skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One option, more popular each day, is to retreat to the anti-bullshit universe of alternative media sources. These are the podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, newsletters, and Facebook pages that regularly vanish from circulation for violating “community standards” and other ineffable codes of conduct, oft-times after failing “fact-checks” by the friendly people at Good Thoughtkeeping.

This is just ranting.

News isn't fundamentally that different from what it was, fifteen, thirty years ago. The difference is that its audiences are far less captive. Attention is scarce. In order to captivate Attention now, you have to "sell" it what it wants, and what a good chunk of Attention wants is to read bullshit that confirms the views of the bubble that it inhabits. You need tricks like clickbaity headlines and whatnot.

The unfettered alternatives that spew raw misinformation are not better, though.

Arguably, having to compete with all that for attention is what drags down news.

The news has always been controlled by someone. It has always had owners, and ran on advertising money.

In the pre-internet past, the news, in a manner of speaking, competed for attention with tabloids. But tabloids were obviously in a separate category. If someone started a sentence with "I read in the Enquirer that ...", you could laugh them off as a twit.
I used to do my resume in a custom TeX format.¹ It looked gorgeous. But because so much of tech world hiring is mediated by recruiters and automated resume ingestion systems, having a straightforward document in Word ended up serving me much better.

1. An ancient resume macro (and an ancient resume) that I made while a freshman in college is on CTAN. What I used in my early career was not that, although I doubt I have any relic of that later file anymore.
I felt exactly the same thing. It was like a harkening back to a simpler time.
In what world is a browser worth $500? For comparison, a complete operating system (eg. windows) has cost around $200, and this was applicable even in windows 98 days, before microsoft was trying to monetize it using ads/telemetry.
Even worse, wait until you somehow acidently find yourself on the shoplifter list. Who are they going to believe, the all knowing facial recognition algorithm, or the lying thief it just identified? What company is going to budget the time and manpower to bother checking?
Some say team, some say product.

I would also leave the stories for Pixar and other story tellers.
The workers doing road repairs in my neighborhood don't even use handheld stop signs. Just vague and confusing gestures.
It's very confusing, sharing an apartment with all these other guys also called Rusty Shackleford whose phone number is 867-5309.
Kind of mixed. In Vue, two way bindings are achieved with the v-model directive but that is literally the syntax sugar equivalent of having a prop and an event.

That is, the two way binding with v-model is no different to doing it "manually" anyway.
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Yes, back when a 24" color television cost $3,400, inflation adjusted. Back when you had to spend $1,000 on a service call for new tubes.

Back when televisions did not have an operating system and did not have to boot up. Of course, you would have to wait for the tubes to warm up before you could watch.
They can already identify people wearing masks [0]:

> a normal face mask doesn’t help you ‘evade’ facial recognition

[0] https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4511/can-covi...
In practice, that's not true. Major email providers will not respond any differently to ~all versus -all, despite what the RFCs state you should do.
Even within that defense of Uber is the fact that the company has gone from 6.8B to 4.4B in one year, despite a 1.5B infusion. That... doesn't seem great.

If the pushback is that Uber isn't at zero yet, yes, that's true. So mid-2021 was clearly premature. ("The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent") And yes, their revenue is growing. If only revenue were profits!
You are right. It's not that it hurts the ego; it's that the nerd wants to know if it solves his problem or satisfies his need.

Switching POV now: I don't expect the details to be all front-and-center, but I do expect to be able to find them with some digging.

When the boilerplate response is "let's hop on a call and chat about your problem" I drop the product and move on. I know from experience that this will be a giant time waster, because the person who "hops on the call" will know absolutely nothing.
"LilyPond is a music engraving program", great for writing sheet music. This seems to be a music composition tool, eg you can use the repl to tweak your performance
Fitbit’s Luxe activity tracker is a stylish way to casually care about fitness
Agreed on the timeline. We certainly did have a lot of roles, like secretaries and typists that we don't have anymore. That happened 1980-2000ish.

That said if you look at HR departments and such, they're not smaller today.
Haha, no intention to build a social network here. Just a way to send pages to people, targeted for work.

And to be frank, SigmaOS does not and will never allow advertising to our users through the app.
TL;DR: 'import antigravity' is fine, but Python can be tricked with environment variables to use Perl as the web browser, which has arbitrary code execution through environment variables.
The negativity in this thread is extremely distasteful. :/

Just want to say, I think what can differentiate this from other browsers + extensions will come down to how well-integrated all of it is. Tab fatigue for work browsers is real and if this helps solve that, then it's worth it. From what I see on your landing page, the UX / workflow looks extremely attractive.

Couple of things,

a) I do think the $15 per month is a bit too high for my use case - this is the same price as Intellij - which provides enormous value (edit: over alternatives).
b) there does not appear to be any dev tooling at least on your landing page.

Both of those together probably means I'm not going to use it, but hope you find your niche market. Good luck!
> They did not even bother to change anything

Could be they have no consumers disputing charges. They get enough of those and they will take action.
I don’t see the point of building for the sake of building.
A reinforcing point to this is that I still have a lot of my textbooks from undergrad/grad school. And while I hadn't studied any math for 20 years or so, it was interesting when I went through some of these books -- how much easier it is to understand some of these concepts now. I don't know what it is that helped me understand these concepts, twenty years after graduating, better than I did when I was studying it everyday. But I would NOT attribute it to the textbook, given it is literally the same one.
Sick of hearing these nonsense hidden reasons that are completely without merit. The reasons we went to war were very clear, 'Saddam was stockpiling WMDs and was a threat to world.'. They were wrong, they simply made a colossal mistake.
In that case, welcome to Next Generation Shell (I'm the author), which actually cares about errors when running external programs. Yes, I mean much more than naive "non-zero is error" because that's just not true in many cases.

https://ilya-sher.org/2017/01/28/ngs-unique-features-exit-co...
Interesting! The price seems very reasonable and the turnaround time is very impressive. It would have been entirely reasonable to have a slightly longer turnaround time but as long as you can support 24hrs then by all means.

Hopefully you don't end up with too much abuse of the trial!

Very cool. Congrats on the launch! I'll have to keep ya in mind next time I may need something...
It just makes for a shitty experience. I grew up in a blue-collar family and still dress that way, even though I'm firmly upper-middle class now. I took my wife to a high end mall for a her birthday one year, and when we were looking at designer purses, the security in the store followed us the entire time, presumably because their typical customers don't wear jeans, tshirts, and sneakers. We noticed the security in all the stores were doing it, and eventually we just left without buying anything because we didn't like being treated like criminals because of how we dress. Even though we could easily afford to buy things there, we haven't been back to that mall since.
Yeah who gives a shit how many tampons I buy
If you don't have all the necessary parts for your helicopter, you shouldn't be trying to fly it. Maybe there are things that you don't truly need, but this is a terrible way to figure which.
Probably more like $5000. Have you considered how insanely complicated browsers are? It’s a miracle they’re free.
> Our best-selling ad was a napkin left in a co-working space

Can we see this great ad?
Well, it's a euphemism. It's being used a sugar-coated variety instead of the perfectly good words "request", "requirement", "demand" etc (whichever is appropriate).

The one I dislike is "issue" as in "we have some issues". No, you mean "we have some problems". But "issue" just sounds nicer than "problem", I guess. That one is thoroughly lost.
>json by itself is not much more than javascript objects/maps

And without comments or optional quoted keys single quotes or trailing commas, which makes editing by hand more work and IMO less readable.
> I can't think of any contemporary regime more tyrannical and authoritarian.

Kim Dynasty, North Korea.
The next section of the link literally goes into how to achieve all of that using a call to perl.
What if our foreign policy is deeply flawed? (2009)
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The original paper was discussed here a few days ago, with a fair amount of commentary before it was (rightfully) flagged[1]. A lot of the discussion was speculation, and this blog post (by the excellent Derek Lowe) puts it in useful perspective.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168789
> In general Chomsky is an example of someone who makes big contributions to specific field but has terrible judgement

Chomsky has made contributions to multiple fields, not just a specific field, and he is one of the most cited living scholars. I think that on a scale of good judgement to terrible judgement, he would be nearer to the good than the terrible in multiple areas.
They "lose beauty" in the eyes of the static, 20 year old beholder. But to peers / in their age cohort, they will always be more beautiful than average. That can continue to help.

There's an age-centered / age-pass filter in most people's eyes anyway. Just about everyone older than, say, 40 is invisible (not a person) to an avg 20 year old. (Source: Was once 20, am now 40)
Whenever I hear of Netscape around this time frame I think of this 21 year old blog post by Joel Spolsky (among other things, founder of Trello).

I still use it as a reference anytime someone recommends making the same fatal software product mistake that Netscape did.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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>Yep, less of a parts and more of a culture issue w.r.t. the lack of safety mechanisms, though the difficulty in sourcing quality parts certainly played its part in this incident

Who doesn't want to live longer? I even know a local welder who went to local welding supply store and all they had was shade 11 lens, through which he couldn't see a damn thing and now he welds without any shade. That's the state of affair in India.

Sure in factories, boss doesn't pay for protective gears so the people who need the job have to do without it.

Most autorikshaws are not driver owned, they are owned by some guy who probably owns a bunch of them and rents it out to drivers. Drivers get penalty left right on road from traffic police and lose a lot of money to repairs, rickshaw owner, fuel theft etc. At the end not much is left for the driver let alone for safety installs.

As people become richer they stop using rickshaw and drive their own cars.

Lot of people don't wear helmet because it's hot and humid in India and its really hard to wear it in 38*C in bright sun on 70% RH.

An average person in India has so many problems, the general mood is agitated and forgetful as a result. Most look for escapes and might not even be paying attention to things on road.
Does anyone here identify as the target market for this product? I feel like "professional users" use Vivaldi or configure Firefox to do everything that this product tries to do.

Very curious why YC backed this and what market share they were trying to capture.
Very true. After spending lot of time looking for best books to learn algorithms and data structures, and buying more than 10 books I realised what I lacked was not the resources but rigor and discipline to pursue one of the tons of best resources. I am not telling that there aren't bad books, but most likely the limiting factor to acquire the skills isn't lack of resources, but the rigor to sit and plod through one ( or couple) of the best resources that you have zeroed on.
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See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L7edwef-5k Scheme seems like a much more powerful language for music composition, with the ability to deal with fractions and making your own tuning system.
What if they don't actually lower prices, but use your purchase history to learn what gets you to spend more money?
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Recognition of "motivated reasoning" can replace a whole lot of recognizing logical fallacies in your own or others' thought processes.

Here's an 20m audio interview[0] with the author of "The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t"

It very well summarizes the way I like to gather information in an area so that I can form an opinion and direction of movement on a problem.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1881404483658
Actually I think this is the same fallacy as one of Zeno's paradoxes, and has the same resolution. We are discovering more wrong, as you say, but the "infinity" of wrongs is in the direction of the infinitely small (or "infinitely detailed"), not the infinitely large. In other words, every time we fill in a gap in our knowledge, we create two more gaps, so to speak, but nevertheless we know more than we did before.
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Read this. It never says that creating the product is a part of marketing. It says that marketing is given a product and specs and told to sold it, and then they have to design the marketing campaign around that product. That is a reasonable definition of marketing and the 4 P's, yours isn't.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketing.asp

> Product
> Product refers to an item or items the business plans to offer to customers. The product should seek to fulfill an absence in the market, or fulfill consumer demand for a greater amount of a product already available. Before they can prepare an appropriate campaign, marketers need to understand what product is being sold, how it stands out from its competitors, whether the product can also be paired with a secondary product or product line, and whether there are substitute products in the market.
I'd wager they will both be ready before Go gets generics.
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Pithy statement of the principle (more often ignored than followed) of:

Don't invent a new word when there's a perfectly good one already available.

"What's the difference between a learning and a lesson?" would be another good question.
"90% of Americans approve of the United States taking such military action, while just 5% are opposed, and another 5% are unsure." [0]

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/4966/public-overwhelmingly-back...
Looks slick. Personally, I think online boards like trello are pretty good at this. (The landing page does not seem to communicate advatages compared to boards that well?)

However, I could totally see some people liking this (perhaps less clutterred?) approach more.
I recently saw a viral video of a seagull shoplifting a bag of chips. The automatic doors didn't open for the seagull, so the bird just waited until a permitted human approached the door.

A "mantrap" entrance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantrap_(access_control) ) could solve this, but I think many stores don't have the space for it. That 7-11 doesn't. Also, neither the cops nor the towing company will show up in time to do anything about it.
Assuming this is a serious question.

Security Alert: U.S. Embassy Kabul[1] (archived[2]).

US Embassy in Kabul shelters staff at airport after evacuation[3] (archived[4]).

Afghans clinging to a U.S. transport plane[5].

Afghans clinging to a U.S. transport plane falling to their deaths[6].

[1]: https://af.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-kabul/

[2]: https://archive.is/z2NXo

[3]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/15/us-e...

[4]: https://archive.is/ophy2

[5]: https://twitter.com/AfghanUrdu/status/1427264029299560448

[6]: https://twitter.com/Rajput_ctn/status/1427242329518141440
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Your thinking is most certainly rational. The contraposition to Godel's incompleteness theorem tells us that any framework with sufficient explanatory power will necessarily contain contradictions. Since we attempt to reason about everything, our framework is necessarily large enough to be full of contradictions. Since we've got to deal with contradictions, they are not something to be avoided but rather acknowledged. If you're not acknowledging the contradictions and the "opposite side" for the implications you visit, then you will miss when that "other side" starts making more sense than the chain you're following. Not doing this means ending up at a nonsensical position while ignoring its contradictory obvious truth, a result we call cognitive dissonance.

This dual-thinking is related to the computer security mindset - you can't naively write code thinking your assertions will simply hold as you intend, but rather you need to be continually examining what every assertion "gives away" to a hostile counterparty.

There are alternative systems of logic that attempt to formalize reasoning in the presence of contradictions, to keep a single contradiction from being able to prove everything. For example, intuitionistic logic and paraconsistent logic. These feel much more in line with reasoning in an open world where a lack of a negative doesn't necessarily imply truth. The focus on a singular "logic" that asserts that everything has some single rational "answer" is a source of much of our modern strife.
That's... exactly what the toggle does, though? It remains barely active for things like AirDrop, but toggling it "off" turns it off in any way the average person would expect, and it definitely doesn't try to establish new connections, or even maintain existing connections, when turned "off."
Some non idioms I find annoying:

* "We" instead of "I". on StackOverflow "how do we reverse a string?"

* "showstopper", no matter how trivial a thing is, it will be a showstopper for someone: "the lack of a dark theme is a showstopper"

* "workflow", no matter how trivial an activity is, it will be someone's workflow
I think in those cases a Waymo vehicle would probably require remote assistance. It's a really difficult scenario for a computer to make sense of.
How does TeslaVision work with stationary objects at night? Like say a big ass truck with its lights off? Do you just pray the vision system recognizes “something” is there? I know they want to pursue a pure-vision system with no radar input, but it seems like there will be some crazy low light / low visibility edge cases you’d have to deal with.
Ask HN: Review My Startup, Virtualbadge.io
Hi everybody,

this is my first submit here on HN and I am already very excited for your feedback.

I started virtualbadge.io in May 2020 with three friends to support low budget events and smaller trainers to gain reach with viral badges. Participants of these companies would be able to customize their own participation badge and share it with one click to social media.

We started with an agency service to set up these virtual badges and created a self-service software with the feedback we received from our clients and their participants.

Our main challenge (that we defined) is still our dependency to demo calls and personal touch-points due to the fact that our communication is not perfectly clear for people that don't know the product or comparable products yet.

I would love to hear your thoughts and advice.

Giovanna, Kenny, Daniel and Malte
I don't know - just thinking of construction, for example, we would probably have seen more innovation in that sector over the last century if every town and city in America didn't have its own zoning and land use laws that strictly limit what can be built and where - along with strict building and fire codes that specify exactly how it can be built. Those regulations shouldn't go away entirely, but they should be reassessed and we should recognize that even good regulations come at a cost.
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At least the channel changed instantly. And even by the 70’s, tubes were typically pre-warmed (not very eco-friendly, it’s true) so they turned on pretty quickly, especially compared with boot-up time.
I'm not them, but I have a similar process. I've got a mirrorless instead of DSLR, and a supertelephoto zoom lens (Sony a7R4 with 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 lens). I've also got a superzoom (Tamron 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6) lens for closeup and occasional landscape images.

I'm mostly interested in taking pictures of birds, including in flight. So long focal length is the biggest benefit. High resolution (allowing for deep crops while still getting a decent sized output) is another benefit. Good tracking auto-focus is another.

I use my phone mostly if there's a pretty landscape or flower and I don't want to switch lenses. I'm also willing to use my phone in some situations I wouldn't risk the camera & lens, eg while kayaking (in a waterproof case with lanyard). And of course the phone is lighter, so in everyday situations I'll have it, if I want to take a picture.
Yeah by that logic marketeers can continue to claim that they should be given ever increasing budgets.
Everything that's ever written is marketing. Good argument for job security.
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Perhaps because mainstream software of today doesn't add much to what we had in 199x. There already were the same Word, Excel and e-mail those days - . (and I doubt live chats we have today can add much to productivity, well-thought and well-organized emails are better).

It can be possible to boost productivity with something like Roam Research (especially used in collaborative mode) but it would require a lot of enhancements to it and a lot more work on teaching the people to use it the right way.

Even people with skills to use Word the right way (i.e. use styles instead of ad-hoc manual font adjustments and extra CRs) or to use non-basic features of Excel are rare. Teaching (or even getting them interested) the masses something entirely new, requiring a new way of thinking and totally new workflow would probably require enormous effort.