skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I am dismissing his contribution - because it's amateurish. I also don't encourage the local nursery to contribute their kids' paintings to the Met. Ironically, his article contributes to his argument that there is such a thing as objective taste if you root it primarily in the skill of the artist.

I'm no art critic or aesthetician, but here's some random issues that I noticed while reading:

- he has failed to separate skill from aesthetic taste. He describes taste as obviously real because some artists are better than others when this is a description of skill not taste; nobody denies the existence of painterly skill.

- his entire argument rests on comparing a child's drawing to a work by Da Vinci. Taste comes into play when you compare artists of comparable skill. Is it Good Taste to prefer Da Vinci to Lichtenstein? To Vermeer, or Van Gogh, or Picasso or whoever? The main arguments you can lean on here are from authority (such-and-such is popular with the galleries/critics, exhibits traits I was taught to look for in class) or from personal analysis/appreciation. He touches on the argument from authority but just hand-waves it away.

- He hints at the critique of art appreciation as being dominated by the celebrity of the artist and its connotations of class signalling but makes no reference to the fact that there's a ton of academic work on both of these factors. Thus he can only really skim the surface of this perspective.

- His whole argument about properties of objects being real or constructed is day-1 metaphysics. Ditto for his description of properties having a dimension of objectivity to subjectivity; he's just trotting out logical positivism like it's a truism, like many rationalist-types do. Logical positivism does not apply to a purely social field like art. Intersubjectivity isn't related to objectivity.

All this would be fine if it was just him thinking about art - it's perfectly reasonable to consider positions out loud without any meaningful expertise. But he makes a claim to truth, in front of a large audience that often accepts his ideas pretty uncritically, and it's an audience that already has disdain for the humanities. That's deserving of derision.
It’s not going to happen. Bicycle drivetrains are a very simple system and the engineering is very mature. The trade offs of alternative systems are well understood and have been for decades. Most innovation these days is finding ways to reduce the cost of well understood means of improving efficiency, eg reducing mass.
The Sun Set Off 4k Sea Mines During the Vietnam War – Atlas Obscura
Smalltalk's history seems like exactly what you'd get if you incubated something exclusively in academia, then tossed it out into the commercial world.

That's an underappreciated and hard transition in requirements.

Academia doesn't know or care about so many things that are critical in the commercial world. And the commercial world doesn't care much about many of the computing philosophies academia argues incessantly about.

I think that's why you see a higher "win rate" from things that are seeded into actual commercial use ASAP: they evolve features important to their end users. See: VB (1991), Python (1991), PHP (1994), Ruby on Rails (2004)

There are some counter-examples, but it's really hard not to have glaring blind spots if you're not working in at least a commercially-adjacent domain.
Downloading .NET 6, a text editor and reading docs?
This is YouTube protecting institutions and commerical organizations who are posting massively unpopular videos and getting ratiod, for the most part.
Every time there is a new version of Visual Studio I try and use it for as long as possible before I give up and install ReSharper. So far VS 2022 looks like it might be good enough without it.
I was a C# dev from 2004 to 2010. It's a nice language and .NET is (was?) quite pleasant. So I often think about switching back to a C# job. But every time I realize I gotta wade through all of this stuff it really turns me off and I still haven't fully made the leap. Maybe one of these days. I do think understanding all this legacy and getting up to speed would be worth it for me.
Dislike buttons in special interest topics are probably a more informative signal than they are otherwise, but I've never personally spent much time looking at the likes one way or the other. Comments are usually much more informative. E.g. "these instructions for the EG1772Z worked for my EG1781T, except that I had to pry off the plastic plate that hides the access bolt first." or "Ok video, but if he had done X first, he could have finished with half the trouble." or "Be careful prying the case loose. I broke the plastic tabs with my screw driver."
A future episode of CSI:

"Why didn't the victim just drive away?"

"I found trace remnants of Jack Daniels on her clothing, the killer must've asked her to roll down the window, splashed it inside the car..."
I think this is a bit hyperbolic for a problem that happened once and then they fixed it. I also don't really know what you're talking about with regard to the house of cards constantly tipping over…? It honestly just seems like you have an axe to grind here.
Oh I already do assume that! That's why I have such an overflowing social life with lots of mutually fulfilling relationships! /s

Sadly I've come to much the same conclusion as this article. Nobody has any idea what the fuck they're doing, especially the people who think they do. I certainly don't know wtf I'm doing.

Me: Stupid? Probably not quite, at least in most ways. Lazy? Guilty. Possibly insane? Remove the "possibly".
This may seem unrelated but I think a lot of our abilities are unconscious and we tend to see things in hindsight to explain why we behaved as we did, trying to rationalize things and believing in our explanations even if they make no sense. I noticed playing Beat Saber in VR in the beginning I sucked. I went from thinking about what to do in beginner mode making a lot of errors then much later just automatically doing very complex movements effortlessly in expert+ mode over the pandemic. I didn't have to think. Maybe most of our lives are on autopilot so we are dumb in that sense of not being aware. I feel similar with driving, walking, typing, etc... so many behaviors seem like this...but oddly enough, that seems to be the key to actually performing effectively.
> That kind of speed of development is absolutely possible

And every time I say on HN that I can do something in a weekend, I get downvoted.
Finding the correct roast takes some time as well. The roasting temperature varies between ~6 degrees Celsius and that variation can make a lot of difference in terms of the flavors that the roast brings out, and every type of bean is different.
But I would imagine the process would be rather satisfying.
I would add that a gritty feel is not a dealbreaker. There is a Mexican chocolate company, Taza? I think, that makes a more "traditional" grittier chocolate. It is quite enjoyable.
Why not the stable version (2019) instead of a literal preview...
Check out https://github.com/ycd/dstp . It's still pretty young but it tries to solve that problem. The author needs more feedback.
There are three problems than an ORM should solve to some degree:

1. Type safety/refactorability

2. Composability (can I reuse my queries)

3. Expressivity (can I generate the queries I want)

Of these, EF only solves the first, which is far and away the easiest of the three.

Composability in EF is possible via expression tree splicing, however it requires such a degree of discipline and insight that I have never seen anyone do it, or even any discussion around it.

Like almost everything in the .NET ecosystem, EF makes a bunch of promises that are fantastic for hello world, but are disastrous as your project grows.
#!/bin/zsh
ip addr | grep $localNetworkPrefix
ping $localGateway
ping 1.1.1.1
ping $DNS01
ping $DNS02
open -a Safari https://downdetector.com/status/%1

Do `chmod +x ./scriptname.sh` to make executable and run with argument (e.g. net.sh facebook) to check a particular service.

Edit: Thanks @Shared404
According to TIBOE, Rust has 0.54% adoption. The 29th most popular programming language.

So perhaps there's something to the argument that the difficulty of the language paradigm affects adoption.
Not all women are equal. I have seen women who gave birth just a couple of weeks before, thriving & bursting of energy in the workplace.
A child can be genetically loving, but beaten down by a poor environment. Have you never seen someone suddenly thrive after leaving abusive parents, bosses, or partners?
> You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations.

2016 Dislike button: Feature to inform other users that a video is not worth watching.

2021 Dislike button: Feature to inform google to show _you_ other content.

Google is hijacking user interface concepts to slowly train users to train the machine about how to train them.
I took python more as a motivating example than an absolute. As far as I can tell the article suggests developer speed over application performance. Then FFI to a "fast" language to overcome your performance problems. That way you only pay the overhead of a high performance, slow to develop language where it actually matters. Which is usually much less than the whole program, so not paying for performance where it isn't needed is a big win.
Ha! IAATP (I am a theoretical physicist). We're nothing special. Your comment is spot on. I'm not that smart, I just think of the world in a different way. No matter what I'm looking at, I view the world as a set of coupled differential equations. That's great for understanding how a pandemic works, but not so good at connecting with your neighbor over a beer.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses and you should never think of yourself as less-than because someone else is better than you at something. You know what I can't do? Pass a FAANG interview. I've tried! 3 times! I write novel algorithms to handle complex data and do numerically accurate high-level math. Yes, I can even balance a binary tree (I had to do that to manage a list of basis functions), but I think about computing in a way that makes the people think I'm an idiot when I'm standing at a whiteboard.

So I could say that all of those FAANG folks are smarter than me, but they're not. They just have different skills than me.

The only person to compare yourself to is you from yesterday. And as long as you're making progress (on even just one dimension), consider it a success.

There is so much more than "being smart"
To each their own, but I've been enjoying my bluetooth ear buds since the day I got them. Not having to deal with wires has been as great as I imagined. Battery life of 4 hours is more than enough for daily usage when walking between places, and having to charge them and the case is a great trade-off, IMO. I've had mine for more than two years now. I sometimes even shower with them, if I come home and want to continue listening. They're still as good as new.
Why don't you make that feature? Is the feature integral to the purpose? Would a normal person assume an app that supposedly solved your problem has that feature?

Its not straightforward if your app doesn't deserve low reviews or not.
Thinking about the world and why we are here is exhausting.

I'm happy for everyone who either believe in a god and just accept this as it is or accepted that we just don't know and continue there life's as is.

For me I do struggle with all the implications that we just don't know, life in a rock and fly through an empty universe.

Living in a time we're out imagination is so good (scifi movies) and living in a totally 'boring' world in comparison, makes it even harder.

When thinking through all of this it's even getting more frustrating as I sometimes think we could ourselves make our all life's so much more comfortable by just thinking on the same plane but we don't. We still have wars different worldviews and rules. Homosexual people still get hangt in some countries, obesity is a real issue and cutting female parts is also still a thing.

And I'm already in theory in a very very comfortable position.

And I even hate that. I don't want others to work from mo-sa 10h for my shoes while I don't even wanna work 40h in my well paid job.
It must be. Sorry, I just copied and pasted it.
How? The kid will like the one painting targeted at kids and that is it.

Also, kids are exactly the demographics super susceptible to claim liking or disliking things based on what their friends say about them.
If I come across a low-quality rip of Dark Side of the Moon and dislike it, will Youtube recommend to me less Pink Floyd or less low quality rips? What if I dislike that horrible Barenboim performance of Beethoven's Ninth? Will I get less Beethoven or less horrible performances? What about reports of Israel killing Gazan children, when the video footage clearly shows children killed when a Hamas projectile they were "guarding" prematurely detonated? Do I get less news or less lies? What about that idiot who knows a lot about cars and car history (Donut maybe) but screams and acts like he graduated from Animal House? Do I get less informative car videos or less puerile screaming and sentences composed of 15 cuts, sometimes right in the middle of a compound word?

I think that basing recommendations on a single dimension is flawed in its own right.
> Often what we value most in the future are the experiences of the past.

Thank you for this phrase.
Wrote professionally about taste in a previous life. It is related more closely than we expect to techne or competence from physical knowledge.

When we think of poor taste, we tend to think of symbols that are separated from their function and meaning, where instead of representing that, "I do this thing," something gaudy says, "I have this thing!" That's what crassness is, and it comes down to our relative apprehension of the real vs. the represented, where typically, something real is powerful independent of who is observing it, and the representation is not. It's whether something legitimately represents power. Taste may be an instinct for honest signals, which would seem like its own sort of intelligence.

Viewed this way, taste is the expression of what you percieve to be power based on your experience, good taste is the inverse of the distance between them, and poor taste is measured in the gap between what is affected and of-what it is the effect.

That difference between effect and affect is one of the sneakiest bits of the english language and perhaps even the culture's most cunningly set trap. Do not underestimate the value of good taste, it's an intuition about power.
Dither when it makes sense, but using dither in photographic images... defeats the purpose of JPEG and its descendants. Photographic lossy compression is designed to be compressed with non-dithered (as much as possible) images.
Miles ahead only for those that don't know how to use VS properly.

It has tons of features missing for Windows development, debugging across .NET languages, C++, COM and WinRT.

Debugging of GPU code, parallel code, integration with mocking frameworks like Fakes, architecture modeling even for files without source available (code maps).
> just imagine that you are a landowner or work for a large corporation (that’s most of us!)

What a neat little sleight of hand. "Blame major corporations" doesn't mean "blame the wage slaves major corporations exploit" - and working for Walmart is simply not comparable to being a part of the other group included here, landlords.

A short, ideological, and pretty much information-free piece. Begone.
I feel like I've single-handedly trained their AI to identify buses, boats, and planes at this point.
One note about the pricing page itself - I found the "black vs grey" links for the two tiers of "Growth" pretty confusing.

I incorrectly assumed that once I enter the Growth plan $400/mo, I get access to dbt/lineage. But those are only "checked" when you pay $800/mo version of the Growth plan.

So it really feels like you have 4 plans: Free, Growth, Business?, and Enterprise.
Incidentally, one of my first jobs was debugging automation failures around PowerBuilder apps still running in the early 2000s.

It's amazing how long enterprise software lives.
Its about the user experience which is why you don't seem to understand if looking at it like any other video hosting service.
I'd personally prefer if Cloudflare spent their time developing something like a global relational database that was wire compatible with Postgres.

My reasoning is that all their offerings are geared toward the edge, and while it's nice to support relational databases as they currently are, it seems to counter why you'd build on Cloudflare's edge to begin with.

This seems more to be suggesting that I should not pursue an edge-based architecture and stick with containers instead.

If I'm going to be using workers, I'm already giving up a ton of capabilities possible on a native OS. In return, I'd hope for something wild, like a fire and forget global relational database.

If my original ask was too tall an order, I think a global GraphQL service would fit nicer with their current stack and offer most of the same benefits as direct database access (i.e. schema as a service accessed over http).
> I'm not interested in studies that show something. I'm interested in a mental model [...]

So you're interested in theory, not reality?
> However, if nothing happens on the Bitcoin network, then the funds aren't locked down, are they?

they are locked down. the funds in a lightning channel are locked in a 2 of 2 multisig address, and can only be moved upon mutual consent (ie. by updating the state of the channel), or by one party after sufficient time has passed (in case of an uncooperative peer).
Removing seat belt laws will not curb police abuse of power. It's treating a symptom, not a cause.

Accepting a philosophy of withholding medical care in cases like that would lead to a society of cripples and dead. I don't see how that's desirable or an improvement.
My favorite modern shifting tech is SRAM's Force 22 Yaw front derailleur. Well ok, index shifting is there too.

Yaw rotates the front derailleur cage slightly as you shift rings. This keeps the cage inline with the chainline and makes for a quiet FD with no trimming necessary.

It's supposed to be Force 22 specific but I have SRAM SL700 2x10 and Shimano 105 10s cranks on that bike. I installed it but then had my LBS adjust it.

It is the first FD I've ever had that I like.
Deader than disco
Heron of Alexandria: Michanikos, the Machine Man
I am "poor" by choice because my wife takes care of the children in our household. Our lives are richer than those of countless lonely $ millionaires.
As the OP says, but maybe not clearly enough, it's a response made to these claims/suggestions by lowtechmagazine.com:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowte...

They do use dithering with JPGs and PNGs on their "solar-powered website" variant, which I won't link-to so as not to contribute to draining the battery with an HN effect.

The first image I found to compare from the two versions of their own website... the dithered version is 65K and the original is an incredible 6.2MB... but that's at least in part because the original is 5053x3581 pixels and the dithered is 1213x600! First picture at https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/11/fascine-mattresses-b... is the "non-dithered" variant. There may be other compression mis-choices on the original JPEG as well. To suggest this size difference is due to dithering would be misleading!

Size and compress your images properly (including JPG lossy compression) to save energy resources is good advice; I think the OP is probably right that dithering is not a very useful tool in that toolkit.

It makes me lose some respect for lowtechmagazine, when they go for more style over substance in this particular case, it makes me wonder in others.
Ask HN: Gmail stopped receiving email, I have a legacy free edition of gsuite
This might be the case for more people here, and it's a bit of a catch 22. Gmail stopped receiving email on the free gsuite version (legacy, 1 user). If I don't pay up, I get no support, and have a broken email.

"You are using legacy free edition of Google Apps which doesn't have access to support. To access support, you need to upgrade to G Suite."

Would you recommend waiting a bit to see if the problem goes away by itself? Or migrating away from google for once? I have been screwed up by google in the 10k range and would rather not have to do any more business with them, TBH.

Anyone not receiving email? It might be an outage.
> and was only recognised for them after his death.

Yeah, that was a painful day when you considered yourself a Coppist ;) "damn, turns out the other guy was even more awesome!"
no, because the funds are locked down while in the lightning channel. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29228483
They are chasing the Python and JavaScript devs, optimizing for "Hello World".

From my point of view, they are chasing the wrong carrot.
> And most stuff steers you towards the `dotnet new` CLI command to get started.

As a developer with 20 years experience interested in getting into dotnet now, what do you recommend that I start reading?
I generally lean more toward “i like that iOS is locked down”, but this offline-app-sharing feature is one of the best arguments I’ve seen against that. That said, either I’d want peer-to-peer-shared apps to be signed by an entity I already highly trust, or that the sandbox containing the app was extremely solid (and preferably both of course).
The announcement is specific to " ProtonMail web app".

Also: Available to everyone with a Plus, Professional, or Visionary plan
This is a question of relativism. Taste is ultimately about value, and "good taste" in art is just one aspect of culture at large. So, if you doubt if "good taste" exists, you also probably think that everyone has the right to believe whatever they want and everyone should be able to exist how they want. You can call this relativistic individualism.

I bring this up because the topic reminds me of a philosopher of religion, Charles Taylor. One of his points is that this relativistic individualism inevitably leads to our own inability to express what we value. It's a kind of "explanatory atrophy." If your default position is I have my way and he has his, and that's all there really is to it you lose the ability to present and shape your own opinion in reaction to others. Most people don't have the vocabulary to articulate this, so "that's in bad taste" ends up just turning into Dudeism.. that's just your opinion, man.

So when confronted with something we think is in bad taste, we can't put vague thoughts into words, and therefore just fall back to "it's his/her personal taste, who I am to criticize?"

Ultimately, this question arises from a lack of education and cultural interest in the arts and in aesthetics. Without it, the definition of good taste will ultimately boil down to the opinions of whoever has money, power, or popularity.