skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you have personal knowledge of Patreon. Would you share your thoughts on a few questions?

1. What are the most significant challenges and obstacles Patreon is facing?

2. What is your take on Jack Conte as a leader and CEO?

For context, the comments on this post prompted that question: https://www.patreoncommunity.com/t/apply-for-jacks-creator-c...

3. Why are so many of the core tools on Patreon either broken, or stuck in the past, and why is Patreon so unresponsive to user feedback?

Examples:

-Patreon asks you to identify yourself, select whether you are a patron or creator, and solve a CAPTCHA in order to create a support ticket — even when you are logged in.

-Patreon's implementation of 2FA doesn't allow for trusted devices, doesn't allow for hardware keys, and is the only service I use whose text message 2FA code is sent in a format that my iPhone can't recognize as a 2FA code and autofill.

-Formatting of posts is awful. Off the top of my head, the options available are: bold, italics, hyperlink, quote, and 'bulleted list that will mess up your line spacing.' And you can't preview posts.

-Notifications and messaging have been broken for years.

-When I receive an email notification informing me that someone has commented on a post, it doesn't identify the post they have commented on and clicking the link in the email takes me to their comment only... so I still have no idea what post it's in response to. I also can't respond to their comment by responding to the email.

-There is no comment threading. If someone comments on a post and I respond, there is no way for anyone to reply to that response.

Hoping to hear an insider's perspective on this. Thank you.
Very high end restaurants have a daily menu which changes daily and often a seasonal taster menu which changes with the season and often even micro changes each week as the produce is slightly different which the chef was able to buy from his suppliers and markets.
I grew up with my parents behaving as you are suggesting. Anything extracurricular I wanted to do, beyond a token cost, was my responsibility to pay for. That ended up having some consequences you might not be thinking of, so I thought I’d share them with you.

1.) It made me way less likely to try any extracurricular because I knew I’d have to work to pay for them. This includes several that I was really interested in and showed aptitude for.

2. I had a job from age 12 on. I started with a paper route, then a dishwashing job, then a cashier at a mini mart. The result was that I was tired - the dishwashing and mini mart gigs kept me out until close to midnight several days per week. My grades, and my interest in school took a nosedive. My parents couldn’t figure out why. They thought it so impressive that I was so industrious to have these jobs. They loved the bootstrap narrative.

3. Working jobs in food service introduced me to all manner of drugs and alcohol. I was a regular smoker by 15, and binge drank with my coworkers from 16-19, and I smoked weed every chance I got.

I don’t really hold it against my parents consciously; they were older and really bought in to the bootstrap narrative. They genuinely thought I could work part time in the summer and pay for college, in the mid 2000s, just like my dad did in the 60s. But I do hold it against them subconsciously. I know there are things I really wanted to do back then that my family could hav afforded to pay for, and it’s a bitter pill to swallow knowing that they refused to out of misguided principles. I didn’t really realize that until I met my wife, who was told that it was her job to go to school and get good grades, not make money. Her parents didn’t spend lavishly on her, but if she could make a reasonable case for why she should have something they’d pay for it. When she told me that, it made my own parents way of dealing with these things really sting.

Anyway, thought that might be interesting to you as a parent.
Using your shirt analogy, what shirt do shorters (at the HF-level) wear? The shorters have a vested interest in an equity falling.
Tell that to the SEC, who literally decides what people can invest in based on their income/net worth, which is what he is referring to.
It's not slang for anything except someone far too proud of himself (yes, 'him'). And it's really not pronounced like 'coke'. It's cock but without the stress on both 'k' sounds, I don't know how to explain any other way than 'soft k'. It's also the name for eggshell, and if you've never had 'oeuf à la coque' with bread you're missing something (mostly an half-cooked egg eaten with a spoon, but what's the point of fully cooking an egg anyway...). Don't know if it factored in.

I'm not sure the pun is incidental, people like cute names with multiple interpretations. One other thing is that the rooster is kind of the national mascot. Here you'll hear someone shout 'cocorico' (rather mockingly) when some frenchman of woman realizes a feat. And there's a lot of self deprecation 'round here about the French being like roosters: feet in shit, and still blaring pride and moral lessons and thinking we're still a world power, to all who'll hear it. Our footballers have a rooster on their jersey I think, and you'll find many people here named Lecoq.

I think the 90s were a different, less PC time and the recent wave of indignation about schoolboys' jokes hadn't reached our shores, and most people here didn't speak that much English, even less the 'bad' words.

Not sure they expected the thing to become so popular then...
> Frozen concentrated orange juice

Is this a movie reference? It reminds me of something, but I can’t say exactly what.
No, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
The vast majority of Americans worked during the daytime business hours, drove home listening to a handful radio stations with a relatively limited number of songs, sat on the couch and turned on the TV where what was on depended on the time of day, drank one of 5 beers available at the store, then at some point they turned it off and took off their blue jeans and went to sleep, for several decades. Before that the difference was TV, before that a car, before that radio.

People who say that America doesn't have a unifying culture have never experienced another culture first hand beyond maybe as a novelty, like going to the zoo. All cultures have subcultures. That doesn't negate a unifying culture. If you can't see it it is because it has been a constant for you your entire life, just like a fish that can't see water.
I read cursorily through your article and it seems to me the major mechanic (no "this is always better") is still there.

What aspects do you feel have changed the nature of the game?

I've only played DCSS for a few years and it seems the game now is a bit kinder with newbies but not substancially different.
An even better site for determining your browser uniqueness from EFF.
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Gives you the entropy your browser is giving out in number of bits.
So just to clarify, this kinda isn't 2FA if the password and the seed are stored in the same place.

I get that if your password manager is compromised, you've got bigger problems, but some account seeds for H/TOTP should stay out of it and on a paper or dedicated piece of hardware.
I agree even bad keyboards are often better than soft ones, but this calculator isn't qwerty which for my preferences would be too large a disadvantage even over a phone's soft keyboard.

Now, if you could attach a USB keyboard to the calculator, that would be perfect.
every other time i try to log into paypal it insists on verifying my identity by calling me, started a couple months ago. it certainly has somewhat dampened my online spending, so I'm not entirely against it
Tablets for 2021
Firstly, I note your

> as a Physicist

So, while I could let your "basic forms" do some heavy lifting in your second sentence, I would like to draw your attention to:

> entirely different languages

First, let's start with the Hamiltonian formulation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_value_formulation_(gen...

which leads us to

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

cf.

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

or if you're not looking deep into compact objects (astrophysically) or concerned with theoretical UV divergence problems,

Perturbative quantum gravity (quick lecture) https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/lectures/erice02.pd...

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbation_theory_(quantum_m...

Numerical methods can be even more similar: there's several approaches to gravitation on the lattice, for instance, that would be familiar to lattice QCD people.

Programmes to make use of objects used by HEP (Lie algebras, configuration/phase/state spaces) for strong gravity are not accidental.

> You can do quantum field theory in a curved spacetime

Birrell & Davies likes to stress "Curved Space" (as in the textbook's title).
It's not a band-aid at all, it's a first approximation, up to the so-called one-loop level. There are higher-order approximations.

It's not the 1960s any more, and especially after the 1982 Nobel (the same year as Birrell & Davies was published), I think it's not super-controversial to argue that every good physical theory is an effective theory, even if the characteristic scale has not been determined.

> why are the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions described by a totally different formalism to gravity?

> certainly seem disparate

Teaching tradition!

Also fossilized successes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning

But to me a variational approach on the Ricci curvature tensor (following Pirani https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.105.108... ) and on the Faraday electromagnetic tensor (Bondi & Pirani started this in http://www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/530-19/planewave-bondi.pdf ) are very similar, not very disparate. Indeed, you can see how one arrives at the spin-2 gauge boson for the former (symmetric rank-2 tensor) in the same way one arrived at the spin-1 gauge boson for the (totally antisymmetric rank-2) Faraday tensor.

But this is certainly not a successful approach to a "full theory of all four of the interactions", however it led to "just" an effective field theory that is good to shorter lengths than we likely will be able to probe any time soon.
>"In the new study, the researchers managed to observe experimentally for the first time how a Bose-Einstein condensate is formed in the

world’s thinnest semiconductor – the atomically thin crystal of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2).

Bosonic condensate contains tens of thousands of quanta of ‘liquid light’, the exact name of which is exciton polaritons. These particles have the properties of both light and ordinary material particles, and they can be used as information carriers. This means that, instead of electrons, an electrically neutral liquid light can run through the microcircuits of any electronic device. Polariton devices will make it possible to process immense data streams at speeds close to the speed of light."
I have tried both ways, and I agree with what you've said. It's not faster than hot-reloading, and it's not faster than TDD either given the tests run super fast. Both are not too hard to achieve in the JavaScript world.

However, I found where REPL-driven development shines and more productive, is when there's no specific requirement and the programmer is exploring things. Traditionally there are product owners, designers, and programmers in the team, and they work in the pipelines. Both the functionality and the design are settled, the programmer just needs to implement the functionality and the UI.

Now just imagine in a small team there's no split between roles. One obvious way to work is to pretend there are roles: 1) design the core functionalities on paper 2) design the UI on Figma 3) write the code. Although this approach brings clarity, it's rigid and not pretty productive.

A reasonable alternative is to do all the things altogether: design when programming. REPL-driven development is a perfect fit for this methodology. TDD, in this case, is not working well because tests need rigid boundaries to test on, if I write tests I have to erase them repeatedly because I don't have specific ideas of what I'm going to build in the first place. What about hot-reloading? Say if we are developing a game, and the player can jump, with hot-reloading, I still have to implement a button to jump, while with REPL I can send a piece of code to let the player jump without writing UIs for it at all. REPL-driven development provides a perfect playground that can be leveraged as a tool for both thinking and programming.

In hindsight, TDD resonates functionality designs from product people - if it's settled we can write test cases and just implemented it. And hot-reloading helps a lot in implementing settled graphic design - because there's no better way to test graphic than just seeing it in real-time. If there is neither functionality design nor graphic design in the first place, we need new things to help us to do the all designs with our code, where REPL-driven programming is a perfect it. Rather I would call it REPL-driven design.

To maximize gains from a tool, the way we work and think must be adjusted. As another example, many programmers who favor statically typed languages program in dynamically typed languages, usually don't write in the same way as those who favor dynamically typed languages, thus for them, dynamically typed languages are just net loss.

IMO the REPL-driven design resonates with Paul Graham: A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. . This approach also reminds me of the 'Sketch HTML' approach in Getting Real from 37 Signals.
> Only humans treat the dead with the same respect, consideration and even tenderness they treat the living.

Humans probably learned it from elephants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition#Death_ritua...
Since you mentioned political, which infers government, what is the impact of cryptocurrencies to governments and the Treasuries if fiat experiences inflation, loss of 'trust', and devaluation? I would likely be more comfortable in a decentralized 'gamble' than the USD or the current banking/financial system.
I don't think that's a reasonable expectation. There are countless books on the topic and it's unreasonable to expect they have this level of knowledge.

There's a reason a we don't say, "Well, if the bridge collapses while they are on it, it's their fault for not having studied civil engineering. Shoulda known better."
Hah, frozen concentrated OJ? Someone's taking ideas from the 80's.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENssnI9CGc&t=52

Actually, looking for a good clip from the movie it's depressing how many people are actually referencing that movie in context of this bubble.
This one is probably not well known in the anglophone world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)

Based on a true story, though it's debated endlessly. Clifford Stoll's Cuckoo's egg deals with the same material.
Fascinating! Awesome project. Interference of waves seems to be such a fertile ground for all sorts of unexpected powerful possibilities.
Reminds me of an interview with Hans Rosling. He mentioned that he had spent a dinner with a group of Japanese ministers.

They asked him "pray mister Rosling, how do we increase the number of babies per woman?"

To which Rosling replied, in typical Nordic candor, "perhaps organise your society so that women do not feel like their life is over once they have kids?"
What are you talking about? Chainlink is used a ton, literally powers most of defi. Its used to secure 10s of billions of $.
I suppose this is a philosophical argument more than anything, and I can't claim what's the right answer vis a vis accredited investor requirements, but it's worth contemplating that those rules originate from the crash of 29, when an unregulated market led to the financial destruction of a huge number of ordinary Americans.
I'm seriously scared. I live in Boston and everyone I know is invested in this thing. It's going to be the Holomodor all over again.
I think the second paragraph in the wiki page about Bell's theorem explains that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
All of them are blacklisted.
Surely it had something to do with retail investor euphoria...
Allowing pension investments in residential property would only make house prices go higher and hurt lower income families, that's not ethical.

As for ethical investing, there are plenty of options in the pension market:
https://www.youinvest.co.uk/articles/investmentarticles/8684...

Personally, I've shifted away from etfs and buy actual shares with voting rights. Everyone can be an activist investor with a SIPP.
Here’s a trick I like: start at the end. I practice the ending a few times, then once I’m happy with it I go back one measure and play from there, and so on.

The result is that playing gets easier as you go.
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> Music, and any other complex human activity (like visual art, or literature) is just way too rich and varied to have any one or definitive purpose.

This statement looks intelligent and interest but upon reading carefully says absolutely nothing. I don't even get what you are trying to say. Music is a group activity. Mozart played with orchestras, beyonce has scores of musicians to bounce off ideas of, Fela Kuti played with many bands - what does making music alone mean?

Reich's view was at the very least based on an observation, a learned and studied observation as a practioner and scholar.
I was (initially) forced to learn piano from the age of 5... but, by God, was I glad that my parents did this. The article covers pretty much exactly what I - and my teachers - worked out over a number of years. And the basic approach works for any instrument. It's a real boon coming to other instruments - electric bass is my main instrument now - with a grounding in not only music theory but also the 'how to' learn pieces / parts / songs.
One of the big differences here is that the "currency competition", particularly prior to the 1860s, was still trying to leverage the same basic semantics.

Both legitimate and questionable issuers were both claiming to supply "dollars", either directly or as an IOU for government-issued ones. There was consumer confusion baked right in, and probably to the great benefit of dishonest players. Some privately issued coins during the gold rush were a bit underweight, and a lot of private paper currency traded well below face value. A whole system of newsletters and discounting rates evolved to document exactly whose "dollars" were legitimate.

A new currency competition environment in 2021 has this sort of awareness built in. We're not in a newly cleared Homestead Act town dealing with stopgap measures for a lack of government issued currency. Anything but a FedCoin, even a Tether-style linked product, is clearly a private product and has a documented exchange rate. There isn't the same "information travels slowly in 1860" gaps to keep fraudulent products afloat.

I wonder how much of the interest in alternative currencies was based on hoping to exploit that sort of timing gap. The existing ones that don't have a built-in exploit system-- the "labour pool" ones denominated in hours, the "keep the money local" closed-loop currencies, don't seem to get huge momentum beyond local enthusiasts.

In a way, the current crypto FOMO mania smells of similar "trying to stay ahead of the information flow" plays. It's less that the issuers are hoping to pass 80 cents of gold as a dollar, but more speculators buying them at 40 cents, not really knowing what they're actually worth, but hoping they will settle at 80 some day. I wonder what happens once prices stabilize-- will interest fade away if they're back to competing on technical merit rather than the possibility of moonshot gains?
"I tend to agree that fools should be parted from their money"

I disagree with this. Fools have a hard enough life without permitting predators to take their money. Nobody chooses to be a fool.

I don't know what a good solution is, or how to stop something like dogecoin without being too paternalistic, but it also feels wrong to me to just ignore this game of musical money even though the most likely outcome is many people losing and a small number gaining, in a zero-sum gambling game designed to look a bit like investing.
Ah yeah, the guy that got banned because he couldn't create the team White Lives Matter, rants at large about questionable political matters and shits on any decision the developers make because he wasn't consulted on any change, created an official-looking website for the game at dungeoncrawlstonesoup.com, with crypto donations links directly to him, and a video in which he blames the dev for being mistreated and persecuted.

He's a great Crawl player, but happy to see the back of him on the subreddit.
On the other hand the data would be much more reliable in that scenario. A 10 GB consumer hard drive is likely to fail or at least corrupt some data at some point, and if you’re going to go with multiple redundancies then your cost goes up.

But yeah, it’s all kind of moot. I had AWS suspend my account once because someone complained they found a copyrighted image on one of my servers. If it’s in the cloud, you don’t really control it.
Dont reply to jude-. Hes an idiot who has no clue what hes talking about.
What's wrong with https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh?
In markets money does sometimes flow from the gullible to the rich. Or I should say, the competent, caveat that with free market. A service provided by heavily abstracted markets such as financial instrument markets is that it allocates capital in the hands of those that are competent at managing it. It might sound calloused, but really, any time real wealth is being risked it is calloused, nobody can change that.
I’m suggesting buying a home at a record low interest rate is a good decision if you can afford it, especially with inflation on the horizon.

If you plan on staying there 10-15+ years and aren’t stretching financially I would buy.
> Most people wouldn't care

But a rich minority would. A rich, motivated group of single-issue activists is political white phosphorous. To say nothing of the fact that the main beneficiaries of such regulation would said minority. The disinterested majority doesn't have much downside if cryptocurrencies go to zero.
Dogecoin will lead to a campaign of forced starvation and genocide?
They can also blow their cash on nike trainers. So what?
Neat! I wonder how it works. Does it poll every submission every set amount of seconds to check key stats over time? Looks like a huge amount of traffic. Is there any more efficient way I'm not seeing?
As have all the crashes since in "bulletproof" regulated markets.
I sort of think there should be an 'important flagged discussions' link, ones with otherwise lots of engagement that got flagged by people who were opposed to the viewpoint of the post.
Yes — https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=…

You could also just put the channel URL into your RSS/Atom reader and it might convert it automatically.
Congrats on the new job! Clojure(Script) is great. I remember how excited I was when I first "understood" Clojure.

One small note:

"There are also @ symbols for expressing async behavior."

@ is just a reader macro, aka shortcut, for (defer ...) in Clojure(Script).
https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/deref
All due respect - I wouldn't really consider this to be an example of anything close to approaching the subject of AI alignment - at least not in terms that people talk about in the past few years.

"Exhaustive short horizon exploring strategy with simple terminal heuristics" - is this in reference to the for loop which calculates the future possible states of the game up to a certain depth?

It seems to be a state exploration algorithm. The number of possible game states is well-defined here. Perhaps you're conflating the subject of video game AI with concepts related to machine learning AI?