skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general: attention of any person is limited. To monetize attention, it is necessary to steal it from things the user want to pay it to.

> Reducing friction for many sites means that users will spend more time browsing on the site.

The users usually want to spend as little time as possible on any given site. They're using it to accomplish some goal - like find a piece of information, or pick and buy an item, or be entertained. Even with YouTube: autoplay may be something the users want, and in this case it reduces friction, but money is made on the users being exposed to ads - ads before, after, during and surrounding the video. All these are friction, taking both time and attention away from watching the video itself. This is where YouTube makes money.

Showing ads is an obvious case of introducing friction to monetize attention. There are subtler approaches too. They're insidious and so pervasive that some became examples of "good design" on the web. There's too many to list them all. For example, think of all the cases where you thought, "this UI is dumb" or "this design is inefficient". Chances are, it's because it ensures you have to stay on the page longer, click around more, possibly get confused.

I'll give one specific family of examples: a UI/UX pattern in e-commerce, where each item is featured as a large tile or "media item" on a list. A big picture, a name, a price, perhaps one or two pieces of detail. Only 4-6 results fit on the screen at any single time - where a better design could make the site fit 20+ items instead[0]. You start clicking on them individually, and notice each item has a different set of details, possibly using different units - making it impossible to compare options. That's not accidental. That's designed to frustrate user's ability to compare items and make a good choice, in hopes they'll just stick to whatever the store surfaces at the top.

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[0] - I know because I did that. Last time I was assembling my PC, I spent an hour or two writing custom CSS rules for a major Polish electronics retailer, and was able to turn their 4-5 items/screen into some 30 items/screen. Without this, trying to pick among many similar options was too much cognitive burden for people to bother. As intended.
Your manager should encourage you to do this among your peers all the time. These are not meetings - with agenda, attendees, notes - these are just discussions among 2 or 3 people.
> If it had anything concrete, it would have shared it years ago

1) This is the NSA. They only talk when attention serves their goals.

2) They may well have, just not with you. We have no idea what conversations have happened amongst NATO members (let alone among 5 Eyes).
Exactly! Popular history is very much driven and sometimes twisted by the colorful characters that people like to talk about. Feynman wasn't important in Los Alamos at that time, he wrote a book of his favourite stories some of which were about his time at Los Alamos. He became famous/important later, due to his work on quantum theory, his lectures and the Challenger investigation.
> Anyone who thinks masks, boosters or any other idiotic "solution" are going to lead back to "normalcy" are deluding themselves. Every goal post has moved (six weeks to flatten the curve?!?), they continue to move, and yet the majority of fattened cattle seem content to graze on...

I feel this line of argument is disingenuous or fails to take into account the very basics of what the curve is and how lockdowns lead to flattening it and the impact of new strains and the need for booster shots.

You cannot dissociate lockdowns from infection waves in each country, of which in the US there were already four of them. I'm each of these four waves, US hospitals became saturated and unable to meet the demand for not only COVID-19 patients but also patients suffering from other pathologies.

Also, we can't ignore the inception of the Delta strain, a new development which is not only more aggressive but also not handled well by the initial batch of vaccines, as they were developed in a time where the Delta variant did not exist. Therefore, to mitigate the impact of this new strain, a booster shot was developed.

I feel your take on events, provided without any context whatsoever, puts a spin on developments to convey the idea of whimsical and arbitrary policies that have no justification, and which would have absolutely no drawback if they weren't followed. This is a completely unrealistic take on events to the point that I wonder whether it's honest.

Lastly, you should open your eyes and take a look at countries like Spain or Portugal, which due to their national COVID-19 vaccination drive and widespread support managed to reign in the pandemic within their borders and are right now actually returning to normal, without even considering mask mandates. For something which, as you tried to spin, has so many conspiratorial overtones and looks like a pipe dream, how come we're not seeing the sky falling in countries which followed the same strategy successfully and instead we are actually seeing everything returning to normal?
I sincerely hope you are wrong, because if you are not, we will never keep to less than 1.5C of warming. Every single pathway for that requires carbon capture above and beyond what we can do with terrestrial processes.

There are several startups trying to come up with ways of sequestering atmospheric carbon in ways that will last for thousands of years. We need something like that to work, and to come up with ways to fund massive deployment in the second half of this century.
I never had this problem with the ACLU. Sorry it sucks for you.
The origins of the mysterious old telephone in my San Francisco apartment
Let me be a little more specific, with one pretty obvious red flag. I see a lot of 1-on-1s, which is fine, but:

1. 30 minutes for a weekly 1 on 1 is pretty long, almost certainly a waste of time.

2. There's nothing after these 1 on 1s along the lines of "Planning time block for resources requested by Team Member B and E" or "Escalation call with Director B to handle sticking point M" or "Handling requirements conflict with product manager C over feature Q"

There are plenty of other issues here, but this is one clear issue. It sounds like this guy is is a highly paid sounding board. There's nothing in this schedule to suggest he's actually acting on information communicated during any of these meetings.
I found and posted the email thread where he admitted to not having a paid account. He also managed to get into his account fine (that's how he saw that the data wasn't there), so the stuff about the username isn't accurate either. I can look at payment records, but I've literally never had a single complaint of paid users' data being deleted by accident.

I don't think he wants to hurt me (who cares about me or my service anyway?), I just think he's misremembering stuff from seven years ago.
BTW There are rumors about reMarkable requiring paid subscription for some features available for free now.
https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/remarkable-i...

I love my rM2, but there are decent alternative eink note taking devices on a market nowadays.

Maybe I’d buy subsidized rM3 for $200 with backlight, and also nice for it to be waterproof with subscription, but keep asking money from existing owners of rM2 who paid hefty price of $500-600 for device is too much.
There's a vast difference between being a cost center and being willing to set money on fire. Our teams have a lot of autonomy or at least influence in product strategy but it's because we empower our product managers, designers and researchers to help business understand how to achieve their goals. A lot of these projects are greenfield where the team comes in pretty blank on what needs doing. Developers are part of the process too but they don't generate much insight into what customers want. Only how to execute.
I'm with you. It was a great counterpoint to the ST universe 'we're all going to get along, because space-faring races don't have grudges/ulterior motives/conflicting goals' ethos that you had to wait for DS9 to get. B5 is one of those that IMHO does not need to be 'rebooted'.

Delen was awesome and all, but too, I dunno, Galadriel for me. I'm team G'Kar all the way. Andreas really lit that part up, and just played up all the grubby backstabbing political games to perfection.
Use the hide button.
But the efficiency is lower driving around with a full tank.
>Properly scrubbed, these answers could probably predict your ’16 and ’20 Election preferences with 90%+ accuracy.

They could probably guess your preference, but prediction is way harder, as shown by the way so few people saw Clinton's loss coming in 2016.
I have a few - Bill Bishop's Sinocism is probably the first that comes to mind - https://sinocism.com/about More cynical towards China - Sinocism is a word-play. (But I think he is mostly fair in his critique)

https://supchina.com/ is a good website on this topic. I discovered them through a podcast call Sinica https://supchina.com/series/sinica/ (the podcast is extremely good)

Dan Wang https://danwang.co/ - some of his writing is scattered across different publications - it's best to follow him on Twitter - He is perhaps one of the deepest thinkers on the topic. More sympathetic towards China. If you really want to dive down the rabbit hole - look up his employer. It is a think-tank on China, and has some excellent publications.

Economist's coverage of China is also good.

Also I would like to recommend a book - Trade Wars are Class Wars - it's a popular book lately, and bring up some excellent concepts. From what I've heard this book is playing a role in framing how Washington is thinking about China now.
Nobody mentioned a "can't be moved" constraint.

Lots of businesses have multiple services/virtual servers running on a single host. Also VPS, shared hosting, seedboxes. Google/Amazon are experts at it.
I find it amusing that people think of "the HN community" as a singular mind or something

Different people respond to different things
Alright, I'll bite. Which one? Seriously scoured the pages searching trying to be offended, couldn't find a "domestic violence joke".

- edit -

Ah the ToS, the one thing I never read. I thought it was pretty funny FWIW.

Never got the point to being offended by a joke myself or on someone else's behalf. Jokes help you cope and heal, they work wonders for overcoming dark situations.

The trick is to lighten up and learn to recognize an insult from a joke. Noone was insulted or attacked.
So apparently the governor did exactly this just now and will fire all non-vaccinated healthcare workers by midnight. Wild.
True! That would have also been a smart move
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Definitely the best part of IMGZ for me is the cli utility:

https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/
Mixing up Wargaming and Star Trek terminology there?
My last job, we each had a minimum required individual velocity in our weekly sprints. That velocity score was the same if you were a junior or a senior. So in that case convincing the team it was an 8 could mean the difference between keeping your job or not. It was the most soul destroying, stressful job I have ever had. The worst was the Rockstar programmers not seeming to grasp that by reducing the points total on a hard ticket they were dooming their teammates. It lead to everything you can imagine, tickets implemented as fast as possible so they met the letter of the ticket but crashed on anything not defined as the team raced to meet their velocity. Massive unpaid overtime and burnout. Constant crashes in production. Races to claim the 'easy' tickets, and sandbagging. Eventually culminating in 8 of 12 devs quitting in an 8 month window including all seniors. My new job is so much better.
JerryInVA1948: Hi it's Jerry's wife again. We never measured it, so I don't know. Sorry!
Yes! Definitely don't upload any child porn.
Documentation seems to say that they let you use the network from any platform as long as you have a Steam release. The bigger concern is that this requires linking with a closed source library, which means the open source version of the client could no longer connect to our servers without linking to a closed source blob.

That is sort of a non starter for us without some workaround like maybe hosting our own relays for the open source clients.
Developed countries aren't having enough children. We need to provide families with children more assistance, not less. Raising children deserves to be seen as a job because it provides value to society. I say that as a person without children who hopes to never have any.
I mean it kind of makes sense if viewed like deep learning. If we train a system on one set of data, the virus itself, it will probably learn to recognize similar data. If we then highlight one specific part that's very special in this data, the spike protein, then the system will recognize the pattern much more easily. Dataset I or II alone would both let the system recognize the pattern, but not be as effective, since it's harder to tell what's important and what's not.
You can also just click the X in the upper right corner and say "hide all from <page>"
That, and also after a speculative discussion about what's going on and you find out haphazardly that the team is always waiting for something that should really just be automated, but you mightn't have learned that otherwise. Or after 3 different meetings you keep hearing the same name popup about something. Or something feels off and you find out your lead devs mom just died. Or you find out that they're re-writing some bit of architecture again and you can't fathom why you weren't told about it. Or that someone told you something in private that they might not tell you otherwise. Or you have someone demo the thing to you and it's just crap, way worse than the verbal assessment you were given etc..
Make sure you use https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/, I love it:

02:07:53 $ imgz uruav-dji-fpv-porturuav-dji-fpv-port02.jpg
Page URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8/
Image URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8.jpg

So nice.
I’m sure some are but most are just trying to build a large following with this cheap viral garbage. If 1% of the respondents “Like” the page and share their stuff later then that’s quite a good audience builder
Sorry but this is just wrong. The difference in feeling after filling up a small car from empty is significant just for normal driving. Look at what people pay for making sports cars lighter - 50 pounds is a lot!
That last bit does not sound right. DUI laws are set at the state level on the threat of the DOT withholding federal funds for state level road construction and maintenance. I'd be pretty surprised if the feds were okay with such a scheme.

(Nor, frankly, do I think that it's morally defensible. Laws are better when everyone can predict whether or not what they're doing is legal. A clear cut BAC limit is easier for everyone to comply with than some nebulous concept of "tolerance").
yeah, every image hosting service will.

The issue was never that iCloud was scanned, it was that your phone is scanning your photos and that the list was opaque- it's a whole other thing if it's your own device which is supposed to be _yours_ that is spying on you. Potentially for big brother.
There's a difference between being an asshole against a problem or another company and being an asshole to the person you are trying to get to sign up.

Here's what gave me the double-take:

Already have an account?
No you don't.
Try to log in below if you think you do anyway.

Why are you being a dick to me, I just got here. I didn't care that you want to shit on Imgur, but now I'm not sure what your problem is and don't care to waste any more time on this.

Anyway, you can write your site however you want, but so can anyone share their thoughts.
Again, people just downvote this stuff. What gives? It is a good faith argument being made here and the poster has valid points.

Is it really that impossible that well meaning, intelligent people can completely disagree with how society handled covid?
Ah yes, this canard again.

Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills (<https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...>). A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause.

The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect. In other words, people going bankrupt because health problems = lack of work = lack of income.

From the Post piece:

>So Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew J. Notowidigdo did what’s called an “event study.” Instead of looking at bankruptcies to see how many involved medical bills, they started with the illness, and asked how much more likely people were to declare bankruptcy after they got sick. That’s a much better way to tease out causation than asking whether someone who just went through a financially ruinous divorce also owed his or her dermatologist thousands of dollars.

In other words, it's not surprising that someone who declares bankruptcy owes medical bills among all the bills he is behind on. While "correlation is not causation" is used far too often by people who don't really understand its meaning, this is an example. Again, from the Post piece:

>That jibes with what we’ve seen in the bankruptcy data since Obamacare passed. If medical bills really were driving so many people into bankruptcy, then we would have expected filings to plummet after 2013, when millions of people gained health insurance coverage. Instead we see a smooth decline from the recession-era peak.

In any case (and contrary to what Reddit would have you believe), 91% of Americans have medical insurance (<https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...>), whether through their employers, or government programs like Medicare/Medicaid. That's compared to 95-97% in other developed countries because there are always some people who fall through cracks, like (say) a Canadian who doesn't get a new provincial health care card after moving, or a German who neglects to buy into a new sickness fund after changing careers.

Two thirds of Americans have private medical insurance. One third have public insurance of some type, including 20% from the aforementioned Medicaid.

Some large chunk of the 4-6% differential in the US versus other countries is illegal aliens who don't qualify for public insurance and are working cash jobs that don't provide private insurance. The only such national systems with actual 100% (or as close to it as possible) coverage is something like the UK NHS, which does not have a requirement to show a membership card (because, well, there isn't one) to receive treatment.
I'm joking, but the volume for IMGZ is way too low (and always will be) for data storage to matter.
The reason we stand up in standup meetings is specifically to keep them short. Unless you're Russian Orthodox, you're likely to get impatient after standing up for more than five or ten minutes. The standup format exploits this impatience to create social pressure to keep the meeting to no more than about ten minutes by the simple ritual of remaining standing during the meeting.

From the 30-minute "standups" on the calendar I'm guessing this person is not actually standing up in them. Why is a manager involved in standup meetings at all, though? It seems like that could interfere with communication (as people censor themselves in order not to look bad or make others look bad) and create the potential for the manager to become involved in decisions that properly belong to the individual contributors.

"Standup" meetings where people don't stand up seem like the perfect emblem of Fake Agile: they've adopted our rhetoric, but not only don't they understand our practices, they don't even carry out the motions without understanding them; they just use the words.

(Let's see if some fake woke person who's never been to a Russian Orthodox church will castigate me for being "racist" this time because "Russian Orthodox" contains the word "Russian".)
This thread reads like "ego offense".

As in, "I have to diagnose someone because it can't just be for fun and light hearted, this guy has to have a problem!"
Sure but centrifuges were going to be built to that standard anyways, they're a necessary basic technology.
THANK YOU. That explains those maddening "I don't know" answers perfectly.

I'm usually reasonably good at imagining the mechanisms behind stupid engagement-hacking phenomena like that, but the question of why people answer questions on Amazon product pages with "I don't know" has stumped me for years.
The fact that you are putting customer chats in public forum without their consent is just terrible.
The fix for both situations is similar though; dial down the {warning strictness|number of tests run} until you get a clean {warnings|test-run} then enable them one by one in order of how easy they are to fix.
The ad market basically bifurcated. It's a land of the haves and have nots

The big ad platforms like Facebook and Google have thrived, of course. And as platforms like Snapchat have aged they've gradually improved the rates they're getting for their ad space (a typical process).

The scale of online advertising today isn't because the industry's median or average CPMs went up 100 fold. The volume went up dramatically over the last 10-15 years with the traffic for the big services. The big advertisers brought billion dollar ad budgets online and handed them to Facebook, not to one-click image hosts.

Your typical one-click image host is not going to command better ad rates today vs 15 years ago. It's a worse context than it was back then, actually. Back then advertisers were relatively stupid when it came to online advertising, today they're a lot more sophisticated, and a lot more strict about where they place ads (eg porn on one-click image hosts is a big problem for advertisers). The big, rich platforms like Facebook eat a large share of the high paying advertising. What's left for something like a one-click image host, is very, very low paying ads that you have to run a trillion of to make money.
While that may be true, you actually seem to have genuine talent for comedy. I'm inclined to pay for IMGZ for that reason alone, even though I may never really use it.
The median age of death in many states was well above the average life expectancy of a healthy human. You’d never know this unless you bothered to check the state covid dashboard.
Coffee Carbon Footprint Calculator Can Change How You See Coffee
They say coffee was first discovered when goats in Ethiopia were excitedly jumping around after eating the coffee plant. Now, moving forward, 9.5 billion kg of coffee is produced annually, and only in the US, 400 million cups of coffee are consumed every day. What about the answer to the big question of coffee’s carbon footprint?
> Let's talk money. As you may have noticed from the subtle but effective messaging, this service isn't free. That's because we want to avoid having to sell photos of your vagina to shady Russian oligarchs to pay for our servers and cocaine.

You weren't kidding. Amazing.
Cloudflare supports HTTP/3 apparently. Could you run the game on WebTransport over QUIC?
I was so confused by the absence of a login form, below "Already have an account? No you don't. Try to log in below if you think you do anyway."

Turns out uBlock was hiding the form; possibly one of my 'social' blocklists. Just in case anybody else runs into that problem!
It's an argument that "free association" wrt a business is nothing like personal FA.

You don't FA with coworkers because you don't (generally) get to decide who to work with, except in the sense of quitting.
> Any promises or commitments you've made as an executive are only as good as your word - and when you sell your company your word stops having any power (because you sold that power).

one option i don't see discussed a lot is selling to your employees (converting to a coop, full esop etc)