skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a productivity freak, I’ve always been pretty diligent at managing my inbox using filters/labels, but overtime, it just got exhausting - the amount of folders I had (44!) was getting out of control and I was spending WAY too much time deleting/archiving emails.

I tried various email productivity apps, but none did it for me. They weren’t bad by any means, but they just couldn't triage my emails in the way I wanted it to. That’s when I realized that most existing solutions prioritize emails based on what THEY consider to be important to the user, instead of the end user themselves.

So I started building InMoat with 3 colleagues last year. We learned a lot along the way, specifically how not all emails are treated equally. We’re all different with unique priorities and preferences.

We also wanted to build a tool that wouldn’t have to keep user’s data along the way. You can check our data privacy policy (https://www.inmoat.com/resources/privacy-and-security) and feel free to shoot us any questions - we want to always be completely transparent.

Let us know your thoughts, questions, feedback - both good/bad! We'd very much welcome it.
>Do you really think that if someone who's unsuccessful because of laziness that if only they hadn't heard about systemic racism they would have a better work ethic?

In the case of that particular individual I'd say it's less laziness and more of systemic racism being deterrent to attempt self-improvement. In the "even if I try, I won't get ahead because these systems will hold me back" sense.

The point I was trying to make is that it's a lot easier to point the blame at something than admit to yourself that you suck - even if you're capable.

I don't know what your definition of systemic racism is, so I can't make a proper argument for/against it.

In any case, your comment has given me some food for thought in how I approach this person.
> IMO one of the big civil rights achievements was to get rid of that divide.

That’s, yes, the central complaint about White privilege. But from the rest of your comment I suspect thst you actually meant to attribute this problem to mentioning White privilege, rather than to White privilege itself.

> IMO one of the big civil rights achievements was to get rid of that divide.

That...didn’t happen. Though the same kind of White moderates whose indifference Dr. King complained of did, after the successes of the 1960s, like to say that it had as a new rationalization for the same indifference.

> I'm white, my wife is not. I fear where my kids will land in all of this. If we are drawing hard lines between people how will half white children find their place in all this mess?

American society has drawn strong lines on race [0] forever, and, yes, that has special (not necessarily uniquely bad, but distinct) impacts on those of mixed race. (Source: nearly half a century living mixed race in America.)

> To me it shouldn't matter they have multiple cultures they come from, in the same way I'm Scottish and Irish.

Black and White in the US isn’t a simple divide of culture, its a divide of shared experience of still-prevalent racism.

[0] Particularly black/white, which is not to say others aren’t issues, but, e.g., the One Drop Rule, intermarriage bans through most of thr country through the mid-20th Century (and the entire South until struck down federally in 1967), and other things particularly focussed on the black/white divide.
This is apparent in the SAT2s. Or APs. But the elites still want high SATs. Test prep makes a big difference.
Haskell doesn't require top level type definitions.
Are you sure we are doing what got others in trouble?
As a native Californian, I pronounce week and weak the same. Not sure about other places.
Agree! ... not making an identity out of victimhood looks central (to me) to develop te next generation to not have/tolerate these problems.
I am glad we have some women amongst us. Too many people in here suffer from "silo thinking"
Does the Cuban government use excel?

Capitalism is just cruelly beautiful sometimes.
What could we use this for? The immediate thing that comes to mind is making a coloring book. I’m wondering if I could use it to make something original
As if that were the only way to slaughter an animal.
You've transposed the numbers for March. It was 2.7M in the article.

Jan: 2.4M
Feb: 9.6M
Mar: 2.7M
Apr: 0.9M

(edit: and I replicated the error facepalm)
It started as an ICOs selling off utility tokens. ICOs have a broken incentive structure which leads them to over sell and hype the technology to increase the founders wealth. They are still overselling and hyping future tech that has not been proven. PoS is advertised as a free lunch PoW but PoS does not stand up to scrutiny and likely devolves to PoW with nothing as stake grinding. Vitalik has also put his name on and pumped countless ICOs which have left bagholders with nothings.

Ethereums tech is based off scaling bitcoin in an more ambitious way than bitcoin maintainers consider safe. Ethereum is still PoW and every client must download and validate all other clients smart contracts. This does not scale and leads to centralisation. Removing the most important property of these networks designed to be controlled by no one group/person. Smart contracts and decentralised exchanges are the goals of a decentralised network but Ethereum has sold the idea before they have the technology to achieve this.

Ethereum has excelled at regulator arbitrate. It looks like it's not controlled by one group so it's not regulated like a company. But one group controls the rules and the hard forks on the network. It is a success in this way
I've gone completely off biometric security.

It's unchangeable and externally facing. The only truly secure enclave is the things in my head, and they have the benefit of being changeable if compromised, and I can make a positive distinction of value if under duress.
Yes, this is static typing. I wonder though if you have the option of adding type annotations?
> decided that forests were some precious resource that needs to be preserved

For some groups it's like a religious thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ancient_Order_of_Druids...
Land with Erupting Volcanos Can Be Purchased for the Right Price
The other way is with the Multi Account Containers, Temporary Containers, and Containerize addons. Make permanent containers for sites where you want to allow cookies to be saved. Let everything else open in temporary containers. Shortly after closing the temporary tab, all cookies (and local storage, etc) for that tab get deleted. Permanent containers keep their data. Containerize lets you add matching rules to URLs without having to visit that URL in a GUI. Handy for redirects.
FWIW, I thought the Impossible Burger clearly tasted like heavily processed legumes, not like meat. I grew up in one of the major legume growing regions of the US and was raised on them in a part of the world where the local food culture knows how to get the most out of them. It is very satisfying when done right, and I eat far more than the average American to this day, but no one would confuse it with meat. Impossible Burger etc tastes like overly processed legumes with some chemical-y overtones.

Ironically, I think it would be far more appealing if they didn’t try to make it simulated meat and leaned into its strengths. Vegetarian burgers that don’t pretend to be meat taste better. Legumes that are expertly processed as a protein, without trying to be meat, taste better. The Impossible Burger falls into the same category as “fat-free mayo”; trying to maintain the pretense ultimately produces a poor experience.

I am an accidental vegetarian most days but I won’t eat Beyond Beef or Impossible Burger. The products taste unpleasantly synthetic. If I wanted to eat legumes, I can create something far better tasting for much less money. If I want a burger, I’ll eat a burger — marketing aside, the gap is still very wide.
if you mean make claims with no evidence to back them up, yes I can engage more with you.
I thought this way too until the Beyond/Impossible burgers. Before them, the garden burgers and similar options mostly got a "why bother?" reaction from me. Give me a dish that is meant to be vegetarian, not something trying and failing to replicate a meat dish.

But I also love a good burger. To each their own, of course, but a well cooked burger (well cooked, not well done) made with quality meat.. it's hard to top. And that's the thing with Beyond and Impossible - while they don't hit the level of top tier burgers, they're actually "close enough" to the taste and texture of real beef that I actually enjoy them as a burger, not just as a burger substitute.

And being close enough is massively important. You aren't going to get the world to go vegetarian on ethical appeals. But plant-based meats that are able to get close enough, especially if they can end up priced cheaper than meat, will provide a much easier transition to less meat consumption. And hey, it doesn't even need to mean that people go to 100% vegetarian; significant reductions would help a lot.
This feels like a tool with lots of business cases.

Studios may be able to accelerate digitalization and colorization.

The ability to convert stills to a fillable outline or repurchase for labels/marketing/branded coloring books (or apps) could be worth some money to those with a large content library.
>Busyness has become a badge of honor as elites boast of their workloads: A 2015 advertisement for The Wall Street Journal stated, “People who don’t have time make time to read The Wall Street Journal.”

It's the hustle culture of capitalism applied to every facet of life. If you're not productive every single moment, you're falling behind and your self worth deserves to decline because of it. We've eliminated any "slack" from our jobs, from our lives, from our relationships in pursuit of ever more efficiency. We procrastinate because we feel guilty about not being maximally productive 100% of the time, there's no room for honest slack, we have to self-flagellate. We can't enjoy our time off because we know that work is piling up in our absence, having slack staff to compensate would be a waste. Our time with friends has to be scheduled and planned so it doesn't get in the way of our productivity, there's no room for slack in our social activities. We do all of these things because if we fall behind our job might be on the chopping block when the shareholders decide to squeeze fractions of a percent out of the share price. If we lose our jobs we lose medical care, food, shelter, and more.

We could fix all of these things if we chose to make our society that way, but we find it preferable for one man's divorce to have global implications for dozens of organizations and charities, all the people who work for him, and all the people who depend his whims for aid.
Thank you! I always do a hard eye roll - whenever I hear those banal words "treat everyone like we'd want to be treated ourselves".

This is often regurgitated without forethought- differently people clearly want different things, and go about seeking those things in manifestly different ways enough to make this almost surely - bad advice, despite it "coming from a good place".
As an omnivore it’s because burger is delicious. If I can get the burger without the cow I’m down. Frankly forget about what they’re replacing, they just taste pretty good. Just a round puck of yum.
Onlyfans strangely not mentioned. I see a lot of people on twitter with viral tweets shilling their onlyfans
> You don't need a humanities degree to document your local coal mine's history or contribute to your local art culture.

Well you don’t need a CS degree to contribute to your town’s tech sector, but it sure helps.
Title: “A future without passwords”. Then goes to show the user entering a password in the demo. Doh.

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...
>/ʒ/ does not occur in word-initial position in English

Doesn't gendarme start with /ʒ/?
Adopted word from French, but almost all words have origins somewhere else.
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/5/27/rust-for-pythonistas/

This is an intro blog post though, perhaps you expected some more depth.
I've often thought about what I'd have done in those towers on 9/11. New York's finest who ran to that maelstrom to help are indeed New York's Finest.

I agree you can do everything right and still have grievous harm befall you. But you can dramatically reduce the odds of that.

For example, I know what sorts of natural disasters the Pacific Northwest is prone to. I've taken steps to reduce the odds of one of them destroying me. There's still an element of risk, and I accept that.
Salt, pepper, garlic, dried onion, Worcestershire sauce. Top with mayo and onion on a toasted bun.
> I find this interesting, in that cropping has plenty of violent against animals but one step removed.

This is true, the produce farmers kills pests insects and animals to produce crops at high volume.

The issue for me is scale. You need to feed the farm animals which leads to more soy and grain being produced which leads to more death.

I also can’t guarantee that the produce farmer or the farm owner is vegan which means I might be indirectly supporting animal agriculture multiple steps removed.

That way of thinking provides no viable solutions. I can at least control myself and know that I am taking steps to minimize harm.
I don't care what unit you want to use. I place no special importance on a whole bitcoin vs a fraction of one. When people say bitcoin is scarce because there will only every be 21 million they are not saying that you can't subdivide them further, nor are they saying that only 21 million people can ever own bitcoin. They are expressing that it's supply has a fixed maximum. Do you disagree that the supply of bitcoin is fixed at a maximum of 21 million (or however many equivalent satoshi or any other unit)? This is what we are talking about.
There's a tricky balance that needs to be struck between personal agency and the mechanisms which society puts in place to prevent aggressors from victimizing people.

One such mechanism is the mentality of "believing victims". Not a bad thing on the face of it, but my feeling is that we've tipped over into a world where people are incentivized to become victims. In this way the mechanism ends up becoming weaponized and wielded like a cudgel by those good at playing the victim against a new set of victims who just aren't as good at that game.

These new victims may end up even more disadvantaged due to ideological fashions which shape who we see as victims (e.g. "girls are more likely to be victims than boys") and dictate to what degree we should mete out empathy (e.g. "we have to make sure we aren't overly empathetic towards the white kids since we are biased and they are privileged").
The person you're replying to has a different opinion from yours and you seem very offended by it. It hasn't got anything to do with lockdown in London, how booked steak restaurants will be there, or how much the "emotionally intelligent people" cringe. This all feels like non sequitur or ad hominem.

I eat meat with no plans to stop and I don't have a problem with the comment you're replying to.
Big if/else lists will often get compiled into a jump table anyway.
FWIW, I strongly disagree with harsh sentences for drug crimes. I also strongly disagree with harsh sentences for juveniles - note that I qualified my statements with "adults" not children.
There’s a literary reference as well. Remember the delicate and understated lowercase beginning of the evergreen first program. Most other programming examples get this wrong and I miss it sorely:

hello, world.

My guess is it refers to archy and mehitabel, very popular early 20th century free verse poetry by Don Marquis. His work was still very much in favor with intellectuals around the time of B’s creation. Or it might have been influenced by the poet e.e. cummings.
From my experience in large companies the c-level is highly political, below even more so, as the ways to be promoted is limited.
Why Ingenuity’s Fifth Flight Will Be Different
Advertisement is mostly a zero-sum game, competing for a limited amount of spending. If one player in a market advertises, they gain while the other players lose roughly the same amount. If the advertising world kept operating as normal, but the ads never displayed anywhere—blank sidebars, blank sponsored content, blank billboards—it would be more pleasant for consumers, and the market as a whole would not be any worse off for it.

Then why stop there? No one needs to make the ads. Everyone employed to design, shoot, and display the ad can serve others instead of working to manipulate them. As long as the transactions keep going as normal, it's a huge win for everybody.

Of course, this is business. Corporations wouldn't spend that money just to subsidize newspapers, television, and page views. In a world without advertisement, tons of content would suddenly lose its revenue stream, without an easy way to monetize attention. Attention would not be profitable on its own.

That's a negative thing on the face, but I believe content which cannot survive by donation or by subscription deserves to die. Netflix survives already without (third-party) advertisement; Facebook, on the other hand, would collapse. But a social network does not need as many engineers as Facebook does. Without competing against ad-based sites, a less bloated, less attention-sucking social network could replace Facebook. And so on for other sites. SEO blogspam would die, whereas useful and interesting newsletters would survive (as demonstrated by Substack). High-quality TV could survive, but game shows and reality TV would be forced to greatly pare down their offerings. Valuable, accurate subscription news would survive, whereas clickbait news would have no more reason to bait clicks.

The alternative to the status quo is that many forms of content would become unprofitable, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
I have 4x Time Machine backups. Hopefully I'm safe? Surely at least one of those separate independent backups should work?
The thing is if you are the victim, it is because you are personally the victim. The moment a whole category of people become victims just by definition, or for acts committed even before they were born the word loses all meaning.
It seems hard to make sense of your objection here other than as a statement that past acts that might be considered wrong were how we got to where we are today. I don't think it's unreasonable to acknowledge our history while also recognize we shouldn't repeat the wrongs of the past.
Very interesting. After asking I wondered if there could have been some kind of velar connection but L-vocalization makes sense. Appreciate the in depth explanation with lots of examples from your idiolect.
The passage from Ecclesiastes is itself a translation of course, and though it is a very old translation it's not particularly good.

'I returned and saw under the sun' - where exactly is the speaker supposed to have returned from?

What is being conveyed, poorly, is that the speaker is having a moment of clarity.

https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3109.htm
WinBox: Window manager in a web browser
When I was a impoverished kid, how else was I supposed to get internet and email accept for with Juno, then NetZero or stealing internet? Yeah I used gophernet through a local library dialup and it was not the internet.

I mean, my brother once bought a "personal fan" for $1 and that was the most coveted possession we had for about 6 months.

As someone who grew up extremely poor and effectively dumpster dived for my first computer what pragmatic alternative is there?

I don't want to be uncharitable but this seems like a very middle class and annoyed wealthy problem to have, I haven't seen any non regressive approaches accept for MAYBE from crypto browsers.

Maybe the wealthy and middle class are just tired of subsidizing the internet and the content on it. As a broke child ads got me to a place where I could download html, learn to program and code and break out of an insane degree of poverty. The borland turbo c books at the library never seemed to have code that would compile.

It may just be my personal experience but all of this feel like pulling up the ladder behind me and I haven't seen anyone articulate practical alternatives that address this issue.

edit: Even mass surveillance and government control seems like an orthogonal near strawman issue to me, as far as I'm aware the most restricted countries on earth like China and NK don't need or use ad networks for their lockdowns. Frankly if you can't scrape data off my hard drive, don't have the power of incarceration (or feed data to those who do), and don't tie it to my credit score or ability to bank (I think we should pass legislation explicitly banning that on the banking side) and don't make it illegal to use ad blockers, I don't see the problem.
Dang this is insightful. You have a clever understanding of social dynamics.
I'm not publishing a paper in the comments. This is HN. Regardless, you cherry picked one aspect of my comment, and it's very hard from my perspective to see that it was done in good faith.

I'd like to be proven otherwise, so, here are my key points, which you didn't contend with:

-> It's possible to completely isolate the effect of advertising spend, thereby making the effectiveness (or not) measurable.

-> I pointed to growing revenues on Google/FB's platforms, two platforms which make isolated measurement feasible.

In terms of _externally_ verifiable facts, that's the best I'll be able to give you.

The rest, you (and others) have to take on a/ good faith b/ using basic logic, that I'm telling the truth.
I sure learned a ton from this book on vi disguised as a StackOverflow answer.
Personally I believing in telling people the truth. Neither telling people that they are helpless victims, nor that they have control over everything. Simply that they have some degree of influence.

The serenity prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
I've been told that, but I'm comfortable with what I know at the moment. Given how aggressive Brave it, I'm not sure I'm at a disadvantage keeping the status quo.
Maybe that kid who made the wrong website put more emphasis on things that places like MIT prioritize instead of reading about "useless" subjects like learning how to create secure websites? The issue is comparability. You can compare by SAT scores and grades far better than by a metric like "built a secure website". If places like MIT prioritized such things more, they'd become even more unfair. Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather work with you on a team than with someone who cares only about their personal success above the team's success, and can't listen to input as to why their approach was wrong.

As for the Zuckerberg example, I think it's a prime example because a social network website is comparatively cheap to create, but the key question is to get people to sign up. By launching first for top colleges, people who want to stay in touch with their "successful" mates would want access as well. Someone without access to a top tier institution's social life would not have been able to pull it off.
This is the issue. It is not to stop complaining. "Toughen up" means do something about, it means complaining solves nothing.

Which is why our problems now are so much bigger, since our complaining became so much louder.
Please share your experiences, also, how do you think(/know) it all started?
Couldn't say. It's about the perception, and some people understand that dynamic intuitively, others don't.