skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's nice, maybe even necessary, to have something that you enjoy, and maybe you're even good at, but you don't have to care about and doesn't have to become a responsibility.

I had little hobby projects, and people were like - you should make this into a product. And I had to fight this sort of "am I too lazy to do it? am I afraid?" but really, I just needed something that didn't have a point.

I also think there are a lot of things I didn't "get" as a kid. I remember trying golf as a kid, and I thought "this is so totally boring, why don't these guys ride bikes instead?" And it's only when you get (much) older do you realize people have so much responsibility that getting outside and walking around is a treasure. (of course it could be other things)
This is a fantastic product.
http://www.q2radio.co.UK make a cube shaped internet radio - you assign 4 stations to 4 of the sides of the cube, whichever side is facing up is played
My treadmill doesn’t have a guard either. It does monitor the motor and if it suddenly stops it shuts down. I have observed an accident at a commercial gym where it also shut down on jam.

It’s poor software.
> You haven't cut away abstraction, you've changed to a different kind of abstraction.

Yes, Linux depends upon abstractions. Everything in computing is an abstraction, including those 1's and 0's that tell the processor what to do. (Anything below that is electrical engineering.) The differentiators are the complexity and stability of that abstraction. When people talk about "everything being a file", they are referring to lower level abstractions that are relatively simple and stable. Likewise, when people talk about HTML/CSS/JS they are referring to lower level abstractions that are relatively simple and stable. This is less true (sometimes significantly less true) when people start discussing frameworks/libraries, whether that's in Linux or web development.
yeah, the cost of human life is significantly higher than what it used to be.
Yeah, great work indeed, and very fast too... Some good skills in there.

Not suitable for blog though, IMO, but I guess better for PR.
Our product has a webgl component, and the XPS13 would constantly crash Ubuntu when the webgl view was open. It was so unworkable the developer switched to windows with WSL2 just to have a stable environment.

Which is annoying because the whole reason I was buying XPS laptops for our devs was supposedly good Linux support. Maybe the laptop was overheating?
Goto Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective
Tesla closes a deal with former engineer accused of stealing autopilot code
> Marketing requires a huge budget in the VC ag

And yet the free source of marketing (your twitter account) doesn't have a link to the book.

Neither does your HN bio.

Your website is broken (expired SSL certificate).

As far as I can tell you don't have a single page that tries to sell the book. A link to amazon is a bare minimum.

https://writeusefulbooks.com/ is an example of a master class of marketing a book. It describes what the book is about and why one should buy it. It established the author as successful writer and therefore authority on the subject.

He also wrote an article good enough to hit HN and be a driver to the website. That required 0 budget.

Maybe your failure at marketing are a result of you being bad at it, not a universal truth that you can only be successful with "huge budget".
What do you mean by "Web browsing as trails"?
The translation/context of the passage in the article was "look, I know how to send plaintext email, I just wish I didn't have to jump through these hoops, so please don't come and try to teach me how to do it" and that is kind of what your comment does.
I forgot about Qubes!
Ok it’s def on my list now.
I adore the idea of QubesOS
When the obsession with personal responsibility results in the suggestion that we, as a society with legal mechanisms, should not avoid traumatically harming children in some scenario where it can be practically and realistically addressed if only there was will, it makes me sick. If a product or service causes harm and it can be reasonably mitigated, it must be mitigated, regardless of whether those people were "stupid" or "deserved their consequences", or some other psychopathic rationalization.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558941
How to feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the work?
Ah yes because `write_slice` fails. That's actually nice and quite ergonomic with the ?.

Well, thanks for the quick intro for how to actually use this new rust-in-kernel stuff and also for showing how to easily test it with nix. That's a great article, so thank you for sharing!
It's not just algorithms, MSM do this too. 'Fear sells'
It’s always amazed me that high carbon steel / cast iron / stainless steel pans aren’t more commonly used.

You literally are buying it for life. They cook the food way better. And a small amount of oil is all that’s needed for eggs and other non stick applications
Aren’t we past the era of warnings? Everything is NSFW now.
Gotta say, it might be prudent to stop before child death. Afterwards, stopping wouldn't change much anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got a publishing contract with a larger publisher to write a book on Agile (10 years ago, didn't end up publishing, long story).

I know that amazing feeling the author mentions of getting a "yes", while totally ignoring that at best I was going to make pennies. If I recall it was 10% after all publishing costs were paid for. However, I had a full time job, so this was for-the-love-of-it rather than as a real source of income.
This amounts to torturing someone for your own comfort instead of doing what's in their best interest.

I have heard it described as "prolonging their death, not their life."
Also crackdown and constant police presence on Kotti.
There's a difference between disappointment about a product (which is fine) and doing an experiment to test that might knowingly create bad feelings in someone's life in one cohort of your experiment.

What if an almost-suicidal person got the "b" version?

A/B testing should be used when you think, in good faith, that BOTH "a" and "b" versions could be good and want to know which one works better, not to confirm a hypothesis that "b" has a negative impact on users' personal lives.
Depends what you use them for.

> The trick to not being owned by your things is to only own what you really, truly need.

I don't think that is quite right. Let's say you need a button down shirt for work. So you only buy 5, custom tailored shirts out of high quality materials. You have bought a minimal amount, and you really do need those shirts.

When you are eating, are you not worried about getting ketchup on your shirt. If kids come up to you, are you not worried about them getting your shirt dirty. Are you worried that your washer and dryer are being too harsh for your shirts.

If on the other hand, you just get a bunch of ok shirts on Amazon or WalMart. You just throw them in the washer and dryer without thinking about it. You eat and play with your kids, knowing if your shirt gets dirty, stained, or ripped, it is not a big deal, you will just get another one.

I think the true key to not having your possessions own you is easy replacability. If you can easily replace them, then you can use them without worrying about them.
This does not seem particularly like an "Explain Like I'm 5"-parsable comment that the posted asked for.
Would it be possible to follow your progress somehow?
They cook the best too - a good carbon steel pan is worth its weight in gold. Non-stick is utter garbage in comparison - and you're cooking on plastic and eating pieces of the coating.

Food cooked on carbon steel or iron tastes so much better.
In other news, the ocean is wet
Asking somebody to clarify what they mean who is using a vague phrase is useful.
Telling them to stop using a phrase that you personally don’t understand is not useful.

Think of it this way, there may not be a nailed down definition of “clean” or healthy” eating. However, it gets you in a “range of uncertainty”

Is McDonalds clean? No.
Is Pizza clean? Nope.
Is brown rice clean? Maybe.
I should ask what they mean by their usage of clean.

Have I made my point a little bitter? I view usage of vague terms like that not as useless, but as “gets you close to the target without getting lost in the weeds.”

Hope this helps.
There's a difference between experimenting on the product, and conducting an experiment that deliberately puts one cohort of users in an environment hypothesized to create negative emotions.

A/B tests for the case where you honestly, in good faith, think both A or B could be good designs, but you don't know which one is better.

A/B testing is for product design changes, not psychology experiments. It is NOT for the primary intention of a psychology experiment with a group of subjects that didn't consent to a study, where either A or B has a suspected negative impact on emotions, and you're using A/B testing to confirm or deny that hypothesis.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions, I will try them out.
So current sensory info is a vector of numbers, and past memory info is a vector of numbers, and these two vectors are orthogonal.

What are these numbers, precisely?
That is mostly due to the company (Docker) not doing it the usual way. Normally they should have a build server, and then have a few line install. First is to add their repository, second is to install the software. From then on you just use your normal distributions update system. (Such as for example https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=hardware....) The real issue is that many companies choose to not do it the right way, and instead come up with weird new installation ways. When they do the same on Windows it just works because there is only one Windows, but there are multiple Linux distributions. As Windows begins to support Arm, and Apple moves to Arm (meaning more targets to support), I suspect that currently Linux specific issues will become more universal.
> What is "clear promise about what the reader will get out of it" in "Billion Dollar Muslim"?

Uh, it promises to explain Why We Need Spiritually Inspired Entrepreneurs.

I don't think the book needs to appeal to you to count as a clear promise the reader will get something out of it! You could object in the same way to a book called "How to Draw in Charcoal", how "Frankly, based on the title I don't see why I should read it".
How a peloton could be more dangerous than guns?
Linus (Tech Tips) had an employee buy computers on the phone, and the Dell sales put on several extra warranty packages despite the "mystery shoppper" saying she didn't want them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5tLO6ipxw
Open a Terminal. Then, copy and paste these contents:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/lexrus/081fa687d8b2475d33...

Also, Tinker Tool in OSX did that, IDK it it's still working.

https://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerTool/details.html
Running Windows 95 in QEMU
I was about to post a similar comment, but you summed it up nicely.

The landfill reality and the pollution they cause, especially from e-waste, is devastating: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...
This came up in the "How Doctors Die" discussion the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26685244
InstallShield can, but they're not particularly nice MSIs. I remember an old Symantec Antivirus MSI (2005-2006 timeframe) that used InstallShield's "ISScript" which ended up not being capable of being uninstalled in an automated manner. It was a pain. Search-engining those keywords today shows me that ISScript-related problems persist.
Shirts are more of a disposable product, they normally don't last very long. So the difference between the cheap knock off and proper quality isn't that significant. Although you probably don't want to be wearing the cheapest alibaba shirt to an important business meeting.
You could do the problems in rust, locally, and bask in the glow of accomplishment without communicating your results to the site.

People self-study text books without sending in their solutions to the publisher.
Yes, let's assassinate a world leader of the country with the most nukes in the world based on unfounded claims of election interference and a hack.

Do you have any idea what America did in Russia in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union? The 1996 election in Russia which was majorly "interfered" with by Clinton: https://archive.is/R7i5u, not to mention the fact that most Russian hacking activities are done using NSA backdoors which were leaked?

I'm surprised and disappointed to see such flagrant ivory tower imperialism on HN.
I genuinely dont understand the reason behind hijacking right-click (long press on phone). I'm using a slow internet, and I'm used to open multiple tabs so I can only wait for one and then go through all of them. So I'm eager to understand if this is done to stop people from copying from the site or there's another reason behind it.
Also these threads:

Show HN: I calculated the monthly cost of ownership for products - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525183 - March 2021 (2 comments)

Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224784 - Feb 2021 (41 comments)

Review broken products instead of new ones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810708 - Jan 2021 (121 comments)

Show HN: Recurring reviews to track the whole lifecycle of a product - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558891 - Dec 2020 (61 comments)
Review the GBS Control Firmware
Also it isn’t necessary to strum for every note in Guitar Hero.
Excuse me, but this is the HN bi-hourly "Facebook is evil" post (tm). Questioning the content is against the rules.
I don't know how it can be fully prevented other than disabling javascript, but in my opinion firefox with "privacy.resistFingerprinting" is a good start, though you'll still stand out because few people are using it.

I've seen a script that performed two canvas fingerprints - a complex, and a simpler one. The latter being so simple always returned the same value regardless of the browser, so it was there to see if you have altered the canvas value. That's why changing your fingerprint might still leave you trackable.
> and you're cooking on plastic and eating pieces of the coating

There are actually ceramic non-stick pans, in which case you'd be eating sand if I understand the concept correctly.
Exactly my thought. It was 13 days ago though. You beat me to it, deleted my other comment :)

Edit: I wonder how many submissions are bred by the discussion here.
Articially normalizing the spectrum seems even worse from an editorial perspective.
I think it makes sense. He's saying that if you get a 15% royalty, vs the 100% royalty minus costs of self publishing, you need to sell 5x more books via the publisher.

It's oddly worded, but the math roughly works depending on your self publishing costs.
There’s no need for this.
It does encryption. Some detail here: https://www.qownnotes.org/blog/2016-10-02-Note-encryption-wi...
Replication has many shades of gray.

Does a fire self-replicate? How about a prion?

Somewhere in between would be self-catalyzing chemical reactions. It's not that hard to imagine how such things could eventually evolve into what we call "life", with no clear line between non-living and living.
There are so many issues in all this. I think most self-help and how-to-be-an-entrepreneur books target people who don't read much. On the one hand, it's the bigger market! on the other hand, they don't read much.

These days, most or a large portion of books that have involve substance and research written by academics, who probably would like the books to make money but are OK with them not making money 'cause they still get fame and possibly academic kudos. Of course, there are professional researchers and writers who make a living publishing but they have their substance, they have their niche and they need only very specific advice as opposed to the (apparently confused) generalities of the article.

And thing the author of this website is he seems to aim to sell a book about getting rich writing books and those books would have to be about getting rich too. It's more a multilevel marketing scheme - which doesn't mean someone won't rich here but the entire enterprise is grim and not something I'd want to read about - well, Barbara Ehrenreich's Bait And Switch is somewhat interesting. But still.
Here come the traumatic memories of doing If/Then/Goto on TI-Basic, not understanding the Else or End tokens at all. Turns out each If/Then opens a new stack frame, and because I was never closing them with the corresponding tokens, memory slowly filled while the program ran. You could therefore get a high score of exactly 203 on my PONG clone before it crashed.

Good times! But seriously, take a few minutes to learn your tools properly if you use them more than once, it'll make things so much easier. :)
From my experience OOP is good when you're trying to simulate reality in virtual space. Say a game with different objects and state.

If you're not simulating anything, then perhaps a functional approach is easier and less confusing for the reader.
What if somebody had killed themselves?
This type of unconsensual experimentation is criminal.
Oh nooooo, your new top-of-the-line processor has a lower TDP than average-good processors from a few years ago! How absolutely horrible.

/s, in case that wasn't blatantly obvious.
> Now I am one of the silent lurkers.

So that's where you guys went.

I remember how forums used to always have a few extremely knowledgeable individuals that would post and give insights but for the most part would be pretty nice and humble. Sometimes they even worked in the industy. And a lot of times they wouldn't even comment until another user called them out.

Then the psuedo experts started showing up. They either overestimate their experience or just spent some time on wikipedia and think that they're an expert, and they make a point to pick apart every post they can. And even less knowledgeable posters will back the pseudo expert because they are relentless and are able to sound smart.
It's been an interesting evolution as I have aged to observe myself going from one end of the spectrum to the other (mainly, as I've accumulated more wealth).

I'm now at the point where I crave quality at just about any cost because it's abundantly clear to me that buying crap is bad value. Many of the few high quality things I bought early on in life are still with me and I love them. But so is a huge amount of the garbage I bought earlier and I hate it.

So where I used to go into shops and look at all the expensive items with scorn and think "what idiots must there be who buy all these things that are twice the price!", now I go in and actively try to find out "but is there an even more expensive one I could get with higher quality?"
I wrote a few books with a major publisher, but did it largely for the authority that it conveyed on my work and career at the time.

Love works too. :)
yeah, there should be some products where "buy it for life" might be... just don't buy one.

Do you really need a cast iron frying pan? They seem to be over-represented in this category because they don't break. But iron in your diet is not that good for you if you're male because it accumulates.

Another thing to be wary of is "buy this best stuff" lists are easy money, people will curate your lists for you, then you just link to amazon and hoarding behavior does the rest.
Given that this is a forum with strong international participation I'd be interested to hear what non-Americans think about this. As an American, I believe that our culture has a very unhealthy attitude toward dying (often thinking about it as "if" instead of "when"). I think that attitude drives a lot of bad decisions surrounding end-of-life care (both for ourselves, and for loved ones).

I know that attitude about euthanasia differ pretty markedly in other countries. How about the attitudes re: death and dying? Are the "attitude problems" I observe an American anomaly?
After many years of running AMD desktops I now own my very first AMD ThinkPad as well. I think they are slowly getting there.
I noticed this with history. You can go from general history to people who can tell you where a WW2 jeep engine was built based on its serial number.

I also found that unlike with most hobbies, I find history talk much more civilised all around. People are eager to share, and generally willing to accept well-sourced disagreement.
I got rid of 90% of my friends
> If you want to make a complex web app today, that's easier than it was 20 years ago. The tools are infinitely better.

20 years ago, you could make a complex web app in Java, ActiveX or Flash. (There were also more obscure options.) People would install a plugin for your app.

Now, it all uses Javascript. There are a lot of advantages, but it's difficult for me to say the tooling there is infinitely better. I think a reasonable case could be made that the tooling is worse than any of the three I mentioned.
Let's not make perfect the enemy of good. Counter-measures like user-interactive, request specific firewalls (like Little Snitch) can always be defeated by a motivated malfactor willing to commmit resources. That does not mean it isn't worth doing.

Consider that virtually all physical locks are trivial to pick by someone who knows how (see youtube.com/lockpickinglawyer), and yet we still use locks. Pickable locks improve security because they increase the cost to the attacker enough that it deters most attacks.
Non-stick pans do not last. The ceramic coating option is terrible and everything will stick to it with a vengeance within about 6-8 months or so if you use it regularly - our experience with Cuisinart.
I’ve bought into the cast iron hype a few years ago, and I have found it a little overhyped. There are several reasons why cast iron is not a common component of the average kitchen today. Here are mine:

- The non-stickiness of cast iron has probably been best in class in its age. Today, we have Teflon. Teflon is so non-stick we have trouble having it stick to the pan when making pans. My understanding is that nothing, especially nothing you’re likely to have in your kitchen, beats Teflon, ever. (Kenji Lopez-Alt, a well known chef and/or food scientist alongside being a cast iron fan, also attests to this: https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/11/the-truth-about-cast-iro...)

- I’ve found that it does go against some of my (potentially hypochondriac) cleaning tendencies. Essentially, you can wash it and I think you can use soft soaps, but you can’t really actually scrub it with a hard sponge if you want to get the food out fully. It seems that the carbonisation of food and polymerisation of oil in a layer cake is in fact the thing gives the cast iron its nonstick properties. To someone used to the convivial shine of stainless steel, that’s a tough pill to swallow.

Cast iron is cool, and I’m sure it has its uses, but as someone who only dabbles in kitchen stuff, I’ve found it very inconvenient and frustrating to use.
I'm not sure I agree, but a lot of people classify my work under the retro nostalgia umbrella. Personally, I'd prefer to classify it as neo-retro nostalgia.

http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz
https://ronamerch.co
Ah yes. And it worked beautifully!
My father did, and I never really thought about that too much, but it no doubt removed an amazing amount of confusion from my life at a time when I was not emotionally in good shape to deal with it wisely. As soon as I got back home, I sat down and immediately did the same, for my daughter's sake.

Just kidding; of course I didn't. I should get on that.
Exercise and scope creep, the two banes of my existence.

I like the little project idea, it wouldn't hurt for developing a portfolio either.
Almost missed this until I went back to check. I liked:

See also:

* Dunning–Kruger effect

* Karen (pejorative)
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