skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"e.g." is for lists of examples. not just one.
This is a neat little tool. I had no idea that was hiding in there. Anyone have any other little hidden gems on MacOS?
What about Samsung?
Why is it so difficult to admit that taste is relative to culture? "according to the people with the same culture as mine, Leonardo da Vinci is a better painter than Banksy". I know a lot of people who would disagree with that statement, and that's just fine.
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Speaking of the new language - how does it compare and contrast with Zig and D?
Social signals exist, no doubt about it, but that doesn't explain a lot. Let's say you are in a museum alone, some of the works presented can resonate and excite you more than the others, but you can't share your excitement with anyone. Where is the social signaling element gone then?
Birds don't sweat, so they needn't drink as much as us.
Some analysts believe that in another 5-10 years in the US, you'll get if not quite a $5K USD car off the Internet, a $10K USD car from a Chinese manufacturer, and the Detroit automakers will reprise their arrogance-into-bankruptcy role from the 70's again when Japanese cars entered the US market, when they famously remarked the new entrants can have that cheap unit market.

Watching the Detroit product roadmaps, I'm inclined to agree with that analysis at this time.
Back in the early '2000s we had two home PCs with Windows (98 and 2000/XP), it was a breeze (relatively) to make the two PCs see each other in the LAN, using the legacy workgroup + shared folder/drive letters.

of course security was near nonexistent, but it was home LAN, and convenience trumped all.

Nowadays I have NO idea if I could do a similar setup with Windows 10 without resorting to the cloud
I have time in helicopters, too. your assumptions show only that you are a true Orange Website patron.
By that definition the worst movies should be more novel. There are definitely movies that exist in which the reaction of everyone is that how can anyone produce movie this bad. If you think there is no such thing as universally bad, search for worst song in youtube.

Also theoretically a random static is the most novel thing that could be present.
Most people benefit after the fact. Only a tiny minority bets on real interest rates (interest after deducting inflation).
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Literally anything, in my experience. When I was in this situation I did not feel like doing anything, I was lying at home in bed, so I’d just say yes to everything that people wanted to do with me.

It’s easier if you have people around to pull you along. I can’t imagine motivating myself to do something.

But for example, just carrying groceries counts like a win, since it got you out of the house.
It's really not that anyone prefers an abstract dot on a white canvas over the Sistine Chapel. It helps to think of art as a historical dialogue with other art, as well as an exploration of how our senses experience the world. Minimalist abstract art (Ad Reinhardt is one of the more famous practitioners) was pushing viewers to pay attentions to subtleties and small differences in our perceptions of color and shapes. That type of art isn't even fashionable or popular anymore (though many works from the 60s-80s are still revered, exhibited and expensive because of how they contributed to the art canon), in part because, as you can imagine after a while it was no longer fresh and new and making people think differently about art. What's hip now is video, multi-media sculpture and art that makes more of a comment on the state of world. Also a lot of art that uses new technologies. And a lot of irony.

Feel free to not like any of it, it is subjective, that's the point. You shouldn't let anyone tell you what art to like. Group think is bad in the art world as well (though it can be good for art dealers). But I thought it was worth the time to speak up against your characterization of the values of the art world. I have my own critiques of the art world but it's absolutely unfair to generalize that people see no difference between minimalist abstract art and the Sistine Chapel. And I believe it is interesting to understand why people consider particular works of art important even if that doesn't mean you should also subjectively like the piece.
> I started studying painting. And it was just like other kinds of work I'd done: you could do it well, or badly, and if you tried hard, you could get better at it. And it was obvious that Leonardo and Bellini were much better at it than me. That gap between us was not imaginary. They were so good. And if they could be good, then art could be good, and there was such a thing as good taste after all.

This doesn’t hold up for me. We’re comparing PGs painting ability to two renaissance artists who painted in fairly similar ways. When you go and try to paint in a style, I can 100% agree that you can execute better or worse than another person. I don’t doubt that PGs paintings are not as good as famous renaissance paintings.

I don’t think that’s what people mean when they talk about good taste.

PG uses a narrow definition of taste, so let’s make sure we’re using that:

> There's a narrow sense in which it refers to aesthetic judgements and a broader one in which it refers to preferences of any kind. The strongest proof would be to show that taste exists in the narrowest sense…

I don’t know that comparing art to Renaissance greats is actually engaging in aesthetic judgements. Maybe others look at each piece of art as if it has no cultural significance, and see each thing as if divorced from all of history. I cannot, despite my best efforts, imagine viewing each piece of art like that.

I can certainly tell when a style of art I am familiar with is executed well. That is what I think PG is talking about here.

For me, taste is when I decide whether I like a style of art. Style, here, can be as broad as an era, or extremely specific.

My ‘taste’ is how much I enjoy a particular category, be it an era or a very specific thing. I really am not a fan of Renaissance paintings despite how many times I’ve walked through art galleries. I _can_ pretty clearly point out which are more or less successful. But almost none are too my taste.

And that’s the difference, to me. The taste is orthogonal to execution. But this argument for there being good taste relies on the belief that people who say there’s no such thing as good taste also meaning that one cannot execute well.

The differences between execution and taste become murkier for nascent art forms, where it’s possible to get into a position where it’s hard to tell if you have a taste for the style execution is not yet there. But that’s not really the point here.
You could still spend 1,000 hours painting a blue dot on a white canvas if you used a tiny paintbrush.

The pareto frontier of possible artworks approaches higher quality with increased labor input. This doesn't mean the Labor Theory of Value isn't totally bonkers.
Surely this is just a matter of opinion? Someone might see this (which I personally agree, looks great) and say that it’s too busy and that a cleaner, simpler design like The Oculus[1] in NYC is in better taste. Someone else might conceivably say that design is too cold.

Neither of those opinions is wrong. There isn’t much objective truth to be had here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_station_(PA...
A comfortable train ride is nice, but I had a chance to listen to many books on tape and podcasts when I had a long driving commute. It also was helpful to be able to stop at a store if I needed something on the way to work or home.

That said, I am very happy to work from home now!
Yeah and houses were only 3x a single income, not 10x

The people who bought in the 80s and 90s refinanced as rates fell and saw massive appreciation in the value of their homes.

People buying today will see the opposite
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If I added a 14-50R to my house, its value would increase by maybe $100 versus the same house without that outlet. (It could very likely be exactly $0.)

Have you approached them with an offer to increase the rent you pay by $25/month if the landlord is willing to fit an outlet that you can plug a charger into? Or by $40/mo if they’re willing to put a 40A capable fast charger in so you don’t have to buy anything but can just use the service you want?

Just as you don’t want to spend money for something that you care about using for a couple years but someone else might also later get benefit from, the landlord doesn’t want to spend that same amount of money for something that they don’t even care about at all.
Does the IQ test cater to Sudanese or Europeans?

See, heres the thing: some countries really have no implicit interest in [copying] or attempting to define themselves by European standards. Does that make sense?

So things like western education (countries like S.Korea, Japan, India and China being the exceptional European standard [chasers?]) Will always score not western countries lower because the west is the defacto standard due to colonization and globalization.

To put it in simpler terms, we can't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees as the adage goes.

Which is interesting because sone countries overall growth and development strategy is based on copying verbatim the trajectory of 20th century Europe/US and offering no alternative. This is a false suggestion that European standards are the end all, the pinnacle of human progress.

Just a though dear fellow. Just a thought.
This is a really neat little article.

To make something "just work", you have to make technical decisions for the user. To make those decisions you need assumptions. It's a lot of work to make assumptions that work for every user, so a lot of times people focus on making them work for the "target market": those who we feel will most effectively sustain the product, who tend to be those we're most familiar with, or those with the most social privilege or economic clout. But we shouldn't stop there.

All of this was true 100 years ago when Kodak was designing cameras, and it's true today as we build machine learning models.
I admit, it's rational to speculate on land. However, that just means our tax policy is terrible.
Sounds like the reverse of ignorance.
> Want nothing, accept everything

This can be a big obstacle to contentment for me and many people I know. It's just so easy to think "What do I want right now/in the future?" and then get down-in-the-dumps because reality doesn't correspond to this totally arbitrary thing you just imagined
Nice. What did you use to generate this? How much of the work was manual?
As the article explains, it's important to understand that each coronavirus is better infecting one specie (or a bunch of species). Covid-19 is unlucky better infecting us.

There are other coronavirus that are better infecting other animals, and in some case the infection is strong enough to cause severe health problems. In some cases cases, there is already a vaccine that was used even before the Covid-19 outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_anima...
I have a magsafe charger in the same bag with my ipad mini and MBA.

The idea that a magsafe charger is an end all for frequent travelers makes zero sense.
Which beliefs are objectively better?
I've always assumed so, and it was something I looked forward to for many years--I was late to the party. Backup cameras have been required by law since 2018, but judging by this 2021 list, similar, optional safety features do seem to be in high demand: https://www.autopacific.com/autopacific-insights (via https://www.autoblog.com/2021/10/20/top-10-car-features-peop...)

1. Heated seats: 66%
2. Blind-spot monitoring: 60%
3. Front and rear parking sensors: 55%
4. All-wheel or four-wheel drive: 54%
5. Lane-departure warning: 54%
6. Apple CarPlay and/or Android Auto: 53%
7. Power front passenger seat: 52%
8. LED accent lights: 52%
9. Ventilated or cooled seats: 50%
10. Memory driver's seat: 49%

All-wheel drive is classified as a safety feature, which assuming that's how it's perceived, makes safety features 4 out of the top 5 in-demand features.
Yeah I don't find this at all surprising. Ultimately it's always a balance of what's worse to maintain, the reality (server) or the abstraction (workers).
> If there's no such thing as good taste, then there's no such thing as good art. Because if there is such a thing as good art, it's easy to tell which of two people has better taste. Show them a lot of works by artists they've never seen before and ask them to choose the best, and whoever chooses the better art has better taste.

Who are these two people? Art historians or layman? Are they looking at the work of established artists or newcomers? Are they given context for the work that's displayed, or not? Who's deciding which of the 'art' is better?

I think all we're saying here is that good taste is a consensus preference.
Very much so. A good few years ago I got annoyed that I couldn't have change mutt configuration the way that I wanted, because it has a built in configuration language which doesn't allow complicated conditionals etc.

(There are workarounds, and off-hand I can't think of a great example, but bear with me.)

In the end I wrote a simple console-based mail-client, which used a Lua configuration file. That would generally default to using hashes, and key=value settings, but over the time I used it things got really quite configurable via user-defined callbacks, and functions to return various settings.

For example I wrote a hook called `on_reply_to`, and if you defined that function in your configuration file it would be invoked when you triggered the Reply function. This kind of flexibility was very self-consistent, and easy to add using an embedded real language.

Later I added some hacks to a local fork of GNU Screen, there I just said:

* If the ~/.screenrc file is executable, then execute it, and parse the output.

That let me say "If hostname == foo; do this ; otherwise do this .." and get conditionals and some other things easily. Another example was unbinding all keys, and then only allowing some actions to be bound. (I later submitted "unbindall" upstream, to remove the need for that.)
I think that's based on a misunderstanding of what these two approaches to propaganda are trying to do. They are both highly effective, but at different things.

The primary means western propaganda uses is to persuade. It has to be persuasive because the targets can choose whether they believe it or not. Nobody has to comply, and dissenting voices and alternative narratives are available. Also it competes in a market for ideas and so there's a degree of selective pressure to improve so you're quite right it has become quite sophisticated whereas authoritarian propaganda can rely on excluding dissenting voices.

Soviet and Chinese propaganda, at least the types you're taking about, persuade by projecting power. It's about psychological domination, with heroic poses and strong simple messages emphasising the inevitability and necessity of party control. It's blunt design is part of the point. Thousands of gymnasts and marchers in perfect lockstep. Zero individuality. It doesn't matter if you are persuaded, as long as you get the message that you have no choice but to comply, and look, everyone else is complying!

Take the poisoning of Navalny. They don't need to persuade anybody in Russia that the state didn't do it. Everybody knows the state did it, even those that are pro-state. The point is to send the message, this is what will happen to you if you push us too far.
In theory you're supposed to invest according to your risk tolerance and yield expectations.
from Alaska to New Zealand, as the crow flies, how does one "stopover" in Australia?
Unfortunately none of the modern economic theories apply to real estate, because it is a land market in disguise and has little to do with housing.

Price of land is determined when looking at the world as a whole (margin of production), so it can't be measured in a simple microeconomic laboratory experiment.

It can actually be studied using models, but one would have to go back to Smith and Ricardo and add the third factor of production (land) back into the equation. Which was removed by marginalists for simplification to study simple markets of bananas and yogurts.

The modern economic foundations simply don't have the tools to study land markets, so they will always fall into the trap of a drunk man looking for keys under the lamppost only.
Amazing how wireless earbuds basically means airpods for almost everyone here, maybe it's a north american thing... I've been using cheap bluetooth earphones (20-30 €) since way before Apple decided to reinvent them, they always sucked, terrible audio, terrible battery, lousy waterproofness... but they get the job done as a sports companion. Having a wire jumping left and right can really get annoying or even dangerous while biking. Cheap chinese ones have a nice rubber thing that sits inside the concha making it way more stable than apple ones that seem so popular these days...
Sounds like you’re doing it to yourself. There’s options, they’re just not as comfortable.
There's something else: all of what you say is true if and only if the governement doesn't do anything. In France we have subsidized HLMs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLM), and every city is supposed to have a certain percentage of habitation buildings be HLM, or pay a fine. I don't know if this system could be applied in the USA, though I could see progressives asking for it.
Consistent with the message would have been a better way of phrasing it. :)
It shouldn't be on every page load. The first will take more time but then you cache the js. More js may be loaded but it should not be a few extra MB per page.
Not gliding any/much is amazing.
Thanks for sharing this recipes. I was looking for something like this.
Last-ditch attempt to find the Eungella gastric-brooding frog in the wild fails
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I think that this, sadly, boils down to semantics.

It does seem to me that by his reasoning good taste exists since good art exists, problem being that what is considered good art and what people like change with time, present a piece of modern art to Michelangelo and chances are he would consider it some sort of insulting joke.

Good taste then is not something objective, but depends on context and the importance of being able to tell what is good now often pales to the importance of being able to tell what is good for oneself, moreover, the good taste becomes dependent on those "average" tastes.
Exactly, and I think the 21st century artists have pretty much figured it out already and it's why new art created these days removes the aesthetics and focuses on the surprize alone (Damien Hurst, Jeff Koons, etc.)
I'm not taking questions on it at this early stage of development, but you can find a few posts about it on my blog:

https://drewdevault.com

Hope that helps!
"Instead of using a single server with NGINX and an API on it, I use multiple external hosted services that cost more-per-request than an old-school setup with less portability and more vendor lock-in"

This isn't even a technical accomplishment in any way, it's just slapping together a few managed services together to sign up someone for a newsletter. I cannot imagine being the one to maintain a signup flow like this, it certainly looks unnecessarily painful from here.
might validly prefer some abstract dot on a white canvas

No one prefers a random dot on a random piece of canvas. They prefer a very particular dot on a very particular canvas made by a very particular person at a very particular point in history. Remove any one one those and it loses all meaning and value. And even the most ardent fan of that work would never argue that that artist was a greater painter or even artist than Michaelangelo.

At the end of the day the "Art" is not in the craft and as such art cannot be reproduced. The world is full of Sistine Chapel pastiches on rich peoples ceilings, painted by great craftsmen, many whom might be talented artists in their own rights, and no one is in awe by them.
Water isn't land though, is it?
Ask HN: Anti-patterns from Big Tech that smaller companies should avoid?
Smaller companies often look to large companies like FAANG to design their systems, corporate processes and engineering practices.

But are there practices used at these large companies that small and medium sized companies should not emulate?
> If software companies ran the government there would be no regulation of any kind.

Are you kidding? Just look at all the rules in the App Store.
We had a mainstream satirical Hitler movie just a couple of years ago (Jojo Rabbit) in which Hitler was actually made to be amicable and silly (which arguably much more offensive), so I don't think this kind of thing is indicative of hegemonic cultural norms as a whole.

Now is it indicative of the university climate? The student generation? I don't know.
That's not true. All it takes is using an unsupported CSS rule for something to simply disappear from the page under certain circumstances. As a recent example, I found out some of our users couldn't find a specific button in an application. It still existed, but we used the zoom property to make it stand out more, which for some reason is only supported in Chrome.
I really can't understand how can a newborn be separated from his mother at the age of 12 weeks.
Shared drives ?
What stops a neural network zoom to be just labelled as "zoom"? I think its a very pertinent question from the judge.
You may want to revisit the HN guidelines.

With that aside, I absolutely do want to foster social mobility. I actually think it’s still possible but probably not in the dream-world way many people think where it comes completely on their own terms. In most cases, it involves avoiding a few basic things like substance abuse, onerous debt, living outside ones means, and having kids before one is financially stable.

But that often flies in the face of what people emotionally want or are told to pursue, so sometimes people want to go into massive debt for depreciating assets or to go to college because that’s what “everyone” does, or to live in an expensive, trendy area because it’s cool or they think that’s where they need to be to chase status. Barring those types of mistakes, social mobility (towards the upper middle class level at least) is generally available. I’m willing to bet many people on HN are already close to that status even if it doesn’t feel like it because they’re comparing themselves to economic outliers rather than the average citizen.
There is religious and ideological prosecution which one could argue could be freely chosen, so it is only a counter-argument under certain definitions.
Not a joke, it's on every other page too! The irony is real, however the notice may have been added later as the site appears to have been updated.
I think the bigger problem is that many sites are built like SPAs even though they are more of a document centric web site. For actual applications a SPA is fine.
Is this a trick question? The horse does not naturally have a plough attached, as far as I am aware.
Probabaly just like they did last time .

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6c5e97/e...

One thing we have to face as a populous, is how to establish justice when it involves big companies and millions of people.