skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The elephant in the room is Disney I'd say, basically. Disney owns all blockbuster movies now, and wants to sell them around the entire world, and no Disney property shall have sexuality. Same goes for Apple, who forbids any adult content to even touch an iPhone, barring (through gritted teeth) what you can find in a browser and Reddit. Power is consolidating into fewer and fewer companies, who want to cater to all world powers, some of which say a naked human body is The Ickiest Thing and must be forbidden.

I'm hopeful that in the future though, as costs of producing and distributing high quality movies go lower and lower, more and more indie or low cost films will look as professional as we want today's blockbusters to be, and also be free enough to explore cinema as an art form as they see fit.
I think it’s far, far simpler than that, and no conspiracy about power is required: moving hands attract the eye of enemies, pointing and mimicking movement give away elements of what’s being said. Hand signs require visual contact with those being addressed. If you’re behind me and I ask you “where” and you say “over there” and point, what good does that do unless I turn around, take eyes off what I’m doing and ask you to repeat. There’s more overhead involved in communicating that way. I think these are some very practical reasons for it. I also think the advantages of using hands in explaining something (to clarify) may imply that your words alone are not clear enough. It’s an important skill to be able to speak clearly and succinctly in times of collective stress.
I personally think it's post-modernism and the adjacent ideologies are responsible for this. Since everything is subjective and there's no objective notion of truth and it's all moral relativism, one has the license to do anything they want. That's why activism and ideologies took over professional integrity.
I'm not sure it's clear that one is better than the other in general. For instance, I would be wary of a snap election after an event perceived as politically significant (e.g. a declaration of war, a major terrorist attack, etc.). Obviously, there can be benefits to building a government or coalition as a response to this sort of event, but it can also lead to transient or reactionary politics. When circumstances permit, I much prefer a more stable system such as a Switzerland-style executive council or otherwise stable administration with a fixed and limited term as long as there is sufficient oversight to deal with neglect of duties, corruption or incapacitation, etc.
> If data collected are anonymous, what right to privacy is being infringed upon?

The data are collected. In their essence, they originate from the individual (in any way whatsoever). Doesn't the individual have an absolute right of the property upon these data?

> others are still free to e.g. count me if they want to make statistics on how busy a street is.

Is that something we are used to or something that should be questioned? Can I require not to be counted, to not exists in the statistics?
> Earnest, non-"gotcha" question - what is it about Google Sheets that you dislike or find irritating?

Using Tables in Excel is a gamechanger. Not having support for them is a huge point of frustration for me whenever I have to use GSheets. 95% of that is the fact that I can refer to the Table and columns by a given, logical name rather than having to use arbitrary cell identifiers.
We ship all this renewable power to LA, and yet more than half my local (Portland) power makeup is coal.
I was in ads and I would disagree with this. Ads is a great place to be if you are data driven and are in FAANG - who enjoy excellent competitive advantages.
When they updated the interface from office 2003 to fit with the new hot rounded UI was a tragedy.
Keep in mind that the US government has an incentive to keep the US dollar as the currency used for most of the international trade.

If Bitcoin would become a risk to that status, would the US government just give up and admit defeat or would it outlaw usage of it?
Many things would need to fall in place for this to happen. Since Hezb is a puppet of Iran, it is unlikely to allow this to happen. If anything, I would suspect they (Hezb/Iran) are planning on attacks against the infrastructure.
Someday they'll update the VBA IDE to have some super basic features (like autoformatting or text highlighting or whatever). That'll be so great.
> If I launch a BTC miner into space and use a star to power it, will you worry about what else could have been done with that energy?

Well first of all you used a ton of energy to get it to space. But yes, I would definitely worry about it. There are a ton of other CPU intense jobs you could do with a rig like that that would be more beneficial to humanity. Medical research for example.

It doesn't matter where you do the computation, that energy could always be used to do something more meaningful.

The same is true about a lot of computation that is done now. But bitcoin is far more "wasteful" of compute than most other things.
Given the two wars of survival the Israelis have fought in the past 50-ish years it seems very likely that it would reducing their military would reduce the freedom and literal existence of the Israelis.

For the Palestinians, perhaps reducing the Israeli would increase freedom in the short term. In the longer term, in the absence of Israel, it seems more likely they would end up dominated by either larger neighbors like Lebanon by Syria or experience low-freedom autocracies like Egypt, Iraq, etc.
You know you can be a "professional X" without X being a science, right? It simply means that X is your profession. Some examples of professions that are not sciences: racer, chef, journalist, writer, singer.
Yes, fully agree. The only thing worse than code you have written is code you haven't.
When people loose interest in stamps you have some scraps of paper. :)
My friend, you use a bot/scraper plugin and you wonder why they banned your account?

If a plugin offers you something that is beyond what Instagram offers you, and it seems too good to be true ... its because it is.
Right, but why invest more in that when they also offer Looker?
Yup, I agree. Same for the Israelis who want peace shouldn’t be pushing for settlement and subjugation of the Palestinian state. Extremists on both sides don’t want to compromise on their visions.
cash is just a physical distributed ledger

there are many problems with bitcoin but this really isn't one of them. most dollars aren't real either. dollar transactions bounce all the time.

and there will always be some kind of cash counterpart to any electronic payment system. how else would people buy contraband or work under the table?
He's been infamous since the slashdot/digg days because Microsoft's business practices and anti-trust suit. The latest conspiracy theories about him from the past year are...."weird" to say the least but are completely separate from why he was already disliked by the linux crowd.
"Flirt the wrong way" to one person could mean "gross violation of my person" to someone else.

This is of course a generalization, and details matter, but if we're going to err on one side or the other, erring on the side of the person being involuntarily affected vs. the person taking voluntary action is probably the better call, at least until all the details emerge.

And yes, pitchforks tend to come out long before all the details emerge, but that's a bigger problem (that we do need to solve)..
I agree, once again my original comment is in response to a comment on here that I'm replying to and not the linked article. I myself would find a lot of utility in a site that compares all the different approaches.
Right or wrong, that is how things stand today. Companies (websites) go to extraordinary lengths to please Google (SEO etc) and want Google to crawl/index their sites. But they will unleash their lawyers on some kid that scrapes data and builds something useful (remember how Craigslist went after someone who built a better/simpler interface few years ago?)

Plus users agreed to tech giants' terms of service (it is a different story that almost no-one reads them and have any understanding of them in the real sense) whereas users did not agree to OP using some tool to scrape their data.

Maybe this is not fair but it is how things are
> My interest was not (and still isn’t) in operating systems, programming language design, or safety (with respect to memory, formal verfiability, modeling as types, etc.).

Absolutely if you're not interested in the safety Rust brings, a lot of the design isn't going to feel worth it. The safety is my favorite part of Rust, though :) Zig is quite explicitly not a safe language.
If you're on Android, the web based player is actually the only way to watch on your phone
Yeah, to be fair you are right. It's amazing when you speak to non-tech people about some of the subjects discussed in HN and they honestly wouldn't care or know what anything is about.
Not really. My existing 12 month subscription is good for few more months.

Once it's about to expire I can either pay the new price or return to Free tier (and lose premium features).

I rarely use LastPass on multiple devices and for the 5-10 sites where I may need it (mostly work related) I can easily adopt a free solution and use LastPass for everything else. No big deal.
Do you think it's similar to fancy clothes in Kenya, where bold contrasts and high saturation seem to be the norm? Not because they're stoned, but because, as I learned as a child, if you spend all day in bright light and go inside you can't see shit because your photoreceptors aren't bouncing back quickly enough.
The Fed's dual mandate is very important here. And there's some movement toward "automatic QE in case unemployment starts to rise" - https://www.stitcher.com/show/voxs-the-weeds/episode/fix-rec... (Matt Yglesias wonktalks with Claudia Sahm, very recommended)

CPI is very important, but the labor numbers are much better (since they are easier to measure), so CPI might become a secondary (high level, target) metric over time.
Yeah, I also noticed that on the app version when it was released.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26315915

I don't know why they would ruin such a fast, successful app like this.
There was enough time to switch to an alternative. You could easily export all the passwords and just import them into KeePassX and then either use that or shop around for an alternative. I think it was an OK way to implement the change.

But I am not sure it will be any good for them, because this is an example of how not to convert free users to paying users. Taking away features and make users pay for them does not make you popular and just makes users look for alternatives.

I immediately deleted my account. But no hard feelings about it.
This is a fucking stupid take. Why the hell would we want to force Arabs to fight each-other? Let them pay taxes that fund the army and not have to shoot at their own cousins. Conscripting them into civilian national service is a good idea, though, and has broad support.
Languages have addressed that in a variety of ways before Julia.
Is flirting even allowed nowadays?
They have the right to limit it in their territorial sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#Territorial...) but outside of that, their complaints are only valid if the pipelines would affect the state's ability to use its EEZ.
I would have thought the opposite would be true, hunter gatherers are generally well fed from a variety of food sources, would have lived in low densities and would have been highly mobile, so in the event one food source become scarce they could move elsewhere, or switch foods. Early agriculturalists would have been stuck in once place reliant on a single, or few, food source/s and therefore vulnerable to failed harvests for a variety of reasons, droughts, natural disasters, theft (of stores, if they are lucky enough to farm food that can be stored) etc.
See XRPL.org its nether PoW nor PoS its decentral ordering by voting named FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement)

Many projects and tokens use it by now.
My pet theory is, It's North Korea.
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Taleb.
> How can humans not be the cause humanity's biggest problems?

That's a pretty good indicator of a civilization's state. For an advanced one, the answer to your question would be "it's nowhere near the top worries". All human-made horrors (war, climate change, etc.) would be left far behind.

If we were as smart as we think we are, our biggest problems would be rogue asteroids, solar storms and aggressive aliens, not human geopolitical bullshit, poisoning our water, or destroying our own ecosystem.
Who would’ve thought?
> So many companies build just one revenue stream. When that revenue stream is interupted or destroyed the company is destroyed.

It's not just small businesses. As discussed in a post today ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26385317 ) Google suffers from this too: they've got advertising revenues down to less than 90%, but this is still very risky. They have a "tech" premium; normally Wall Street investors are uncomfortable with lopsided revenue exposure.
Sure.

Avoid doing it at work.
I, for one, am mostly preoccupied with the covert channel. That one sounds like it's pretty real.
I said Facebook and anyone partnered with them could use my data and that does not include Startup1 and their third party tool. OP probably should have investigated the third party tool and entered a contract where their scraping was legit and if they got burned the third party was at fault. Instead they just iced 100k a year without thinking through the risks. Hopefully that doesn't apply to the rest of the business ex subsisting on a single revenue stream.
Bitcoin has all the disadvantages of gold and none of it's benefits.

Gold became a valuable barter item because of it's convenience.

Store-of-value is the worst trait of gold, the incentive of sitting on a pot of gold is better than in investing it in a productive endeavour.

Gold simply cannot fuel the rapidly growing modern economies, neither can bitcoin.
Are there good studies that show this? Like a big survey of recovered bone/dental evidence over centuries?

It certainly seems plausible to me, but I'd be fascinated to review the data and how it correlates to time and geography.
What does StackOverflow really have left to deliver, though? They made a fairly snappy and robust web application which has very popular functionality, that serves giant boatloads of traffic, with a relatively small team of developers and a relatively small cluster of servers. They didn't have twitter-fail-whale like incidents as far as I recall.

It seems they proved that you don't need lots of good unit tests, you can out-perform the whole industry without that. (I say this as someone who doesn't care for Windows or C# - I still recognize superb execution.) At this point they just feel sheepish and apologetic about it.
Bullet points (and tables) were also a taboo in high school, but can be very useful when communicating a list of choices.

High School also required a minimum length of essays, but when writing online to customers, you want to avoid long paragraphs.
It is somewhat ironic that a blog about machine learning cherry-picks results from a black-box model to prove a point.
How Much of Your Stuff Belongs to Big Tech?
Your idea of reading a politician's speech's transcript is really good. I will do this too. Thanks for this valuable idea.
It's more a human nature problem. A perfectly free market is the jungle, and the most brutal jaguar is king there.
It's not really being 'fooled': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26371689
Yes, but sometimes it was garbage in the first place, too.
I'm currently in a group that is fractious, and it's messing with my instincts to add social commentary when I see people arguing past each other.

I can't decide yet if this is a good or a bad thing but thank you for the appreciation.
I fault David Remnick, the editor, for this. He really became obsessed with Trump during his presidency.

The thing is, it seems like Mr. Remnick has been a very good administrator of the magazine, guiding it through a very rough time for print media, so the chances that he will be replaced or step down anytime soon are slim.

That said, I am looking forward to a fresh perspective for the magazine in the future even if I still mostly enjoy it now.
I never said ignore anything. Whatever matters to you, look into it - don't take other people's hot takes. You might be able to have better understanding in certain things that matter to you than Bill Gates or xyz.
The same Citi report that confused percentages with basis points in reporting that 13% of credit card charges are fraudulent?

https://www.ft.com/content/8553aba7-8beb-4b48-9287-be6a08065...
Well, that's essentially what Allan Bloom argued what was happening in 1987. 33 years later, he certainly seems more right than wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mi...
One year into a worldwide pandemic affecting every aspect of life and you have a hard time finding examples of really bad things not caused by human? That's some committed misanthropy, I got to give you that.
It will be securing $20T in terms of market cap. Energy consumption metrics aren't useful without considering the source of energy. BTC gives us the potential to harness natural sources of untapped energy far from cities, convert it into money, and instantly transport it anywhere. The transaction limit is a non issue for me because final settlement is still faster than traditional methods.
Not sure where you got that idea?

I'm saying Gates is absolutely entrenched in the current economic system. He's won it. Why would he want any change?
food prices is a part of cpi, which is what people typically mean by "inflation". the cpi is also composed of other items (eg. rents, transport), which means it's possible for inflation to be down even though food prices are up.
1/3rd of Americans rent their homes. 2/3rd is not "almost always".
I worked at a small company where everyone was on probation their first 3 months, towards the end of the 3 months our manager would come around and ask what we thought of the new person. If enough of the team found you annoying, you didn't get to stay.
Pretty straight forward, as explained by Tom Brady on SNL:

Be handsome

Be attractive

Don't be unattractive
Which goes with the meme that was recently going around to the effect, that what happens a lot of time, is that someone who is just being nice gets interpreted as flirting, while the person who is trying to flirt comes across as creepy.

Which tends to just be another way to restate that happy outgoing/extroverts are going to find it easier, because they are unintentionally sending signals.
Shouldn’t you be counting the lines of code in the dependency?
Do you really want a fuel plant next to a launch site?
I think teenagers are observing what's going on in their old young adult counterparts.
Right, even the headers on all the source files claim BSD...
If the tweets were about hard core partying, getting drunk, having threesomes, showing off with sports cars....sure, I agree with you, that habing a private life should be accepted and celebrated. But these were work related tweets that show her unprofessional behaviour that will go with her to the next place.
China's Inner Mongolia Declares War on Crypto Mining
KNX – the open international standard for IoT nobody heard of
What's left? Grocery store and vaccination clinic?
Save the risk of forgery, physical cash is still the only way for a seller to guarantee the dollar value of a transaction with an unknown buyer. Otherwise Paypal could block it, or your bank, or the buyer could reverse the charge, or whatever.

And that's why plenty of businesses still only take cash. Casinos want cash for chips. Peter Luger's still only takes cash. When you buy something like a dog from a breeder, it will be in cash. Any transaction where person on the other end has little recourse if your payment didn't go through will be in cash. Or if the business is popular enough to force it (in the case of Luger's).
Flirting from attractive people is always welcome.

Rule 1: be attractive.
Hydroelectric sources that could be best used on homes, businesses, etc. Anything but Bitcoin, really.

Did everyone forget that the best goal we can achieve with power usage is by reducing consumption outright? Just because some of the mining is done on greener solutions doesn't mean it's a net positive.

Global warming isn't exactly going away if we keep this experiment up.
Ethereum “Tentatively” Schedules Major Monetary Policy Change
I believe red and yellow just mean the 'reading level' expected. When writing for a very broad audience, or writing things that need to be short and easy to read like e-mails, you want to aim for 'lower' reading levels.

I pasted some excerpts from a paper I was reading and it gave the 'Post-Graduate' reading level.
Does not mean it's bad writing, just hard to read (it's probably inevitable at that level).

It's probably a great tool for daily work, some people at my workplace used Grammarly, but it's paid, so this could be a good alternative.
Small functions, sure.

The most common case of this I've run into is should I use dependency injection just for testing. My function creates a Frob and interacts with it. By default Frobs persist changes to a DB and sync over the network. I don't want to do that in a test. Now I need to pass a frobFactory of (FrobConfig) -> Frob to my function.

Sure in theory I could use my new configurability for all sorts of things, but in practice I only end up using the alternative path in tests.

When do you not end up needing something like this?
Mari0 Open source game that combines Mario and Portal (2012)
I will worry about the energy used to launch it into space. Or build the dam, or whatever. And the other env. implications of those actions.
I don't think it would. In a zombie (or other type) apocalypse dollars have zero value. You can't eat them or use them as fuel. Gold may have value as a medium of exchange but it would quickly revert to barter system for food, fuel etc.

What good is selling food for dollars if you can't spend those dollars next week? Better to swap the food for another good which can be used or exchanged.
In a world (the web) where it is so easy to ask for consent, isn't that shameful not to do so? In contrast, within the street, one could argue that stopping pedestrians could be difficult.
Man, what are the odds that I'd show HN an Anki + notes app [1] at almost the same time as someone else?

Some feedback: I don't really understand what your app does, to be honest. Like, I understand Anki, and workflowy seems to be a nested list/task management app.

But why do the two need to be connected? How often do you memorize nested lists?

Not trying to be rude, just honestly want to know the use case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26388502
Not knowing how is secondary to not knowing that you're being flirted with. I've been berated by women years later for not reacting to advances that I was completely oblivious to. And was utterly disbelieved. I wonder if it's like color blindness or tone deafness.
AC runs into a problem with skin effect. At a certain point, making conductors thicker won't make them handle more current. DC doesn't have this problem.

Why AC? For a given power transmission line, higher voltage will lower transmission loss. Historically, it was easier, cheaper, and more efficient to get higher voltages with AC using transformers. These days, DC is still more complicated and expensive than AC, but the efficiency has gone up and the price has gone down somewhat on the DC side of things. And if grid synchronization is a problem and you're transmitting a lot of power, the benefits might outweigh the costs.
I realise that this is not a common use case, but FairEmail is the only e-mail client I could find that supports TLS client authentication.