skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And many many people don't do it well. On both ends. Reading is a skill too.

I find 'small email chains' don't help at all. Too many people just don't read past the first sentence or paragraph. And email is slow.

I usually 'escalate' quickly. Support didn't understand a ticket comment I made on how this isn't a bug or why there really is a workaround for it?

I send them an IM trying to coax it out of them/get them to understand for a few minutes. Doesn't work? Quick call and do screen sharing. Problem usually solved after a few minutes. Problem is they might stay longer than that took just to 'catch up' ;)

This is really not that different from when we were all at the office just that the last part would be walking over to their office and looking at the computer together. In some situations that makes it even easier nowadays because I don't need to take an elevator down 20 stories and back up again after.

Having asynchronous means of communication is great. But as soon as the back and forth is more than maybe twice on each side, there's probably a miscommunication happening somehow that will be much easier to get solved with a really short feedback loop. Some people you have to call right away coz they just type soooooo slowly ;)
I am not particularly referring to Hunt's "joke" there. There's a whole genre of "jokes" used to denigrate women.

I disagree that everything is "about" control or manipulation, but as status-oriented primates, humans certainly do inject it into everything. However, that's all the more reason we have to examine little things like "jokes" and be conscious of the effects we're having.
It's always so convenient that cryptocurrency/smart contract proponents "can't be bothered" to give actual arguments. Your comment here is a poster child of "I don't have time to explain, so please take these baseless assertions that you are wrong. Sorry I have to go now, for unrelated reasons".

It's a cliche at this point.
I can comment about the things mentioned at the end. I don't like touch screens, and I don't like "smart" TV sets either (the functions other than the display can be done by the VCR instead; I do have a VCR that can decode captions). (Although, I would want to be able to adjust the picture settings on the TV.)
Sounds like TMJ issue.

I suffer horrific migraines. One day after someone mentioned TMJ. I started massage various points around jaw. Found an incredibly painful spot. Worked on it over 3 days until it stopped hurting.
Migraines stopped. Several months later they started again. That same spot was bad again. Same results.

Botox is an another way to deal with it.
Not at all perplexed. Exotic locales, sex, violence, money, and adventure are why the movies are great.

It's a much simpler life to let oneself be entertained at times by the more trivial things. It's a choice you can make, to just enjoy the spectacle of it all.
Can I ask why you chose this brand and this model? I’m looking for an air filter but have no idea which brands to trust.
Haha:) Yes. Not sure how this happened. I inteded to respond to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334223
For once: very apt username :) And congratulations. Not sure if I would have the patience for that.
The Defaults section appears to permit the tournament to take this action in response to a single violation of the rules.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
With Google ending its free photo storage policy in a few days[0], I'm considering switching to another service. I've poked around a few recommendation sites[1], but am curious to know if anyone has suggestions for new and/or under-the-radar services they would recommend?

[0] https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/

[1] https://www.techradar.com/how-to/best-google-photos-alternat...
Times the probability that player 2 decides to bid all of their cash for a single property…
Are you referring to autofill?
Maybe your sister doesn't like playing and/or wants the game to end quickly.
I'm sure that's what many ahtletes wish were the case, but the ones who we care about being interviewed are paid an enormous amount of money because of their entertainment value to fans.

Of course we'd all love it if perks were all we took from our jobs, but the reality is the perks and duties are a negotiation and you won't get off with only perks. It will be interesting to watch this negotiation play out.
The trouble is that journalists are a self-important and entitled bunch, and they really don't like people who don't help them out by speaking with them on demand. Often they even seem actively suspicious of anyone who doesn't trust them, no matter how hard-earned that distrust is.
But Bitcoin investors are mostly indifferent to the goals or mechanisms behind Bitcoin and merely hope to sell a coin to someone else for more than they paid for it.
> First "It's Trump so don't listen to him".

People also didn't listen to him about wind turbines causing cancer. Or about vaccines causing autism. Or about global warming being a hoax by the Chinese to harm US manufacturing. Or about injecting disinfectants to fight COVID.

There was not (and still isn't) any indication that he had any more evidence to back up his COVID origin claims than he had for any of those other claims. All you can safely conclude is that Trump saw a YouTube video or a website or TV commentator that claimed that, and uncritically accepted it.
I don’t like my dependence on Amazon but they have definitely improved my quality of life. I get everything I need other than groceries online. This has saved me a lot of time over the years.
Times Journalist Weighs Legal Action Against University of North Carolina
The world will adapt, says 90-year old man.
There could well have been an issue with the seller; I can't tell. But my issue is more with how Amazon was a) totally unprepared to notice and fix seller issues, and b) absolutely unable to get it together even when brought to their attention repeatedly.
Both he and his buddy Bill Gates have blind spots you wouldn't expect them to have
As much as everyone here hates smart TVs and, perhaps, sound bars, for many people they function as a universal living room device, and those people don’t need other remotes. I’d suspect this is a significant impediment to growth at a scale Logitech is interested in.

I’d bet smartphone remotes/casting are a smaller factor.
Problem is those human rights violations permit slimmer production costs. More to that China has the supply chains and skilled labor necessary to build world class high tech manufacturing that further reduces costs. Sanctions are the only real way to incentivize China to improve its workers' rights such that the rest of the world doesn't have to lower its own to compete.
I’m curious why if they are that simple escalators are basically a monopoly (at least in Canada) with repairmen making huge dollars to fix them (which they seem to do on a weekly basis). I’m always wondering why somebody doesn’t disrupt it but it’s probably government corruption as per usual.
ENS has largely replaced DNS in crypto. Most dapps integrate ENS to display human readable names for addresses and it supports arbitrary TXT records so some apps are using it as a shared profile of yourself that you own.
It’s also a useful industrial material that is almost certainly in the device you’re using to read this website.
> An athlete's job is to be the best at their sport.

Yes, but she and all other professional athletes are not really athletes, but some amalgum of athlete and entertainer.
Yes, though (to their benefit) traditional currencies don't work as well for ransomware. Possibly the same for illegal purchases.

Remittances seems like one of the true benefits of cryptocurrency... but that's why I'd like to know what amount of usage is actually that and what is, let's say non-beneficial.
It's straight out of the coiner mantra playbook.

I've talked religion with more free thinking open minded Jehovah's witnesses.
> "I don't think we think we know the answer to all these questions about global warming and so forth. And the people that ask the questions think they know the answers," he said. "We're just more modest."

This is absurd almost to the point of gaslighting. Claiming that you as a 97 year old investor know more than an entire field of scientists and calling it modesty? Ridiculous
Well, there is this classic example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
My favorite variation included these rules:

1 - Double 1s or double 6s: steal any property from any player.
2 - you can build on any property you own. You’re not forced to build evenly and you’re not forced to own a monopoly on that color.

A 2 player game would last an hour, maybe 2 tops. 4 player still took some time but was still fun and exciting :P

Also, with these rules the balance of the game shifted. BW/PP are good, but not the best. Utilities and railroads are pretty lame. The winning properties seemed to me to be, from best to less best: Orange, Red, Pink, Yellow, Green. Orange and red because they’re properties most likely to be landed on after leaving jail. :)
Have you even taken more than a cursory look at Ethereum?

I will get off your lawn now.
I don't think anyone is denying that there is value in any subset of the following:

* distributed systems
* self-replicating systems
* Byzantine fault tolerant systems
* state machines

The tweets by Pinboard are largely talking about social and societal issues. Both technical and societal issues are important. They are intertwined.
That sounds nice.

How does this relate to you repeatedly doubting what I said?
A good change in rules is prohibiting people from buying with the purchasing price - i.e. every property is sold at auction. Best to also do a single round silent auction where the winner pays second place's bid (e.g. I bid 200, you bid 100, so I get it for 100).

With these rules you will quickly establish that some properties are not worth buying. These rules also have the benefit of making games ~30 minutes long because people run out of money extremely fast.
Yes, health authorities can be wrong, but if you want to prevent, stop, or aliemoriate a pandemic, you need cooperation. You can't just have Joe Sixpack decided to not quarantine himself or not wear masks.

Yes, the authority figures can be wrong. Fauci can be wrong. People can die when health authorities make mistakes, whether through indecision or decision. I myself keep wearing masks after the CDC says I don't need to. I suspect historians are going to analyze the pandemic and list a litany of mistakes health authorities made in trying to stop the pandemic.

At the end of the day, who are you going to trust more? That schmuck in a random youtube video, or the doctors that run the CDC?
It depends on what you mean by middle. If you mean just placed in the middle of the configuration, probably not much. A few feet of concrete reinforced steel can resist a lot. Certainly some leaks but probably not too bad outside of the immediate vicinity.

If you put the bomb in the middle of one of the casks, it would probably impact 100,000s of people. It'd probably be pretty hard to get it there though and if you could do that, you could probably extract the radioactive material and transport it somewhere else.
> Bitcoin is burning electricity for literally no reason?
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I'd argue it's for a good reason the same way we burn gasoline at a traffic light instead of just going when it's red.

Safety costs money, and Bitcoin burning electricity protects the network.
A large contingent of modern sports journalists are predatory in that they aim primarily to get an out of context outrage-bait quote or soundbyte to drive engagement with no concern whatsoever for resulting fallout or hate directed towards the competitors.

Applaud Osaka for this move and hope it opens a dialogue about the relationship between media and competitors and the harms of gotcha journalism to drive engaging headlines as it relates to mental health, especially for younger competitors.
I don't see how this is a class issue. Everyone who owns an index fund benefits when oil companies are profitable. And when energy prices increase because of moving to more expensive sources, billionaires are much less affected than normal folks. And of course rich people have kids just the same as everyone else, so any climate impact on future generations is no different for the billionaires or the commoner. So it seems misguided to say billionaires as a general class naturally have different opinions on this topic than anyone else. CEOs of oil companies are a different story of course, since their entire livelihood is tied to the industry.
Doesn't actually say they did any editing though, does it? I ask because I thought the point was it was a simultaneous release and that they ran out of time in the US? Sorry if I've read too much into that...
> Moreover, consumer items beyond a price point are both very well made and backed by long term warranties anyway.

Except that there isn't a good way to distinguish between something that is expensive because it has quality construction and something that is expensive because it is a brand name.

Searching for information online is nigh-useless due to aggressive SEO on the part of advertisers. Sometimes I can get lucky and find an enthusiast forum, but those are harder and harder to find.

Online reviews in general are effectively anonymous. Amazon reviews might not even be the same manufacturer, let alone the same product. Newegg lists different firmware versions under the same product ID, so compatibility reviews are useless.

The best thing I've found is to reach out to a group of friends and hope that one of them did the research previously, or can at least steer you towards/away a brand. This doesn't scale, and any approach that does scale is at risk of being overwhelmed by advertisers and other bad actors.
> Pretty much every method call, unless it is optimized

Do those get optimized now? As far as I know, objc_msgSend was never optimized out (as of a few years ago when I was doing iOS dev) because any method can be swizzled and replaced at runtime.
Yeah always finance
I built a pseudo-graph database for relational data for my company on DynamoDB that has been really amazing in both performance and utility. The data model is defined entirely by configuration, so adding use cases is just modifying the configuration. I've only had to touch the core system once or twice in 3 years and we've added about 10 use cases to it. The only thing it can't do well are things that a RDBMS has no trouble doing - namely getting all of one entity for analytical purposes, but we solved that problem using redshift and dynamoDB streams.
In this context the "m flag" refers to a flag inside the regex syntax. That is, when you use ripgrep's regex library as a standalone (as Rust programmers do), then '^' only matches at the beginning of text, where as '(?m)^' enables multi-line mode and thus permits to match at either the beginning of text or at the beginning of a line.

ripgrep also has a -U/--multiline flag, but it's orthogonal to the regex mode called multiline. It's an unfortunate naming clash, but they are names in otherwise distinct namespaces.

ripgrep always enables the regex flag 'm', regardless of whether -U/--multiline is enabled or not.
A rainy weekend with a couple young kids. I normally wouldn't either, but I remember "being them" as a kid -- asking my parents/grandparents to play Monopoly whenever possible, so I try not to resist despite the time commitment the game requires.
> An athlete's job is to be the best at their sport.

ATP's job is to nurture the game to be of broad appeal to the public. Tennis stars command much higher pay than athletes playing other racquet sports like squash, racquetball, badminton, and pickleball because of its public appeal.

Media interactions of stars is part of generating and maintaining that appeal. The athletic goals should be seen within this context.
After Exxon lost some control to investors, Buffet is trying to prevent the same thing from happening to Berkshire. He isn't crazy to be afraid of activists. Maybe they start with a climate change report request, but where does it end. What if they demand that Berkshire go carbon neutral? It could really hurt the stock, and that would be very depressing for someone who has dedicated their life to making one stock go up to see it falling as they die.
> Hacker News and r/Programming is only good to get general ideas and keep up-to-date, the comments are almost worthless

That's a weird one. I don't know anything about that subreddit, but HN comments are frequently great. I submit stuff because I want there to be HN comments on it for me to read. I typically read the comments first and only bother opening the link if they were interesting.
Depends on your background and experience, I guess. In many European countries ATMs are free, even outside your own country. It is considered an elementary part of the banking service that you don't have to pay to withdraw your own money.
Does nobody realize the enormous value of oil? Less investment in it would lead to less production and higher prices. That would push up the price of just about everything. That would primarily hurt the poorest people in the world, pushing some over the edge of survival. The question isn't "Should we use less fossil fuels?". It's "How many people should we kill to reduce the effect of global warming?" The answer is not "as many as it takes" or "zero". It's some difficult balance we don't know.
Reductionism can be applied to anything. I am confident that very few understand it just fine. Because it cannot be understood without taking a very serious deep dive.
Thanks for the reference.

However, those quotes are not saying "that Turing machines are a more elegant basis for computations, since they are much easier to mathematically reason about." I still consider that statement to be false, and I've substantiated that in my comments.

The quotes from Church and Gödel are saying that Turing's formalism was the more helpful in making the case that it had captured the notion of effective calculability. That's understandable - it's much like e.g. Cantor's diagonal, in that it makes its subject very concrete.

But that doesn't tell us anything about the usability of the formalism as an actual mechanism for computation, or analysis of computation. In that respect, lambda calculus has proved far more useful, as shown by the examples I mentioned, and many more. Another example is denotational semantics, which maps programming language semantics to lambda calculus.

In fact, one of the inventors of denotational semantics, Dana Scott, developed the first non-trivial model of the lambda calculus, in terms of complete lattices. That model addressed the concreteness issue, albeit decades later, in the early 1970s. It's possible Gödel, Church etc. might still have preferred the Turing tape as an intuition-friendly proof for effective calculability, but it would no longer be possible to reasonably make Gödel's "thoroughly unsatisfactory" claim about the lambda calculus.

Coming back to denotational semantics, I'm pretty sure no-one has ever provided a non-trivial language semantics in terms of a Turing machine - and if you wanted to do that, one of the easiest ways to do it would probably be to implement a compiler from lambda calculus to Turing tape, and generate the Turing representation automatically from that.

More generally, my position could be simply refuted with counterexamples of tractable Turing machine solutions to any of the various problems that lambda calculus has been used to address, like programming language implementations, programming language semantics, duals of logical systems, and proof assistants. To my knowledge, no such examples exist, and the reason for that is because what I'm saying is a fact, not an opinion.

> Myself, I find Conway's game of life to be the superior framework over both lambda calculus and Turing's Logical Computing Machine :-P

I'll agree that the game of life is only slightly less useful than the Turing machine as a model of computation!
It's not redundancy that's the problem. "Blockchain" isn't the inefficiency.

It's the silly proof of work race to sign transaction blocks that's inefficient.
> Dynamodb pay per request is super cheap and fast for a serverless db.

Thanks for the laugh. Dynamodb is stupid expensive under any decent workload.
Yep this has happened to us too many times to be a coincidence.

Sitting on the couch and mention I noticed some issues while doing gardening and the side fence might need replacing - next minute Facebook is advertising fencing companies to her.

I never googled, she never googled it. Somehow it keeps happening.
It is really way more than a 'table' as a service if you design it right. It is actually your entire database as a service if done right. AWS actually has some great documentation in this regard.
You're probably aware of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
Also https://miro.medium.com/max/4800/1*oC_nqpmMDs5_Blw8WgasRQ.jp...
A good start would be pointing out this obvious fact that all crypto is a speculative investment — it derives value from (hopefully) being worth more to someone else later than you paid to acquire it. The coins have little or no intrinsic value.
Clearly the market can remain irrational longer than the ecology can remain solvent.
Wasn't there a data leak with Klarna?
Commenting on the „overcomplicated UI“ designs:

It takes quite some research to find single-purpose devices, that are tailored for a specific use case - and are not overburdened with often unused features. There‘s not enough metadata out there on ecommerce sites to filter for that.

Take the microwave example:
I‘m happy with the Samsung MWF300G microwave which does just one thing (heating stuff) really well in a very straightforward way:

One haptic dial for duration. One for Watt. And a simple display for time.

Just use the duration dial to set the time. That‘s it. You‘re done by turning your hand just once.

It starts automatically. No start button needed. No program selection. No stop button - just dial it back to zero if needed.
This is disappointing, especially from an investor that started with deep insurance ties. He should ask his underwriters about evolving climate risk in their real estate lines of business.

Also disappointing because I doubt he would invest in a business with a large overhanging risk of paying much higher costs to operate, yet by this statement he’s helping to tie everyone to high nonabated climate costs
As you wish. I will then just suggest you don’t prescribe your beliefs to unwitting followers without heavy disclaimer. I think your philosophy is both harmful and unsubstantiated.
Hope you don’t have any digital media streaming held with Amazon, or AWS, or Alexa, Kindle tablet, etc. So many horror stories get posted on hackernews regularly about what happens when one of these huge centralized companies decides to ban a customer with no recourse, no matter whose fault it is
I've worked in both finance and technology. I think the technical people aren't seeing how amazing this is from a finance point of view. Payments are going to be completely transformed by this. All of fixed income will change to be oriented around crypto. It's just a matter of time.

All the main preconditions for crypto to take off are finally in place. If you are a professional money manager or CFO there is no way in hell you are going to risk managing your own keys, let alone keys on behalf of a customer or supplier. The largest impediment to all the good blockchain projects has been the lack of a cheap, affordable, insured custodian for key management.

It's taken years to get to this point because these issues aren't technical in nature; they're governmental. The SEC weighed in on what it takes to be a qualified custodian near the end of last year, so now finally some of the larger names in this space have said they'll offer services.

All the best, obvious use cases for crypto have been blocked by this issue: automatic payments, self-settling contracts and futures, escrow with almost 0 overhead, trade finance, etc.