skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the articles. It's not at all clear how bitcoin mining is actually helping here. All they're doing is adding another consumer. Two of the articles use that exact phrase - adding another consumer. So yes, it reduces emissions, but only by using the otherwise-wasted gas to power something. Are bitcoin rigs the best thing they could be powering? Seems to me they're just the most profitable way to use that excess energy ... this week. In other words, they help maintain incentives for drilling.

If you want to suggest that others be "willing to look at the facts" then please look at the facts yourself, instead of claiming they exist and then disavowing with "don't know a lot" when people actually look into them.
I don't think our usages of "accessible" are the same.

For example expecting to consumers to have a 3D printer and know how to use one would preclude it from my definition by a lot. Let alone needing a breadboard and to manually solder on components onto it.

Accessible is walking into a store, putting a reasonable amount of money down, and plugging the thing in. Then providing output anyone can understand without training or expertise (e.g. traffic lights, smiley faces, etc).
Popular Family Safety App Life360 Selling Precise Location Data on Its Users
Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (2016)
#4) The dream of reusable components is here. Every major dev system from Emacs through Rust has a vast library of component dependencies. These things are a swirling unstable mass, leading to spacetime fluctuations up at the human level such as supply chain attacks, mandatory upgrade cycles, and orphaned deps. Then the complexity leads to wrapping standard deps to standardize them, leading to multiple standards...

You know it's bad if there's multiple XKCD's about it.

https://xkcd.com/2347

https://xkcd.com/1987

https://xkcd.com/927/
You've painted an accurate picture.

At the end of that process, you have a situation where:

* Amazon wins

* The consumer wins (they get the product they wanted all along, at the best possible price, with the best possible shipping)

* The original Amazon retailer semi-wins (they got a "free" burst of profit for 6 ~ 24 months before they had to switch categories when Amazon stole their category)

* The original non-Amazon retailer loses (they got outcompeted by a giant of scale, possibly overall losing money)
I'm always thankful for the game communities that still have independently hosted wikis so that I can avoid that fandom/wikia mess.
You can look at the source, the script is quite clean: https://ziglang.org/perf/perf.js.

It is using D3.js.
I don't believe "This is true for all the big platforms."

I saw lots of stories here about Google, but I don't remember see one about how Microsoft blocks user account. Did I miss?

Anyway. Couple years ago, I received several email notifications from Microsoft about someone tried to reset my account password. I got a little bit concerned and eventually sent a feedback to Microsoft asking what I need to do. Surprise! I got a answering call from Microsoft by a real human!

Because of all the bad stories about Google blocks user accounts, I moved all my stuff to Microsoft products and my own NAS.
It's not helpful. The filter doesn't allow your eyes to relax; the prescription that lets your eyes be relaxed while focusing at computer distance does. You can get computer glasses made without the blue light filtering and they will be just as effective.
I think the adoption of Telegram versus Signal (around 10x) really goes to pretty plainly demonstrate that the average user's priorities are not the same as the average HN user's priorities.

Even ignoring the network effect, for most people the user experience is a _much_ higher priority than things like E2EE. And the trade-offs Signal makes in the way they've implemented E2EE (e.g., if you drop your old phone in a toilet, change your phone number when you get a new phone, switch between iOS and Android, etc, you just... lose your entire message history) are just not acceptable to the average person. I suspect many people would not believe how many people I've heard complain about Telegram because the _stickers_ apparently aren't as nice as things like WeChat.

I'm fairly certain that long term the push to move non-technical users to Signal is going to wind up doing more harm than good. It's being sold as "good for privacy because it's E2EE". People are going to use it, have poor experiences, and then drop it. The next time someone says "use this app because it's good for privacy and has E2EE" it's going to be a much harder sell trying to overcome "Yeah, but the last time I tried that I lost all the message history with my deceased daughter when I bought a new phone."
Does anybody have any stories of how devices like this revealed a problem -- what the problem was, does an air filter fix it, etc?
Uhh so people might see it?
The Onion closes up shop after 33 years when reality deemed "weirder and dumber than any shit we could ever think of. We had a good run."
Yup, when people (semi-blindly?) adopt a process but not the principles, this happens. There are a tons of fallacies in product development on multiple sides... also trenches too deep between disciplines sometimes. These are hard to fix.

I've written a short one about some typical fallacies: https://leadership.garden/product-development-fallacies/
I grew up in the Bronx. If anyone tells you that you can safely go anywhere you want in NYC at any time of day, tell them to go first and report back.

NYC is a fantastic place. It is very safe anywhere you would possibly want to go, unless you're going on a crime tour. That doesn't mean it's safe everywhere.

In other words, yes, there are certain sections of the city that are more or less dangerous than others.
Wouldn't that raise prices, to use a nurse as a reception?

In the US it would be something like:

Receptionist: 30k / year

Nurse: 80k / year.

So you have:

Doctor's office 1: 3x Nurse, 240k per year in salary

Doctor's office 2: 2x Nurse, 1x Receptionist, 190k pear year.

That 50k in extra cost has to come from somewhere. Lower paid doctors, higher costs, ???
Not every counterargument or counterevidence to your worldview is an appeal to taste, authority, tradition or religion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/10/07/what-20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis

That said, outcomes may vary by individual, daily quantity, and whatever strain was most commonly smoked, and frankly, if it had been decriminalized and taxed instead of demonized from the get-go, research would have been much further along by now (can't exactly easily study an illegal substance).
I take Vitamin D3 daily. I read about the body's vital need for the vitamin on https://www.canadadrugsdirect.com/online-pharmacy long ago and take it regularly. Neverhteless, I got sick from the virus. It's totally unpredictable. However, maybe this saved me from complications, who knows...
Does anyone know how amazon's new unit fares? It monitors PM 2.5, CO, VOCs, temp, & humidity for 70$. I wouldn't buy one considering the source, but I am interested in how effective it is.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W8KS8D3?&linkCode=ll1&tag=andro...
Bunny.net is quite inexpensive way to host videos. Display them on your own platform with the free Video.js.
Roughly 10% faster
Pretty much this. It was a stupid mistake and it cost me dearly. My choices were to suffer and work for a few dollars a day, or suffer even more and be blacklisted in my local community, if not being dragged through the unknown depths of some legal dispute that I had no recourse to fight. And to be fair, I agreed to do it, so it was kind of on me for not doing my homework. We live and learn to protect ourselves, but when there's a glut of people who haven't learned yet it's very lucrative for people who will exploit ignorance deliberately.
And when ad revenue dries up, the first thing to be shuttered will be that.
There is historical precedent here: the Dutch East India company. There are times where certain commercial, for profit companies gain so much power that they become effective states. DEIC had military forces and projected power quite far abroad. One can only hope no such development of Amazon's powers occurs.

Another example would be the railroad and oil monopolies of the late 1800s USA. To own the tracks and oil, the transportation system itself, and dictate terms without negotiation, that is no free market, that is despotism by another name.
I've found a lot of indoor sources of contaminants for example cheese that fell off a Pizza onto the oven floor will put you into "yellow" the next time you run the oven.
> Alternatively maybe there's a good business model cloning the "good old version" of popular SAAS apps and keeping them unchanging.

To some degree that's already happened, with e.g. the myriad of feed readers growing in popularity after Google shuttered theirs. And thanks to GDPR, a company is required to hand over data to users if they demand it - which the 'clone' can import.
That would be a nice addition, I attempted to right click save images to import into inkscape and stack them myself with transparency but I couldn't. Normally I would just printscreen then cut and paste through paint and then import but Im using a new laptop with compact keyboard(while I drink my coffee and wake up) and cant find the prntscrn function key through the rainbow backlight.

I would think adding multiple options would be best but then again if You did open it up, You may also run into people using the forum for unrelated or malicious files.

On a side note, I recently acquired an Ortur laser master 2 pro and a 6040 CNC desktop router and am building a tool chain for small scale, high turn around PCB production (Mainly for my own personal us but would be willing to share out a portion of my eventual production capacity). I would imagine there are many other people doing the same thing and that may be another resource your site may want to investigate. Especially given the ever growing shipping times for overseas products.
Visitors mainly come social media sites or other aggregation sites and Google. Your analysis about their model is right. They even are mentioned in the top Urban Dictionary definition of clickbait [1]

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clickbait
So that's whose taking the elevators.
ABP's purpose is in its name. If a layperson only knew uBO by it's name best case they'd be confused and worst case they'd think it's malware (even though it's phenomenal)
sadly I've always seen this technique used to assign blame
BF ≠ BF News — Keep that in mind before the usual bashing.
Amazon's own markups are huge. Half the times, Amazon's stuff costs more than at upmarket conventional retailers. I fail to understand how people don't see it.
A related question for you OP -- I'm at a similar age, with a dev background, but have reached the point where my accrued experience does not allow me to dutifully perform as a senior developer anymore. The Big Picture beckons, biz dev / solution design / architecture all overlap in my responsibilities, and while work remains interesting, it seems that somehow my increased ability narrows my options. I've considered the PM route, but the horror stories hold me back. How do you find this "knitting together" working out in the long term?

I'm with you on the "the damn ground is moving too fast" sentiment. My back-end of choice is Erlang-based, because in relative terms it's grounded in immovable bedrock, they fixed all the bugs decades ago and Things Are Not Changing. All my FE libraries are deliberately chosen versions and there is no ever-churning build chain to trigger a cascade of breaking updates. While this approach has worked for me well so far, I can tell not that many others appreciate it. How do you teach the value of reliable constancy to people enamoured with relentless change and tools for tools' sake?
> No currently offered M1 Mini has redundant fail-over power or storage.

It's kind of funny, but an M1 MacBook does. In fact it comes with a solid >12 hour UPS built-in.
have been thinking of taking up that hobby from time to time. somebody here with some insights into it? how would get started?
Here's what his second link landed on, for me:

https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/...
They are perfectly stable machines for running batch jobs. I have had one running a bunch of build automation as a jenkins slave for about 9 months now. Never skipped a beat. It just works and the thing is damn fast.

If it’s doing it offline it’s probably cheaper to buy one and chuck it in your office than borrow one from a cloud provider. The ass end ones are really really really cheap. Much cheaper than just the CPU in an equivalent server machine. If they blow up, just mill down to the apple store and buy another one.

Disclaimers of course: (1) it doesn’t have ECC RAM (2) it doesn’t have redundant power. We ignore (1) and solve (2) by running a prometheus node exporter on it and seeing if it disappears.
I believe this is a reasonable change because there aren’t situations where accessibility would only want to partly solve the colour blindness issue. This is demonstrated by the way many readers with colour-blindness are still able to still see differences in the demonstration imagery.

The real issue is using a colour photo like the one used in the article because this doesn’t demonstrate the effect of low contrast - a demonstration of lost contrast is much better with bodies of text against problematic background colours, since there is an immediately obvious reduction in legibility, rather than a bit of flourish in a photo.
>someone who accepts lower than market pay

This is putting a civilian-centric filter on the problem. Many, many people chose the military for reasons other than pay. If it were strictly for pay, almost nobody would choose the “harder” military occupations like Marines, or Army infantry, or Navy SEALs etc. Yet those often get more applicants than they have slots.

As for your statistical claim, we’re not really wired to think well about stats so we get erroneous intuitions. To be in the 95th percentile, you’re away from the norm but not as much as you may think, which is the GP’s point. A quick Google search shows 95th percentile for height is 6’2”…it’s tall but not so tall as to actually catch my attention. 95th percentile in IQ is 125, in pay is $248k, in male weight is 246 lbs. Non-normative, sure, but none so far away as to leave someone awestruck
On Saturday 27 there was a live stream at the top of my recommended Videos.

It was a live stream from "SpaceX", where Elon Musk was presenting a talk "Elon Musk Live | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission | Launch SpaceX Follow DART Mission".

It wasn't SpaceX's channel, even though at a glance it would look like it, and the live presentation was just some old talk being played back.

The giveaway was the doubling of the coins sent to a specific address, BTC and ETH

https://etherscan.io/address/0x5d923a343b99885de0245f3d6bba5...

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1CD1XwABDCpvSYDKwxP3H...

YouTube really needs to be careful about what it allows its platform to stream, so having a "EthGlobal 'Hack Money' hackathon" on the platform doesn't sound like a good idea.
Yea, that's sort of the founder's style. He has a very ironic and not very serious way of writing that drives a lot of people away. He does it intentionally though, as he wants people to really look into the topic and understand it, instead of just listening to "5 easy steps to fix your eyes in 1 week!" and then encountering problems.

You can find the research linked in these posts: https://endmyopia.org/category/science/

The summary is basically this:
You increased your eyeball length from too much near work and lens usage. This further increases your myopia. To reverse it, use lenses appropriate to your task (reduced lenses for near work) and reduce near work in general.
I can recommend the free 7 day email guide, it's probably the closest to a coherent overview about the whole topic.
Is the term "browbeat" fair here? I don't think they're making calls and saying "Oh, nice paper, but I notice you used this other dataset..." No, they're putting out good quality datasets that people want to use. If that earns them a citation, good for them. Its the least I can do for helping me test my algo.
The most irritating aspect of this are "feeds". God, I hate feeds. Especially the wishy-washy clever ones.

The only feeds I still use are Twitter and Spotify. The former is cancer and it's contents better be fleeting. But why on earth can't Spotify be predictable? It's start page is essentially useless. And despite all the clever people bing thrown at the problem, the Release Friday playlist is nowhere to be seen on Fridays. This can't be this hard.
> For a daily or heavy smoker, a ~50% discount is a massive amount of money.

Its more than that. I have a few dispensarys in CA and the experience is shit. The places are loaded with cash because they cant legally accept credit or debit cards. So you have to bring cash or use their ATM and get charged a withdrawal fee. This also means they are targets for robbery so security at these places is crazy with guards, waiting rooms and check points. This meeans you have to wait upwards of 20 minutes just to get inside to wait on a counter line for another 10 minutes. The experience is miserable.

My NYC dealer has been in the game for ages and moves volume. You can buy plates (pounds) from him if you wanted (usually $1800-2400 depending on the strain). I send a text and get an automated menu reply, text back my order plus address and within an hour or less someone is outside in an "uber" or "lyft" with my weed. I pay $80-100 for 0.5 oz.

BTW, if you live in NYC and pay over ~$30-35 for an eighth ounce you're getting ripped off BIG time (unless its in a branded bag like Jungle Boys etc.) I have a friend who moved to Williamsburg tell me how they buy from same the guy I do, more than double the price and sell it to "stupid rich white kids from Iowa".
And the regulators obliged because they got to take a cut and control how it gets spent and they get to pick winners by exerting influence over the myriad of licensing and compliance stuff that legitimate business in this day and age. Win-win, so long as you don't care about the outcome for the peasants.
But how can a user advocate stand up against the shareholders, the people with the money, the ones that have the companies by the balls and demand the metrics to go up or else heads will roll?

I mean. The founders and employees of those companies are incentivized to go along with it, because numbers go up means they will end up better off as well.
The world can be surprisingly misaligned with logic or efficiency. Feature bloat and UI reshuffling are bad things. They make the product more complicated for its users and distract from the core product-market fit that makes products successful in the first place. But the job of software teams is to ship. Once the product it in a good place, the shipping doesn’t stop. It would take a strong leader to say, “enough is enough, stop bloody shipping!” I think leadership with the quality and confidence to do that is rare, more likely leaders live under fear that someone else is going to unseat them, another product, another person, and so, feeling like the bear is always chasing them, never stop running.
Don't forget that Wal-Mart made its bones by marketing that everything in the store was "made in the USA." Most likely, in order to divert attention to the fact that they were killing Main Street. Now, I'm willing to bet that almost everything in the store is made overseas. They dropped that nonsense when they started achieving critical mass in the space.
>The problem is not even posed as "well, this data is overfitted in papers or we are solving narrower problems".

I mean it does get into that:

"They additionally note that blind adherence to this small number of ‘gold’ datasets encourages researchers to achieve results that are overfitted (i.e. that are dataset-specific and not likely to perform anywhere near as well on real-world data, on new academic or original datasets, or even necessarily on different datasets in the ‘gold standard’)."
JPM makes a lot of money doing a lot of things. You need to compare the fine vs. their trading revenue.
The one they use for their DIY Kit [0] actually costs $16-19 [0] at aliexpress

[0]: https://www.airgradient.com/diy/

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32944660534.html
And, Why do you think that is?

Nah, any technique that gets people thinking about root cause analysis is worthwhile, but like most lean techniques they require a level of psychological safety in the organization to be effectively used.
OS X, Darwin off the top of my head
Barber-surgeons.
That's been true for many (not all) international suits for some time, but you can't generalize that to everywhere. In the US, things like that are set up per-jurisdiction or per-court and they all have vastly different budgets for these things. Jurisdiction is also not entirely straightforward in these instances. It's not that cut-and-dried.
Did he say anything disprovably false?

I mean, I'm also arguing against him in this thread, but this comment in particular doesn't really stand out to me
They're not regulating anything. They just make the best datasets and those are the ones that get used
Probably the hardest thing to clean up is a codebase where very complicated "optimizations" were built because someone didn't understand some very basic bottlenecks.

I recently inherited an app that makes heavy use of Redis caching because someone didn't first try to optimizing SQL. The complexity that Redis caching adds is insane to maintain compared to spending a few minutes optimizing SQL.

The original poster really needs to hook up a profiler.

Also: having written lots of parallel code: Parallelization isn't a magic way to make things faster. If the codebase is breaking up tasks into lots of tiny tasks that run in parallel, there might be more overhead in parallelization than needed. Sometimes the fastest (performance and implementation) way to parallelize is to keep most of the codebase serial, but only parallelize at the highest level and never share data among operations.
Nobody has been "conditioned" to think anything. If they opted to make things free at the start of the internet era then it's now their problem to figure out how to pivot to actually paying their expenses and turn profit.

It's not the users' problem per se (unless they get aggressively pushed out but then they go to alternatives so that company still doesn't make profit out of them).

Elementary psychology -- one that's studied at 9th grade where I live -- could have told them that it's super hard giving people something for free and then taking it away. People don't react well to that and never have.

They only have themselves to blame.
Almost all furniture I’ve ever owned has been IKEA. With very few exceptions they have all been very durable. Repairability is excellent because everything is designed to be taken apart by amateurs and spare parts are easily found. They are also easy when moving because they can so easily be taken apart.
I think it's also the cadence. You alluded to it in #1. I used to work for a traditional software firm years ago. We actually cut CDs and shipped them. We would do major releases twice a year and patch releases twice a year, yielding 4 releases a year. That was considered a lot. Now it's releases every 2 weeks or so.

The nice thing about installing your own software is you controlled the updates. If there was no compelling reason to upgrade and you were stable, you didn't. Most people today could probably break out a copy of Office 97 and be totally fine with it.
Of course, these products / services could unlazy themselves and create and maintain guides themselves - the rate of change would be reduced a LOT if they had to update guides accordingly.