skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly liking it.

When Youtube started showing ads for me I just stopped binge-watching videos on the site, and started using YouTube-dl and watching everything offline.

I added those paywall sites to my hosts file block, I just don't care anymore. I already block everything from Facebook/Instagram, and I'm about to do the same with Twitter. My whole family and friend circle only really use WhatsApp/Telegram anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Those things reduced my screen time a lot and I honestly find it healthy.
We’re all chronic under-estimators by default so I wouldn’t beat yourself up over that one! The old planning fallacy is very well studied and documented. Humans are terrible at estimating by default unfortunately :-( but it’s not that hard to be conscientious about getting more accurate. For me, the secret is to just delegate to a tool that gives me estimates based on my past performance. The cost to me is nothing more than logging an estimate up front and recording what it ended up after the fact. Doing that for a few weeks rapidly steers you to breaking your work into small chunks because it’s too hard to make the recording work otherwise. Turns out small chunks of standalone useful outcomes are optimal anyway for 1001 other reasons.

As for saying no - one way could be to find a role model somewhere close around you, it should be easier to copy what they do if they’re in the same org structure and facing the same struggles. You can’t just assume to flick a switch and behave like them, everyone around you has an expectation of how you behave right now, so you have to be fairly active about signalling to people they should update their perceptions.
>Install LaTeX. It's something like 5GB

if you install the full version that has every single package for everything, all with their own manuals etc. At least on debian-based distros there are options to just get the ones relevant to you.
I think it would be useful for you to go through the employment by occupation percentages [1] to get an idea of the percentage of jobs that would be eradicated with sustained full lockdown, for those that can't work from home.

1. https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.ht...
Looking at the authors listed contributions to that site, he specifically appears to have a distinct bias and railing very specifically on something near and dear to him.

https://nymag.com/author/david-zweig/

7 articles about kids/scool/covid in last year, and one "asking the question" if vaccine is causing a dangerous heart condition in young men.
So you're basically telling us they do it to make money, and they're not wrong, it works to make money? I don't think that actually comes as a shock to anyone!

My favorite scene in the movie Sorry To Bother You:

- See? It's all just a big misunderstanding.

- This ain't no fucking misunderstanding, man! So, you making half-human, half-horse fucking things so you can make more money?

- Yeah, basically. I just didn't want you to think I was crazy. That I was doing this for no reason. Because this isn't irrational.

- Oh. Cool. Alright. Cool. No, I understand. I just I just got to leave now, man. So, please get the fuck out of my way.
"Upon taking office in March 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from the gold standard.[53]"

taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
I'm not saying that Wuhan's number is 100% accurate, feel free to inflate it by 10 times. But even with the censored social media in China, words do get across, and there's no evidence of any big outbreaks like in Wuhan or New York after April last year.

Virus cannot teleport from person to person, so why wouldn't NPIs like real lockdowns with full food delivery and mass testing (unlike mockdowns in some other countries) work?
When i was just out of school i went to startup weekend to pitched this idea

amazon has wishlists
instagrammers have linktrees
moms have pinterest boards

barriers are high and you need some sort of growth hack or schtick to get traction. kudos for building it but really curious what your next steps are going to be
> Yes, because that's a marginal rate, not a effective rate. There's a big difference between the two, that many people are quick to gloss over.

Oftentimes, that happens when it is desired for some people to pay more than they currently are. The entire tax code has changed, though.
a) Cheap

b) Well made

c) Open source/hardware

Choose any two.
Because maintaining web sites and services cost money. And making money on the web is still non-trivial. That’s because the only way to make money is either by the subscription model or by the add revenue model. Since nobody likes to pay for many subscriptions in parallel, the add revenue model is the dominating one.

If there was an easy micro-payment solution on the web this could make it more accessible and enjoyable again. This what the web3 movement is all about: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3.

With in-browser cryptographic wallets like Metamask, Ethereum‘s proposed token economy and the current generation of „Dapps“ we got quite a bit closer to that vision. Web3 has the added benefit to eradicate the need for password managers because your public key becomes your identity.
Look, I mean, I totally agree with you, but we're living in this system, and I'm terrified of the what happened to the bookstore industry happening to the local bike shop industry.

You look at the towns that still have quality book stores. You have a few cities that have thriving bookstores: Boston (likely because of students) and SF (likely because of cultural nostalgia and real estate laws, but these are now failing). You then have the consolidation model, where cities have one good bookstore that can compete against amazon: NYC (The Strand), Austin (Bookpeople), Portland (Powell's).

My point is that i would rather the cities follow this consolidation model than fail. You have one, trusted brand within the town, whose entire business model is built on quality and trust, because all parties know there's a cheaper alternative. This is where performance bikes failed, as they sacrificed quality service for price competitiveness. I was actively advising my friends to avoid their mechanics like the plague. The Trek shop seems to be moving in the other direction, as a boutique, with reasonably trusted service, so long as your using their products and, like apple, the added cost premium they charge.

This is not idealism, this is a practical model based on what is honestly a sense of fatalism. The automobile system we have is a path-dependent clusterfuck, and we have to be, not just willing, but be happy to take less than ideal outcomes to fight for real alternatives.
Came here to recommend The Mom Test
This pushes my buttons indeed.

But I also ran across some sites messing with the history, so they take you to a different site when you click "back".

I am especially worried about pushState and replaceState.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API...
It depends on the condition and it's cause.
Yes, heat works wonders. Hot water also works. Even against bee stings. Practically no swelling and no pain within a few minutes.
Pursuing a hypothesis and disproving it is not the same as doing nothing
The good news is, almost definitely! It's really hard to protect web apps from reverse engineering because a lot of decisions were made to make them out of human readable files ages ago, almost any electron app can be broken open and tinkered with, there are exceptions, though. VSCode, for instance, is an electron app, but basically only for their UI at this point, larges swathes of the app's interesting functionality is written in cross compiled C++. But for an electron app that's just tweaking settings in a Driver? Probably. Ultimately the electron code cannot be very tightly integrated since that's not how drivers work, but then it becomes an arms race of weird protocols to force you into using their app instead of an alternative and we're back to square 1, only now the device has this weird opaque, and possibly crypto signed api for controlling it instead of just bit banging values into memory
You can’t reinvent this stuff over and over again and ignore that at the end of the day there are people who use this stuff to make money.

Another way to say that: You can't build new awesome free stuff because other people already use your old awesome free stuff to make money.

Sounds ridiculous.

They can and should keep making new stuff, for the next generation of people and apps, whether to use it or not is an individual/organizational choice.
Technically? Either way it's a lazy name since it was traced to the Midwest US.

IMO year based names (like the 1918 pandemic) are better still since even if they emerged sooner the undeniable historical impact is likely within a year or so of its recognition.
It's the business that doesn't care about you, not the developers.
How is slower subjective? Performance of two pieces of code can be objectively measured. There is nothing subjective about it.
Trump didn't, but Americans as a whole have an accepting culture.

Over 75% of Republicans and 90% of Democrats wish to accept more Afghan refugees in light of the Taliban takeover. When push comes to shove, Americans (Republicans included) are a welcoming bunch.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VJKdBglH8nPNslg4duYhtV1fuTc...

Question #13, which has Republican / Democrat statistics specific to that question on a later page. Something like 79% of Trump voters think we should help those Afghans come to the USA.

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Question #12, with 59% of respondents saying the US isn't "doing enough" to help the Afghans, is even more bipartisan, with Republican/Democrat splits being negligible in the stats. (59% Democrats / 64% Republicans think Biden is "not doing enough" to help the Afghan people)
As far as I know at that time they had no proof of person to person transmission. There are many coronaviruses in the wild, across many animal hosts, some can hop from person to person, some cannot. Many/most medical professionals did they same - stuck to the evidence and refused to hypothesize.

Why do you say the WHO are bought and paid for? Do you have any real evidence of that?
https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1059989657218248704?lan...
Timing.

I sat in the UK for weeks looking at what was happening in Italy and wondering why we weren’t doing anything at all.
Google says health projects will continue as it unwinds health division
But most are not theirs a difference between a transplant surgeon with a PHD and some one whos ground out a CS degree and memorized a lot of leet code.
Iraqi is back to pumping record oil flows and its GDP per capita is already back to being higher than Jordan, Ukraine, Egypt, Indonesia or the Philippines. It's not terribly far away from Colombia or South Africa.

How does that represent Iraq's wealth being transferred to the military industrial complex? The exact opposite happened. The US lost enormous sums of money and also didn't keep or take Iraq's oil (which is the extreme majority of their national wealth). The US has absolutely nothing economically to show for its ridiculously dumb attempt to nation build influence in Iraq.

If the US wanted a forever stable supply of Iraqi oil, Saddam would have happily arranged that, even at an under the (OPEC) table discount.

China will be by far the biggest economic beneficiary of both the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. They're going to partner with the Taliban and mine the heck out of Afghanistan, and they'll buy a lot of Iraqi oil. So what's the premise, we did both wars at the behest of China, because the US is now the puppet of China? I get it, we did it for China for the oil!

In 2019 Iraq exported $74b of crude. $21b of that went to China, $19b went to India. $6b went to the US.

So the US spent trillions of dollars to secure an annual $6b flow of oil, which could have trivially been secured from Saddam (and a lot more than that)? Nope. That's not why the US invaded Iraq at all.
That’s not true — we bought the spy equipment the state uses to oppress citizens with warrantless surveillance.
> I wonder if that would work?

I can't say for sure, but likely not. It sounds like your client may have been relying on one of the optimization add-ons that are automatically installed with Excel[1][2], rather than actual Excel features. The company that makes those add-ins has developed new versions that work with Excel Online, but add-ins in Excel Online execute in the local browser context. So I don't think they're loaded/usable when you create a headless workbook session via the Graph API (although I've never actually tried to do that, so could be wrong).

That said, Frontline Systems (the company that makes those Excel add-ins) does have a web API[3]. The optimization models there are a superset of the capabilities in the Excel add-ins, so your client's Excel optimization model could likely be ported over to that pretty easily.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-the-analysis-...

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/define-and-solve-...

[3] https://rason.com/
Gain Admin Privileges to Any Windows Machine by Plugging in a Razer Mouse
Sonic Pi is great but I think some more accessible resources for SuperCollider get passed over. See https://github.com/brunoruviaro/A_Gentle_Introduction_To_Sup...
Study: Ants create stable tunnels in nests, much like humans play Jenga
Then by that logic, what they want is build a complex and highly narrow mechanism for checking only the photos that are uploaded to iCloud Photo Library for CSAM, and absolutely nothing more.
One might have to take some news from China with a grain of salt, but in this case those news seem rather plausible.

A society/political system, which doesn't prioritize the individual's freedom, but focuses on economic development and exercises multi-year planning, doesn't have to respect any opposing groups like anti-vaxxers, covid-deniers, etc. but has all the reasons to implement such draconian measures to ensure low case numbers.
IMO you’re misunderstanding the customer.

The customer wants cheap. They WANT Amazon to be AliExpress with fast shipping.

That’s why Amazon has free returns and they offer returns in a million different ways.

Amazon doesn’t care that it’s inefficient on resources and that these items end up in a landfill. The manufacturing cost of cheap items is so low that it’s no big deal. As long as the customer has no friction in buying or returning they are happy.

I think there are certain categories of products where many customers would actually prefer counterfeit items as long as the quality is acceptable. Just walk down a cereal aisle.
On average it has worked spectacularly well though.

Most founders aren’t taking a risk (they tend to come from wealthy families) they are executing a vision.
Specialized have had their own "concept stores" for years now, Trek are merely copying that idea.

As someone who has worked in multiple bike shops, and also broken their own Specialized bike and had to deal with their warranty department, I'm never giving them any of my money again.
> We have the most educated populis in human history and we're still seeing these problems

This is not really true. Maybe more educated in some areas but not in all of them. People used to be much better educated to build a garden, better educated to understand the nature. I don't think people think differently than they did hundreds of times ago, I don't feel like we are individually smarter
> No push for healthy lifestyles or reduction of obesity rate.

Obese and unhealthy people won't become healthy if you ask the nicely. It's requires a lifestyle change.

> Nothing about developing new mask or shield technologies.

Not even a simple lifestyle change like putting some cloth over your face is being tolerated.

> Nothing about ventilation system technology. Or permanently moving some activities outdoors.

And many things that would help would be at an fairly incredible financial cost (~$2 billion to cover schools, at an incredibly unrealistic $15k/school), or impossible (most local climates do not allow for comfortably staying outdoors all day).
Rather than comparing against students in lab conditions, I’d be more interested to see it compare to students with access to Stack Overflow et al vs students with access to just Co Pilot. Ie is a junior developer more likely to trust bad suggestions online vs bad suggestions made by Co Pilot?
It's actually funny how my mom keeps talking about how people get fatter when they get older. No, people get fat much faster in the 21th century.
Bike lanes, as implemented in the US are a gift to cars and are down right dangerous. They communicate to drivers that bikes are designated to a lane when they are not. This is the style of lane than runs along the left side of the road with parking on the outside. They are designed with minimal buffer space (if any) and are right in the doorzone. What use is a bikelane that can be doored? Also, if a driver wants to make a right-hand turn, they must turn through a bikelane that is in a straight line direction. How does that make sense? We don't put our turn lanes for cars to cut across straight lanes.

Bikelanes also are mostly just there (in practice) for rideshare services and delivery services to drop off goods. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, given the problems with right turns and doorings mentioned earlier. It is problematic in name however, but because new cyclists treat them as actual bike lanes and are just gambling with the probability of eventionally getting hit.

We should have more bike infrastructure, but putting money into this garbage is a mistake.
Which people and which organizations, exactly?
My wife had a nasty viral pneumonia around Dec 2019, was subsequently healthy, and tested positive for antibodies in the summer 2020. Around Jan 2020 my daughter had a strange disease, with blistering in her hands - perhaps “Covid fingers”?

Anecdotes aside,I think it is fairly unambiguous that it was going around by then.
It seems somewhat off-center to think that people who roll-coal are motivated by a desire to humiliate drivers of hyrid or electric cars.
Either we do a full lockdown to reach zero COVID, like NZ and China did (while buying stuff online), or we would have to do prolonged mockdowns like in Europe.

The Chinese have been living a mostly normal life (albeit with limited foreign travel possibilities, and sporadic lockdowns in isolated locations) for a year.
What part makes people sound like idiots?
I personally don't find the rent seeking in consoles acceptable either, but there are some important differences; Consoles are essentially subsidized PCs nowadays, so the seller is giving away the hardware and benefitting from long-term sale commissions. PCs are essentially open consoles, and most games are available on PCs as well. Just releasing a game for PCs is also a big enough market that companies can turn a profit without ever paying rent to the console platforms. Consoles also don't shamelessly spy on their owners, which is a most critical difference.
Thank you - great tip, and great site! I like that you also mix in articles in, what I presume, is your native Romanian.
What a software engineer needed to know in the 90s to build an e-commerce website:

- PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Mysql, Apache, Linux, FTP

What a software engineer needs to know today to build an e-commerce website (let's say, we keep using PHP):

- A PHP framework, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Typescript, scss, Mysql, an ORM mapper or similar, Nginx, Docker, K8s, GitLab (or GitHub) CI/CD, Git, Linux, be familiarized with some cloud provider (GCP/AWS/etc), oauth, DDD, SOLID, ...

The reason: user requirements today are way higher than in the past. And, we all are users. Personally, I, as a user of the internet, wouldn't mind not having banking apps, or SPAs, or 2FA, or "sign with Google", or push notifications, or all these "nice" things we have came up in the last 2 decades. I don't need it, I don't like it, and as a developer I would be even happier if we never introduced them in the first place.

Note: yes, a developer nowadays needs to know all the stuff I mentioned above. Just check out job descriptions out there, companies are no longer looking for simple individual contributors, they want engineers that own the whole product from conception to deployment. Very sad panorama, to be honest.
Some websites go past the point of no return (for me Twitter, Reddit, I don't bother anymore)

But some websites were usable and now I am frustrated (in Bloomberg, newspapers the reader mode used to work but not anymore). Medium, Towardsdatascience have nice ML articles now often behind registration wall.
How frequently does this happen in reality? The reality is: startups are risky. Forcing the entrepreneur to take a bigger chunk of that risk than necessary leads to less innovation, playing it safe, and kills many businesses before they’ve left the ground. Would Airbnb exist? Would Coinbase exist? Would uber exist? Maybe, but probably not, because the founders here weren’t rich enough to absorb the costs given the odds.

In theory, having that much skin in the game sounds like a pro with small cons. The reality is that is kills innovation, leaves the few brave enough who fail indebted and hampered for years, and makes the successful a fraction of the scale (and disproportionately founded by those already rich).
This is not only an English thing. In Italian rust is ruggine and those fungi in Italian are ruggine too.
> people who deliberately use MongoDB as a relational database sucks

I’ve seen this in a lot of projects I worked for too. Along with the use of “trendy” tech like blockchains being used for stuff it shouldn’t be used for.
I’ve noticed in various places in the Bay Area that new and improved bike lanes are being added.

A good example is a Bubb Rd, the part north of McClellan, in Cupertino (which has a bunch of Apple offices): much improved signalization and there’s now a bumper divider between the car and bike lane, making it very safe.

They also added much improved commuter bus access islands.

This is just one example. There are others. I don’t know if it’s because of COVID or because these things were already planned, but the lack of usual commuter and school traffic definitely made it easier to do the work.
My gcc is tens of KBs

$ wajig size | grep gcc
gcc-5-multilib 6 installed
gcc-multilib 8 installed
gcc 44 installed
gcc-6-base 60 installed
gcc-5-base 66 installed
libx32gcc1 98 installed
libgcc1 105 installed
lib32gcc1 125 installed
libx32gcc-5-dev 6,280 installed
lib32gcc-5-dev 7,020 installed
libgcc-5-dev 12,193 installed
gcc-5 23,648 installed
More like a polling one. I routinely astroturf all surveys because I hate surveys. I am both a PhD holder, I am under 21 and I am LGBTQ, A veteran, and everything else at once
An open ride Ap, with state licensed drivers - much like Taxi driver licences, would bring lower passenger risk - akin to the current taxi industry, but at the expense of the Taxi empires = (phone and radio/meter dispatch empires), would allow drivers to carry people and get all the $$, but there would be some low Ap fee. Uber and Lyft now do this, but need to liberate the drivers from control = grab a lot less in fees, but the drivers would gain total contractor independence. Uber and Lyft might be able to do this and bypass the 'aspect of control' that make the drivers employees with deductions etc.
Thus each ride would be between passenger and driver with zero control overhead.
This would work well in Canada/UK/Europe and most of the world with government medical plans - USA?
The radio based empires are an endangered species, but they could fill this need, and get rid of their radio and meter empires,??