skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no reason in 2021 for to have such terrible discoverability. If it's such a great tool, why did no one see fit making it progressively learnable from within the tool itself?

vim comes with a tutorial that teaches all the basics from inside vim... It's installed pretty much everywhere, you just have to run vimtutor.

> I see people talking about using vim like some other talk about going to the gym. Great abs, fast editing, but... do you even code, bro?

Why the condescending tone?

Yes I do code, everyday and full time, and vim absolutely increased my focus and productivity.

There is way too much to talk about in a single post, but stuff like macros, showing multiple files at once, (tabs is not the natural way of doing things in vim), viewing multiple parts of the same file at once the native integration with the terminal (just ctrl-x to go back to the terminal and fg back to vim, or execute any command with :! ) are great for productivity when you have to deal with multiple tools.

> High-level language tooling like refactoring and static analysis are way, way more important for medium+ size projects productivity.

I agree, and that's why I use vim. I can do all of that more efficiently in vim because the refactoring tools are way more powerful, and everything is macro-able.

> These are much better served by an actual IDE than some one-off integration with an obtuse editor deriving macho pride from it's 1970's TTY-limited semantics.

Condescending and even insulting tone again... great.

FYI, vim has all the features of any modern IDE. The opposite is not true however.
Because we currently live in a world with:
1. A high-liquidity environment for VC firms
2. A high-liquidity environment for retail investors
3. Unprecedentedly easy, fun and addictive speculation tools

Once the crypto bubble took off thanks to this unprecedented bull market, it also attracts many smart engineers, businesspeople and entrepreneurs who jump into the gold rush hoping to sell picks & shovels.

There's one more aspect here. I've coined the term "Bloated MVP" [1] from years of watching startups that lack a coherent value prop, and don't know who their first user will be, and never get any traction whatsoever, but nevertheless manage to raise $millions and suck up smart people's time and energy. I've also spent years founding such companies myself. The reason people work on bloated MVPs is because they don't realize that an idealized abstract vision is very different from a value prop.

So to summarize: The crypto space is a massive ecosystem-level bloated MVP, intermingled with the biggest liquidity bubble of all time, and unprecedented speculation opportunities

[1] https://bloatedmvp.com
Thanks for the questions and they're good ones too :)

Our idea validation (idea checker) feature analyzes intuitive (hunch) ideas to check their idea uniqueness and business viability against our collections of companies and products, both active and inactive, in our database.

Both components have their sets of questions (datapoints) which we ask, such as:

- for idea uniqueness: one-sentence pitch, industry, business model type, market, and so on

- for business viability: what problem is being solved, what is the solution, who are the customers, how big is the market, and so on

So we'll analyze our users' inputs to predict their failure rate based on their idea uniqueness, competitive landscape, novelty score and so on.

Feel free to check out our solutions as we offer Freemium Plan for users to try us out: https://www.flipidea.co/

*Note: due to our real-time analysis (using text analytics), our results waiting time may take up to 1 min, which we're working to reduce the waiting time, and we're also improving its accuracy by our major release next month.
You can read 'extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds', or look into the Albanian civil war of '97. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme
A distributed namespace system is pretty cool (https://ens.domains/)
My programming skills are awful, meaning, I dont know too many languages and tools.

But I understand program architecture pretty deeply, and complex systems architecture is something I deeply just grok so the analogy you make makes sense to me.
The new laptop helped tremendously with build speeds. It's puzzling why we skimp out on a few thousand $ of hardware for engineers making 6-7 digit incomes.
Do you collect as a hobby or for profit? Seems like something I’d enjoy trying as a side-hustle but never really done before outside of Pokémon
Gas engines emit more lower-frequency noise that travels through walls more.
Similar dynamic in that Canadians will tell you that their famed politeness is in fact passive aggressive.
They would go on a Hunger Strike. If not killed first.
For California, don't forget to add an extra ~$12k for the employer's match on social security and medicare, so you have an extra 6% on the CA tax balance sheet.

I don't know if there is an equivalent employer tax is directly linked to employee pay in Japan.

One could argue that this isn't really a tax that the employee pays, but of course it comes directly out of the business under the "cost per employee" bucket.
This is exactly what Keyoxide does. See my HN profile description for step 1.
See my pgp key at https://keyoxide.org/4af679d0aba0ed4b07bf7b6932ca3267c8d187d... for step 2.
I fail to see how this effect would be less pronounced than, say, newspaper editors determining the overall voice of how they cover things.

Im not declaring that Wikipedia is objective, but I don’t honestly believe it’s worse than other sources of info (beyond like… really digging into a primary source of a subject? And even then)
Just because it's a value you don't recognize doesn't mean there is no value. Speculation is useful and valuable to a lot of people.
You don't need a job to get good.
class BroadcastChannel
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Only three lines! :D
you still will. there just happens to be more people arguing with them now than there used to be.
Ehh, as a person who lived in Tokyo and NYC for a while, I can say that the difference isn't as big. It's true that Tokyo is way cleaner and the trains are much better, but Tokyo streets are harder to navigate (as it's not grid based) compared to NYC or Kyoto/Osaka, and the article misses one big potential factor about its livablity: Tokyo's earthquake readiness is pretty sketchy and it hasn't been tested for about 100 years (the 2011 earthquake affected a different part of Japan; it was a blip to Tokyo). The city requires huge influx of daily goods from all over Japan, and we are all not sure what's really going to happen if it's disrupted. It is a convenient city to live for now, but I'd say it's kinda short-sighted view.
I don't know if there's much opportunity in terms of creating useful content that's ranked well by Google. I agree there's an opportunity to build better content, but I don't think Google will work as the main source of discovery.

I run into the issue most when I'm searching for solutions to tech problems. A good example would be to search for instructions on how to upload PSTs to MS365 or how to perform a server to server IMAP sync when migrating from a legacy mail provider to MS365.

You'll find a ton of "blogs" that claim to have instructions, but usually the instructions suck and the entire point of the blog is to sell 3rd party software that does the same thing as Microsoft's built in tooling.
DynamoDB doesn't have SQL queries; but yes, if you're performing an operation which reads 10 million items from ddb it will be absurdly expensive. It will also take an absurdly long time; by default ddb is limited to 40k read request units (= 80k eventually consistent reads of up to 1 kB) per second. Being so slow would probably make users realize they're doing something wrong.
> Partly offloading your learning problem onto an expert tutor trained in master learning has a good chance of vastly exceeding any learning approach a novice can adopt on their own.

How have you implemented this in your own learnings?
Crypto at its best is a use case and driver of investment in decentralized databases.

However, that leads to the question of whether we need decentralized databases. Networked computing tends to lead to centralization of services, if not at a single node then in a collection of nodes each of which is the best at what they do. Google is for search, Amazon is for e-commerce, etc.

Given the tendency towards natural monopolies, do decentralized databases make sense? They are slower and more duplicative than centralized databases.

Decentralized databases shine when a multiplicity of providers reduces the power of each node. In the parlance of monopoly, the node operators of a decentralized database are price-takers not price-setters.

Decentralized databases make economic sense when the operational costs associated with them are offset by the lower prices on offer compared to a monopolistic price-setter.

However, the tech monopolies currently offer their services free or at cost, with all the efficiencies that come with scale. I don't think we need decentralized databases now.

Still I think it's something good to have in your back pocket if the state of monopolistic software gets worse. I see the crypto market as crowd-funding R&D for something that may be needed in the future.
The power can go through the header pins rather than USB
Are they? Are masks the most effective at stopping transmission? Even cloth masks? Masks mandates don't seem to make a difference. And studies sure cloth masks are mostly useless
It can definitely have value. That's why bounties exist (or imagine a market for someone to assassinate Hitler).

I think there's a conflation of value and value in a particular moral dimension here.
Can we bring back the Unix philosophy to Android?
Maybe what we need is a way to visually chain smaller single purpose apps using a pipe interface like NODE-red

What other possibilities or efforts out there that exists?

What would be nice is being able to spin up custom recipes like how we can use pipe syntax in Linux to solve common problems without having to have seperate bulky programs.
Urban Dictionary: Node.js
If the original comment was saying “crypto has value because people are willing to pay for it” that is tautological. There is a conflation, but it’s a motte and Bailey.
About 20 years ago I think?
The comment in this thread are powered by ignorance. Study the history of monetary systems going back around 690 years to present. Fiat currencies eventually fail due to government hubris. Bitcoin's algorithmic cap on units addresses that. Alt-coins are more transactional and many are more like businesses. BTC is going to continue to grow. Some tiny fraction of the alt-coin market will thrive and potentially have even larger market caps than BTC. These coins are getting traction for different reasons but BTC is an asset with staying power that provides a means for hedging against devaluing fiat currencies. Altcoins are going to take margin away from financial services entities by empowering transactions that won't require intermediaries. I think that crypto currencies are an innovation with many positive attributes.
"Give me a list of all flights originating at LAX, SFO, SEA and terminating at JFK or MIA, with at least one connection in either SLC or MSP with a minimum connection time of 3 hours and include every airline except Delta and Spirit. Do not include results if they require more stops than the minimum possible stops"

Origin: "LAX, SFO, SEA" Destination: "JFK, MIA" Outbound routing codes: "SLC,MSP ~DL,F9+" Outbound extension codes: "MINCONNECT 3:00" Extra stops -> No Extra Stops.

You can also use extension codes to find flights based on duration or number of miles flown.

Edit: Actually a better example to show the power of ITA would be something like "~DL,AA,UA SLC,MSP AA" for the outbound routing code, which says "don't use Delta, American or United for the first segment (to SLC/MSP) and do use American for the second segment (from SLC/MSP)"
EA may be forced to pull Diego Maradona from FIFA 22 over trademark row
I work for a major consulting firm and so very few things spook me. However, there is one phone number in my phone associated with no name. That number has called me exactly twice. She's not the same as the guy with the cigarette in the old X-Files show but she's not far off either hah. Both times, i had to physically sit down and swallow hard before answering. ugh, i don't even like thinking about it.
One party supermajority rule.
Why can't we add a law to prevent instead of this weird wealth tax?
I don't have a horror story to tell. In general, I don't want to rely on the customer service of my credit union (or the regional bank that I used to use).

>I had everything back in my account within 24 hours

That's the thing though, they take your money, rather than the banks, even if briefly. Does it matter? I don't know, but it seems like a quantifiable risk.

I think that banks are privileged in some way, in being able to take what they claim you owe them, from any accounts with them.

So my theory is that it's prudent to be paying via some third party on general principles. I don't even use a credit card from the same bank that has my checking. Partly because of inferior terms and customer service, but partly to avoid them having leverage in a dispute.
It doesn't answser my question, where are the people working on the tech, in the "who we are" section of their website?

Are scientists second class citizens? investors and "people who pitch projects to 'vulture' capitalists" are gods?
> Iraq, Libya, Syria

These three also have something in common...

> Ukraine

It was doomed from the start, with a neighbor we failed to keep in check.
In some cases the query might have finished before the data hits the billing system.
As someone who spent some time working on Etherium data analysis, having to learn the details of how it all works, I don't see it ever becoming a large part of finance.
The higher-end of the card collecting hobby has changed permanently. The card companies are putting a lot of effort and money into producing unique or otherwise limited cards (autographs, relics, rare prints, etc). That's not going to stop.

For example a lot of the more common rookie card prices have already deflated back toward something closer to sane prices. Take the Greg Maddux 1987 Leaf rookie card - that went up ten fold in less than two years, primarily during the pandemic bubble, and has now deflated by around 60-70% from the peak of the bubble. That card (and numerous others like it from other prominent players of the past 40-50 years) is unlikely to quickly reinflate back to the peak, it might take five or ten years to get back there.

What isn't going to dramatically deflate, are the exceptional cards. The higher quality 1952 Mantle cards are not going to drop by 60-70%. The 1986 Fleer Jordan rookie in a PSA 10 is never going back to the days when it could be purchased for $10,000-$30,000. A high-end Lebron James rookie (seven figures) isn't likely to roll backwards by 70% from the peak. Those days are forever over. There is a lot of money willing to pay up for such cards. The high-end part of the card hobby is and will remain closer to behaving like the art market than like the mainstream cards-from-packs hobby.

And the giant premiums that card companies can command for high-end boxes, they're not giving that up if they can avoid it, they have no interest in rolling that back to the old days. Granted, Fanatics and their new monopoly may screw everything up.
I've recently had to switch to the Ego "electric" neon green stuff, and it's a definite step down from the red commercial Maruyamas.

Electric weedwhacker (I'm assured these don't exist on the West Coast, but they do have an alternative called the "weedeater") barely has any strength behind it.

Will it knock down some tall spots in the hard spots of a non-artificially-planned backyard? Yes.

Will it be quick? No.

Can you edge with it? I've tried, but the lack of power means the cut is never clean.

Same with the leafblowers.

Gasoline-powered? That side-walk and driveway are free of leaves in 5 minutes tops.

Electric? I'm slowly walking around like a bozo for a good 15-20 minutes just to get the bigger parts. It's almost impossible to get all the nooks and crannies with the hand-blower.

Same with the trimmers.

Hell. Those small Maruyama trimmers are all you need. Doesn't matter if you need a longer reach: a ladder and one-handing it always does the trick. Admittedly, they're also used as pruners (and they're damn good at it).

I've tried those pole-trimmers, and the lack of power was palpable. You can barely even cut through Rhododendron without slamming that thing into the branches.

Electric? Forget about it. They barely cut through my regular-variety hedge.

Perhaps the "high-powered" stuff has spoiled me forever -- and I do miss them dearly. What I don't miss is my hands going numb, and a persistent ringing in my ears.

I've also grown to be a fan of the "old" New England property landscapes and yards. The ones on the West Coast always seemed so artificial.
> of course they like large living spaces, most people do
[..]

> nobody is willing to give up their spacious homes

This is a view that is strident and sanctimonious, yet completely wrong.

Suburbia did not come to exist because of a desire for big houses, which are just an incidental side effect, it's about home ownership.

Specifically getting out from under the thumb of landlords. It was suburbia and the automobile -- not the New Deal -- that created the American middle class.

Without the suburbs, you have to live in large urban tenements (or in rural areas) and there is no possibility of homeownership, as those landlords only sell to other landlords.

Now along comes transportation technology which allows you to keep your job in the city but live where land is cheap enough to buy.

Woohoo!

Now you can be a homeowner thanks to automobiles, roads, and highways.

The houses are larger than the urban tenements and flat just because the land is cheap. Going vertical is very expensive and makes financial sense only when land is expensive. So the size and shape of the house has nothing to do with why people rushed there. They rushed there because they want to get out from under the thumb of the urban landlord.

Take a look at home ownership rates in the 20th C[1]:

1900: 46.5% <- Nothing much happens from 1900-1930
1910: 45.9%
1920: 45.6%
1930: 47.8% <- Great Depresssion + New deal: 1933-1941 sees decline
1940: 43.6% <- post-war suburbia boom: 1946-1966
1950: 55.0%
1960: 61.9% <- Increase slows as suburbs built out 1960 - 1980
1970: 62.9%
1980: 64.4% <- massively falling rates don't do much to 2000
1990: 64.2%
2000: 66.2%

So to look at the post-war suburbia boom as some kind of indulgent preference for big houses is to completely miss what this is about.

And note that a side effect of the growth of suburbia is the shrinking of rural areas, as people in rural areas don't need to relinquish home ownership and become renters if they move to cities. That used to be the case. Before suburbia, if you wanted to move to the city, you needed to rent from one of these landlords.

But, you counter, we have condos! Well, there were no condos in 1940, and by 1990, less then 5% of housing units were condos[2]. There are very few condos in America, because again the owners of the big multi-unit properties prefer to rent them out rather than convert them to condos, and there just isn't that much infill land available in existing urban areas for developers to come in and add a significant amount of condo urban housing stock.

So please stop judging people and wildly moralizing about long term social or economic trends. That's a terrible lens through which to understand economic history.

- - -

[1] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/ti...

[2] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/Publications/pdf/HUD-7775.pdf
The problem, then, would seem that the majority of software work is no longer building things, as it is jury-rigging together APIs and frameworks, thus leading to the loss of use of remembering the building blocks. And leads to the replacement of such vital components as building blocks with other components like design patterns or commonly used SDKs and libraries.
No, we screwed it up so much that it would take decades to fix. Building a traditional reactor takes over ten years, while advanced reactors need ten more years of R&D. By that time, renewables may be cheaper than even next-generation reactors.
List of Mass Hyteria Cases
There is nothing random in that solo, he never even really plays anything that a typical jazz player would consider outside playing.
> in reality that means that the market is willing to pay for those transactions to occur which suggests that there is some real utility

It means that it is useful for those who can afford the absurd gas prices for just about any operation on Ethereum than those who are sending small amounts to perhaps test before permanently sending their money to a dead wallet and paying the gas fee too.

So it makes sense for someone to pay >= $1,000 in fees to approve and move / swap $1 - $100 worth of tokens? That is not 'real utility'. It makes it really useless.
From scanning this, it sounds like the author is specifically talking about sports trading cards, most characterized by baseball cards.

This market certainly went crazy price-wise but then, as the author pointed out, tanked. It basically tanked because everyone started collecting the cards. Like any collectible market, it mainly took off to begin with because no one was collecting these things and keeping them in mint condition. The realization of that then created oversupply.

I can't speak much for that market but in the past year Pokemon in particular has exploded, to the point where the the ratings companies where so inundated with submissions that they had to stop accepting them.

The Pokemon market seems to have cooled but prices for mint condition first edition cards still seem to be pretty high. It's impossible to predict where this market will go just like any collectible market because it's so driven by market sentiment.
Throughput is not latency, though. 1gbps on a dedicated line is not the same as 1gbps on an oversubscribed residential node.
Sure, but the time limit and pressure of people looking over your shoulder are additional artificial challenges, unnatural stresses.

Perhaps one approach is to allow the interviewee some time to think it over themselves.
Personal profit angle versus preservation. Although maybe the latter isn’t perfect but the intentions are there.
> SIMs can send SMS on their own using a feature called “proactive MO-SMS”

So many interesting tidbits in this article. This is what I come to HN for.
I'm not sure why this would make the suspect innocent ? Couldn't it be the situation that the person was doing an update and that distracted him during driving ?
The infection rate for children isn't any higher than adults.
> most governments in History were utterly bad at managing anything

s/were/are
Economics is not a philosophically-laden exercise.

Economics defines value as that which a rational agent is willing to make a sacrifice for, and the degree to which something is valued by that actor is exactly measured by what they're willing to sacrifice.

Why is this not valuable? Or, rather, what might a better definition entail? A precise formulation isn't required, I'd be happy to see a rough sketch of necessary and/or sufficient conditions.
I prefer to start having the emperor's problems. You can keep the slave's problems if you want.
If it is obvious why are so many people concerned with others vaccination status? If you are vaccinated you have no reason to care about anybody else.

People continuing to wear masks post vaccine clearly don’t think the vaccine works.
or even changing the SIM card and putting it into another phone while driving ?