skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the idea is self-belief is more “I think I can get it done” versus “I think I’m right.” A lot of good researchers will fail every which way very quickly until finally getting somewhere that once looked impossible.

In research, this process is usually a personal one (perhaps with a lot of discussion). But in industry, a CEO is giving orders and dragging a lot of people along with what feels wrong, and the CEO isn’t in a position to show deep self-doubt if it exists.

Not sure here about the message, but am sure the wording as Sam has chosen is very poor.
>just buying the S&P index is actually more economically harmful.

What
Yeah, that's a crazy dangerous place that is often very overcrowded on a weekend near Seattle.
I agree, and very good satire it is. They had me going for a minute.
> like every color is a frequency

Hot pink isn't a frequency. It does not appear in the visible light spectrum. You can only produce it by combining multiple "impure" frequencies. You generally produce it by combining a spike of low-frequency red with a spike of high-frequency violet.

Human eyes try to "triangulate" a complex spectral analysis into an absolute position in a colour space, that colour space is the surface of a sphere or torus or something, and hot pink is "between" red and violet. Three-coordinate colour space is very much an artifact of humans, and how human eyes/brains work.
https://archive.vn/Ue3Kp
Linux on desktop is one of those things where reputation precedes reality. It runs fine most of the time, but many remember or have read the nightmare stories about non-functioning hardware, the need to compile drivers and so on.
While Linux has been sorting out those issues, a lot of things moved ahead to SaaS and Web applications and for majority the device is just a terminal. Which runs Windows or MacOS because people are complacent and don’t care.
It seems that lack of a remotely viable businesses model and trying to scale things that don't are are common SoftBank flaws. Like WeWork and the countless scooter and ride share at a loss companies with little true barrier to entry and can hardly pay for themselves while infamously underpaying their workforce.
People's informational bits are not unified as html or pdf. They could be anywhere: html on web (more than one browser), html on mobile (which browser is it?), pdf here, pdf there; tons of apps icons, whatsapps, facebook, bookmarks galore, blah, blah. We are all over the place. Annotation on the other hand is a tool for organized individuals. Life is not necessarily organized for most people, hence, this never got picked up.

Annotation should have been part of the browser from day one. It should have evolved with it when things moved on to the mobile world. It never happened.
How does one know what the good stuff is without looking at it?
That’s a valid pushback on my assertion that the U.S. market benefits consumers. It’s still true that you can do better than 2% if you’re diligent, but most people aren’t, so point taken that it may be a wash for even moderately tuned-in consumers. Thanks!
Read the article, the GP is wrong.

They paid to rent the cinema (small fee), then "sold" themselves the tickets. So their expenditure might have been $26k, but their income would have been $26k. In reality, I assume no money changed hands. It's almost more fun to imagine they sold each other one ticket at time handing the same ten dollars back and forth between themselves.

They held 5 viewings, making roughly $5k per viewing.
I think hoping that people who enter academia will go into areas with significant practicality is a path that will lead to despair.

Some people just like what they like though. I studied computer science and really enjoyed the more abstract mathematical stuff like type theory and semantics. Probably less applicable than something like machine learning or robotics or NLP, but I like what I like.

Also, someone may have already mentioned this in response to your other post, but perhaps people are interested in things like astronomy and HEP precisely because they're so far removed from common experience. That was part of my personal interest in quantum computing (and as a corollary, QM).
Being the CEO of Ycombinator, the business consulting firm, would give him very special insights into the industry, as many new companies would come straight to Ycombinator, looking for advice. Altman was in a good position to study the whole industry.
> How would you whitelist things in your regular IMAP client?

If I were building it for my parents, I'd say "anything in Pending/Held/StrangerDanger that you flag will be whitelisted and will be in the Inbox from then on".

Flagging a message on iOS Mail is pretty straightforward - swipe+tap or long-press+tap+tap and easy enough conceptually as a "this is good" action, I think?

Backend picks up the flag change, adds the address to the inbox, strips the flag, and moves that message to the inbox.

Add "move it to junk to undo the whitelisting" for completion (also easy on iOS Mail).

Perhaps not as polished as writing a custom app to do it, no, but it seems fairly consumer friendly to me?
SharedWebWorker is another browser feature I hadn’t heard of.

One minor niggle for your friend re: “To not pollute the DOM, neo.mjs is sticking to global event listeners. E.g. there is just 1 click listener on the document body node.”

That is a problem on Mobile Safari (I know Safari isn’t supported but...). For Mobile Safari registering an onclick event on say a img affects the touch zones of adjacent controls (and also turns on tap highlighting). Say you place an img of a ▼ adjacent to an input. The ▼ needs its own onclick handler, otherwise a tap on the img near the input gets shifted to the input (causes the focus to shift to the input.) Tap zones for inputs are larger than the actual boundary of the input element.
If it's so simple, why hasn't anyone managed to do it?
Practical Examples of How Microcopy Can Improve Your Conversion
You're ascribing beliefs to me that I don't hold. There are two fundamentally different things at play here.

First, I _do_ believe in freedom of speech, in the sense that any individual should be allowed to say what they think and that should be largely free of legal ramifications.

However I do think there are limits to this, and specifically I don't think that you should be allowed to blatantly lie without any risk of consequences. This is the standard that publishers are held to, they can basically publish whatever they want so long as they can demonstrate reasonable evidence that it is true.

On the other hand, there is a deeply toxic "thought censorship" going on right now, which I cannot describe as well as this article does: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...

I couldn't be more opposed to this "thought police" movement that is growing largely on the left.

But to preserve a reasonable middle ground between "unlimited free speech" which includes blatant deception with no consequences and the Orwellian thought police, we do have to have some standards of what is acceptable and what can get you in trouble. To me that standard is truth supported by evidence.

And all I am arguing is that social media should be held to the same standards as traditional media, that when their claims are unsubstantiated they can face legal consequences.
I only have a very limited knowledge of color theory and while it was clear that it's messed up it isn't clear to be satire.

Honestly it sounds a lot like something people also into alternative facts would flock to and believe, especially if you mix in the conspiracy theory that color theory was intentionally made to manipulate you.
Awesome! Very impressive work! I can't wait until the kinks are ironed out and we start seeing resource management APIs using this.

It surprised me how useful Rust's affine types were for resource management APIs, so I'm sure we'll see some cool applications in Haskell.
Right... that logic makes sense assuming there is near limitless funds available...

Funding for all practical purposes is limited, and there is so much any nation, (or group of nations), can provide.

Sure, you 1. can cut other areas of the budged (health, defense, roads/infra, admin, pick what), or 2) raise taxes.... but even that has a practical bound.
IMO the VC industry as a whole is losing money because a large fraction of them suffer from luck/survivorship bias & lack the wisdom to recognize that was the key to their past successes, and they all have a serious case of FOMO. A lot of tech hype is just hype and the reality is, if you don't understand a technology and if/why it really is superior to existing solutions, you almost certainly aren't going to make money off it.
> They respond based on what they understood, not based on what the speaker was saying.

Lets say there are three main steps in responding to communication: 1. Comprehension of the original communication. 2. Mapping that communication onto the reader's priors. 3. Crafting a response that communicates the results of that mapping.

The problem seems to be that the first two steps are typically left implicit indefinitely. As a result, there can be discontinuities lurking hidden in or between any of those three steps and it's a hell of a lot of work to pry those discontinuities up to the surface.
> this post would not survive blind review

If I wrote a post like this, people would very reasonably wonder what sort of experience I had informing these generalizations. Sam's background is very relevant for figuring out whether his thoughts are worth paying attention to here.
In the current climate of inequity making the front pages of the news and dominating the public discourse, I would think such huge expenditures would be anathema to the populist agenda?

Because the beneficiaries of the jobs of this project are definitely not the disadvantaged in society (research-wise, or construction-wise). And I have to say, HEP's huge experiments seem to produce one-time headline discoveries (of a few hundred authors, yes), but then quickly become obsolete pieces of equipment.

And the science or industrial benefits themselves, of hitting the next tier beyond 13 TeV for such a collider? What is, and where does that benefit go? Does anyone have even an inkling of what results it will produce? Or is this just HEP on autopilot, "we need the next big one"?

Please don't trot out the usual "science for its own sake", as if that justifies any arbitrary amount of $ being spent without question.

At least astronomy produces pretty pictures for its funding.
People are emotionally affected by exclusion. The phrase "the best people are ___" is exclusionary if you don't match the fill in the blank. I don't think Altman is trying to offend anyone. He's trying to contrast the behavior of top researchers/founders with everyone else...
>“During this period, we started realizing that his bank account was being drawn down through purchases of games from Xbox and [Electronic Arts],” Dayman the elder recalled.

You should never trust any of these companies with your actual bank account. All of them have garbage customer service with hoops upon hoops to get real help if your account is somehow compromised.

Use a credit card, prepaid card (in the US Amex gift cards you get at grocery stores will work just fine) or buy codes from Amazon and redeem them.
As long as my friend is mobile they have food and medical options. My concern is and has been what happens if he becomes ill and must either isolate himself or is hospitalized. In that latter case I needed ways to reach out remotely and support him and his family. This thread has provided some helpful options previously unknown to me.

Thank you!
Alibaba? They turned $20 million into $60 billion with that one.
Pytomlpp – A Toml Parser Alternative
Hi, I have been working on an alternative to `toml` and `tomlkit`. One thing I have found in my day job is that these libs are slow when parsing toml files, and I think the reason behind it is that they are pure-python implementations. I have made a wrapper for a high-quality C++ toml parser (tomlplusplus) and think this wrapper can provide better performance if your app parses a large number of toml files like mine do.

The repo is here: https://github.com/bobfang1992/pytomlpp

Please let me know your thoughts!

Bob
Why not check out the K&R C book and work through that? It's still an amazingly self-contained book that manages to be a language tutorial (and almost a reference), while still being approachable without programming experience. C compilers are easy to get hold of, and for better or worse the language will certainly still be around in a decade or five. Ironically, it might even give him a stronger foundation in programming than the average "learn Python in a day" web course.
Free Speech != 1st Amendment.

Free Speech is a principle that allowing opposing viewpoints is the cornerstone of political discourse and a functioning democracy. Only through discussion, debate, and argument, do we avoid what all governments are designed to avoid - violence.

The 1st Amendment is a Law that is meant to protect the people from restrictions on freedom of speech from the government. It if not the totality of the idea.

In the same way that the government regulations on clothing imports are not a national dress code.

The dangerous territory we have recently waded into is that the younger voters are so emotionally tied to their political ideas within their bubble that they cannot stand to hear discussions that do not agree with their existing world view - and are happy to see violence used to silence dissent.

It is the principle of Freedom of Speech that is under attack - not the 1st Amendment.
> In fact, with many accidents, it's often a matter of compounding mistakes.

Yep! One of my favorite elements to many backcountry accidents is what mountaineers call "summit fever". It's a prevalent bug in human psychology. It gets people into trouble in the wilderness all the time, and it has a close cousin in tech circles, the "sunk cost fallacy".
Except, I think that HENRY implies that they are not willing to adjust their extravagant lifestyle in order to become rich.
The malicious code would run as your current user and would be able to override your shell’s configuration to alias sudo to a malicious function that’ll exfiltrate the password the next time you run it. The script itself doesn’t even have to use sudo itself and can just wait until you use it for an unrelated command at which point the malicious alias will steal your password.
For Newly Remote Workers, Small Town USA Will Lose Its Allure Soon Enough
Oh, BlueKai is only the tip of the iceberg. I used to work for a spammer (that called itself an "incubator") that used blukai among other better sources.

3rd party cookie impressions can be sent to a company like LiveRamp to identify what websites users have visited (in theory only in buckets, but that's trivial to bypass). With the exception of the very largest websites, you could see traffic to many, many websites and tie it back to an individual user (even if their IP changed, etc.).

Companies like FullContact and People Data Labs offer the ability to take the few pieces of information you have a user and get their other info (eg; verify email using name and address, or get social media profiles, etc.).

The problem is no matter how good you are about using VPNs, clearing cookies, etc. the weak link are the websites you're forced to give some info to. Many of them will well you out even if their TOS say otherwise.
While I've been very interested in HEP as a teen and up, even as a "fanboy" the science potential seems very dubious.

When they approved the LHC, they were almost entirely certain they'd find the Higgs and there was solid arguments for why they should find more.

Now it seems much less clear that they stand to find anything groundbreaking by simply doing more of the same.

Personally I'd like to see more money being put towards condensed matter physics, quantum information science and similar areas which seems to have potential for much more practical applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural_type_system#Line...
An extinction event for American restaurants
Tesla's solar panels are now more efficient and affordable
I think this is pure nostalgia.

The only people I've heard describe more than a handful of old games as "beautiful" have been those old enough to have experienced them before newer games came along. The original article doesn't seem to have examples of what the author considers beautiful, but let's talk about Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, a Lucasarts game from 1992 (since this is one I played in the early 90s). The art is ... fine. It has a lot of constraints (low resolution, not a ton of colors available in its palette) and it's well executed within those constraints, but it's not beautiful. I also played Myst around the same time. I didn't then, and still don't, see any way in which the 2d pixel art was "more beautiful."

The cross-genre comparisons to shooters are also unfair. Compare something like Madden 95 on SNES to Madden 64 on N64. They both have jagged edges and visual crudity; the "pixel art" nature of the former does it no favors.
Thank you for your advice. I would very much like to depend on native scrolling for managing positions, except that I ran into some roadblocks early on and resorted to javascript. But I will look into CSS scroll snap for this.
>Maybe it's about what forms of success one is exposed to and what one sees is popular among one's peers?

I wonder if this particular cancer is not more widespread than that?

What I mean is this - What if there is a very real perception among the populace, that insta-youtube-dreaming is, in actuality, a good way to make money? Maybe the problem is deeper than simple "peer pressure"? Maybe the issue is that at this point, having seen so many seemingly successful people doing this, the populace has come to believe this is how you can make a living? Just as previously the lower socioeconomic side of the populace believed the way to make a living was to go out and get a job at the town's factory. While working at a grocer was something you did only until you got that job down at the plant. Today, working at Starbucks may be getting viewed as something you do only until your Twitch-Youtube-InstaFaceChat channel gets enough followers.

It's a bit depressing when you think about it.
Again, only an 18 year old.
A microphone.
I think a big part of this article is that the author doesn't like being interrupted and therefore has defined this as the problem. I don't like being interrupted either - but often the interruptions I experience are the best opportunities I have to communicate ideas, have creative back and forth, and importantly, communicate the details that are going to get me shouted at for saying on the wiki.

The problem with asynchronous communication is that I need to predict what information you're going to need, before you need it. The result is huge amounts of documentation work going on - 90% of which is useless, and the other 10% is either undiscoverable or could as just as easily be solved with "has anyone touched the db" in chat.

The example is great - because it's absolutely something that I've seen happen. You post on the group chat "did anyone touch the db" and someone replies, "Oh Johnny mentioned something about it the other day". Suddenly you're not searching through thousands of jira tickets and wiki pages, and most likely not finding what you want anyway - since no one can predict how they'll scre up. You just ping Johnny, and if Johnny isn't there? Well he'll reply when it's back. It's fine. That is part of flexible working. Flexible working isn't "I get to pick up my kids at 12" it's about everyone having flexibility, and everyone giving flexibility.

To me, this asynchronous communication plan sets an unacheivable goal, because you're never going to know what it is other people are going to need to know, and documenting everything exhaustively is an uneconomical.
Why VCs Miss Billion-Dollar Outcomes
Yial, perhaps you should submit a similar Ask HN question to HN during the early morning in Iquitos, Peru. That is a time when you will catch a lot more locals reading and maybe able to offer relevant suggestions.

Good wishes to your colleagues and thank you for being there for them.
Which question didn’t I answer? You asked what an ambiguous tattoo of 1488 might look like, and I offered a possibility.
found in english: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-facebook-trump/facebook-ta...

As you all point out, this could simply be highly unfortunate coincidence. I would advise the white house to try internally circulating campaigns for feedback before running them.

(a flight of fancy: the infamous Antifa agent Max Isayev, as part of a highly structured plot —supported not only by the FBI, but also by Thurn und Taxis and the Trans Scouts of America— to prevent Trump's reelection, has gone deep undercover at Fox under the name of Seymour Buttz, and has been both circulating memes with unfortunate connotations among the Base and flashing subliminal emoji during programming, confident that in the US things that happened in WW2 are even less part of common knowledge than things that Ancient Astronaut theorists believe, making it more likely his nefarious "suggestions" will intermittently seep into campaign material with the innocents none the wiser.)
This phenomenon has been written about on HN before. The gist is that some Google product manager launched this so they could get promoted. They and a few of the team will get promoted, and then the product will be forgotten, and eventually shut down like everything else.
What does this mean to me as an apple prosumer? When will this come out? What will it be like?
But a surprisingly common alternative view is: it’s all about BORN TALENT, no amount of work will help you if you are not anointed.

Personally I find the born talent view to be lazy and not a little bit creepy.
Google tolerates exactly the behavior Hey wants for its app.
The Shareware Scene, Part 3: The id Boys
More like Google Glass and less like Microsoft Hololens / Magic Leap One
The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement
The military budget is practically not available for redistribution without a complete political overhaul. Many people could be fed and many nice projects could be financed with that money.

As it is, the supercollider money comes from the limited science budget, and buying the one thing means we can't have the other.
To my understanding the US defence budget is mostly not intended for killing people but to enable taxes to be diverted to the military industrial complex (a form of state subsidy and employment scheme). It enables large scale force projections but I think that's only a nice bonus.
> Cops are not terminators.

Then we should stop training them like they are [1]. When Dave Grossman tells cops that they're warriors, and they need to get over their instinct to not want to kill in order to better protect "sheep" from "wolves", we're telling cops to be Terminators.

> If you really think society could function without entire police departments, I welcome you to lobby your local municipality to dismantle their police force.

Minneapolis is planning to do just that, and replacing it with Public Safety services. And as someone who lives a few miles from Camden, it's been clear that disbanding the police force entirely and reforming it has greatly improved the situation[2].

The point of the satire is that politely asking a group to stop murdering people without further meaningful change is unlikely to be helpful. And given that police are now hunting down protesters using facial recognition and social media, and that police unions have resisted even the most modest of reforms over the years, it doesn't seem like these Not Terminators will stop terminating willingly.

1. https://www.inlander.com/spokane/why-thousands-are-calling-o...

2. https://www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-not-first-disband-polic...