skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books, TV series, movies, music...if I make some emotional connection while experiencing it, I'm likely to want to repeat that experience later.

When I buy a book (or in the olden days, a DVD/etc), I'm factoring rereadings into the value proposition. If I don't think I'm going to want to reread, I'll prefer to get it from the library.

So, most content in my personal library is there because I expect to experience it repeatedly. And I'll tell you, it can be fascinating to take some experience you treasured as as preteen, and then experience it anew from the perspective of a parent. It's pretty funny relating more to the dopey dad and less to the hero.

But not everything is about getting a different take on repeat experiences. Sometimes I just want another hit of whatever that piece of media made me feel.
Don't most wealthy people invest their savings though?

So the money is getting used, unless they are just hiding it under their mattress or something.
IBM, at this point largely a purveyor of 2nd tier enterprise consulting, has an entire advertising narrative that they have been coasting on for decades.
It's the one before that, the link is https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTr...

It starts from the basics and goes into a lot of detail.
Are there fully open ones?
To be fair, pyramids are pretty tacky. Imagine how much more hate Bezos would get for spending half a billion on a tomb!
This sounds almost like the intentionally absurd example scenario described in Meditations on Moloch [1]:

> Imagine a country with two rules: first, every person must spend eight hours a day giving themselves strong electric shocks. Second, if anyone fails to follow a rule (including this one), or speaks out against it, or fails to enforce it, all citizens must unite to kill that person. Suppose these rules were well-enough established by tradition that everyone expected them to be enforced.

> So you shock yourself for eight hours a day, because you know if you don’t everyone else will kill you, because if they don’t, everyone else will kill them, and so on. Every single citizen hates the system, but for lack of a good coordination mechanism it endures. From a god’s-eye-view, we can optimize the system to “everyone agrees to stop doing this at once”, but no one within the system is able to effect the transition without great risk to themselves.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Is it really helping anyone to pay people to do useless work? How is building a super yacht any different than paying people to dig a hole and fill it back in? All those people would be contributing more to society at any other job.
I think it's viable, but most people won't make it. Living off youtube is the same as living off indie gamedev or indie prop trading. The good ones grabbed millions and millions of cash while others (95%) can barely pay bills.
If you want to be pedantic, "coding" was about translating by hand instructions into machine code when working with the very early computers where there were no assembler yet.
3 years of what only Americans spend just on their pets could end world hunger semi-permanently

> In 2020, $103.6 billion was spent on our pets in the U.S.
https://www.americanpetproducts.org/press_industrytrends.asp

> It would cost just $330 billion to end global hunger by 2030
https://www.fastcompany.com/90564107/it-would-cost-just-330-...
> The likable people often just hoard their wealth and spend very little.

Who? The billionaires I would consider likable are the ones who spend their money on significant charity efforts.
I feel if you're including digital copies you need something to correct - I've received a number of kindle e-books for free that I've never even downloaded. There's no harm in adding to a collection when it's digital, whereas I am much more picky over free physical books.
>and horribly difficult to focus.
>I don't use autofocus, pretty much ever, so that isn't a consideration.

But it is a consideration. Modern lenses are all designed for autofocus bodies. Yes, you can flip them into manual, but it is still a manual adjustment on a gear designed for computer control. A decent manual focus lens will typically have 270 degress of motion in the filter ring allowing much better control for humans. A autofocus lens typically only has 90 degress of motion (and then infinite turning drek). Much hard to get critical focus manually on an autofocus lens than a manual focus lens.

Also, your older lenses probably weigh much more than the modern lenses. Lots of people prefer the lighter barrels.

I do a fair bit of astrophotography, and the modern Canon glass is great for that. Crip, clean, and no need for focus once truly focused on infinity (varies on each lens, but typically "close" to where it is marked). The older lenses just don't have the sharpness.

So there's a place for each of the older and newer lenses in my kit.
That is the thing, many people do not believe having anything "government-resistant" is good, as they believe government is good, thus if something is resistant to government it must be bad.

If anything the last 2 years has shown me how fragile freedom is, and how much people are willing to give up freedom for safety and security. Sadly people like you and me that see Government as something that should be controlled and feared are in the minority as most people view government as the solution to all their problems, and as their moral compass.
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These suits (Gravity Jetsuits) were on sale in Selfridges in London for 340,000 GBP a few years ago. I had no idea they were so far out of the prototype stage. Astonishing. There's a racing series, you can book experience flights in them (if you don't have half a million dollars for your own), and now apparently you can also fight pirates.
I remember the band.. hung animal skulls on their house to keep the dark ones out
> There are thousands of paid fiction authors on Patreon but only 25 earn more than $1,000/month, only six earn more than $2,000/month, and only one earns more than the $5,000/month (and she’s already a bestselling author).

I think she missed a few authors in other categories. Examples:

- https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow (over $6,000/month)
- https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3814558 ($8,203 per chapter, roughly 1 chapter/month)
- https://www.patreon.com/pirateaba (no dollar amount, but 4,345 patrons and a $1/month minimum tier should translate to roughly $8000/month)

etc. None of these are conventionally established authors as far as I can tell.
Several from old grannies and grandpas selling stuff on Craigslist, a couple from the MIT Swapfest and other flea markets, some from the FredMiranda and MFLenses Buy&Sell forums.

A few from eBay, some good deals pop up every now and then if you're patient for a few months and set up notifications based on keywords rather than thinking "I need this lens right now".

Sometimes if you see an auction on eBay with a high starting price and no bids, it's possible they have been re-listing the item for a long time, and you can message the seller and say you'll buy it right now at a lower price if they turn on that option; many would be happy to be "done with it" and sold. Sometimes if the seller is local you can convince them to cancel the listing and do an off-eBay, in-person sale for cash at a discount (eBay charges a lot of seller fees).

If you bid on an actual eBay auction, place your bid with the highest price you are actually willing to pay and ONLY in the last 10 seconds, or preferably last 3 seconds. By doing that you will either lose OR win but get it at just slightly higher than the next highest bidder's max price and significantly less than your stated price, while leaving that second bidder with no time to re-think and re-bid. By doing the single last-minute bid, you effectively turn the auction into a sealed-bid, second-price (Vickrey) auction for yourself, which is most efficient for you in a game theoretic sense.

KEH has very reasonable prices on most old lenses. Not cheap, but very reasonable.

Also, if you're willing to take apart a lens with a slight amount of haze/fungus, sanitize and clean the hell out of it (not for faint of heart), and put it back together, you can get some very, very steep discounts. Or if the lens has a couple of scratches, you can get steep steep discounts due to loss of antique value, you don't need to take anything apart, and it will have zero noticeable impact on wide aperture images.
It's called "defense" for a reason. No strong society can exist without a public force.
People take it for granted that a Verizon customer can call an AT&T or T-Mobile customer with their telephone.

Why do people take it for granted that they can't send an instant message from one instant message client to another?

If the E.U. was serious about human rights in the electronic age, antitrust, and not being dominated by foreign firms like Facebook and TikTok they would legislate interoperation between IM clients.

It's astonishing how nothing has changed between AOL messenger except and Facebook messenger except one was tied to AOL and the other is tied to Facebook.
Welcome to hackernews where you get down-voted for saying one should not use proprietary software...mac generation i suppose ;)
Of course I simplified the issue, but my main point is that in football there isn't an equivalent to the 3 pts advantage in basketball (however slight it may be).
Good enough for most people's point-and-shoot, but a smartphone camera is by no means competitive for anything beyond that. Hobby photography is fairly common too, and most people won't be using smartphones for that.
Often lost underneath the privacy debates is a problem that is just as pernicious - social media is an addictive and harmful product that is being sold to us for money.

For both factors, addictiveness and harm, there are large piles of scientific studies.

Apart from magnitude of harm, I don't think it's a stretch to think that social media should be grouped together with tobacco as something we want to limit as a society. There might even be an argument on magnitude given that social media causes loneliness and loneliness causes early death https://press.aarp.org/2016-12-07-AARP-Foundation-Draws-Atte.... While I'm not saying that using facebook reduces your lifespan by 15 years, I think there is cause to assume a real physiological impact.

Sure, social media has had its positive impact - every new technology is mixed - but certainly, we need to find common-sense ways to regulate social media to reduce addictiveness and harm.
Can't find the paper text, but here's the video showing it was an article about the Clinton Foundation and some snopes link https://youtu.be/WUDiBiKQxPk?t=141
Uncaught Errors in Node.js and the Browser
And it still depends on a browser engine, which development isn't and would not be covered by the $30/mon fee. This fee probably mostly covers the cost of running the browser in the cloud for the customers.

But it is a good point and I guess with enough people using this kind of thing, they could raise the price a bit and use the difference to develop an actual browser engine. Which is a tremendous task so I'm not even sure it would suffice to support every cases of the modern web.
I dunno, I think technological progress does cause deflation to some degree, and it's perhaps one reason why folk haven't perceived inflation as much as otherwise over the last couple decades.

Burritos, blue jeans and Honda Civics haven't changed much technologically over the years, and their prices seem to track with average inflation.

From a user experience, a $1500 computer from 10 years ago is still likely to be usable and able to run modern software. Buying a $1500 computer today is a significant upgrade.

Burritos on the other hand aren't changing, and yet they're seemingly 50%-100% more expensive than they were 10 years ago.

Is it not possible that certain markets are deflating while others are inflating?
This suggests otherwise. (Although this is obviously not a complete set of data. I'd actually probably have expected a bigger falloff but maybe ease of acquisition leads to more people buying books they don't end up reading.)

https://ideas.bkconnection.com/10-awful-truths-about-publish...
I just can't do pair programming. I like doing my work, testing a bit and throwing it over to CI, QA, etc. Sorry, I'm just not that social, nor do I want to be in communication that often with any other human being other than my kids or wife.
Are there jets on the backpack as well? As a lightweight person doing ring workouts, I can already tell you that just holding yourself upright is tough for most people to start with. Heavier people have a way harder time on rings, so I'm imagining holding the fuel and equipment while doing a dynamic ring workout, and I can't imagine doing it without a jet on the backpack, always gimbaled downwards.
Because we don't live in a planned economy where people are assigned their profession based on usefulness as determined by some committee.
This is expected and falls under the Pareto distribution. All human creative endeavors follow this distribution (movies/ tv shows/ music) at different scales. Even some weird ones like most commonly used words follow this. Jordan Peterson has an excellent lecture on describing this phenomenon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEWRykSgwE
I’m as surprised at your surprise! I’ve seen The Office in its entirety more than 10 times, my other favorite shows 3-5 times each, and most generally popular shows at least twice. Often when a new season arrives, I start again at season 1 if it’s been a while. Same goes for my favorite novels, of which there aren’t as many.

Perhaps it’s relevant that I have a terrible memory for plot.
Having fun with this:

The elsewhere-mentioned "not making a big deal out of your success" might be a reasonable filter, because while a time traveler might almost unavoidably produce surprising advancements, they also wouldn't necessarily try to draw attention to themselves.

You know, lest they fall awry of any wandering time cops.

(Maybe not even to hide from them per se, given that for the hypothetical fun of it, we believe we could find them, but just to avoid some kind of prime-directive-rule against egregious self-enrichment, i.e. a "no playing god" kind of thing.)
Well, there is a global pandemic going on right now. Normally that would seem kind of sleazy, but these days, that is what everyone is trying to do.
Ask HN: Why does HN not like Bitcoin?
It's interesting that HN does not like Bitcoin, yet HN is one of the most technical places on the internet. 13 years ago I was working on MapleStory Emulators in C/C++ at the age of 16 and was extremely overconfident in my abilities. Around the same time Bitcoin came out and I brushed it off since I was too cool for Bitcoin. I could reverse engineer the encryption on MapleStory and make the server from scratch, so Bitcoin as money sounded stupid. Why would I download this? This overconfidence/dismissal probably stayed with more for 10 years

The reality was that Bitcoin was actually super cool just on a technical level, ignoring the economic utility. I should have spinned up a miner, played with it because of the technology. HN and my 16 year old self, was probably in the best position to play with technology that would probably have been the best financial decision of my entire life including this entire community.

To me, if anything, missing out on Bitcoin is a good example of how overconfidence, arrogance and dismal of new ideas in the technical space leads to missing out. What could we name this concept?

- Dismissal by Confidence

- Overconfidence Bias

- Arrogance because of Technical Ability

- Blindsided by Contrarian Rashness

The fact that Bitcoins market cap is 2.2T makes it one of the most successful open source projects in the history of humanity.

If anything, missing out on Bitcoin for me has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but a subtle reminder that being open, accepting and playful with ideas is important and who knows where that idea will take you.

What other ideas will HN dismiss and miss out on?
Not sure if there’s any one solution that actually works.

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes

Several people have used Voice input to lessen the need to type:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...
GSuite is nowhere near the “top spot”. It’s nowhere close.

https://www.ciodive.com/news/g-suite-passes-2b-monthly-activ...

> Microsoft owns nearly 90% of the office suite market, or email and authoring market, as Gartner calls it. Google holds onto just over 10%, but is gaining about 1% market share annually.
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There have been jetpacks for decades, but historically, landing softly was difficult. Lots of broken legs. They had limited flight time and many injuries.
> I think the big reason OpenDoc failed is because it was completely steamrolled by Microsoft OLE 2.

I think the bigger reason may be this, from the original article:

> Most folks at Claris, Apple’s application group, didn’t want it at all, seeing it as an enabler for competition to Claris’s office suite product, ClarisWorks.

The trouble with composite documents is that it goes against the market's tendency to accrete power to the incumbent.

* If you're WRITING document software, the composite document model adds a bunch of development complexity for (mainly) the purpose of opening doors for your competitors to eat away at your lock in. From a marketing perspective, If I'm writing document software I'd probably much rather you use _my_ spreadsheet than whatever spreadsheet you want. From a support perspective, it's easier if I own the code on both sides of an embedding. From a development perspective, it's easier to add more differentiated features if I don't have to force everything through a common document embedding model, etc.

* If you're USING document prep software, the composite document model adds complexity to the way you install and buy software, the UX for the software, and then what you can do with the documents you create with your carefully curated software suite.

There are ways that all of this can be addressed from a technical perspective, but the end reality is that the costs are too high and the return too limited to be useful.

(As you point out, OLE2 has seen a lot of market acceptance, but a lot of that comes in the context of MS Office. Despite the availability of embedding technology within OLE2, The market didn't gravitate to hand-curated sets of best-of-breed office software. The market gravitated to MS Office with specific add ons for specific use cases. Even then, in settings where not everybody had those add on packages, there was a tendency to push documents to fit into whatever stock MS Office would support.)
No, because the entire point of OpenDoc was that the parts could be created by different entities.
as also seen previously on Verge article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27059616
Yeah but the other way around, it should not be acceptable that you have to use pre-compiled proprietary software.
Winning the lottery to get clean funds.
> The real exposé here would be to know how Bezos paid for the Yacht.

I would love to know that.
That is basically the description of an object mapper, with all the guarantees of an object mapper :). It seems if you actually use the query builder as such, no guarantees exist.

I'm pretty picky regarding query builders and ORM's, to the extent of having written several of them over the years, in different languages (both dynamic and strong typed, unfortunately closed-source). I'm a strong advocate of schema-first design, and usually a query builder will allow you to design your queries explicitly, but having some internal behaviors (such as string concatenation, identifier quoting and automatic in-order separation of parameters and values to be bound) taken care of. As good examples of this, I'd mention golang's goqu (https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu) and - to some extent - C# SqlKata (https://sqlkata.com/). Following my frustrations with Python ORMs, I built my own toy project, sort-of-in-beta, called rickdb (https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db).
There's no point in using such methods as the physics surrounding optics aren't a black box, they're well-known and understood. However lens design is very complicated, there are dozens of design parameters and trade-offs to be made, while also taking in account time, cost, materials etc. It's also not a problem that can be solved analytically for realistic use cases.

Computer ray tracing has been used for decades. I'm not sure what the state of the art tools are however.
A lot of older men like to be seen with young, pretty women for the status of it. That part of it, the status seeking, can never be satiated.
Uhh... wouldn't you password protect the volume and have multiple copies in different safety deposit boxes, offsite vaulting-type providers, and a couple of hidden places too?

Somethings like large amounts of money are worth the trouble to secure.
You never tried to use CyberDog…
Thank you. I run 3x/week and lift weights 2x/week. Can't say its been helping, but maybe I need to work out even more. I'll definitely look into the B Complex. Out of curiosity, what does the chiropractor do during your session? I have my first appointment in a few weeks.
I don’t think you have to approach creative endeavours as hobbies at all. If you chose to approach them as a job, however, then I think you should do exactly that.

If your writing is your business, then how can you justify spending 2-3 years working on a single project with no prior funding and a sales projection of less than 2000 copies priced at whatever a book costs? Imagine if build software startups the way some authors try to become full time writers...

I get it of course. We all know the romantic story of the creative master who only puts out a single master piece per decade, but that’s something you do when you’ve made it. Not when your projected sales are less than 2000 copies.
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Computers and the Internet have democratized culture in a way never seen before. This is both good and bad. Newspapers are dying. Television is dying. Hollywood is dying. Books are dying. Now we have people co-creating on blogs, YouTube, self-publishing, and fan-fiction websites. The production quality is certainly down from the peak of professional culture, but software tools are helping individual creators gain an edge.

The consumer is absolutely winning right now. There is a lifetime of free diverse content just a click away. Traditional publishing and distribution cannot compete with that. The era when you could win a short story award and receive a decent advance on a novel to support yourself is going away, if not gone already.

The future model for all upcoming artists is going to be pushing out content for free for years while building up a fan base until your advertising and Patreon can sustain you.
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In my somewhat limited circle, most people that I know are buying it as its price is rising. They are betting they can sell it for more than they paid. Only a few actually use it as a currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Same for me. I started lifting again a month or so ago and started just feeling better mentally. Then I just lost the motivation for a bit and have stopped for a few weeks. It's hard to put my finger on it but I just don't feel as good without lifting
When I've seen it adopted, it was in the context of XP. The red-green-refactor cycle affords a decent flow for pairs, who may switch off between test writing and feature writing. I can see that without the other XP practices, pairing may be awkward.