skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When we launched our main service back in 2004, the internet provided a largely free, fair, and open marketplace. We could reach customers and provide them with our software without having to ask any technology company for permission or pay them for the privilege.

Today, this is practically no longer true. The internet has been colonized by a handful of big tech companies that wield their monopoly power without restraint. This power allow them to bully, extort, or, should they please, even destroy our business – unless we accept their often onerous, exploitive, and ever-changing terms and conditions."
> I can guarantee that in the event of a zombie apocalypse where the government falls, USD would be used for a long time after.

This seems like a strange guarantee, I think it's incorrect, and I would have absolutely no way in a zombie apocalypse to hold you to the guarantee. Which is, inherently, why I think it's incorrect.
No, I think he is right. Assuming the aim is to optimise for profitability, the machines output items are chargeable but it is a lawyers hours that are chargeable - so optimise (and measure) hours!

(There are obviously some “jobs” a lawyer does that tend be charged at a fixed rate such as conveyancing, which you would want to optimise for throughout)
IIRC this app is indeed made with Flutter.
There are various ways to extract this from Git, see for example: https://shinglyu.com/web/2018/12/25/counting-your-contributi...
Yes. Code is read many more times than it's written, so optimise for the common case.
By design, launch pads (and landing pads) will be more compatible with varying sea level than most other structures.

Pads are generally flooded with water on every launch, starting shortly before the engines ignite. The water deluge system absorbs some of the energy of the rocket exhaust -- this reduces damage to both the pad and the rocket (from reflected sound).
ok, I dont understand.

for using bitcoin, I either need to mine or to buy. now lets say I choose to buy, here comes the problem.

Over the last 36 months , the lowest value of a bitcoin is $3k and highest $57k. If i had bought 1 bitcon at 57k i would have lost 7k by today, again, to buy bitcoin you need to use existing currency. Not everyone can mine and this is my first problem.

Next, how do I use this to buy anything? a $100 bill is worth $100 regardless of what, doesn't matter what I buy or where I keep or when I use, it will still be $100, can you say same about bitcoin?

this is all speculative and the exponential factor is scaring me out of bitcoin.
Not necessarily. you could use their ad network or just use your instagram account like anyone does posting images\stories
Its an alternative finance system bringing inflation resistant digitally accessible and transferable assets to an unbanked and inflation exposed populace. Many are ignorant of the challenges that face people in contries that don't the most sophisticated financial system on the planet with a local currency that acts as the worlds reserve currency. It takes up way too much power, but I am not going to let this key opportunity to much of the worlds less fortunate, be under appreciated.

At best its an alternative finance system that works around the captured, corrupted, and rent seeking finance systems of the world.
> Anki is famously difficult to use. [...]

I agree that Anki is ridiculously hard to use, I had a hard time figuring out your app too.

Also, you have

- calendar

- tasks

- study plans

- community decks

- streaks

- trophies

- microtransactions?

- $300/month personal coaching

- pomodoro timer

yet I can't import/export from the app.

I'd love for there to be a serious competitor to Anki, as it's rather stagnant, and the mobile experience is atrocious, but this just doesn't seem like it.
Won't speak to literary/journalistic writing, but business writing definitely has a problem of quantity over quality. The exercise of really dumbing down the language helps with making sure you're actually getting the point across instead of just talking in vague abstractions. It also helps for communicating with ESL colleagues. In that sense, "more like Hemingway" is probably going in the right direction.
166 years of ARR is a big side project lol.
> If there was a service I could pay to censor movies for me,

We used to have a number of them. Cleanfilms was one. Send them a DVD, they'd sanitize the content onto another disc, ruin the original and send you both.

Legacy copyright gatekeepers couldn't resist their own compulsions for control - they systematically sued CF and others out of existence.

ref:https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=554802...

ref:https://www.audioholics.com/news/studios-sue-family-friendly...
Assuming that a firing for "lack of chemistry" (which is a very real and valid concern, btw: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-relationships-wor...) is, without evidence, veiled discrimination, is also a Grade A dick move, by being a "default victimization mindset". Anecdotal firings of minority hires are insubstantial proof of discrimination; in fact it may be the opposite, if there's a diversity retention policy (meaning that the problem was significant enough to violate their own policies). This is exactly the kind of conclusion-jumping that rubs people the wrong way and ironically makes it more likely for you to get let go based on "lack of chemistry" (because it's really "we can sense this person is just itching for an opportunity to be a victim and we don't want to be subject to a baseless lawsuit"... but of course, that can't be stated aloud, because http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html)

I'll be honest again: Yes, I'm a white male, but I'm considering hiring people for the first time and this sort of thing TERRIFIES me because I genuinely want to help out whoever I can, and I'm even a natural fan of "underdogs"... What would I do if my nonwhite, nonmale (or both) hire just isn't working out (for valid reasons) but I can't yet afford to fight a discrimination lawsuit? Let's say my imperfect solution to this was simply to just keep hiring other white males for a while. Eventually I realize I NEED more diversity, but now I've created the perfect conditions for discrimination lawsuits by having an all-white, all-male company... Do you see yet what the problem is, here?
Ah! I forgot about that.
There has been a continuous use of the land by Christians and Muslims for centuries as well. So because Judaism has existed the longest they have the right to expel everybody else or best case scenario, make them second-class citizen (Law of Return, Jewish National Fund ...).
There has also been a continuous presence of native Americans for much longer than Europeans in North America...

If you're denying that colonization even exists it will be difficult to have a discussion based on facts.
They are changing the transaction fee pricing system though to a model that 'burns' (dumps to /dev/null) part of the transaction fee when there is congestion. Exactly how much will be burned is hotly debated, but it will put a damper on the inflation side from block/staking rewards.
Isn't this the whole point of the article? Like, if one knew how to flirt better one would be able to flirt without getting into trouble.

It seems like part of flirting is being able to figure out the other person's response and either stopping the flirting or know that they're enjoying it and keep flirting.

(I'm saying all this like I'm an expert or something but yeah, I could use a 'Flirting For Dummies' book myself :) )
Damn those sea urchins!
Dr. Seuss threads were also interesting.

But yes, why was this flagged? It is an extremely important topic and this was a an unusual and valuable approach to it.

Pure tech discussions are better on lobste.rs anyway so I recommend those who are allergic to this kind of topics to seek refugee there.

(Or on second thought, maybe not. I don't want deletionist and flag abusers there either.)
It seems to me that one measure of productivity in a law firm is billable hours, however in the case of a litigator - it’s also successful case outcome. Again, it’s billable hours towards an outcome. So I can understand this heuristic based approach, on the other hand it seems like you’re tending towards the quantitative side?

Generalizations or rules of thumb can actually outperform complex quantitative approaches to decision making. Look at the 1/N heuristic for portfolio management for example.

Anyhow just my opinion - something for your curious mind to consider !
Show HN: Maple, a VDOM-less fine grained reactive web framework in Rust+WASM
After discovering solid js, I wondered how feasible it would be to write such a framework in Rust. After two days of hacking around, here is the result!

It allows fine-grained reactivity to the DOM with no virtual DOM layer whatsoever! The reactivity system is based on signals and subscribes/dependents. For ergonomics, dependencies on signals are automatically detected. Here is an example:

let (state, set_state) = create_signal(0);

create_effect(move || {

println!("The state changed. New value: {}", state());

}); // prints "The state changed. New value: 0" (note that
the effect is always executed at least 1 regardless of state changes)

set_state(1); // prints "The state changed. New value: 1"

set_state(2); // prints "The state changed. New value: 2"

set_state(3); // prints "The state changed. New value: 3"

Creating DOM nodes is accomplished with the template! proc-macro. When a signal is used inside the template! macro, create_effect is implicitly called and the is DOM updated whenever the value changes.

If you look at some of the examples in the README, you will find that the API is quite similar to that of React hooks. Unlike React hooks, however, the actual function is only executed once and it is the effects that are executed multiple times. This means that the template! macro can generate real DOM nodes and it is the code inside create_effect that is executed multiple times to update the DOM.

Disclaimer:

The library is currently very WIP and very feature incomplete. For instance, it is not possible to get references to DOM nodes without manually creating them outside of the template! macro.

If you are willing to help out, please head over to the GitHub repository. Feedback, issues and PRs are greatly appreciated!
For sure. And when there is action on the pitch you're already invested in the characters so it matters to you whether or not you follow the sport itself.
'They' = Lebanon. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26385835.
Yes that's what they said but then you modified it to "housing". People who rent are also purchasing "housing" and not on credit.
What you're suggesting is a fork, which would not be Bitcoin at that point.
You school has something like a death lottery?
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You were both right, and it all depends on your definition of productivity. In economic terms, I believe the standard way of looking at this is to consider how much economic activity resulted.

For lawyers, most of them sell hours. The more hours they bill, the more productive they are.

Most businesses who hire programmers do not make their money by billing programmer hours. So that metric wouldn't work. Lines of code seems reasonable until you think it through. Honestly, I don't know that anyone has come up with a good solution for measuring programmer productivity.

But lawyers? They're in the business of selling time in 15 minute increments. Their productivity is simple to measure in this respect.
I almost always at least skim an article before diving into the comments. Many times I will read the whole thing, especially if it is short, as this one is. I do believe that most probably don't do that. It's often possible to tell which commenters have read it and which haven't, i.e. if a comment mentions something not even present in the article, or if it mentions something clearly refuted in the article.

I think it's important to read the things you comment on, and I think it's important to expect others to do so as well. Ignorance is tolerated too much these days, especially considering that knowledge is easier to obtain now than ever before.
To me, it reads like a manifesto of seemingly self evident but non-falsifiable and non-actionable assertions. It's basically a framing of reality intended to provoke outrage.

For each of the 6 conditions, what happened when you removed it?
> Good X and Good Y both increase in price over some period of time, but one does by 2% and the other by 4%. What is the true value of inflation? 2% or 4%? Or is it 3%? Or is it 3.5% because you buy one of the goods twice as often as the other? That's a question of first philosophical origins, and there's no "right" answer.

Shouldn't the solution basically be how much monthly or yearly does an average consumer spend on x good, and then that is included in the calculation of inflation by that amount.

So if the average consumer spends 30% on housing, then housing should be 30% of the measurement.
> The problem with a digital currency, of course, is that when you hand someone a sequence of bits, they don't go away from you, so you can hand that same sequence of bits to another person.

> The "solution" people came up with to this problem was to not solve the problem, and instead solve a different problem, how to have a distributed ledger.

And what would be, at least intuitively, a solution to the "you can copy bits, give them away but also keep a valid copy for yourself" problem which is a problem for currency but also the default way digital information work?

If you had access to a near-perfect money printing machine, you would have just the same problem, we are just "saved" by the implementation difficulty. Just the same as with the ledger approach.
Why not? The fuel is next to the launch site, before they put it into the rocket.

It can be protected from exploding rockets by berms, concrete, etc. It isn't as if an exploding rocket is a shaped charge; the force of an explosion would go up and out and be easily deflected.
Yes, the entire point of that page is:

- You've gone through this whole tutorial sequence and should now understand how to write all this Redux logic "by hand" and why these standard Redux usage patterns exist

- Now, here's how Redux Toolkit abstracts and simplifies those exact same patterns, so that you can do the same thing with less code, but you understand what those abstractions are doing for you internally.
Categorization is necessary for this and also completely missing here.
Oh come one, that's small box thinking, you gotta look at the big picture. LA has a larger electricity demand than portland and it oscillates in a different pattern than portland. In the summer, due to AC, LA needs more peak capacity. However in the winter, the equation flips and now Portland needs that capacity to heat homes. Keeping all that hydro in washington to support the comparitively teensy population of 650k in portland is a waste, especially when demand is needed down south and not in the north and vice versa; this line serves 3 million in LA and represents half the LADWP peak capacity. I'd argue cutting LA off would force more coal plants to open than what is needed to electrify portland today.
No, were it the only plane in the sky.-
AFAIK it is not the case anymore; you have to opt-in.
> The issue is the modern ad-based internet economy

Never forget this bias. It's the primary bias of most major news outlets. CNN wants you to keep watching CNN for more news, even if there isn't enough news to fill airtime, so they drag things out, bring on guests, and favor stories with the potential to keep you glued to your TV.
Lebanon tried to make peace before the civil war. I think anyone with Lebanese family can see how Lebanon pre-civil war and Israel had more in common than Lebanon had with the greater arab world, or even with Palestine.

But Israel basically wanted the leadership to bend over further than they'd be willing to do, and the deal was cancelled.

Today with a more diverse Lebanon it's still possible. There would need to be a shift away from Syrian and Iranian interest but it is definitely possible.
> No one I know uses physical cash anymore.

But physical cash should always be an option. You can't have a truly free society without it. Some intermediary could always have control over your transactions.
What's the pricing model? There's a lot of potential here.
Have you ever noticed how the general mood of newspapers (at least in the New York Times and the Washington Post) is a feeling of despair? This is easily noticeable when looking at the photography [0]. You can pick up a Sunday copy of the NYT, or even open up the NYT's twitter, scroll around, and observe how many stories' lead image is of someone looking off with a kind of gloomy gaze in their eye. I assume years of data analytics and testing has proven this formula will consistently get clicks.

[0] https://twitter.com/nytimesGLOOM
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Thank you, this was really helpful
I don't claim to know the current thinking but, to me, it makes sense that the focus should be on "classic" literature (for which The Lottery qualifies) that's also approachable. I'd argue that a lot of Hemingway and Fitzgerald do as well--though I don't fully understand the popularity of The Old Man and the Sea.

I liked reading in high school and most of the 19th and 18th century works I read bored me to tears and I probably ended up at least partly just reading the Cliff Notes. Today, I expect I would go to Wikipedia.
My favorite quote about this topic:

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates

My personal point of view is that: every line of code you write is a liability. Code is not an asset; a solved problem is.

Edit: To clarify, I'm definitely not encouraging writing "clever" short code. Always strive to write clear code. You write it once, but it will be read (and potentially changed) many, many times.
That may be, but the mechanism through which B12 is absorbed in humans is the same whether or not the animal received a supplement or not. It's the process of uptake through the diet that is the part that is concerning to humans.

More simply, the mechanisms involved in uptake by eating beef that received a B12 supplement is still very different from directly supplementing so the comparison should never be drawn.

As an aside: I would be skeptical of any chemical company's recommendations to the agricultural industry at large...
China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited is the largest bulk carrier in the world. China can handle their own food imports in their own hulls. The biggest item is soybeans from Brazil. China buys food from the US but does not have to.
Nowadays that should be phrased as: fewer features is better. But management doesn't understand. They always want more features to be delivered (and faster than our competitors!), and so we end up with more code to maintain and in the need of hiring more developers (that's actually another excuse as well to migrate our stuff to microservices!).

Companies only want to grow, they don't care anymore about polished products.

Of course, I'm generalizing, there are some few companies that care about the product, but they are just a few.
Not sure what you mean about assuming a self-sustaining thought.

The point is that you can never experience anything outside your own point of view, which means that you can never know if anything outside of your own personal experience is at all separate or independent of it.

Sure, you can “trust” others when they say something to you, but you can never experience anything from someone else’s perspective (unless you could become them, but then you’d stop being you). All experience is subjective. We can all try to agree on what something (a physical process) means, but that is only an agreement, it is not “true reality”. So in that sense, you can never know what “true reality” is, except for whatever you subjectively experience.
Agreed – I’d say “ad business” instead of “search monopoly”: Chrome is easily justified simply by making sure that most users spend most of their time on web sites rather than native apps. Web users are heavily accustomed to everything being subsidized by ads, and Google is definitely winning there even if you rarely use search.
Hmm can they stack and fuel and launch multiple in parallel if the pads are so close?
There is a male/female difference here. (and this is for the single people).

Males, are generally clueless clods, when it comes to picking up subtle feminine flirting. So more than likely they aren't rejecting it, they are simply oblivious.

Females, OTOH, think they have a flashing sign over their head, when it reality they are so subtle no one notices. So a suggestion for women, is be more straightforward. Plus, for most women there is about 0 risk of being more overt and escalating outside of the guy overtly rejecting them. Men have to worry about coming on too strong, or again failing to notice subtle signals of disinterest.
> Ok, but if there's red you and blue you, how can the red ball be "more probable?"

My understanding is that there are two "red yous" for every "blue you"
I think understanding bitcoin from a systems point of view is of great value. Although proof of work is problematic, the idea and manifestation of a censorship resisten electronic monetary system is just amazing. Bitcoin is actually working for more than 10 years... There are alternatives to PoW, e.g. ethereum 2.0, let's see if this works and than judge again...
No countries recognize Israeli claims to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and even the comparatively tame annexation of the Golan Heights is recognized by very few.

That means, formally, Israeli actions in the OPT are even less accepted than Russia's annexation of Crimea. Practically, begrudging acceptance seems to be a very apt description, arguably of the latter even more so than the former.
It doesn't seem verbose to me. Have you looked into those docs above? You define a reducer and an action creator is automatically generated. String action types are an implementation detail. No manual immutable state modification, as immer is baked in.
Modern redux is maybe 20% of what you might be imagining if you only know legacy redux.

It's not much more code than writing a function, but other reducers of your state can suddenly act upon the same action, you can trigger side effects using middleware and of course watch stuff "by intent" and not "there was a modification" in the devtools. All while keeping everything separated pretty well.
I don't want to, but there will soon be little if any choice (other than driving). The main carriers serving my city have bought heavily into MAX so that'll be the air service.
Be careful with your reliance on BDI. As the name implies, it does not reflect prices for the entire shipping industry (e.g. container ships). I used to have investments in the area as an institutional investor, and it was common to see people not understand this.
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Who said anything about eliminating Israel? Why eliminate EITHER side? I think a two state solution makes the most sense, but right now the one state Israeli right wing has the upper hand and a near monopoly on violence (and let’s not ignore there has been plenty of targeting of civilians, including retribution). This doesn’t seem to be a great argument about how freedom-loving the State of Israel is. An autocratic (or ethnocratic), low-freedom Israel snuffing out the Palestinian state doesn’t seem preferable to me whereas a peaceful two state solution seems like it could be super awesome for both sides if they can just get over themselves.

And if one can understand why Israel would fight for its right to exist as a state, then why should it be surprising that the Palestinian state fights for the same reason?