skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can imagine how they are helpful to teams who individually do not have the holistic bigger picture or may not have the context of knowing the end goal/UX component.

Yes. Exactly.

Because you're a solo developer - so either you're a hobbyist (so you know what you want), or you're talking with your customers. And as a solo developer there isn't really a need for any process or structure or any special productivity tools. You can just use notepad to organize your work.

>For me, the tasks are brush strokes of the bigger picture and spelling it out in story form just to break it down to tasks is duplicative.

Imagine a scenario where there is a middle-mam between you and the customer. What if that middle-man gave you task to put a button that does X on a toolbar in a web-app, and imagine you have no idea what problems or needs the customer experienced that necessitated this button. But you're a professional, so you do that. Then you get a task that says to remove the button and turn the action into a right-click menu option ... so you do that. Then you get a task that says the right-click menu option needs to be also accessible by a long-press left-click and the context options need to be bigger. Then you get a task that states the options menu when opened needs to centered under the point of long-press/right-click (instead of to the left) .... I can go on, but tell me honestly, at what point do you as a professional developer just stop and ask the middle-man either for a meeting with a customer, or just have them tell you what the customer is trying to do. Because clearly there is some type of "XY problem"[1] happening here. The customer and the middle-man are trying to solve something and they are spinning in circles and you cannot really contribute to the solution because you have no idea what they are trying to solve. Was the need for 'long-press' option added as some sort accessibility functionality or as a way to make the app compatible with mobile devices? Was the need to change the location of the context menu because of a preference, or was it because on certain devices the context menu was truncated by the edge of the screen ... etc. etc.

That's the point of stories. They provide context to the developer so they can have a big picture in mind and be part of solving this problem. If you know that your web-app is meant to be used by seniors with compromised dexterity who will be primarily be using a mouse, you'll think of ways to make it easier to navigate the app versus if the app is for teenagers on their phones. You'll be able to collaborate with the middle-man (and customer) to bounce ideas of each other. As a developer, you're not an automaton even if IBM wants you to be.

[1] https://xyproblem.info/
> Humans will not share unless co-opted

There's ample evidence otherwise in the body of social sciences. Cooperation is a fundamental characteristic found all across nature and is a pillar of human civilizations throughout the ages. I would argue it takes a lot of resources/energy to coerce people into NOT sharing, like when school teachers will try to make you believe copying is cheating despite your guts telling that helping one another is perfectly fine.

You could read Kropotkin on Mutual Aid, if you're interested on more information (though outdated by over a century of research) on how selfishness is definitely not a natural state of things.

> This is an issue with America, not capitalism.

No, it's a problem with money and profit and does not only affect America. The same issues have reached the UK and every other place where "neoliberalism" got a foothold. In fact, even in France where neoliberalism isn't quite established just yet and education is still rather cheap (<500€/year in public universities), most students are forced to have a sidejob because the study grants they receive are not enough to live (hardly pays for rent) and the student status does not grant you other social benefits (need to be over 25 to have support from the State).

> If state violence is required to force people to share

It is not. In fact, state violence can only be used to PREVENT people from sharing. If there was no police, there would be no poverty because we'd have expropriated the rich long ago, as the vast majority of people agree that's the only sane thing to do. Or do you know a lot of people defending banks and billionaires? Personally i don't know a single one in my neighborhood.

> I make ~O(£20k) per year (...) calling me part of "the tiny privileged elite"

So depending on where you live you're either very rich or rather poor. In the UK that's definitely not a rich income, but in other parts of the world £20k/year makes you a rich person. In any case, any form of salary in the Global North makes us considerably richer than most people in the Global South.

Also, please note i did not call you part of the tiny privileged elite, as i do not know you. The "you" employed was a generic, impersonal you. The tiny privileged elite was "most of us on HN", which you and me are apparently not a part of (i make < €10K/year).

EDIT: Also worth noting about the human tendency to sharing. Marxism-leninism never was a form of sharing. There were richer and poorer folks in the USSR, as in every "dictatorship of the proletariat". In fact, the political police hunted down people who wanted to share, such as the peasants cooperatives of Ukraine (defended by the Makhnovtchina peasant's army) or the soviet of Kronstadt... both of which were eradicated in blood by Lenin and Trotsky's red army because they were actual communists and not power-hungry tyrants.
Consumers have total control over what market players do, and the public has total control over whether market players generate any negative externalities, as it constructs the law enforcement and judicial system.

A once-in-every-four-year election, involving millions of poorly informed and easily manipulated voters, provides far less accountability than individuals making decisions every day on how efficiently their dollars/euros are being spent.

As for wealthy interests, whether it's billionaires, or massive blocs of highly paid unionized civil servants, where do you think the malevolent ones can do more damage: in a rules-based free market, where consumers control their own money, or in a government controlled market where controlling the consumer is only a matter of gaining political clout and dictating to private citizens how their wealth will be spent?

In a rules-based free market, it's irrelevant that Apple is worth $1.5 trillion. It can't force me to buy Apple products. Once the free-market ruleset is undermined, then Apple can, through taxing authorities and regulatory gatekeepers and the armed government agents that enforce their taxes and restrictions, force me to buy its products.

The free market ruleset protects our most basic rights, and is the most important institution for protecting the weak from the strong. That you believe otherwise is a deliberate outcome by those who want to abolish those safeguards.
If you're a man reading this, one of the tools you have at your disposal is to pledge not to be a part of a panel comprised of only men. It can help to prompt organisers to assess their biases. Here's one example of such a pledge you could take (either privately, or publicly):

https://www.owen.org/pledge/
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Fortress Club: Faut-il investir dans Coinbase?
Maybe it was to solve concerns that people had for being billed for "Oh sorry, wrong number"
Save Philippine Seas is organizing a live Facebook Q&A "Seaspiracy VS Reality"
Arch Linux installer – guided, templates etc.
> It serves both to manage the S/N ratio and to provide feedback to commenters on what the community sees as signal vs. noise.

No, it provides feedback as to what the community wishes to see as to better help those who care conform to it.

Absolutely useless, unimaginative comments that contribute nothing and state the obvious are seldom downvoted, so long as they not voice anything that disagrees with the voterbase, and may even be upvoted.

> I don’t see that often on threads with substantial discussion. I suppose if that was a real problem, weighting upvotes by some measure of how relatively unfavorable the comment’s position is at the time upvoted would mitigate it.

I went through your own list of comments and could find some greyed out comments that really had no business being greyed out and downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815734

This is not noise, this is something someone disagreed with, for reasons I don't understand.

I've seen quite a fair bit of greyed out comments on H.N. that were accurate and informative, as the comments that truly do not belong are most likely removed by the moderators to begin with.

I believe that comments are most likely to be upvoted by users when they say something the user already agrees with without thinking, as such something that tells him nothing new. — the end result is that the least informative, most obvious comments tend to be the most upvoted.
I like to think of iambic pentameter as something like a grid underlay. It's there to create organization, but it's not the focus of the presentation. If you hammer the rhythm, it's like blacking the lines of the grid and obscuring the text. Shakespeare was actually pretty good about matching the meter to fairly natural speech. Take the line quoted in the text, "Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all." You'll probably find that you naturally stress CON, COW and ALL, hitting three points of the "grid." That's sufficient. Forcing an accent on DOTH and OF is unnatural and unnecessary.
Came here to write the same.
I hate Google Chrome with a passion after years of anti-consumer and anti-privacy tactics and now exclusively use and recommend the Brave browser [0].

[0] https://brave.com/
Then you seem to know more than most military historians about WW2. Impressive!
I would recommend strongly to not buy Dell laptops. The quality of the laptops are very bad. I bought a XPS 15 two years ago for around €2000 and the screen isn’t working anymore. The laptop hasn’t moved from my desk. Look at the support pages, there’s so many issues with no resolutions.

Current issues:
Screen distorted - Have to use external monitor
Laptop randomly freezes for 30s - Great for meetings
Bluetooth randomly disconnects all devices
WiFi randomly disconnects

Maybe Dell have these issues fixed but their support is pretty bad for known issues, I’ve had several Dell laptops in the past and things just go wrong over time. I’d definitely check out the support pages before you make any decision.

I’m not sure who is considered the best Windows Laptop manufacturer anymore.

My girlfriend has a MacBook and doesn’t seem to have any of the issues I’m plagued with, but again this is anecdotal.
YC currently takes 7% when they invest https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/

I know, at a minimum, the dollar amount has changed over the years (gone up) but I'm not certain if the percentage has changed.

So if they can realize all of that at current price, a lot. Enough to keep running for many years.
I assume the judges will look at the product without looking at the author profile, why would it matter ?
Interesting bit of context (with some loose assumptions): one of the early investors put $300k into this and got to $2 billion recently at the IPO. Not sure when he invested, but suppose we assume 2012. The price was about $2 to $10 in that year. That'd have put the equivalent investment at $1.8 to $9 billion in bitcoin.

Not sure what would've been the riskier bet. Coinbase of course could have pivoted away from Bitcoin if it didn't work out. But there are plenty of scenarios where Bitcoin succeeded, but this startup didn't. Pretty interesting that Coinbase wasn't an any more interesting investment than Bitcoin at the very start, and that while Coinbase was private, hard to invest in, and illiquid if you held it, Bitcoin was open to all to make the same bet.

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Also find it interesting that the real bet that Brian made here in his post, on building a product to undercut CC fees, didn't really materialize. Coinbase invested heavily into this, building out a marketplace for merchants for payment processing. But virtually all money is being made on being a broker for people speculating on Bitcoin as if they're buying gold, with no significant intent to use bitcoin. And payment processing is still 99.99% non-crypto, with crypto-based payment processing still being slower, costlier and less trusty.

If you got me in 2012 in a time-machine to 2021 to only take a peek at the current virtually-zero level of actual use of Bitcoin, and the abundant alternative non-crypto digital banking/financial products available, and asked me to invest in Bitcoin or Coinbase... I'd have said no. (I was optimistic, so I did invest back then). I wouldn't have predicted the current price levels even with information of today.
I'm curious about the extra person in a lot of these images. In some, they're clearly disciples of the Yoga guru and paying obeisance, but in some others it looks like they're holding a spade[1] or (what looks like) washing clothes[2][3] or stoking a fire[4]. It could be just to add some variety and background to the image, but I wonder if there's more to it, perhaps something related to the Yoga asanas that are being depicted in each one.

[1] https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/hatha...
[2] https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/hatha...
[3] https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/hatha...
[4] https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/hatha...
Interesting perspective that large societal shifts account for shifts in the type of health outcomes.

One problem I see is that if people are too tied to their subjective well-being, then it is a frame of mind that can never be satisfied.
Very nice!
BTW, in Chapter 4.5 the automatic email protection from Cloudflare jumps in and modifies the example code.
> I don't think there are HIPPA concerns with appointment schedules

I'm not so sure. The frequency/duration of appointments would be juicy information for insurance companies, future employers, etc.
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I hope you agree that's ridiculous.

No comparison without explicit casts is a valid design choice. I think Ada and Rust work that way, though I've never used either language and might be mistaken...
>If you can't be bothered to find a single woman judge, how are you going to rate projects created and designed by women?]

That is some pretty non-transitional thinking!

Why in the world would a man not be able to just a Redis project developed by a woman?

[edited because of your edit: I stand by the above statement even in the face of your very weak argument]

Let me ask you a question. If that panel had been all women, would you be on here talking about how a woman would not be able to judge a Redis project developed by a man?
devil's advocate

what if their design is more girlish in style and men wouldnt get it?
Not necessarily, you can see lots of governments explicitly (or discreetly?) starting crypto currencies to effectively increase supply.
> Will Crypto be regulated

I don't think it would solve anything, you'd remove the effect, not the cause.

What draws people to crypto is deflation. People love deflation, they gravitate towards crypto because deflation is hard built in protocol and it brings about financial nirvana for the saver: that is being able to increase one's net worth without doing any tangible work, manual or intellectual.

You can try to remove it but efforts will fail and it will take a whole lot of effort just to prevent it from getting bigger.

The government pretty much gave up on removing drugs, cash, tax evasion..

Crypto is the same thing, great for the individual, but very bad for society. Tragedy of the commons can't be solved , so the work is to contain because they can't extinguish it.

Better yet it can be extinguished but it would require government to do the one thing it can't possibly do:

A similarly deflationary dollar
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> The truth is that Inquisition aim was exactly opposite: to stop chasing and burning innocent woman (and man) by all kind of petty lords and civil "courts" who used witchcraft accusation to get rid of opponents. This was done in the name of Catholic Church so Rome decided to do something about this and stop that practice by introduction of pretty modern standards of court proceedings - this way Inquisition was born.

This is really not true. Handling Witchcraft trials better had absolutely nothing to do with why the Inquisition was established. Its original and foremost job was to stomp out heretics (and later, in Spain, Muslims and Jews) in an organized and efficient way. If anything, it used torture more than had previously been common.

But yes, it established standard procedures that were much less arbitrary and gave some rights to the defendant.

> In addition the punishment for heresy was rarely death penalty (about 1,5% of cases), which is less than 5 thousand executions during several centuries of Inquisition activity.

The main reason was that the death penalty was only given to unrepentant or repeat offenders.
Even learning Rust on the surface already change a lot on how you perceive errors, type-based error, thread-safety, expression-oriented code and lifetime.

I write typescript for work. I have adapted some concepts such as the encoding invariants into type (using a proven library such as fp-ts and io-ts) and using return over throw for error handling has been yielding better and scalable code.

Not to mention Rust's types for managing concurrency and shared objects, like Rc, Arc, Mutex, that drive the architecture of your software. I have been doing a similar thing in my projects in other language and the impact has been very positive

Edit: typo
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Can't say much of the mushrooms, but the Mac trackpad is so good, it made me write this comment ;)
I listen to https://youtu.be/fTS1JbEtSWs for background. Not only is it great background but I've found so many beautiful tracks through it over the years. Here's two:

https://youtu.be/KiTC5hnRVqE

https://youtu.be/WR3E9VzPDnU
I've used Dells all of my life and always have been very satisfied. It lasted 4-5 years for me.
I mean, I have an NFT of the only known recording of my father's voice. He passed in 1998 when I was a kid. Rumor on the street is that NFT is going to be worth eleventy trillion galactic credits some day ;P
>nobody can give a real case about “the friend of friend” who went crazy

This is a very good point. I'm not going to suggest that the commonly cited anecdotes are all wrong or misguided, but a lot of well meaning people throw around anecdotes but just like a discussion about flat earthers, everyone knows about them but virtually nobody seems to actually know any personally.

In 2016 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cited 37,461 people died due to automobile accidents. Those are easily traceable numbers because they create a tremendous amount of paperwork and news articles.

But with psychedelics there is a very odd disconnect between the perception of their danger and the extreme lack of actual medical/scientific evidence that actually gets cited.
I definitely found jq to be my modern addition to the pantheon alongside awk, sed, and grep.
The front 1/3rd of the Maersk Honam was burnt beyond repair in a fire in 2018. That included the bridge and accommodation block. They cut it off, took the rest of it back to the shipyard on a heavy lift ship, and built a new front...

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

on fire: https://www.google.com/search?q=maersk+honam+fire&client=ubu...

here's some photos of it on the heavy lift ship: https://www.google.com/search?q=maersk+honam+heavy+lift&clie...
this is way too common in Python world too - packages (crates) use dashes (they look nicer?), but the packaged library is named with underscores, because `-` is math operation and can't be in a name
https://patch.com/virginia/arlington-va/classifieds/for-sale...
I think this argument actually illustrates a big issue with EA: for many people the "worse outcome" is no worse than the status quo.

I'm not going to argue that an authoritarian theocracy or military dictatorship would be an improvement on the corporatist kleptocracy (or however we want to negatively describe the status quo). But political change is mostly not carried by those already doing moderately well under the status quo, even if they may often end up being the one implementing it.

There's always a risk of existing power structures swooping in and opportunistically inserting themselves when the dominant ones are torn down but the problem isn't the tearing down of those structures but the continued existence of those that swoop in.

This is btw why many leftists advocate for intersectionalism rather than hoping racism, sexism etc will go away on their own once the class hierarchy is defeated.
I've been using XPS 13 9350 then 9380 for a good while with Ubuntu.

Mostly they just work and are fine for coding if you don't need a lot of oomph. The niggles are the battery life, which is so-so and that Gnome doesn't support mixed resolution screens well (I have the hidpi xps with a 2k external).

I've also been using a Latitude 7400 daily until quite recently and that was better (good battery life, lower res screen worked better with the external monitor) and has better built-in connectivity if you care for the rather "industrial" styling. Marginally better keyboard layout too IMO.

Don't buy Dell docks btw - I had lots of problems with those and when they need firmware upgrades you can't do it from Linux; I'm having much more luck with a Belkin one.

I'd probably go for the Latitude if I was in the market for a new laptop right now.
How would you do that with `sam deploy`

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...
their filtering is not very good, hey.com emails work fine.
> A nice SFH, big yard, garage filled with tools, good schools, and quiet […] streets […]

Sounds like the neighbourhood I grew up in… in the middle of a major city:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/150+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+...

You can live in a decently dense city, which can sustain transit and have schools and parts with-in walking distance and big offices with-in cycling distance, without having to live in Manhattan-like densities.
This is the stupidest thing I've read today. It costs him $130 per mo to host his blog?!!!!

If he wanted to hide his designs so much he could just put a login page for folks he wants to vet. Any page you send to the client obfuscated or not is sent to the client, period.

The rate-limiting he wanted on some counter is the weirdest thing, just have users login if you are so bothered about server less bills for something so trivial.
> The current rust compiler is not small

Is GCC really any smaller?
Indeed, or at least lobby my government to cut the oil spying whistleblowers, including the author of the said book, a bit of slack... alas these things might be a bit out of place alongside the "get more exercise" and "change my morning routine" items on the One Thing List.
The rise of video compression in a connected world
because, sadly that's illegal in all of germany.
> Yes, the metric goes up:

Oops, meant to say transactions go up vs energy, so the metric energy/transaction goes actually down.
It has to be adversarial, because politics by its very nature is how people control the behavior of other people.
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> "A company like Microsoft" writes production code in literally every language.

Not in core parts of Windows they don't. It's C++, perhaps some C, and now Rust. It's a pretty big endorsement.