skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a transaction will clear in less than an hour for less than a dollar (or even ten cents), why is the average fee currently $9.10?
It's not ambiguous if you read it carefully, but you're essentially arguing "technically correct, the best kind of correct" for sensationalized reporting where it's known that many people won't even read past the headline.

You:

> The phrase 'Russia "hacked" the elections, making Trump win' implies tampering with the voting and vote counting.

Title of that article:

> Russia hacked voting systems in 39 states before the 2016 Presidential election

It's crafted to survive a mechanistic fact check while targeting the fact that people are bad at processing information.
One of our local major surface streets went through this, but it was sold as helping make it more of a trendy shopping/market street.

4 lanes (2+2) reduced to 3 (1+1+turning).

People have been fawning over the proposal for years, and are only now realizing what a disaster it is.

And the businesses that thought they were getting a boost, end up with traffic counts cut by more than half, since people now avoid the purposely created congestion.
Over the past year I've slowly started to realize this as well. What changed? Working for a company that is publicly known enough for people on HN (and Reddit) to comment about it. It has been hilarious and scary to read comments from people who don't work at the company say completely inaccurate things like they are facts.

In this case, it's easy for me to recognize they are wrong. But what about other topics (or companies) I don't know much about? I have no easy way of recognizing inaccuracies so I default to mostly accepting them. Sadly, you need to be skeptical of almost everything you read even when the person sounds like they know the subject matter.
Craigslist is already dead. Scams (fake news of classified ads) and Facebook Marketplace killed it.
I don’t know about that, but I’m absolutely certain the bicycle shed needs to be green.
yeah, 8 GB of RAM for a photo gallery seems completely insane...
> Do you think buildings shouldn’t be wheelchair accessible, because not many people are wheelchair bound?

Businesses should choose to make their business accessible based on cost and profitability. Your eternal vigilance is a joke. It makes sane people wonder what shortcoming you're compensating for.
I went to read the article expecting it to be about making command line prompts that would help users remember them by acting as spaced repetition lessons.

I was very wrong.
Is it, though? Maybe there’s been some regression to the mean as the readership has grown, but Reddit is pretty much intolerable drivel these days. There’s no comparison. dang and his team have done some heroic work to keep a high quality of content here.
Are we commenters on HN only 1%?
Out of curiosity, are you a frequent cannabis user? I found I didn't remember my dreams when I smoked cannabis, however after a long break I started to remember dreams vividly.
There's probably a worse way this year could have ended, but for me, right now, I don't see that universe
> I’ve always wondered how many completely incorrect beliefs I have about the world due to the compulsive surfing/reading of my younger years.

A good rule of thumb, if maybe excessively defensive, is the more strongly held a belief the more likely it is to be wrong. Reality has a nasty habit of being moderate, murky and uncertain. An extremist moderate might be on the right political track, I suppose.

One of the fun parts of being an engineer is that they have to interact with the real world and the theoretical one and learn just how many stupid practical details blow apart theoretically pure ideas.
Reddit has always been a few steps ahead of HN in its slide toward redditism, but I agree with GP that it feels like there is more disagreement-downvoting and replies that add nothing to the conversation. Not to the same degree as Reddit, but I think on both sites we’re just witnessing the eternal September as they become less self-selective niche sites and more like mainstream social media.
Strange yet common to have such a weird pseudo religious gimmick to indoctrinate new employees with a symbol that doesn't serve the purpose it purports to. It's like Amazon's door desks, a symbol of frugality that costs more than a regular desk because they insist on custom building imitation doors instead of regular (and ergonomic) desks.
That plus GP’s username made me laugh
I don’t think they’re necessarily getting better, I think some games have always been better than others at that. I’ve never been bothered by intro tutorials in Zelda games or mario games. Time to an actual game in SSB is super fast too. But for some reasons some games are uber slow (mario party, animal crossing)
“Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.”
- Michael Crichton
it also requires 8 GB of ram, apparently, so you'd have to get one of the beefiest rpi4s even if it ran on ARM.
Right on; well that is the best way to enter any area: with relevance. It's super neat you got the inside view on more than one front; hope your Switch project was a success.

Yeah I must have been at the new building; again to clarify, you were at the new one too?

I checked out / subscribed to updates for Railgrade. Looks great. Hope にほん life has been good for you despite the crazy year; I haven't been back in a while so have been worried that the little things I enjoyed/valued so much there such as the polite hustle and bustle and sea of smiling faces (now covered with masks) has well maybe vanished.
Because Reddit is a moving target. At any given time HN is of a similar quality to Reddit-as-of-three-years-ago and declining towards Reddit-as-of-now.
Depends on how you approach 'trivial'. I've been hacking on Music Thing Modular Chord Organs for some time: they are a little Eurorack oscillator that can play chords, based on a Teensy. The Teensy audio library determines what waves you can get, and there's a 12 bit DAC built in.

You can specify the sampling rate of the Teensy with a bit of fiddling, and the limits depend on what you're asking the audio library to do. The stock Chord Organ's set up to run at 44.1k, using a couple of submixes in the library to do things like set waveform levels independently.

You can also set an oscillator to drive the output pin directly, with just one waveform.

I've got a couple of 'em running at 2,822,400hz instead of 44,100hz. That's 2,822k for one oscillator (I can get four running at 768k), by telling the Teensy its sample rate is something hilariously high, just to run some square and 12-bit triangle and sawtooth waves.

I avoid aliasing pretty well :) and it's definitely a fully digital DAC output. It's just good at being free from aliasing because I'm not concerned about what the sampling rate 'means' in terms of 'usable notes'. The only thing I care about is getting my waves nicer. The Teensy also has a rectangular wave, which is PWM adjustable. That, at 2,822k or even 768k, is quite nice even when it's a really thin pulse…

And of course you could use the square to drive an integrator :)
How can you claim the us had poor economic performance in that era? The country went from "having torn itself in two" to "becoming a international superpower" in 50 or so years. The rejection of reality implied by your selective analysis of economic history is truly astounding.
Honestly I think Xfce is about the same. And probably more stable, though obviously it's hard to do a direct comparison.
The responses are valid as far as they go, but the larger point is that the government in a jurisdiction is free to inflate its own currency at great benefit to itself while simultaneously extracting taxes on fictitious "gains" of other currencies or equivalents (like BTC) against that currency.
Getting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_manufacturing up and running could be challenging.
The same happened to me after I started at a company than HN hated and realized that it’s much different inside that the picture painted here. I became really skeptical of any big claims about other big corps too.
Instead of using source_code_hash you can push your code to s3 with the hash as the filename and update the lambda to point at the new file

Terraform can manage uploading objects to s3

It also seems a bit strange to have Terraform do the packaging. We do that in CI for most of our lambdas to ensure the test suite runs, linting, etc then it creates a zip at the end and pushes to S3

The only ones Terraform deploys directly are fairly trivial Python API "glue" lambdas
Please don't trust memory cards for long term storage: just like SSD drives, if they sit on a shelf and aren't energized, they can lose data in as little as a year.
Supplement your HN with Blind.
Why You Should Be Storing Remote Data in a Cache (and Not in State) (2019)
I have the impression that the NES was the first device whose manufacturer tried to license the developers of compatible software. Does anyone know an earlier example?
I'm surprised Crichton thought Murray Gell-Mann was more famous than he was! I would think the reverse (and the Crichton Amnesia Effect is a great name).
FM (frequency modulating) synthesis in itself was rather groundbreaking. Typically when we're talking about creating sounds, we mainly had additive and subtractive synthesis where stacking oscillators were used to shape sounds. FM uses oscillators to manipulate other oscillator's waveforms, which opened up a whole lot of new possibilities.

The DX7 mainly was an affordable all-rounder that got loaded with a ton of already-good presets and a way of managing presets. Yamaha had already released the GS-1 three years prior, but obviously it didn't remain in the books of history quite the same.

The Sega Genesis soundchip, YM2612 is also a great showcase on how different FM synthesis can sound compared to comparable competing consoles.

If anyone is interested, there's a great open source soft synth called Dexed, which is compatible with DX7 soundbanks (and comes bundled with a lot of em). A free, fun way of getting a glimpse into FM synthesis and music production techniques of yore.
Isnt this one of those chicken and egg problems? Isnt the very existence of the welfare the reason why they can pay such low wages in the first place?
GDP will continue to increase in the US while a majority of the population will get poorer.
yeah, if the algorithm is secret, nobody will trust that it's fair

if the algorithm is public, it can and will be gamed. The solution is to make the algorithm be based on the things that you want people to game, but that becomes not much of an algorithm at some point...
A little...overwrought?

That’s how Eurasia got the Crusades, you know. Operation Barbarossa used similar language.

Poetry is a poor platform on which to base actions that affect international relations. Leads to goose stepping and such..
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It’s a weird statement. We’re at the point where some who played with Mario as a kid could be playing with Mario with their grandchildren right now. I started playing Mario with my kid over a decade ago.
I personally hardly ever use cannabis, and often oscillate between periods of distinctly remembering all my dreams to having weeks of seemingly dreamless sleep. The oscillations have gotten especially wild in post-lockdown pandemic life.
This was my most listened to record of 2009 and it always brings me immediately back to that time. I still love it. Real sad.
It’s difficult to fix issues on compromised machines, for example. Or buggy VPN. Etc.

Sometimes it really is a specific person’s issue, and sometimes there are a lot of them so it can look like a vendor issue.

Of course, sometimes it is a vendor issue.

There is a percent range where it is difficult to differentiate. Made worse by a large user base.
The Three-Body Problem.
Not sure. That bug report discussed the --app switch, but I don't see that switch being used by webapp-manager [1] Not sure --class is related.

[1] https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager/blob/4a879d11ef2...
සුභ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා!
The author notes by the use of insane he means different, but is it really that unique for a person to post online or are we just seeing a pattern where there is none.

Books are written by insane people, on average person does not write a book.

Rock climbers are insane people, very few people rock climb so why listen to safety tips the 0.2% of the population who do. They are not normal people from a statical standpoint.

On average a person does not do any one spicific thing.

Everyone online has contributed to the internet, everyone has written something and everyone has excersised.

I've seen this brought up before that only 2-3% of redditors contribute, like it's a bad thing or a unique thing. That number it's way higher than books, tv, radio any form of convenientional media.
> That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative.

Like replaying entire games because they won't let you back their console up?
Based on the other comments here, and the actual content of the posted link, I can also say that most of the comments I read on the internet have not actually consumed the content they are commenting on.
Three-body problem

Originally written in Chinese but there’s an English translation.
Ask HN: How many people will be severely damaged because of the vaccine in 2021
Overall death and job loss through severe damage or incapability to move or work normally caused by the covid vaccines.

Neurological, physical and psychological long term damages included.

How many do you think will occur worldwide and why?

- up to 100k
- up to 1m
- up to 5m
- more than 5m
- more than 20m
- more than 100m
UX, speed, simplicity, lightness. Applications ran without talking to the internet, asking if it's ok to run it, telling me it's probably unsafe to run it, telling me I need to update for security reason, telling me I should play candy crush, letting me search my files without adding recommended noise somewhat supposed to be relevant to what I did 3 days ago. I could go on. I just want to stare at a blue flat colour knowing tomorrow it will be just the same. /s
I am, but not of the truly awful products, but of the really useful but too-niche products. I buy products that die so often I got into the habit of buying two and squirreling one away for when the first breaks, but they aren't for sale anymore.
Who not? I always dream the day that we will run Kubernetes on our desktops and even phones and IoT.
Construction is an interesting case. If someone had written after the Empire State Building that skyscrapers would not grow another order of magnitude in the coming century, it would have been laughed at. There were lots of popular articles about “mile high” skyscrapers then. And skyscrapers today are much better! We have counterweights at the top, glass facades, fancy designs… But they’re mostly the same heights. Even the show off Burj Kalifa is only twice the occupied height. And we don’t even have a kilometer high skyscraper yet.
This is incredibly cool. One place I could see it being super useful is in making it easier to write regression tests for Arduino code.

I'm one of the developers of https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope - We've ended up putting together a 'virtual' Arduino core (https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope-Bundle-Keyboardio...) that compiles to native code, so that we can run a simulator and test suites with gtest and gmock. (https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope/tree/master/testi... / https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope/runs/1632368671?c... ) It's super-useful, but a browser-based sim might be even better for this.
> > That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative.

> And this is why I like Nintendo games.

Really? Nintendo is absolutely notorious for stuff like this.
Feliz año nuevo! I still remember joining hacker news to comment on something back in 2008 and lurking from 2006. It's impossible to enumerate everything I have learned form this community. All I can say is Thank you and let's have a great 2021!
Or they did, and it has more to do with different things happening on the network layer of individual machines.
> I worked with a POC who the CEO told me point blank to give them extra leniency with regards to them not performing their duties (an ongoing complaint of mine) because a "diverse face" on the pitch deck helped us raise money.

So, it sounds like the CEO is using this person of color in order to earn a certain credibility and get more money from investors.

And, maybe this person of color is either, a) working hard, but not very experienced yet/able to complete their tasks. Or, they are wrongfully neglecting their duties/have no interest in doing their job. Or, some other nuanced situation, I don't know. You believe they are benefiting though.

But either way, exactly what is your point? To be honest, reading this, it seems like you are biased against people of color, and you view this situation as evidence that all people of color do not work hard/are given unfair advantages in life, and therefore, your bias is warranted. In other words, you appear to believe in a common racist trope. To you, it is true, based on this story.

Or, you are not biased against people of color, and simply think it unfair that this person, regardless of their ethnicity, is being given a free pass on not doing their work. If the latter, isn't your CEO partly in the wrong here? They are capitalizing on the identity of this person of color, which shouldn't matter, by your logic.
The three-body problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(nove...
The guy was really a master story teller, whether you take what he was saying seriously is up to you. Saying that, he did a lecture in New York when Giuliani was mayor and makes a quip about "the consciousness of Giuliani administration". I could not help being reminded of it when Giuliani resurfaced recently.
The naval shipworm helped bring about the Industrial Revolution
Please support your first assertion with a comparison of the quality of life of humans on the planet, decade by decade, starting with whatever date you think you civilization started, and the changes you project for yourself in the “darkest hour” and how they compare...
Well yeah, exactly, you're not a bag holder until it's a bag of something worthless.
No, it's just over estimating people, it's a matter of fact description of the contents of the article.

If Russia accesses the backend systems storing voter data, what are they supposed to report to ensure that they do not mislead people? (I say backend there because there's actual directly published voter data all over the place that is intended to be accessed by whoever).

It's really actually problematic and news that a foreign power is fiddling around with those backend systems, but apparently if you report that they did it, there will be years of controversy about how you reported that they hacked the election.
Professional costs $100k+ to employ partially because only those able to afford those tools for training get into the field.
Unrelated, but... we've got a jira input field that keeps moving the cursor to the end of the input field on each keypress. Perhaps that all do that(?), but it's noticeable when I'm pasting in a URL and want to change the beginning part of the URL.

Example: server-abc.example.com, need to change to server-def.example.com - changing the A then moves the cursor to after the .com, which is also beyond the end of the input box, and thus invisible.
Probably.

But if you want to remember your dreams again, this is something you can work/train with. Basically, every morning before getting up, not jump up with the alarm out of bed, but rather ly still, in the same position as before and try to remember. If you want to, have a dream diary. Doing so a few days, should bring your memory of your dreams back.

I used to do so to train my ability for active/lucid dreaming. Can be fun ...

(but now with a toddler and a baby I lack the time and focus)
Competition is simply prohibited. It used to be that grades were posted publicly, for all to see. Instructors aren't allowed to do that anymore.
Kids today love SMB 1 and 3 on the emulators too.
MS SUX
my crappy solution = gnome-photos with the broadway backend, but this is a terrible hack that only allows one connection at a time.
Calling that engineering reminds me of things I said while being in college before I had any real experience.
If you think discussions on markets are bad, try philosophy, especially political philosophy, or sociology. I don't often comment on "very wrong" comments because they're unlikely to get anywhere.

I've found that for all HN detests conformity, more often than not it tends to be a certain kind of perceived conformity, and more often, what is seen as conformity in startup culture. What is often missed in my (honestly) humble opinion, is that this counter-conformity rests squarely in the larger conformity!
Ethereum literally just had this issue a month ago https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-hard-fork-disruption

Binance had to suspend wallets because of it
Happy New Year Hacker News and HNers! In a year of crazy ups and downs it's nice that this place remains a constant.
So your team had a problem, that's what I'm reading here mostly.
If there is more than one, and they all appear to be circles from our perspective, wouldnt that make them spherical rather than circular?
How do you know that different comments are what is expected
> Confluence is the worst wiki product I've ever used.

BUT... the direct integration with the ticket system - highlight a list, and make linked tickets (which keep the status info 'live' in the confluence doc) is pretty powerful, and allows a lot of people to keep their business docs, and get status updates without ever having to learn other parts of the system.
GP probably meant logographic rather than ideographic (and kanji are a logographic writing system), because they were making a comparison to phonographic writing systems.

I imagine most non-linguist nerds (myself included) would confuse the distinction between logographic writing systems and ideographs.
HUD is great. But often you look at the instrument cluster just under your glasses. Sort like a low tech bifocal!
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