skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my practical, psychology-based guide to reducing loneliness:

1. Find ways to help other people.

2. Help them.

3. Do it again.

Reducing loneliness is not about 'having friends', it's about making efforts to participate in the larger group--and the primary way to begin doing that is by helping other people.

To simplify: step outside yourself to be less by yourself.
it order to be fair it must rely on the goodwill of psychopaths who seek to win popularity contests.
Literally pictures of trash?
> At this point, if you think crypto is wholesale a scam, bad for the world, or a fad, you're simply misinformed.

Could you inform us, instead? Nothing you said contradicted this.
Seems like an advertisement for DAOs
I work with the Internet Archive, and asked George Blood about the wear and tear using a stylus. Here's what he had to say: "LPs are soft and played with a very small diamond. 78s are made from shellac which is hard and abrasive. Originally they were played with steel needles at 10x the tracking weight used by our modern equipment. They also use a much larger diamond with 5-10x the surface area. The tracking force is spread over a larger area than vinyl playback. The contact pressure is less than 10% of vinyl playback. "
An award show that goes hard core on insulting half the country in every speech while winning awards for movies that often have a very limited audience and they wonder why people don't watch. They mystique is gone, we see these folks every day in aspects of our lives not limited to entertainment. What's special about this ceremony anyway?
Then try that and see if it’s better. There shouldn’t be a one way forced option.
It's a reference.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Dijkstra
Ask HN: What interesting or hard computational challenges are you working on?
I am interested to see what are all the interesting or hard computational challenges people are working on out there. Hardware, software, data-related or algorithmic.
>Cowen: There's been a decline in entrepreneurship, a decline in the rate of innovation, a decline in people moving across the country. People are bringing up their children in highly paranoid ways. Just general risk aversion is going up quite strongly.

yeah it's hard to be risk-taking when you aren't a tenured professor, I suppose. Moving is expensive and time consuming. Tyler says this same line in every interview, about how people need to move more and how people are too averse to risk and complacent. But there is plenty of risk-taking though. Look at all the speculation in crypto, or young people making huge, speculative options bets on r/wallstreetbets, or the web 2.0 tech scene. Coinbase went public a few weeks ago. To say there is stagnation or aversion to risk taking , goes against the empirical evidence otherwise. Also, entrepreneurship has a high failure rate and is very expensive on an inflationary-adjusted basis (insurance,eadvertising, rent, marketing, etc all very expensive). Unless the VC bears the risk by writing the check, I cannot blame people for choosing to not start businesses.
This is a false dichotomy. We don't have only U.S. apathy and East Asian collectivism as our choices. We could invest in public health infrastructure. We won't, but that is another topic.
I haven’t made a case either for or against crypto either way in this thread, except to state that I have some crypto.

There might be value in a discussion that asks for disclosure. I’m not sure this discussion is working as intended though, judging the amounts of disclosures in the comments. Just an observation.
It would be great if lumber prices came down. I need to replace my fence. I don't know that they will. The initial reason was a supply drop due to covid, but I don't know how long it will take to catch up.

I think we will see a small stock market pullback (10%), which should provide lower equity prices, temporarily (a few months). Just a guess though.
Can we talk about the industrial design of this thing for a moment? It looks like something out of Simon Stålenhag. I don't know whether to be excited or terrified.
You're correct, the reporting is pretty poor, Moxie's own account of this on the Signal blog[1] is better.

[1] https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Welp, I specifically bought a Roku device a few months ago just to use YouTube.

I ran into major issues using Fire TV's YouTube app. The app would fail to get past the initial loading screen and hang forever. It would typically require 2-3 device restarts to work again, and even then it would only work temporarily. I tried completely resetting my Fire TV, relogging in, etc but never managed to get it to work properly). YouTube is the only app I've had issues with on Fire TV.

Google also discontinued YouTube's great web browser experience, which was almost identical to the app, that you could load in Fire TV's web browser.
If the long term debt increases during a period of buybacks, particularly more than net income, than yeah this is the case. And yes that happens.

BTW, this is exactly what private equity companies do when they take a company private. They borrow a lot of money to buy the outstanding stock. Often the company they are buying with debt (held by the company) is not profitable. And sometimes the company goes bankrupt.

So yes this happens.
The company that transports goods should pay for their use of roads. I pay for that through proper pricing of said goods.
Java Coder Turned High Performance Coach
I was just having a discussion about this with my manager during 1:1. I'm curious how any fellow devs with ADHD have managed the transition to remote work over the last year? I love the freedom and ability to focus that working from home provides, but I often find myself taking advantage of that freedom and focusing instead on podcasts or reddit for 3 days to avoid 3 hours of writing unit tests.
I agree with what you’re saying, but I think calling them “special cases” takes away from the elegance of the system. Haskell users frequently say things like “the IO monad” or “the list monad”, but probably the more accurate way would be to say the “the monad instance of IO”.

Monad is a typeclass (analogous to an interface in OOP or traits in Rust). IO is a type. To make some type a member of monad (or any other typeclass), you just need to write the required functions in an instance declaration.

You can make a type a member of as many typeclasses as you want. List is a member of Foldable, Monad, etc. Calling that a special isn’t quite right as it is very common for a type to be a member of many typeclasses.

You’re entirely correct in saying the Monad typeclass offers no way to extract values. But there actually is an extract function called unsafePerformIO with type “IO a -> a”. The name says it all: use it and you’ll lose all of the safety normally afforded by keeping data derived from effects inside the IO type.
There's a conjecture about graphs, and the conjecture was proven true for a new specific case. So we still don't know whether the conjecture is true in general.

For understanding the conjecture itself, I think the mathematical description is the easier to comprehend than any analogy. See the intro of the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture Wikipedia article[1]. Graphs are pretty intuitive mathematical structures and the description of the conjecture only uses basic graph structures. Although maybe I'm just not clever enough to come up with a suitable analogy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Hajnal_conj...
Scribble should now be supported in German (and a few other languages). That's the main feature I've been waiting for.
First, you can play YouTube without any problem on Firestick, they made the change 2 years ago. Second, you should give the new Chromecast device a try, it's far much better than Roku. Third, Google is asking Roku to support VP9, which is a much superior video coding format, I don't see any issue with this ask.
It's a remake or a sequel, depending on how you wanna count that sort of thing (and, imo, it's not very good)
Working people buy on price not on quality, for a car or shoes. They can't afford to be choosy. A $2000 car is a steep price but is much more reliable and/or safe transport than a bus, or bike which is why we typically see working class people in this country opt to buy cars as soon as they can afford them. Because the bus and bike experience is not reliable in this country for most people.
I see your point, but i believe the social construct of a government can fail before key infrastructure fails. People can lose faith in the US Government and still go to work. If all the infrastructure failed that you describe above we'd have mass starvation on a large scale.

Also, crypto wealth isn't 'Locked'. I can buy synthetic assets with my crypto with a guarantee that an equal amount of stock has been purchased. I can bond or trade my tokens for different cryptos to be developed that may have fecundity in supply chain, banking, pay for compute time, store, read and write to files, etc. None of that seems 'Locked' and if you think none of that goes to the commons than AWS, all the world banks, financial software, google and pretty much every other tech companies are 'locking wealth away'.
Maybe the Oscars should just become a proper film festival. They're definitely starting to align with the major festivals, Parasite having won the Palm d'Or and Nomadland the Golden Lion. Maybe they should just go that route. It will be admitting defeat in some ways.

Alternatively...stream the damn event on platforms people actually use. I don't want to sign into ABC one time every year to watch the stupid event. And I especially don't want to sit through regular commercial breaks. Transition to a different revenue model and have YouTube/Netflix/Facebook host it. Ffs you could make it a Twitch stream and it'd do better.
social-democratic government detracts from society because it allows people to not give a shit about their neighbor's well-being because taking care of that becomes government's responsibility, enabling individual actors be spared the responsibility and instead figure out how to make rich people pay for it. Or something. If it doesn't work or if it's mismanaged, it's everyone else's fault because they didn't vote the right way.
Seems like they were going for latitude?
These are all reasons why governments fail to do anything useful. But we have numerous modern examples of dysfunctional kleptocracies persisting for generations. Governments fail, as in, stop functioning entirely, for only one reason: they go broke. If the money keeps flowing, they don’t care about any of this stuff. Sure, go ahead and vote. If that had worked in those countries, they wouldn’t have become dysfunctional kleptocracies in the first place. Just watch; they’ll all go broke before even considering reform, and then only in exchange for more money.
yeah, what’s worse about the YouTube crippling of its full-screen is that it actually DISABLED any captioning.

Talk about corporate-imposed audism.
Here's what George Blood, the IA digitization expert, said: "LPs are soft and played with a very small diamond. 78s are made from shellac which is hard and abrasive. Originally they were played with steel needles at 10x the tracking weight used by our modern equipment. They also use a much larger diamond with 5-10x the surface area. The tracking force is spread over a larger area than vinyl playback. The contact pressure is less than 10% of vinyl playback. "
What about web workers, service workers, web assembly threads..?
>> USD is paper and bits we believe has value.

> Speak for yourself.

Raaa-haaaight. Next time you don't believe USD has value you'll skip picking up that $100 bill on the street. When you get robbed you'll laugh and give the robber your worthless USD and say "good luck using this for anything!".

>> BTC is bits that most people believe doesn't have value.

> This is changing rapidly, is it not?

I wouldn't say so, no.
How is ethereum necessary or beneficial in solving any of them?
lol I appreciate their packaging but this is still pretty funny
Unfortunately, that's not the case, since you can't easily predict the number of passes over that heap, nor can you predict when they will happen.
I reject the term 'junk dna'. Until we understood the basics of DNA all of it was 'junk', then bit by bit we are making headway into understanding some of it. If we're ever done I predict there will be no junk DNA left. Nature is much too efficient to spend that much energy on something that it ends up not using.
don't link it here on my behalf; I read through your comment history and don't wish to read any more of your comments, much less blog posts
It's kinda weird how this ecosystem goes, since the debundling of websites is also a common theme on HN. When does a superapp become a debundling target?
Seeking Co-founder for finance related extension
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It'll make their lives a lot easier, and likely help make them money (and also, prevent them from losing money).

Large market.

I have 15 years of experience building complicated browser extensions, full platforms, APIs, frontend/backend systems, operations, security and payments.

What I lack is someone on the marketing side. I'm looking for someone down-to-earth who enjoys the stock market and trading, has a breadth of experience/knowledge in that space, and is a bit of a thought leader.

Feel free to reply w/ your Twitter username or email address if you'd like to chat :)
How is economic growth trickle down for the society? It is not. Strong economic growth is the best thing to level up a society.

What is really trickle down for the society? The dead loop between more taxes and economic stagnation.
It's good to see such optimism. But it's not necessarily true, see for example the Apple MFi program that requires custom chips provided only by Apple as way to tax & lock devices. In the TV/broadcast business Roku is in, it is unfortunately pretty common for content providers to mandate DRM X or Y, which is embedded deep into the main SoC, so you'd have only one or two possible sources.
They're really not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-cri...
Apple would laugh and tell Google to fuck off, right before removing every app for iOS that even contacts any Google service. They're about the only company out there with the clout and cash to give Google the finger without having to go to the courts (legal and/or public opinion) to do it.
I would agree about attributing too much to depression. I'm not saying depression isn't real, but there's a motivator to attribute things to it because it creates more customers for pills that will allegedly fix it.
An unreformed racist sprouting out bigotry and a teenage girl having a bit of a moan about the cheerleading squad are both protected forms of speech under the first amendment.

If the Supreme Court made an exceptionally broad ruling to the effect of forbidding any organ of the state revoking an appointment on the basis of first amendment protected speech uttered while not performing duties, then the ruling would protect a racist police officer and irate cheerleader equally.

The Supreme Court is, of course, very unlikely to make such a broad ruling in this case, but it does seem like that's the remedy which quite a few people in this thread would like to see decided.
>"When searching within an app, favor results from that app"

vs

>"When searching within an app, favor results from a related app"

There is a big difference between these two things. "Youtube" is not the same as "Youtube Music" in the same way that "Xbox" is not the same as "Xbox Live".

As p49k explained it - if you were trying to send an email from YouTube would you expect Gmail to come up or your preferred email app? What if Gmail was renamed to "Youtube Mail"? Would that change your expected behavior?
you pay or they pay?
In butchering on farms, carcasses are hung upside down after the animal is killed.
> She starts with the false claim that the Chernobyl disaster "killed hundreds of thousands of people".

This claim is repeated e.g. by National Geographic on Instagram [0]: "More than 100,000 people may have succumbed to Chernobyl-related illnesses."

[0]: https://www.instagram.com/p/COGV1yzFkO-/
Soyuz rocket launches 36 OneWeb internet satellites to orbit
The way it's written this seems like it's exclusive. But it appears that both cases are possible at the same time. Maybe I'm reading the "OR" too much from the colloquial sense instead of the mathematic sense compared to "XOR".
Anything you measure gets destroyed at scale.
So much "interesting stuff" both in the article and in the comments (my favorite is the guy claiming he knows of multiple startups where the startup CEOs are making 7 figures). I was initially perplexed when I saw this article doing well on the HN homepage, but I assumed that it's just some kind of an engagement metric that the HN algorithm is picking up on. Really disheartened to see that the article itself and so many of the comments are getting upvotes. But here's a hypothesis for why in my own view the quality here is so different than in other threads:

Most of us here on HN are hunting for disruptable opportunities so that we can either build startups or at least inform other people who will hopefully go after them. Of course, many of the seemingly disruptable opportunities are not really disruptable, but their apparent inefficiency is due to some aspect of the problem that we're not aware of. So in order to disrupt something, you either have to have deep knowledge (or have done a ton of research) in a certain industry or you have to be ridiculously lucky.

So that brings us back to the topic of disrupting the CEO salaries. At a surface level, the price is high and the performance is low - boom, the market must be nuts so let's disrupt this / solve this problem. But the issue with beating the market with your idea is that you have to have detailed insights into the price and performance of CEOs, and the reality is most of us have neither (special shout out again to the 7 figures dude). Simply saying "I can see that many startups fail, hence all CEOs must be idiots" is not exactly the level of deep knowledge you need to beat the market. Having worked directly with a CEO, including recruiting, firing, and replacing them, would be a good starting point to think about how to approach pricing differently.

I apologize if this comment comes off as elitist - I am just simply stating the needed mechanics to be good at disrupting any problem out there, and it's really no different in this case. It took me many years and many failed startups to analyze my own issues with spotting disruptable opportunities, and I wish someone had told me earlier in my life how much effort and diligence I should be putting into validating my ideas versus just blindly trusting my gut.
isn't political power a zero-sum game? Get as much as possible and hold it. Control people's lives.
Well I'm going beyond the point of creating/manufacturing vaccines. The controversy with AstraZeneca ranged from:

- botched trials (which anecdotally they doubled down with the submission to the FDA months later, with a different type of mistake, but still, wrong data);

- the CEO dropping out of a call with the EU commission blaming them that they should have signed the contract months earlier (when we discovered weeks later the UK actually signed the contract after the EU) and vanishing from the face of the earth;

- to warn the EU they would only receive 30% of a order with few weeks notice (which ended up being less the 30%, after saying it would be 40% after all);

- to disregard the thrombocytopenia apparently not even looking at the data (until this day I don't think they even acknowledged that symptom - unlike J&J);

- avoiding the submission of plants in EU;

- the constant shifting blame to other entities outside of the EU contract;

- and probably many more shit I don't even recall, because it was a lot of crap;

I think this might be too much, and it goes beyond the flushing 60 million vaccines down the toilet due to quality control. Like I said before, production problems were expected, but the EU didn't commit €750 million, with €336 million upfront for a circus show.

You have companies that failed at the vaccine development, or that are behind, yet they're still useful. Some are helping with the production of other vaccines (like Sanofi). So there are plenty of cases of redemption and "best reasonable efforts", AZ is just a cluster fuck.
I pictured it as more that being in a social atmosphere means someone is more likely to relax and let their practised subconscious take the lead, than give it their full attention and perhaps be too critical or detail-oriented.
I think you might be misunderstanding what "All numbers in thousands" means on that table she linked.

EDIT: To be clear, Walmart's revenue in 2020 was 559 Billion with a B[0].

We can see on that table[1] that if we take the values listed in the "Total Revenue" row (559 Million with an M, 523 Million with an M, etc) and multiply them by 1,000 according to the directions ("All numbers in thousands") on the chart that we get a result which aligns with reality.

To be even more clear, we can take the values listed in the "Gross Profit" row, multiply by 1,000 as instructed by the directions, and see that yes Walmart's annual *gross profit* is ~130B

138,836,000 * 1,000 = 138,836,000,000

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelleykohan/2021/02/18/walmart...

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/financials/
exponential -> polynomial
> I'm surprised they still bother. I think with all the concerns surrounding it it's better to just agree to cancel the contracts and move to better vaccines.

Well, if nothing else, it's a 9 figure contract; if it can't get delivery the EC presumably wants its money back.
When I worked in the game industry QA folks were regularly asked to put in twelve to sixteen hours a day - they're sacrificing their health and lives for their jobs but without any promise of payout. Ditto for pretty much anyone else working on the bottom 3/4ths of the economy.
Because ML (this is what people mean when using the term AI which is ambiguous) needs some data to learn from, and this - apart from the fact that learning on a living organism like a company can be extremely expensive - poses several problems:

1. What data do you use? Past data of the same company? Data of other companies? Which ones? Past best performers?

2. Actually identifying all pieces of information that are relevant for decision making is a challenge in itself, as we're not talking about internal metrics but also external events and trends. Choosing and collecting all these is a challenge in itself. Moreover, it is not a one-off action, it needs to be reevaluated regularly, i.e. you need to be actively looking for factors influencing the performance of the company. Mind you, not all of them are readily measurable.

3. Part of the work of CEO is creative, i.e. not extrapolating based on past events but looking for completely new avenues and opportunities. Building such a complex system would be extremely expensive, although I agree this challenge is very interesting.

Not to mention the fact that an extremely important job of the CEO is to deal with people, not just the data. This point alone can make a difference between a well- and badly-managed company.
> This is both what many users would expect

If I'm watching a video on youtube and ask to play music, no I do NOT want at all youtube to handle that.

Youtube music is crap. Google has proven many times that they are totally unable to manage music. They should stop to try, because it is utterly embarrassing.