skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366538

>There are many quotes on questions, like “better to ask and be thought a fool for five minutes than to remain a fool forever” and the likes, but to me, there is something deeper than that. Asking questions often reveals a lot more information than just the answer to the question, almost regardless of the situation.

Thanks. Explains a lot already.

>make me sigh with frustrated rage

I could've asked "do we render emojis here? ⭐"
Or "are ascii emojis downvoted? ಠ_ಠ "

>it is always worth doing a search before asking questions rather than receiving a spoon-fed answer

"meta" question. Not well documented.

>>> I don't know if meta posts are allowed or not. (post)
Well rules out searching.

>Search is your friend when it comes to things like 'why doesn't HN do x or y?'

>>>I am quite new to the community. (post)

thanks.

Have a nice day.
End of the United States, maybe. Europe will go right on functioning.
> Energy efficiency is an area where people both 1) don't have clear info from manufacturers, and 2) it leaves a mess for others to clean up.

Isn't that very similar to repairability? Certainly the second point, and I've never seen a display in a shop give information on how phone batteries might be replaced.
That's what I had in mind as well! There's an online version now: https://www.webliero.com/

Official site with a few options including an open source version https://www.liero.be/
How many people are looking to make a quick buck and retire? The people who are billionaires are billionaires because they are super competitive and super hard workers. Gates, Bezos, Jobs - you think they worked 8 hours a day when they were growing their companies? No, those guys are driven to succeed and that doesn’t just go away when you make X dollars.
You think an id card would be free?
Btw, Carmack mention the debugger as an essential tool. That's my main issue developing C/C++ on Linux. I prefer working on Linux for many reasons but if there is a negative, that's it.

I found every debugger-editor integration to be terrible, at least compared to Visual Studio on Windows. gdb is very powerful, but its UI is primitive, and that includes tui. And most integration basically just assigns shortcuts to commands and show you the current line in the source file. Something as simple as stepping inside a function and watching local variables change can be a problem. Also, no "edit and continue". Someone will probably tell me that I am doing it wrong but if you do, please tell me what I can do to get a Visual Studio 6 level of experience.

Of course, I can get around it, the answer fits in one word: "printf". But I don't want it to be like that, it doesn't have to be, most good IDEs do it right. Note that I use gdb, but for me, it is the big gun, when other weapons have failed. Even for crashes, I tend to go with valgrind first if I can.
The speed and amount are tightly coupled - it's not possible to process large amounts of data at a slow speed.
Reproduction rates is below 1 mean a small number of new cases from minor outbreaks or border crossings are effectively meaningless. The US is currently reducing the number of active infections with poorly implemented social distancing and minimal mask usage. DisneyWorld for example is open and without becoming a hotspot of infections.

Reaching that point 4 months ago was a completely reasonable goal. Sure, our current situation is improved by some herd immunity, but that’s far from the only effect in play.
Maybe I'm missing something, but none of these objections seem insurmountable.

> Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected

The receiving server could require proof-of-work for the first message from a sender to a given receiver, but not for subsequent messages. If spammers try to abuse this, it's easy for the user to click "block this sender"; if the spammer changes their sending address, they have to do a new proof-of-work.

> Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

It could be introduced gradually: if a proof-of-work is provided, then the message is allowed to skip the spam filter. Small mailserver operators often have trouble with their messages being caught in spam filters by GMail and other large webmail providers; even if GMail alone started accepting proof-of-work, that would probably be enough to convince a lot of senders to start generating proofs-of-work, which would drive adoption.

> Lack of centrally controlling authority for email

This is no more difficult than any other backwards-compatible extension to an existing Internet standard.

> Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money

OP's post didn't mention a weird new form of money. The original HashCash proof-of-work proposal included a weird new form of money, but it's easy to imagine a proof-of-work system that doesn't.

> Sending email should be free

Suppose the proof-of-work cost is calibrated such that it costs about $0.001 per email. That would be enough to destroy spammers' margins, but the vast majority of legitimate users wouldn't mind paying that.

> Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical

I kinda see the point here... But I'd like to understand _why_ it isn't practical, because none of the arguments make sense to me.
With many people in need of work (or changing careers), curious if anyone has tried a video pitch before. Or sent portfolio projects instead of a resume.

(Full disclosure I work for Crash. I love the mission and helping people).
it's staggering just how large a billion of something is...

a million seconds is about a 11.5 days. a billion seconds is about 32 years. a few million dollars to a billionaire is next to nothing.
Ignoring if this is a good or bad idea ... this is not a vaccine, this is just an injection. You can inject antibiotics, or vitamins, or whatever. (Moreover, not all vaccines are injectable.)
This is a legit complaint, but none else is. Apple makes better products for their customers by using glue and integrated batteries.

Right to repair should exist, but not at the expense of forcing design changes.
I've been making two loaves a week, sourdough and rye, for over a year now. After they cool overnight they go in the fridge for a couple hours just to make slicing them easier, then they get bagged and go in the freezer. This seems like it maintains 'freshness' the best. The toaster is more or less set to defrost a frozen slice on the first run and toast it on the second. Ironically, the starter mix does live in the fridge on a daily basis, never goes stale and never goes bad.
The Strange Grief of Losing My Sense of Taste
I'm an Australian from a Catholic family of British and Irish descent. My aunt married a Muslim man of ethnic Albanian descent (not actually from Albania, his family come from the Albanian minority in North Macedonia). I've met members of his family on a number of occasions over the years. I never thought of them as "other". I've never really thought about the question of whether he is "white", but his skin has always been paler than my own
Honest question? Do you believe it’s possible to sustain anything close to the levels of consumer wealth seen in US, Europe, or Australia without liquid and efficient financial capital markets?

If so, how come since the industrial revolution, the wealthiest economies have always had the most liquid and sophisticated financial markets? (With the possible exception of a few natural resource states)

Have you considered the possibility that financial liquidity is as essential for high consumer living standards as reliable electrical grids or fair court systems? Because the majority of economists would certainly say so.
> I fully agree that some manufacturers (cough Apple) are obsessed with thinness, but I strongly believe the main driver behind fixed batteries is planned obsolescence.

i've worked with companies making the kinds of products you're concerned about. this never comes up. they are however terrified about lithium batteries in consumer products catching fire, and want to keep you, the user, far away from them. thin flat batteries also tend to stay a bit cooler, which helps in multiple ways.
Earmarking your own dollars for what you support might make you feel better, but it won’t change anything. Money is fungible by design, every dollar of yours that’s earmarked for welfare programs frees up someone else’s for the military.

Sure, if everyone did that it would have an impact, but that seems pretty improbable.
Now that's a leftist meme!
a key insight for me in this article is this one: "In order for bullshit not to distract me for the rest of the week, I try to minimize my number of “open loops”—projects or processes that I’ve started but not completed."

I hadn't realized that I probably keep way too many "open-loops" in my life. And they are draining away my attention-currency.
“Congress shall have power… to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

Depends on the time limit. US copyright was once 23 years, now it's 95-120 years in the US. If this is for 1 year, well, maybe. If it's for 10 years, no.

And can it be "evergreened", with the time limit running out 1 year after the most recent change? (See MPEG-LA for how to do that.)
The bigger problem is that you'll have to wait infinity years for people to use these features wisely. Neophiles will sprinkle them everywhere as though they're magic fairy dust. Luddites will avoid them forever. Very few will explore the space in between.
Amazon has a history of making PR statements about problems announcing policy changes that do nothing to solve the actual problem....
There's lots of those, and they're much easier to write, since you're literally just grepping memory for a fixed string.
Actually unbound. I forget why I chose this over unwind. I had a reason once. Set it up years ago and didn't touch the config files. Maybe the initial setup predated unwind and I had something working already...?

Totally off topic, but I was thinking of replacing it with something I wrote myself. I had some downtime earlier this year and I wrote a forwarding dns server that can speak TLS on both ends. Was simple to do. But needs some polishing before I throw it on github or use it at home.
I'd love to make it public when it is a bit more thorough. Right now it's just local. I really wanted to get to the point that it's self-hosted before going public, but naturally that's a little involved since it does involve building everything up from assembly (llvm IR). But it's fairly straightforward, albeit time consuming, to build simple abstractions on top of each other to implement features typically present in high-level languages.
Mail from China is subsidised, not sure about Poland

https://www.ft.com/content/3af8bfb8-ad3a-11e8-94bd-cba20d673...
Came here to share the cmd+shift+4 space trick and learned 3 new tricks instead! I love this community.
Similar in Germany a lot of voices say: Billionaires are immoral and shouldn’t exist.

Kind of terrifying that success is made evil. What would be the consequences? Well you wouldn’t have tesla or spacex. As far as I see a self made billionaire is much more capable spending money then the government. In my opinion that is the main point.
We didn't hire him, the whole team had very strong and very negative feedback once the shock wore off.

edit: It was generally a very weird job and this was probably one of the least odd incidents.
Few minutes gain is simply not true. Its IMO closer to an hour. Having ability to jump asap to any letter on the screen and any file in the project in few keypresses without browsing trough the tree and son on, is massive speed up. It doesn't just save time, it saves focus.
You might find interest in Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, where he proposes that one should not let the state do evil on your behalf. At his time he was concerned about funding slavery and the Mexican war.
Well, there is nothing bad/good necessarily, but it doesn't really feel right imo. How is it fair for somebody to benefit from something without having worked for it? There is a baseline level of providing for children, providing education, providing housing, caring, etc. but such high levels of wealth being passed on makes no sense and is just obscene. The estate tax doesn't really effect many people, only an extremely small subset (some quick googling shows that over 11 million has to be passed down). Also, the estate tax also exists to prevent things like landed gentries. Nobody wants a society of rent seekers.
Yeah, but like taking an HTML/CSS template and replacing a few standard colors with new ones should not that challenging? Or should it?
Working memory is probably closer to cache than main memory, and it's imo extremely limited and slow to warm up. Imagine a CPU with just 6 cache lines for non-OS code...

Although your argument of "if it brought such an advantage, we should have evolved into it by now" does hold water too. I suppose it hinges on how much of an evolutionary advantage we actually have from excelling in the kind of deep abstract thinking that some jobs require nowadays, vs. how much this improvement would've been worth in past centuries.
The Policy Analysis Market (and FutureMAP) Archive
TL;DR

Better title: "Where are all the flying cars?" A 3500-word survey of what
worked (transistor-enabled computing and the internet) and what didn't (space
travel and nuclear) post-WW2. As an alum of the author's employer, I never
thought much of that "field of concentration" known as HistOfSci. Matt Damon's
observation about library late charges was spot-on.
>Lol, so now you are talking about ending the concept of cities? This is getting even more implausible.

No, I am not. I am discussing furthering what already happens, where cities break down into smaller sections.

>am telling you, that I would help any of my close friends or family, personally, for sure, as would many people I know, and you can't convince me otherwise to not help them

I am not trying to convince you, your friend said they don't want your help. If you continue trying to force it on them, you are an asshole.

>Lots of people, right now, do not cut ties with family members, who do aweful things.

Nobody has done an "awful thing". I'm done explaining this.

You keep making the same statements that don't even reference what I have said. I understand that friends and family are willing to stand by when their loved one does something bad. I also have friends and family. That is not analogous to what is being discussed. A closer example would be a family having an argument about where to celebrate Christmas, until finally someone breaks off and holds their own celebration.
because it's simply satisfying

I think there’s more to it than that. Yes, it can be very satisfying to tinker with one’s tools rather than getting work done. But that doesn’t explain someone like me who took the time to learn vi (not vim) rather than using a basic text editor like nano or Notepad or TextEdit.

So why would I take the time to learn vi? I don’t tinker with it (beyond adjusting a few basic settings like autoindent, line numbers, incremental search, etc). It certainly took me a long time to get very proficient with vi. It’s also the case that any editing task I can do with vi can be done in any other text editor (they’re all “text equivalent”).

The answer is that vi, more than any other editing method, removes friction from the editing process. Having used it for a long time, I’ve built up muscle memory that allows me to rapidly jump around files and make precise edits. It also lets me easily automate repetitive editing tasks with its ex commands, macros, and of course the humble ‘.’ command. In the case of more elaborate tasks such as paragraph formatting, table formatting, or inserting line numbers into the text, vi lets me easily pipe motions, ranges, or buffers through shell commands.

So why doesn’t everyone use vi? Well that’s specific to personal taste. Some people don’t get as frustrated by friction in the editing process as I do. Maybe John Carmack doesn’t mind reaching over to grab the mouse in order to move the editing cursor somewhere else, or to select text for copy and paste. I don’t know what his editing environment and workflow look like. Perhaps he uses some other editor like vi but with the default configuration.

I guess there’s one more piece to clear up and that’s the question of whether or not I qualify as a “power editor user”. I think I do. I don’t tinker with my editor to the incredible extent that some others do, for sure. I used to tinker and found it a deep rabbit hole of distraction which inevitably led me to a slow and complicated environment (highly customized vim) that really didn’t do anything fundamentally faster/better than I could already do in plain vi. Having said that, I think my experience with vi (including having purchased and read O’Reilly’s book on the topic [1]) has helped me to master its commands far more thoroughly than a typical vim user. So I think that qualifies me as a power editor user. Others may disagree.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-the-vi/1565924...
First of all, everything is running remarkably smoothly given the circumstances. The Covid-19 statistics are largely a consequence of people acting individually out of self interest and ignorance, yielding negative systemic externalities, and not a dysfunction of the healthcare system.

Furthermore, if you think about how insurance risk pooling works, it's quite easy to see how an insurance-backed, profit-motivated healthcare system may not be the best vehicle to address a systemic health problem afflicting the entire population. You may recall AIG as a rough analogue for this situation. Or even entities insuring against natural disasters in California. The government has to step in to prevent failure.

And then we have the most obvious counterargument to your flawed thesis: why would labor compensation go up during a recession with high unemployment and considerable attendant macroeconomic instability? Those factors have contributed to dramatically increased substitutability and thus quite naturally suppress wage growth.
Would you consider soft keyboard implementations in modern smartphones as niche applications?
Time cannot be controlled. Attention, however?
Then why aren’t you rocking an iPhone 5s? Still gets security updates. Or an iPhone 4? Probably still works on all phone networks.

The problem is you don’t see your own cognitive dissonance in demanding the latest most powerful phones last longer, but refusing to use old phones longer.

And iPhones are held together by screws, the glue just holds the components together better making it harder for falls and bumps to break connections, which makes the phone last longer without any repairs.
You demonstrate hypocrisy and blatant disrespect for your interlocutor.

Your 'debubking' is low-effort critisism. You've contributed nothing factual or informative. You don't even bother making claims, or aswering any of my direct questions.
Thanks. I think I may have known that, once.
Oh, and for a senior developer from a eastern europe with excellent english, communication skills and previous remote experience, this is a godsend.
I use non-ISP dns servers for a variety of reasons. I've tested and found 1.1.1.1 faster than my ISP dns in the past.

Some people use e.g. opendns because they want to use that for keeping track of what dns names are being queried from inside their networks.

I actually do use my ISP's dns for some names (particularly netflix), because only they know the names of their internal cache boxes. I have a dnsmasq configuration that sends queries that end in `netflix.com` to the ISP dns and others to 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1 or whatever.
This 100% -> Few minutes gain is simply not true. Its IMO closer to an hour. Having ability to jump asap to any letter on the screen and any file in the project in few keypresses without browsing trough the tree and son on, is massive speed up. It doesn't just save time, it saves focus.

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would argue that a lot of people who write things like 'it only saves a few minutes a day' have never actually tracked how much time it actually saves

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one good thing worth doing is to get a tool that tracks how much time you spend on different applications and websites during your work day

it will TRANSFORM your understanding of how you use your time
It's much harder to game the system with paper votes, and as a last resort manual recounts are possible.

IMO, all votes should be scanned and uploaded publicly so that the records can be audited by anybody.
By the time Germans became familiar to the Romans milk consumption was common. The common source of dietary fats for Romans at the time was olive oil. The common source of fats for the Germans was butter which the Romans looked down upon as barbaric.
Gödel’s ontological argument inconsistency found by theorem prover (2016) [pdf]
Milk production is also a continuum of data samples over the life of the animal. Eating the animal is one data sample and you can’t duplicate the animal after collecting the data.

Selecting for milk production would be a lot more accurate than selecting for meat tastiness, longevity or even, to an lesser extent, health.
When a lot of the information is correcting or contradicting the information that came before, you could have reduced the amount of data by slowing down.
Igalia's model almost certainly couldn't cover maintenance of the entire browser engine and the desktop/mobile browsers, yet alone any ongoing improvement. It gets specific platform ports supported on an ongoing basis (typically for embedded platforms) and new features of interest to their paying customers supported (which are, inevitably, mostly major corporations), but that's largely it.

As far as I'm aware, Firefox is the browser engine they contribute least to: they have many more clients who have much more interest in WebKit or Chromium based browsers and that's where the majority of work goes.
My biggest gripe is that the randomness of the weapons you find plays way too big of a role in your success. Instead of different weapons requiring different gameplay skills, you either get crazy good stuff (combo'd with perks that have synergies) and effortlessly destroy anything in your path, or end up so weak that even simple mobs give you trouble.

I think some of this could be solved, or at least mitigated, if there was "meta" progression, like in Dead Cells. That way, even bad runs could result in something worthwhile, rather than a total waste of time.
That's what sci-hub.tw is for.
Have you tried CLion or VS Code?
If the EU takes over they are more likely turn into a failed state? Not quite sure I'm getting what you mean.
I'm around 200hrs in.

I concur with pretty much everything you've said, however I wanted to add 2 things.

My mental model for playing has settled on "paying" for gold/wands with HP. As you progress though a level you will inevitably get hit by monsters and evironmental effects and there has never been a game as stingy as this one for letting you replace lost health.

The "hideously overpowered weapons" you mentioned are the best part of the game. Finding spell components and building a crazy wand give this this game a fantastic (and fantastical) power curve :)
> You’ve never dropped a phone into a toilet?

No and every time this comes up I'm having trouble imagining how exactly, physically, could that happen by accident.
Agreed that it's not safe harbor really at stake.

I disagree about your comparison. This app can connect to arbitrary domain names. This is getting blocked because you are not filtering the list of domains a user can connect to proactively.

That's wild & I can think of zero precedent for it.
Someone already did.

> Daniel Gilbert (born January 17, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the cofounder of Quicken Loans and founder of Rock Ventures.[3]

Downtown, but to a larger extend Midtown and Corktown changed a lot. People want to live there again.