skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lack of awareness of the purpose of work can often cause the work to be done in a way which harms the actual objective. This is because the internal group doing the work (without any insight into why or to what end) will have its own objectives and incentives that are distinct from or in conflict with the overall objective. In order for an internal group like this to function blindly, their incentive structure needs to be properly established by some other group with proper insight. So even if the people doing the work are blind to the purpose, the ones establishing their measures and controls cannot be blind.

This can work, and often seems to work well enough, but it also can fail spectacularly. See the recent Ask HN discussion on Google's 50 billion messaging clients.
You can embed the domains in the app, obfuscated. It's not foolproof but as long as they can't crack it in the few days that are left until the election...
> free will bias
As in the belief to having free will? I find it odd to describe that as a bias.

> justify everything from inequality,

No one justifies inequality, because the word by itself is meaningless. There’s a spectrum from total equality of outcome to total equality of opportunity. People find themselves in different positions on that spectrum.

> healthcare
I’m guessing that by this you mean socialized medicine, because Americans have a level of healthcare that’s way above most nations, including european ones.

While there can be a healthy debate about what option makes a better medical system, it’s pretty obvious that the recent attempts have been disastrous, with the government trying to solve problems that the government created long ago, only to create more problems for the future.

>faith
Call me crazy, but I thought that in liberal democracies we did not mind police people, so why would they need to justify faith?
The story doesn’t tell, but looking at the Ramda source [1][2][3], it sure looks like it: each application of a curried function creates a new curried function on the fly. Didn’t check deoptigate, but I’m willing to bet V8 doesn’t optimize that well.

1: https://github.com/ramda/ramda/blob/master/source/curry.js
2: https://github.com/ramda/ramda/blob/master/source/internal/_...
3: https://github.com/ramda/ramda/blob/master/source/internal/_...
I suspect that the conclusion is too strong for the data, but that the study is valid. Why? What do you suspect?
All: This post is on topic because of the interesting historical material. HN is for intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

If it excites stronger emotions (or sensations) in you than intellectual curiosity, please don't post to this thread. There are 28 other things on the front page to read*, and we don't want tedious flamewars here.

(* maybe avoid the covid leak debate thread too)
I have no need to "top" Herb. He says nothing inconsistent with anything I have said.
Dalvik was replaced by ART nearly seven years ago.
Wait till they unlink the health insurance and employment. It's another thing that corporations use to keep their wage slaves around. That will hit like a nuke on the job market.
Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want" specifically spoke to me here because that was the EXACT era!!! I know I ripped that song using a connection of Perl scripts, then used LAME encoder in connection with some lyrics fetching script to encode the lyrics into the mp3 metadata.
> We should be using whatever abstraction is easiest to reason about

I dare mention Rich Hickey and his talk “Simple Made Easy”, and postulate that we should be using whatever abstraction is _the simplest_ (not the easiest one) to reason about, to which the grand parent rightfully refers, as far as I understand.

Objects are easy to many, but far from being objectively simple.
I can't count the number of times I've done these exact steps:

- see a feature request that sounds weird.

- ask what problem they are trying to solve

- come up with a less weird / more useful solution.

As engineers we have information and skills that designers and pms often lack. You can just build what you're asked to build and you'll be fine, but understanding the value that's added will make sure you build it better.
As a former developer, who now mostly writes those specs... Yes. Yes, I want my team to understand why. They do better when they understand. They have insights into what choices to make when writing the code. We have better conversations about the product and the work to enhance it. And they correct my errors. I'm not perfect just because I write specs, and I appreciate most of the suggestions and corrections that the devs bring to me.
I think this is made worse by our society's fundamental inability to embrace ourselves in all our humanity. My iPhone has a Kids' mode, it does not have an adult mode, and it still insists that I really meant to type "ducking" and that any app that could potentially show me a boob has no place in decent society. As long as we're unable or unwilling to acknowledge that each of us are fully rounded humans, with all the brilliance and flaws that come with that, and not just failed robots or fallen pariahs from the One True Way of Being, this kind of thing will be not just unfortunate but oppressive and dangerous.
Luck sort of rewards itself, it is a part of its very definition.

But I would not be so hostile to luck. We need it. The Lord of the Rings would never exist if Tolkien wasn't lucky enough to come down with a trench foot and thus survive the Great War. mRNA vaccines might not exist if Katalin Karikó did not beat that cancer in the late 1990s. Etc.
Israel and UK are highly vaccinated, but their things are pretty far from being better.
> ...but these practices now begin the moment someone is born.

Sadly, no. They begin long before someone is born. A decade ago, Target was discussing how they could identify that someone was pregnant, and start targeting ads to them. Plus, the art of making it not look like they were doing this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

I'm a bit late to the "... yeah, the tech industry has turned evil!" bandwagon, but am actively moving away from most of it lately. I've gotten rid of my Apple stuff (or am moving away from the rest), won't run Win11, colo a server to host stuff, have been moving to Matrix, etc. It's a bit of a pain, certainly, but I've also been perfectly willing to go with a "If I can't come up with a sane way to do it, it's not worth doing" attitude towards that which I can't do.
Mick McGinty Has Died
Unfortunately, if you ask the average user whether they want detailed control of what runs on their phone or a Facebook app, they're going to go for the Facebook app.

Most users don't have any utility in detailed control. They don't even know what to do with it.
I dunno, sounds like employing one person that is almost 4 times as productive for less than half a cost would be overall good move.

Specially when the 4 couldn't properly pay their living costs. Issue really is that we can't find different work for the 3 anymore...
Not picking on you but this scenario is so common I find it borderline humorous as it is so outrageously ridiculous. Both parents working all day and the kids getting a mediocre upbringing under the care of strangers - now that's freedom! Thank goodness for democracy and equality helping us improve our society. Where would we be if only 1 parent worked and the other took care of the kids.
Yellowstone is not just "a supervolcano", as mentioned it's a natural preserve and generally beautiful place. I'm pretty sure there are enough other geologically active sites closer to populations and with less history that there's no reason to bother with Yellowstone
It's possible that FedNow, when it comes into existence, may sidestep this problem entirely by allowing direct payments between accounts.
>2) people got used to living much more cheaply than they had before due everything being closed

Not just more cheaply,the lockdowns forced many to become more self-sufficient and in many cases, they either needed or wanted to do some services they typically paid for. For example, if there's a type of food you were craving you'd normally just order, you probably tried to cook it. In many cases people learned it's not that hard, they too could do it, and it was portion of the cost. That's just eating out. People probably also tried all sorts of stuff like basic car maintenance, simple housework, etc. because they not only had incentives to save money, they also lacked access to services and had free time to give things a try themselves.
It is worth trying, though. Some people find out that cooking gives them more pleasure than waiting for their order to arrive.
The presented solution does *not* loop inside bitcoin script itself, as you suggest, but outside whereby bitcoin transactions perform the state transfer. The machine runs for as long as someone pays for it (or it goes into accepting state) - which makes sense because if there was a one-time-fee for unbounded or potentially infinite runtime, you could create a program that never terminates. This can be compared to Ethereum where every step in execution costs fees and the caller needs to ensure that a sufficient amount of fees (gas) is paid.
You are maintaining a fork of Trustroots [0] on Github. Is this where a prototype of the federation is developed, and if yes, what is the relationship to upstream (both repo and project wise)?
How is it better than I2P: https://geti2p.net?

Upd: found this: https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/freenet.
So far, no legislation fix. Other alternatives?
And the square root of that is 135, which causes 25% of the total trouble. If we could only find these people and get rid of them, we'd have paradise on Earth!

And that's how genocides start.
A generation of kids growing up in what, the earliest known days of antiquity? It's the same shit just from a different hole as far as I'm concerned.

That being said, I am grateful that I escaped school before the administration properly got a hold of computers. I went to a good school, so I doubt it would be hugely Orwellian, but the point stands - kids need separation.
You summarised the issue quite well.

We could have both parents work part-time, and make everyone happy. But we want the GDP to go up, not down, throw more people and hours into the system, at the expense of children (our future they say) well-being.
Off topic, but the other day I switched to FreeTube (freetube.io) and it's been quite nice. It's not a comprehensive YouTube client (lacks true theming, plugins, etc.), it offers a lot of features that will be helpful for people who want to use YouTube without Google getting in the way.
Your comment is an excellent example of the "medicalization of dissent".

In your mind, this person you're disagreeing with isn't simply mistaken. They "need help".

This type of rhetoric is against HN guidelines. It's also exacerbating the issue and the feelings this individual might have about "tyranny".
> If women drop out of the workforce, are employers suddenly going to start doubling salaries so household income will stay the same?

Taken in reverse, that's pretty much what happened when women entered the workforce in large numbers. It now generally takes two incomes to support a household, where it used to take one. (Yes, the standard of living and expectations in general are higher these days, but still.)
I don't misunderstand and given my profession I should know. Loans are not a regulated activity. You can make loans. Any corporation can make loans. Taking deposits is what requires a banking license.
Reading about things isn’t doing your own research. Thats not what research is. Research should involve an experiment of some kind or getting new data. You are not doing anything close to science.
From my understanding if you accidentally upload a personal file, as long as no one downloaded it in the time you took to realize your mistake taking down the only node that has the file (your computer in this case) should effectively "erase it" in the sense that unless the node comes back up, even if someone has the id of that file they are SOL.
This is a nothing article. It says literally nothing, not even the obvious
This is very interesting. Thank you for sharing!
“There really is no similarity between Palantir’s business model and Couchsurfing’s business model,”

Ok, but I still can imagine a few ways it could be useful to intelligence agencies : It's a network of places to stay around the globe without the need to show your passport or give your credit card.
This article is not entirely incorrect, but there’s some glaring falsehoods as others have pointed out.

There’s a plug for managing Helm related resources with the author’s own SaaS product at the end, so I’ll file this under “half hearted hit job”.
Well I think we’re getting down into philosophical political divides here which have been argued for ages, and probably can’t be solved on an Internet forum.

I’ll just say this about the video that started all of this. At the moment there is a clear perception issue from some in the society on job fairness. Everyone is entitled to their perceptions, but all I’m claiming is that it is inaccurate, and those perceptions are doing them a disservice. I honestly believe it’s clouded by lack of insight.

I think if you met some of the people I have who can tell you six ways to Sunday how to game the welfare system, collect unemployment, sell drugs on the side etc, you might feel different about that “free market” ideal which doesn’t really exists. Instead look to nature for the truth where you have exploiters in most species around every corner. So we must always be vigilant.

> the ultimate system of nature for humans is collectivism and government

The ultimate system of nature is an evolutionarily stable strategy that involves things like pacifists, parasites, violent struggle, etc. Society attempt to regulate those things and protect from the worst of it, but it can’t make it disappear by itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strate...

The United States wasn’t founded with the idea of keeping people out of poverty. Indeed it’s primary concern was the protection of private property from the government taking that property without representation. See John Lockes philosophy equating theft to war etc, etc.

Welfare is required to lift parts of the society out of destitution who really truly need it. It’s not meant to provide for perfectly capable people to receive free passes from the rest of society. And that’s part of the problem at the moment causing an illusion in the job market.

As to your point if someone tried to sell me a bandage for a million dollars while I was under duress, I and the rest of the community would remember that person and treat them accordingly. We live in a society, and there are consequences to actions. Both exploitation and parasitism. Those consequences don’t always hold people accountable like they should, and that’s where we get into trouble.
>and the stigma/weirdness has completely gone away.

Well, not completely - anecdata but plenty of places on this planet (in the West too) where online dating = you are too desperate and you have no other options = stigma (especially for straight men).
Ask HN: What's your go to for building quick and simple HTML/JS layouts?
I'm mainly a back end dev, but with a new in-house project I need to be able to ship a simple HTML page with the outputs of another process (like a report). Id prefer to avoid the bigger css and js frameworks if possible when making a biscuits layout, for transportability, simplicity, and conflict minimisation.

What is your go to for a very simple HTML page drag and drop style builder? Despite the simplicity desired I'd still like something at least a little nice looking.
Great to see you on here! Thanks so much for Jsprit. Its a great tool that I used for many years.
As I was first looking at my post, I did have that mental flip/reverse-aphasia take place where you don't know how that spelling is even a word. I wonder if some German was adding to the ambiguity.
Git is a circle jerk for programmers who would rather talk about work than actually do work.
I’m guessing that force is reality.
If you go over older posts on that medium blog, it seems to be a pattern with that particular author. He also has Conway's Game of Life implementation for 7x7 board, Rule 110 implementation for the tape of 5 elements, "machine learning" article with matrices that are 5x5 -- all because his language has to unroll loops (as Bitcoin script cannot loop), and loops with more iterations are therefore either unfeasible or straigh up impossible in sCrypt.

Despite that, he seems to be insistent that "Bitcoin is turing complete". Most curious.
Ask HN: Micro-SaaS
I've been reading a lot about micro-startups lately, and one of the primary questions I am failing to understand is that how are entrepreneurs able to acquire customers for their product?

I am skeptical of the capabilities of the micro-saas culture, the only way it seems to work is if there already a customer base for the product and somehow you are able to capture the customer base by either shorting the competition or building tremendous value.

The customer base itself is developed through twitter and other social media channels. I don't think these micro-startups have complexity or challenges that native startups inherently have (product-market fit)

Any good experts or resources that guide me through this turmoil? What I am expecting is a step by step guide that can help me generate let's say $500 MRR?

I understand what I am requesting is difficult, however I am only looking for the way?
I guess if you can only imagine a society structured like it is today.

If we all accepted that luck is the driving force, decided that we would rather live in a world where hard work and intelligence pays off - then it's possible to imagine a world in which you're rewarded for hard work (on areas of importance) and gains are socialized instead of losses. The socialized gains could pay people who worked hard and their ideas didn't pan out.

I'm not saying this is a world that would work and is better.

But it's pretty unimaginative to think it's just flat out impossible to have progress in any society that isn't structured around luck.
I did a fast port of this to webxr

- updated three.js to have xr support
- add the vr button to enter xr
- change animation callback

https://lets.m4ke.org/pipes/

https://twitter.com/anotherjesse/status/1439681077640052736
One problem with personal finance is that good general advice is often simple and changes infrequently, and good specific advice is not generally applicable. This is a problem because anything in the media which wants to cover personal finance is not generally willing to print the same bit of advice week in week out. And the problem is compounded by the people with that simple good advice being worried about laws on giving financial advice. So if one follows personal finance media, one may get the impression that it is hard to make good investments and that one must find weird risky lucrative opportunities, because much content is either about new investment possibilities (advertised or not) or sob stories about people who fell for some dodgy scam while thinking they were making the most risk free investment possible (and generating a 10% return). There can sometimes also be commentary on tax rule changes which I don’t really have much to say about.
Most women (and men for that matter) work shit jobs as clerks or similar and not the sort of professional level jobs you're probably thinking of. I highly doubt they find these fulfilling in any way and would rather stay at home with their children if given the option. Polls support this. https://fortune.com/2016/10/05/working-moms-stay-home/
Rob Berger's youtube channel is pretty great, especially w.r.t investing for retirement. He's quite articulate and straight to the point on a lot of somewhat complex topics.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9C17-OMxa-7oRSaCtztObw/fea...
I learned to couch surf in the 1980s, west coast Canada, US and Europe. Convivial people in the arts, music and so. Even surfed a barn couch in southern france. Biking and hiking was sometimes a common denominator. Internet optional.
Working closely to the issue on a couple of fronts, I think debate about the disease origin is a distraction from the real debate everyone has a stake in, which has been the policy response and the legitimacy of lockdowns, vax passports, mandates for health status disclosure, and discrimination based on health information.

Who cares if it came from a lab, there are zero consequences to anyone whether it did or not, and it's the least impactful detail of what has happened. "Allowing," debate on the disease origin is a cynical switcheroo.
I think they call themselves Solution Engineers.
They mention a few kinds of research that will be conducted. But where's the money in it? Is there something worth mining?

You've got infinite dust, from which can be made a kind of concrete. Infinite solar power. Possibly water. What else?

What are the advantages of building a base on the moon vs building it in orbit?
> The intrinsic value of an artwork comes from human > human communication

So you're saying art is a tool?

Is art not shared not art?
The issue is markets are not unregulated, and actors are not all made equals.
You wouldn't clean bathrooms for 5 bucks an hour, but others will. And it isn't because they have more affinities with detergents and less distaste for scrubbing dirt.
> I'm in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn't as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies.

We're living in very different worlds I guess.
The excess power, that is the power that is not reaching the surface by normal processes and that keeps heating up the volcano seems to be in the order of a few gigawatts. This is absolutely possible with cooling measures like they are used for large power plants.
I'm not sure what happened. Do you have a link about this?

I think it's more complicated. Patents are written in a weird style, so the patent covers the exact invention, any generalization, any improvement and any related topic. But probably only a lawyer specialized in patents can give the correct answer in this case.
Yes, this is called “people who enjoy cooking”.
GC languages, boxing everything, oblige constructing elaborate linked structures. Boxing is exceptional in non-GC languages, and trivially avoided where latency would matter.

So, doubt all you like, unavoidable random millisecond pauses are not a problem in non-GC languages, no matter how much you wish otherwise.
I would guess that is because of high levels of interest in decentralized / federated web technologies then. In any case I am with that crowd too.
Producers of sweetened coloured caffeinated water have far too much influence on American economy. But that's your backyard so why should I care. Then you agressively push this sewage down the throats of kids over here, and here start the problems. Hope this will sink you Idiocracy-style.
Author mentions as much as to say that there's was some indirectness at least in the interrupts.

There are also VirtIO drivers involved, and according to the article, they had effect too.