skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising is not free lunch. We pay by being manipulated into spending more. Would have been nice if there was a free source of money, but clearly this cannot possibly be true. Even if advertisements wouldn't work, the cost of advertisement is still baked into prices.

There is also no contract, no trade. People go on a website, ignore any and all terms of services and privacy notes and try to read what's up. Presenting such terms of services etc. is acting in bad faith (as no layperson is able to understand it and no lawyer has time to read all of it). Third party code is executed on their computer. Could be bitcoin miners or even ransomware.

Your example with spotify may be true, but you can't ignore that Netflix and others are raking in a lot of money and provide a really expensive product (compared to website articles which yes, were produced for free by many people for years, on some level). I used to subscribe to The Athletic and will probably do so again if there's football in autumn.

I really wouldn't mind seeing some ads. On a shoe website, see a banner ad for shoes, with a hyper link to another shoe website. No tracking, no code, just a link.
"Woe to you when men bless you!" (Luke 6:26)

The fact that everyone speaks well of Dr. Graham means he's on an extremely wrong path. Everyone spoke well of Fred Rogers (Hollywood made a biopic celebrating him) and he was proven to be beyond evil. He encouraged unspeakably shameful afflictions and never sought to heal sinners of their brokenness: instead he denied they were broken.
The way the US chose to address accidents in rail was to armour plate their rail cars. In Europe they worked on better processes to ensure trains don’t run into each other in the first place. The erosion of technical capability in rail is driven by the legislature. You have many states that will need to work together to completely abandon the US regulations on rail, adopt European regulations, and replace every piece of rolling stock to comply with the new regulations. That’s quite the undertaking, but achievable since the required expertise still exists outside the USA.

The erosion of technical capability in nuclear power is likely unsolvable. There is no brains trust outside the USA from which to borrow the knowledge of metallurgy, concrete, site preparation, building design, or even design for manufacture. This is rebooting the entire industry from scratch to produce an unprofitable product.
You should learn vim if you want to deal with systems. You can learn vim or not if you don't.

lookback: vi, sh and unix have become your vim, bash and linux systems of today. Now, while they have forward compatibility, of sorts, vi and sh, the same cannot be said in reverse, as a rule. Modern bash folks have bent bourne shell syntax into foreign looking contortions where bourne shell syntax is a) performant and conformant, b)a lot simpler when simpler is better and c) is why bash maintains posix.

I agree, learn basic vim. And bash. But not really to program with. It's more of a burden than not for a million languages and formats.
On one hand, I love finding pristine pre-Web 2.0 websites untouched by modernity. On the other hand, I love finding such sites that are actually being updated semi-regularly while keeping that older aesthetic. Shows that they can still live on into the future.
I'm reasonably sure that Asperger's treatment was added to a few tech company health insurance plans by popular demand.

Fertility treatments would likely be another "by popular demand" addition.
Long shot, but maybe you know the answer.

There is some chemical in certain shampoos that affects me more than most. The sensation is less like smelling and more like something is penetrating into my nose. It doesn't feel quite like burning or heat, but it's intense in a sort of similar way.

Sorry that's vague, but maybe this is a well-known thing.
Just turn off ipv4 for one minute every day. Next month, increase it to 2 minutes. A minor inconvenience, but a major motivator.
I realize HN sperdos have a hard time with this concept sometimes, but MUH SCIENCE isn't how we make decisions as a society, anywhere, ever.

Leadership is decision under uncertainty. The best thing most scientists can do for leadership is tell them the best guess and estimates of how big the uncertainties are. Recent events have shown how unbelievably shitty these guesses were, and, frankly, continue to be; and as far as I can tell, none of the important players over the last 6 months mentioned any of the uncertainties in a useful actionable way.

Putting scientists and operations research types in charge of anything more complicated than airline routing tables is basically the definition of madness; literally every time it's been tried in human history has ended up a disaster. Adam Curtis and that gasbag Taleb have made a career of documenting this obvious truism.
"In the latter case, that extra neutron can start the process over again, allowing two more deuterons to fuse."

So sounds like they are hoping for free reactions.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19562650
I was in a PhD crisis, but I did not post it anywhere. Not sure if it is allowed to ask for outside help.

Although now I have finished the thesis without that part (it should have become an additional chapter). Perhaps I should post it around (although that might spoil it for a paper)

Consider n polynomial equations in variables x_1, .., x_n, with constants a_1,..,a_n, b_1,..,b_n, c_1,...,c_n:

p_1 := a_1 x_1 x_2 + b_1 x_1 + c_1 x_2 + d_1 = 0
...
p_{n-1} := a_{n-1} x_{n-1} x_n + b_{n-1} x_{n-1} + c_{n-1} x_n + d_n = 0
p_n := a_{n} x_{n} x_1 + b_{n} x_{n} + c_{n} x_1 + d_n = 0

Under which circumstances exists a (unique) solution for x_1,..,x_n in terms of the constants?

I have found a recursive approach that results in a quadratic equation, containing only a single variable x_i (and the constants). (It is too much for a comment, here is a PDF: http://benibela.de/tmp/quadratic-equations-recursion.pdf )

For example for n = 2, it is very simple: x^2_1 (a_2 b_1 - a_1 c_2) + x_1 (a_2 d_1 + b_2 b_1 - a_1 d_2 - c_1 c_2) + b_2 d_1 - c_1 d_2

This gives 2 solution. But I do not know what happens if the terms cancel each other out. Like if a_2 b_1 - a_1 c_2 = 0, there would only be one solution. But since the full solution in the pdf is so complex, I do not see which constraints would lead to cancellation there.

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And that is not the full problem I was trying to solve. In the full problem there are constraints on the a, b, c, d. There is a given graph, and depending which nodes are connected in the graph, the constants are the same. Like if node 3 and node 7 are connected, then b_3 = c_7 und c_7 = b_3. (even more complex though). And then the question is, do these constants cancel in the solution of those equations? And the final problem we want to solve: which graphs lead to exactly one solution, and which graphs lead to no solution of the equations?
Is this in some way controversial? Seems like good advice.
Why? I mean I got $10 in my pocket. You really think it’ll be worth $100-worth any time this year? Ford is currently trading at around $7. Think it can possibly go to $70 any time soon?

You have to look at market cap, not individual price. Why would all the BTC that’s around be suddenly 10x the value it was a year ago? What would drive that?
> My personal conclusion is that Google has been heavily down-scoring content which is more than a couple months old.

I think it depends. I have some technical posts that are ~3 years old and they're my most popular posts by orders of magnitude.

I'm not an SEO expert but if you're writing about topical things, then that could explain why you might be losing rankings / traffic after a few months.
CPI is fine...
It looks like they won a IG Nobel in 2011:
https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/#ig2011

And it's in the National Museum of Scotland:
https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scienc...

Unfortunately I can't seem to find any evidence that they turned it into a real product.
Drones require you to get permission or vioalate the airspace of the host country.
Thinking back to my first years as a professional developer, I remember floundering around an IDE trying to find the things I wanted. I ultimately decided that it was worth my time to pick an editor, learn it deeply, and stick with it. That's ultimately where the productivity gain comes from. Lots of people like to talk about how productive vim or emacs or VS code or IDEs are, but I really think it's the fact of knowing your tool really well that leads to the productivity gains.

Vim is great and I love it and have used it for 12 years day in and day out. But I wouldn't say it's what makes me productive, just that I got good at it and know it well.
> I feel you're trying to make a valid point

Thanks?

> but you aren't really respecting how much LeBron was an outlier as a prospect

This is rewriting history. The thing about signing someone straight from high school is it's tough to know how good they are, given they've mostly spent their whole career stomping normal people. Also I'm not implying Lebron was bad, or even anything less than a top pick. I'm just pointing out that there are quite regularly draft candidates that are touted the same way, that do not end up as a Lebron James.

> There simply are not plenty of prospects with his size, control, explosiveness, durability and fine motor control

Most of which he developed in the league? Which is as much a testament to him as it is his coaching, no? Which is a variable that could've prevented him from ascending as high as he did?

> 16 years after LeBron was drafted, we finally saw someone who is as much of an outlier as LeBron in Zion.

This is flatout not true (and frankly pretty offensive to Lebron). Zion is overweight and duck-footed, the combination of which has already shown issues even in his first season. His team knows it, which is why they're keeping him at 20 minutes a game.

If you can't play a player because of their fragility, you can't really call them great.
> nobody is an expert in everything, right

True. But then they should speak with humility and uncertainty, not proclaim their wrong ideas with confidence.

> if someone is wrong about something, they deserve to know the reasons

No, it's not our job to educate people. Least of all, people who are ignorant but purport to be knowledgeable. These are the most resistant to any kind of learning.
Even comes with attempted code injection!

<scriptnotallowed>alert("hi");</scriptnotallowed>
Information seems to be scant about how this has fared since the article was written. But it looks like it launched in 2009 and also won an Ig Nobel prize: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a7253/our-favori...
Could it be peppermint?
It is not in the abstract.
Returning large arrays is the kind of bad idiom you see in languages lacking abstract iterator constructs, generators, or lexical closures. Go isn't such a minimalist language; in fact, it's the one area where it excels, a fact often overlooked by those obsessed with generics. It's indeed perplexing why they'd add an interface that accumulates everything into a giant array by default, especially in a context that you know will cause performance problems, and used by a community with many inexperienced programmers--including ones (e.g. devops) not accustomed to thinking of these details--who will invariably fall into this trap.
> Not really. price going up 10x is much easier when it's around $10, than when it's $1000

I’m not sure this line of reasoning applies to altcoins whose maximum quantity can be set by the creator.
how hard would it be for a dalit to just lie? "I'm from X upper caste" , genuinely curious. Not that they have to but could they? Is there some cultural aspects that separate people of different castes that could be used to identify which caste a person is from?
You/she should put an email signup on her site or in a comment here. Would help people see the eventual article.
You by definition would make money. If you sell at max price that means you had to have bought it for lower than that. Assuming you didn’t buy for so close to max such that transaction fees are larger than your margin.
- So one small Psychiatrist is losing business to other Psychiatrists.

Perhaps you're approaching this from a technical standpoint because you're a computer person. He's not supposed to represent the entirety of the problem. He's there to illustrate the problem. Journalists do this to "humanize" the story, to make it more understandable by the audience. This is done all the time. If there's space available, several people are added. Or there may have been several examples in the reporter's original writing, but they were cut for various reasons like lack of space.

As an HN reader, you're probably not the audience.
If you are editing over a network connection and you normally have cursorline on, then try turning it off. That makes a big difference for me when there is network latency.
Still waiting on Bell Canada to let me be part of the next third.
If all the precious metals chatter I heard when I was into collecting, e.g., Peace Dollars is true, you can't actually take delivery of Comex gold you "own", even in non-panic times, and also that there was many times more "ownership" than there was actual corresponding gold. And then the conspiracy theories go up from there. :)

Not knowing how much this is true, my impression, as a layperson, is that the claims would mean investment gold was more of a financial mechanism that only works because everyone is playing along that it has certain value governed by certain rules. If that's true, I don't know when the rules would stop or change. I decided I'd rather just plow my savings into total-market index investing of US stocks, than blindly guess about how and when gold would help.
Probably because that's what the majority of the content on Instagram is. It's likely that content you enjoy hasnt been created yet.
> It is very easy to politicize this, but it wasn't just the party in power

That's what I'm saying. Non-Trump people took a move out of Trump's playbook. That's vicious.

> The anti-maskers we're seeing today are directly their fault.

I wouldn't go that far. Anybody who is still anti-mask at this point is just an anti-reality nihilist.
But you managed to add google-analytics to the site which launched in 2005. ;-P
Yeah, I always thought it was because I use a VPN but maybe not.
To be fair, the timeline was predicated on spending levels that were never met. In fact, funding levels never made it above the "fusion never" threshold: https://i.imgur.com/3vYLQmm.png

Interestingly, the projected budget was $100B-$300B in 2020 dollars. Certainly puts $4T stimulus plan into perspective!
Latest news I've heard (through informal channels) is that the paper is being withdrawn.
Most of the people trading Gold are trading it as a CFD asset anyway, so they shouldn't have any expectation of having it backed by real gold.
yes, but the point of the anecdote is who is saying it, not what is being said.
And that's exactly the reason: when the information is so widely circulated, you no longer have the information advantage. The market should have priced those information in. At that time, it's best to exit. Otherwise, the investor is no longer "investing". It's plain gambling without information.
ITS DIFFERENT THEREFORE IT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE!!! WHY CAN’T EVERYTHING BE LIKE MY FIRST COMPUTER???

WAAAAAAAAAAA
This is why Foxit is dead to me. We truly live in a brave new world, where these projects get sold to someone that just wants to cash in. It's not enough to know that a project was once reputable.

I think the new management plead ignorance ("did you not want spyware?"), and supposedly doesn't do that anymore, but I refuse to deal with them now.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8502477

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325700
It could also be that they give more prominence to people's first or second posts to get them off the ground. That effect doesn't have to be caused by artificial like inflation.
You do , which is why it ends up being easier to attack kings in the past. Because you can't change the past, only create new timelines, attacking a king from any previous board state means that the attacking piece must be captured.
>Imagine instead a tmux that could allow multiple users to connect to it simultaneously, and drive different panes at the same time, or view the commands that another user is using in a given pane.

I think this is what tmate does? I haven't used it, but I saw it mentioned on HN a couple days ago.

https://tmate.io/
> Except for one person with a blocked nose, all woke up within two minutes of the smell reaching them.

Seems like a pretty bad failure mode, if it doesn’t work when people have a bad cold.

Also, the time delay is an issue. An audible alarm can wake people up much faster.

One thing they might be to use an sound based alarm, but that has enough low frequencies that it makes your skull resonate. A lot of dead people, may have conduction issues, and the sound can be transmitted through bone. For the people that have a neurological basis for deafness, even sounds that you cannot perceive if they resonate the right structures can make you feel uncomfortable.
On the publishers? I honestly don't see how they would. As far as I know, they are blind on all transactions and none of their channels that publishers can use to register to receive BAT have any kind of declared ToS.

In any case, it seems like you are just looking for a way to rationalize your current behavior. I only mentioned Brave because it is the first strong offering for an alternative to the ad-based economy. If for whatever reason Brave stops being a valid alternative, there is nothing holding you to it. Why not try it for yourself?
The thing is, at the beginning of the pandemic panic, this didn’t happen at all. Instead everyone sold gold and the price dropped (same with bitcoin, which went to $3.5k) because they wanted liquidity rather than a speculative investment.
What are some good examples of web-1.0-style sites (from that era) that are still being updated semi-regularly?

I can find a lot of web-1.0-style sites that are updated regularly, but few originally from that time.

Daniel J. Bernstein's site is one example I remembered off the top of my head: https://cr.yp.to/djb.html
I can't downvote them, but I don't think this is why it happened. I think it was because my comment was about the difficulty of language and that it comes with explanations (my sibling expands on this) and the parent attacked me with something that I didn't claim. Though my sibling comment addresses that I understand the miscommunication. But if you are going to accuse others of being ungenerous you should not respond in kind. I personally do not feel the response was a generous interpretation of my comment and missed the point. I'm not going to call them a hypocrite though because my thesis is that communication is difficult.
Curious to why it is called "Magnasanti"; possibly related to Arcosanti [0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
Arcosanti
Cheap, Easy Deepfakes Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing
By your logic, this is precisely the time to sell non-gold equities -- with comments like Portnoy's "put any 3 letters together and buy that"[1], not the time to sell gold, which is behaving exactly as you would expect it to behave when confidence in other asset classes (especially the US dollar) is sinking.

Disclosure: I own gold.

[1]https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/12728866210300149...
I believe that all of Google's services are blocked in China, so they wouldn't have that data.
Perhaps it's Tea Tree Oil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tree_oil

Trader Joe's in the U.S. sells a line of shampoo/conditioner that has that extract in it, and if it gets into my eyes it's game over.

https://www.traderjoes.com/digin/post/tea-tree-tingle-bath-p...
Yes, this is elementary economics--and I'm not trying to say that pedantically, it's just easily overlooked. Gold is an inert metal that pays no dividend and incurs storage costs, so any rational market participant who believes that they can achieve a risk-adjusted real return above 0% will not own gold. A poor economic outlook reduces expected real returns on equities, and currency devaluation (i.e. inflation) reduces real returns on fixed-income securities (bonds). Combine the two and you've got a perfect storm for skyrocketing gold prices--just look at the 1970s.
I have no idea what point you are making.
Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this, but if I have multiple vendors, why can't I compare the hashes of all of them before I ask for the binary? Then any one vendor is being held to account by the others before I install. No source is required, just the hashes of the source and the hashes of the resultant binary.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13987046
This just made me snort, I think it's comic genius.
how does the security compare slack to discord?
I was doing an ml thing trying to teach the algorithm how to sort trash: recycling, compost, trash.

I wanted to add some additional labeled data so I thought I would start out with an item like 'strawberry' and google image search the item. I realized it was nearly impossible to find an actual image of a strawberry. If you google search something as simple as strawberry, all you get is page after page of stock photos and images of strawberries on various forms of eCommerce sites.

No actual image of someone taking a picture of a strawberry.
It's true for most freeware, unfortunately. Project gets a good reputation, and looks to cash in; unfortunately the options are limited. Often times it's not even the original authors, who sold out, and moved on.
Doesn't this violate the spirit of Show HN? I thought only the authors could submit them unless they are all authors of the project.
> Large scale small margin offerings clearly better serve the patients

This isn’t clear to me at all. I actually associate low-margin business with worse outcomes for traditionally high-touch services.
This makes me feel bad. As a kid, I remember holding light switches at just the right point to hear the buzzing (arcing)? inside. At least if the contacts were carbonizing, there wasn’t a lot flowing through them closed.
indeed. Planet Money did an analysis of the film's future trade, and it was indeed plausible and legal (then)

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/09/200401407/epis...
Taleb makes this same point about inflation repeatedly - that the things he plans on spending money on in the future may inflate far more than the CPI.
maybe you should try it ... what about that? I bet you will change your mind. Both posts that you have linked are pretty much: "meh... i need s.th. to complain about"-posts. I've never been really affected by the issues they are screaming so loud about and believe me, I did not only write some toy projects [1]

go is mega awesome and I love going back to the projects where I use it. It's a simple language that makes it very easy to write good code. And the library ecosystem is pretty good as well, especially when it comes to networking stuff.

[1] https://github.com/MarkusPfundstein/taylor
I looked at it for a few minutes and it seems like it is mostly focused on there being a single presenter at a time, and then an audience for them.

In order to better replicate the benefits from meetups and conferences in real life, I think being able to allow users to more organically interact with each other sounds like a nice feature to work on.

Is there anything like this, or anything planned like this?
I had a personal website from 2007 that ran for maybe 10 years. Unfortunately I had an open comments section and it was not paginated. Once bots made a half-million comments the site wouldn't load anymore. Decided to just shut it down for good.

I had another WordPress site that was hacked by prescription medicine scammers. I thank bots for ruining the early internet.