had no chance of seeing the light of day at scale. He didn’t really understand what it took to get from proto to EVT, investors did and they slowly faded from the picture.
I loved that show when I was a kid. The science was pretty bad, but the stories were great.
Here's a fun way to see this approximation: 1 + x ~= e^x when x is close to zero (either positive or negative).

So let m be 10^-6 .

Probability of survival of one event = 1 - m ~= e^-m .

Probability of survival of two events = (1 - m)^2 ~= (e^-m)^2 = e^-2m ~= 1 - 2m.
A small point only tangential to the main point of this post, but something I've noticed about Sam's writing before:

Is anyone else offput by the phrase "best people"? I get (or at least hope) it's a shorthand for "best at their respective job of researcher/founder," but it really seems to reduce people's innate worth and goodness to this single dimension in a somewhat unnerving way.
Personal pain point: Math seems to be a growing topic on the web and tools like MathJax are a popular tool for talking about Math. But (most? all?) RSS readers won't render MathJax. Does anyone have a simple and effective way to handle display issues like that?
Meanwhile, we built HRC, TLC, BLM, ... On a smaller scale, there's things like ONE Archives. There's Mutual Aid groups.

There's absolutely no evidence for the theory that we as a society aren't socially active any more. There is evidence of a split in society.
The left fascists believe "if you disagree anything I say, then you are the enemy". The recent Tabbiti article <https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i... talks about how a journalist who didn't even espouse an opinion, but merely quotes a black activist about black-on-black crime, was subject to a massive attack as if the journalist himself was a racist.

The left truly believe if you don't tow the line 100%, then you are an enemy. It's a fascist hivemind mentality. I can't find the article now, but there was someone who went through what statements hockey teams made about George Floyd and Black Lives Matters, and had a checklist making sure that all of the boxes were checked in terms of what was "acceptable". If they didn't fulfill every single checkbox they were maligned. If this isn't fascism by definition, I don't know what is. It's shocking how extreme things are getting.

Those of us such as myself who are progressives have no moral high ground over the white supremacists if the fascist left use the exact same tactics that they do. The problem is more and more progressives are using the same tactics.

I've been in the Bay Area for over 20 years and have never heard of Juneteenth ever. I have a friends from Louisiana who have never heard of Juneteenth either. The only friend that had heard of it grew up in Texas, where the holiday originated. When I responded in a reddit post that I never heard it before, I was referred to as a racist. It's getting crazy out there now.
Same for me, I tried to click on the animation to pause it but to no avail.
I was sad the day the RSS feed on Jordan Mechner's site stopped working. I think it was around the time Stripe published the PoP book.

We need more RSS feeds!
That makes sense to move the bus actually. Christopher McCandless died there, so why would the tourist fare any better? Sort of sad to see them move the bus, but it's probably the right thing to do. Would be nice to see them move it to a safer location that people can still visit.
Indeed. I'm surprised they're even trying the "stationary" product rather than just working directly towards a glasses version of the Watch.

Gurman's sources are good enough that I imagine he has the narrative right, but this sounds a little bit like the iPad / iPhone evolution in retrospect: As I understand the history, the iPad was actually under development first, but it became obvious that the better initial market to target with the technology was smartphones. It wouldn't shock me if they belatedly have the same revelation again.

Maybe they have sold themselves on a kind of "meet in the middle" strategy, where major YoY improvements in AR-enhanced smartphones build a market for mobile-focused apps, while the HUD technology is ramped up and refined in an environment where you don't worry so much about power and portability.

But again, if I were Apple, I'd stick to mobile and wait until they are ready to leapfrog everyone else rather than try to build a market with awkward enthusiast tech.
A 527 that advertises 'vote them out' has to comply with state and federal campaign finance regulations. A 527 that doesn't explicitly do that doesn't.

I'd like to get someone who knows more

I want to say this as politely as I can but... shouldn't you have that sorted out before taking money from people?
The ruling:

https://www.conseil-etat.fr/ressources/decisions-contentieus...
Please Interrupt Me
Yep, this article rings true on a number of levels, particularly regarding asynchronous work and lack of interrupts.

Anecdotally, I'm working on a software project at the moment with a small team of volunteers.

To explain some context: I'm the sole developer currently, and I'm treating communications to the team as high-value for us, now and in future - the same way that I'd like to think that I treat the code (I write this with the awareness I've recently cut some corners; but cleanup is on the cards).

One observation is that I'm really enjoying only using email for that communication.

Sometimes I code for a couple of days before checking or answering emails, simply based on what feels most productive or compelling at the time.

As a result I never get distracted by pings while working, and feel much more comfortable taking time while writing messages and replies, generally allowing me to be a bit more thoughtful.

And there's only one communication platform. My attention's not split between instant messages, emails, and other organizational tools.

This situation's probably an edge case based on the small team size and my personal preferences, but it's been an interesting experience.

I don't know how well this approach would scale* -- and an open question based on my experience and also raised by the article is: how and where do you organize that content so that it can be discovered by newcomers to the team?

*Example: crisis moments, such as technical outages, would be tricky to manage for a multi-person operations team
I understand the sentiment, but: Are you running for a local office? Are you engaged in changing election laws? If you're builder, building a better election system is a noble task, and one that requires tackling.
This is a neat visualization, I wonder if this is more persuasive than written numbers of users and money. I just think it should use some sort of chunking to avoid breaking the page flow.

On another note, I’m from Germany and here there is absolutely no motion from the government towards legalization. Instead they double down on their failed and regressive prohibition, while still being mostly ignorant towards the dangers of alcohol. This is odd, since not only do more and more countries in the EU decriminalize or legalize weed/drugs but they do so successfully with regards to users, protection of youth and taxes (where it applies).
At least the US is moving in the right direction with regards to weed, albeit slowly.
Or put it in a meadow along some easy trail near Anchorage. Let people hike to it there.
China is a great example, very mono-cultural (relative to the US, I know there is different great diversity in China) and (personal experience) a bit racist or dismissive of Non-Chinese.

Yet they absolute crush it with almost everything they do? How do we square that circle and say well..if everyone just looked different we would be better off. Minus the white people, they shouldn't be around anymore.
I am getting the same Dell 4919DW monitor, transitioning from two 25" Dell monitors. I think the built in KVM will be great addition as I have two workstations. Ordered the new Dell 7750 to pair with a WD19DC docking station. I hope the Intel 630 UHD built in graphics will do, as stated in the knowledge base.
The 4919DW only have 60hz refresh rate but I am not concerned about that. A great alternative would be the curved Samsung 49" C49RG9 at 120hz.
As much time as I've also spent time in R&D through industries, over the years it's moved from R&d to R&D to r&D... approaching D. The two, IMO, are converging.

There's awfully skinny budgets for most research these days and so much focus on 'success' (short term ROI) and '[financial] sustainability' (translating research into products/services in business form).

This is growing ever more true even in basic research, which is IMHO absurd. It's growing to the point it might as well just be 'D' with higher risks, less flexibility, and lower rewards which is making entrepreneurship more alluring.

I don't know who is going to fund long term research if the federal government doesn't. I suppose we can rely on the international market to produce research and hope it's useful. Businesses tend to be highly risk averse anymore.
I know you are being sarcastic, but at what value?

One is the office of The POTUS from which only real information should derive, (this shouldn't involve guessing when he is being facetious ). He clearly speaks his mind even before the truth. He thought this pandemic was a "hoax."

SNL is entirely for laughs and satire. There is no premise of it being news. Sure its biased towards a politcal group but it's obvious in its nature and not coming from an elected official.

Do you trust his opinion because he is the President or because you ONLY trust Donald?