skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It tells a lot about the "orange website." Most people complaining about HN outside this forum are also members of this forum - almost no one else cares. The guidelines don't allow complaining about or criticizing the community here, and the mods tend to take any such criticisms personally, even if they agree with them. Certain cultural pathologies are left to fester in the name of maintaining civility and high "signal to noise," so people have to vent their frustrations with this place elsewhere.

And let's be fair, HN complains obsessively about the rest of the web, and especially social media, all the time. It just can't get as good as it gives.
> was "Product Chief" prior to becoming CEO

for about a year, so still after all those dates. I'd guess Wave fell into his previous responsibility though.
Let's be careful and not blame people for all of it because the Facebooks of the world go a very long way to make sure actually understanding what's going on with your data is extremely difficult.
Meanwhile world co2e continues to rise.

I'd like it's time for the climate masterplan to be flood defences and drought hardened crops.
I feel like a large problem is that serializing mental state when programming is incredibly lossy and slow. Doing a serialize-deserialize cycle to paper is going to take me a lot longer than just trying to figure it out from the code I already wrote while solving the problem.

I do take notes, but it's almost invariably simple stuff like todo items or row IDs I'll need for a lookup.
The smallest compiler would copy the BF program to the end of this interpreter.
I agree with that assessment.

To my mind, the act of capturing faces in and off itself isn't even the reason why he was investigated. Consent from members of the public is an entirely separate discussion.

This boils entirely down to him not having formal consent from Apple. He simply walked into the store and quite literally installed a small application on each Macbook without Apple's consent.

> I remember being a bit nervous on the first visit.

> Not because I thought I was doing anything wrong, or because I was worried about getting "caught". It was more like stage fright. It was a performance, and there was no telling what would happen next. I had made preparations, and I was excited to see the results.

> I walked into the store and pulled out my sketchbook. I made a map of the store, including all the tables, and counted how many computers were at each table. Each store has something like 50 machines. More than half were in use. I went to the first open computer and typed in a short URL to download the app. I looked around to double check that there were no terms of service I was missing. If there were, and if it said anything about "installing applications", I would have had to go back home and write an HTML5 or Flash version.

> The app was maybe two megabytes, and took 15 seconds to download. Sometimes I would open another tab and load Flickr or Open Processing so I had an excuse if someone asked why I was comparing every single computer. In the process, I learned there are in fact some minor differences between Java on the different machines.

> What was probably 10 minutes felt like 30. I looked at my sketchbook to make sure all the open computers were checked off, and decided that was enough. Hundreds of photos had already started pouring in. Before leaving, I sat on a bench for a few minutes to watch people. Thinking about their posture, their gestures, their expressions. Months later a friend would tell me, "those faces are synonymous with the faces we have when we are alone". We all really looked the same. I checked the upload page from my iPod to confirm that everything was running, and left the store.

Moreover, at some point, one of those devices was being serviced by a technician. His application took pictures at that time.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/people-staring-at-computers/

All of that in and of itself would have been enough to be considered "crossing red lines and boundaries". It's staggering how he believed that taking pictures of persons was the bigger legal liability he was exposing himself to.

If anything, if he'd understood the importance of obtaining consent for using a publicly available terminal, the better option would have been taking his project to a public institution - public library, university, town hall,... - and have the application installed having up front legal consent and support from the collaborating institution.
You could set the amount to a standardized inflation adjusted amount that just happens to be €1K today but would be automatically adjusted unless there is a political not to. Most every number that isn’t a percentage should be defined that way.
Reading https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/apple-app-store-was-a-majo...
I'd say it is not so much the consumers that would be impacted by such a hissy fit that Apple has mooted.
It works fine with mobile if you're on Android. I use Nextcloud to sync as well as git for versioning.

But syncthing would probably be the easiest option for this!
The important difference is that newspeak was designed to replace language whereas emojis supplement it.

There are plenty of emojis that can be used to express dissent, skepticism or even out right anger.
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Just to clarify the license:

- The desktop, mobile, cli apps and clipper are open source. They can all sync for free with any of the supported services - Dropbox, OneDrive, S3, Nextcloud, WevDAV and the file system (some people use SyncThing). All this will always be free and open source.

- Joplin Server is free for personal use, so you can self host it. It was MIT originally, but I had to change to a more restrictive license because companies were selling access to it and I don't think it was fair that I do the work for free, and all they have to do is run `docker-compose start` and sit there and make a profit. But if it's for yourself, family or friends then it's free and will remain so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805937
Let me guess.. you're a huge fan of Tim Pool and the likes who constantly talked about how they are oppressed WHILE still on YouTube.
>isn't really about lacking a trusted-party

It's also about minimizing amount of trust to that party. Only thing bitcoin miners are trusted, is determination of correct chronological order of transactions.

>smart-contract approach

Yes, and smart contract will just determine whenever transaction was made under threat of violence!

>end up including a system of checks-and-balances, appeals, manners of collecting evidence

So regular banking, under other name.

Also 'collecting evidence' is pretty much incompatible with anonymity, which is cryptocurrency distinguishing feature.

>trust is decentralized

How is that even supposed to work? Do you expect that every chargeback will be investigated by every mining pool? Or they will have some authority to do it (again, no difference with regular banking)

>most folks

Most folks are ok with current banking system. Cryptocurrency is a niche product, having completely different trade-offs.
The music industry continues to blame illegal downloading and Apple strong arm tactics for its perceived profit loss. Hollywood has taken the music industry example to heart and is stonewalling Netflix to make sure it continues to maintain the upper hand over streaming services.
I avoid dropshippers and dislike the business model from both sides. (it's horrible as a seller too as you have no real control)

However dropshipping has positives for the customer. Within Europe they suddenly are protected with our customer protection laws which they wouldn't buying from Asia. They can just return and get their money back. Or be certain that a broken item could be returned.

Same reason people buy their phones locally with a huge markup instead of buying the 2sim version directly in Asia for 100$ less.

That said most dropshipping goes far above a fair markup these days
There's also the issue of certain huge companies deciding that they don't care about worldwide accepted standards used by literally everyone else besides them, and would rather just ignore the standards and do things their own way, or undermine/corrupt an existing standard, or create their own "de facto standard".
I agree. I still take handwritten notes sometimes using a remarkable and I've always wanted to integrate with or keep it close to my markdown notes. Referencing handwritten notes and so on.
It didn’t get to court, so this is not necessarily legal. Also GP is talking from an ethical perspective, and while I hadn’t thought too much about it on my first read, I do agree that the experiment is highly unethical.
Unopened Super Mario 64 sells for $1.56M at auction
My ex is Bulgarian. She makes over €150k+, and she outright refuses to buy any software, even an app for €0,99.
Also, she's rather wait for ads instead of pay the €0,99.
Show HN: True polyglot – embed any interpreted language in to a Node.js script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder
> Tip: If you run into permission errors, you might have to add sudo in front of this command.

That is not a tip, it's a dirty workaround.
Is GitHub Copilot useful for developers?
Have you ever tried tiddlywiki?
> However, it was also an experiment from day 1, not "the next big thing"

Not sure I understand that distinction. If I label all my projects as experiments, do I also get to escape culpability for their failure while loading on the self-praise when they succeed?
I fully expect Bing to implement it first by requiring you login to Edge to use search, and shortly before there will be some secret order requiring all search providers collect searches from everyone due to national security.
I'd be interested to see a piece of paper's view of someone writing. Eg a letter.

Just to see what, if any, difference there would be. Mostly to get some indication of how zoned out we get when we use screens versus a book made of paper.

On a side note: how many people here use webcam covers to block that camera? I do.

But how many people block their phone's selfie camera as well? Shouldn't we be more careful about that?
> For the same reason telling jokes is frowned upon, and why casual projects posted to Show HN often get criticized for being trivial. Hacker News considers itself serious business to a fault.

It's not exactly that. HN has plenty of humor (and lord knows it's the easiest way to rack up karma, if you care about such things) - you just have to put some effort into it.

"Show HN" attracts criticism mostly because the opposite of that would be just patting someone on their back, which is boring and benefits neither the submission author, nor the community. Good, constructive criticism gives everyone a chance to improve. Bad criticism tends to get down-voted and flagged pretty quickly.

> And no, the Unicode ones won't work, the code strips them out. You'll have plain text and be happy with it.

Unicode does work. Just not all of it. If you think some characters currently filtered out should be available on HN, you can always ask 'dang to remove them from the filter (via mail, hn@ycombinator.com). I've done that in the past.

That said, it's important to remember why many Unicode characters are blocked: it's because of spam. There's a large population of users who want to use Unicode characters as cheap visual tricks, to make the titles or comments stand out more. This goes directly against the kind of culture that makes HN the place it is.
When a quasi-monopolist threatens to exit your market ... perhaps the reason why isn't really all that important.
No serious seller has a 3-6 weeks delivery time to Europe. Except they sit in the US In which case they should have shorter shipping to the US at least.
I hope they take a look at VeriSign's monopoly power over .com/.net. We saw how dangerously close .ORG got to being turned into a rent seeking tax on non profits. .COM/.NET are a licensed rent seeking monopoly with increasing prices and decreasing costs to serve and no contract competition. Those contracts need to be made competitive, there are plenty of registry providers who can do it cheaper and VeriSign as a company exists because of those no-compete contracts.
What is a PSA? (Google didn't help.)
As the article says

> The details of how AlphaFold 2 works are still unknown, and we may not have full access to them until their paper is peer-reviewed (which may take more than a year, based on their CASP13 paper).

So it's not particularly surprising that we haven't heard much yet.
Best practices for code review comments
Wow, you can really have good reference for the code review
I've tried Obsidian and it is not for me. I really don't like the trend of apps being in Electron and there are much better native apps, especially on macOS (Bear, IA Writer, Ulysses).

Trying to understand - what is the feature that Obsidian got you hooked? Usually HN is very critical of Electron apps, but not on this one and I'm really interested why. :)
It can be useful to break the game in subtle ways so that the crackers have a harder time knowing when the crack is fully done. https://www.nag.co.za/2013/10/23/the-5-biggest-and-most-awes...
Drive agenda to extract IP value for industrial development
It will never happen. Just have to count the number of iphones and macs in the hands of people with power.
Unless that new company is also [...]
The "norm" is also... shit.

Just because it's what's "always" happened before, doesn't mean we can't do better.

This being the case is the very driving force of any innovation.

Your statement seems like defeatism wrapped in a pretty bow of faux-insight.

A tendency toward giants is also not necessarily a sustainable state of affairs.

Once technology becomes sufficiently advanced and pervasive, the window of time available for a giant to gestate, before the next giant-level disruption, inevitably shrinks to the point the system reaches an equilibrium of innovational equanimity and balance.

This is ordinary and expected, and parallels can be seen anywhere in nature.

The - relatively-brief - "time of giants" of human progress may soon be coming to a close.
Maybe you're not into art much, but that's one of the main points of it - to challenge preconceptions and make the viewer reflect on things. The entire art history is filled with examples of artists getting accused of being immoral or doing illegal things. When you do political art this is almost unavoidable, actually. Is the art of Ai WeiWei wrong? The Chinese government alleges he's broken the law. How about Banksy, that guy's a criminal, right?
Could the whole point of this artwork be to make us reflect on current laws and societal attitudes regarding data gathering?
I don't know about this, there's a lot of factors listed individually here but not in comnination. It could be something like "eats lots of sugar and doesn't move", like are those honey and starch eaters as sedentary as us?

Then again, it woildn't totally surprise me if it were something like indoor lighting or something.

Edit: The second article accounts for some combinatiins but not to my satisfaction. Also:

> The USDA Economic Research Service estimates that calorie intake in the US increased from 2,016 calories per day in 1970 to about 2,390 calories per day in 2014. Neither of these are jaw-dropping increases.

That does seem like a jaw-dropping increase if sustained over time and other varianles are held constant. So, huh?

I have another idea though since it talks about lipostat theory: Isn't it known that cortisol exposure causes weight gain? What if it's simply that our life is morr stressful despite being objectively less chaloenging in some sense. This could be due to anything from less cardio to a bad news diet.
It's not just calories.

It's how fast those calories get into bloodstream as a glucose.

"Fast" carbohydrates are extremally efficient in this regard; you can eat a ton before hunger leaves you. And this is a big gotcha as we constantly overeat being fooled by our mind and carbohydrates with high glycemic index.

So, it is not just calories: it's the amount and speed of insulin response to those calories.
Weirdly enough the longest shipping times I have in central Europe are everything related to the US. We ship everywhere basically within at max 2 weeks. Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa, no problem. We receive cheaply shipped packages from China, India or Singapore within on average 3 weeks.

But we had letter sized priority shipments to the US that took 3 months, on average about 3-5 weeks at times!! Shipments from the US that took about as long too.

No idea what happened in the beginning with Corona. But from my POV it seems the postal system is broken over there.
I strongly disagree with "bot refactors". Automated or semi-automated refactoring is great, but it's best run offline on a developer's machine.

Even if the system to do that works perfectly, you've still added more noise to the commit history, and in my opinion it still doesn't have any real advantages over doing it locally.

Our system for formatting code (actually similar to the author's current system):

1. The developer can choose whether or not to do auto-format on save.

2. The developer can run a single command in the repo to format all staged files. (Formatting all files in the repo is too slow).

3. A pre-commit hook checks that all changed files are correctly formatted.

4. On CI we check that all files are correctly formatted (in case any of the above didn't happen on the developer's machine).

It takes some effort to setup the system initially, but from then on it works really well. You get these advantages:

1. Formatting (or making any other change to a file) is always an explicit action.

2. The developer can review all changes before committing.

3. Every step of the process is easy to debug if something goes wrong (which is very rare).

4. There is minimal overhead to applying the auto-formatting.

5. Developers still have freedom in their personal workflows.

One example I've seen of a bot automatically creating PRs is dependabot to automatically update dependencies, but in my opinion it adds way more noise than value. Running a command locally to do the updates is just as easy, without any of the noise.
Thanks! I also found the "Fold indent" setting in the core app.
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Retaining walls in London can be designed with the latest available options. However, de-bossing requires a fine finish while the overall texture should be selected as per the type of art. Some people do calligraphy in the wet cement and when it gets dry, the overall finish really proves appealing.
Which would almost certainly have required different actors, given the 25 years since the original release, and I imagine that would have cause a huge uproar in addition to being fairly expensive.
the only things I didn't like of obsidian was working with images was a nightmare,
in Evernote you have a shortcut to take an area screenshot, it stores automatically in a folder,
then you can write stuff below it, and move it to another folder, really good work flow I miss in obsidian.
I tried both and went with Joplin - it was a while ago and I can't remember exactly why, sorry. Import from EverNote would have been a factor (Obsidian may have this too?) as well as being FOSS. I use my notes as a personal knowledge base more than note taking so I have a lot of clipped web pages and linked notes so it could be that Joplin just suits my use case better. Obsidian didn't leave me with strong negative feelings just didn't fit what I wanted to do. Hope this helps.
> We know the rules of society are arbitrary, set up so that the show can be played out to its conclusion.

This seems wrong to me. Most society rules have a reason to exist. Maybe, in the past century a few of that rules have become obsolete. But humanity is excellent at creating rules that makes things good enough to keep going.

There is nothing that makes a society change its rules like a change on the environment.

> We should not be surprised that Western societies are showing signs of mass psychosis.

The "everything is going to hell" theory. And, as often happens, without any proof or care to explain.

> More generally, locked in, locked down, and locked out, the population’s confinement within the highly controlled environment of the internet is driving them crazy.

*Them. I guess that the author is immune to this effect.

I love festivals, and they make for a great opportunity to meet people and create community. Also, festivals are an opportunity for a community to present respect to folklore heroes and their moral values, and to laugh at villain and their lack thereof. Festivals are not to for "blow off steam".
Given some of the other comments here, I suspect it is a genetic difference that alters color perception.
PSA: Public Service Annoucement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement
Noob question: does it worth, for a beginner, to start with Haskell instead of Elm or Purescript?
I was under the impression a large amount of medical R&D is paid for by taxes and done by university students. We pay for it and private industry benefits.
Amazon is a bad example as there is plenty of people using it to dropship directly from China too, just with a lower average price.

Just like Wish Amazon is far from direct.

Edit:// because people always seem to think Amazon automatically has good pricing. Things that don't sell so often and are amazon warehoused have a recurring cost for the seller. Who do you think is paying that? Some categories still have a 300% or more markup on Amazon.
Hmm, I wonder what the patents are about.
Please allow me a hearty, LOOOOOOOL.

And I'm not really a fan of Apple either, but still.
That quote sounds like someone trying to justify something to themselves.

Otherwise it's a very long-winded way of saying, use the x265 defaults, which doesn't really need said at all.

Presumably it's a leftover from the x264 community where blur (a valid compression technique that can be overused) was demonized probably beyond what was supported by evidence so now they need to rein that bias in when blur is actually the best option available.
Not any article, perhaps, but an article essentially praising Google for warning about $THING when Google is a contributor to the badness of $THING, definitely deserves a healthy dose of snark tossed at it.
Now that I think about it, once a vector representation is extracted, shouldn't that make frame interpolation in anime easier as well?
Like many things the answer is extremely simple.

Because they are not the ones paying the cost of mismanagement, and they have a captive audience that is both legally prohibited to go elsewhere, and practically ignorant of how mich they are getting screwed.
For me it’s:

- vim binding supported out of box

- notes stored in markdown files

- bi-directional linking

- feels pretty snappy

I would have considered bear if it supported vim bindings and was also available on windows (work laptop)