skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more surprised someone would try to use YouTube to learn about higher order functions.

I learn this lesson every few weeks. Yesterday I tried to dive into something technical. I searched for info on the latest research on education methodology. The top video was just some guy listing things out that seem like "common sense" teacher "wisdom" without context or reference. Not one mention of mastery learning, assessments, tutoring sigma, deliberate practice...

YouTube is lowest common denominator content, that's why they removed downvotes. The less signal of quality, the better for them. Just like how Netflix removed star ratings.
Agree, youtube links should probably only be ever opened in private mode behind a vpn.
Created a site in the early aughts and tried to charge $1 a piece for people to make their own avatars. Nobody paid. Had to make it free about a month later. Now Flash is dead, so site no good.
http://www.dudefactory.com/

Spent about a year building the absolute best text-message short-code system that let you run groups, competitions, surveys, take payments. Kept adding features and yak-shaving and forgot to actually sign up any customers. First month the product was finally "finished" we ran out of money for our connection to the SMS network and that was the end of it.

One more.. does this count as a failure?

Made a torrent site for TV shows. Took $13m in revenue. Law enforcement said "naughty, naughty". Closed site. No more revenue.
That's interesting.

Anecdotal, but my younger brother turned out different from the tiger parenting. He was also more "Americanized" than me. "Defying and undermining of authority" sounds like him.
Gutenberg, and the Full Site Editing features that are built in now, are unbelievably bad. With great examples of page editors like Elementor, Beaver, Divi and others, I just don't understand how something as badly engineered as Gutenberg came to be. There is literally nothing intuitive about Gutenberg, not one thing.
No, and I explicitly stated "while it's obviously a different scale".
You are yoking, but I recently needed to visit a sewing machine shop and it appears there are sewing machines with Android UIs.

And it was displaying a YT video.

My sewing machine is decade+ old second hand I got for € 20, no YT.
S3 will be way more expensive that it has to be. Instead, I'd opt for using a dedicated server from Hetzner, unlimited traffic for 0 EUR/GB (besides the monthly cost of the instance that is).
Think of it as a reference implementation that, in a perfect world, hardware vendors would proudly target.
Strict attendance. Strict schedule. Behavioral rules. Dress code. Inflexible deadlines, etc.

Tough gig, but just like a workplace.
Can you provide a link to the list with Atlas Shrugged at #2? I’m not asking because I don’t believe you, I do believe you. I just want to see the list so I can avoid reading any of the other books on it.
A Christmas miracle: Banjo ace Ned Luberecki marks a major milestone
The sample program doesn't compile: Unsound.java:16: error: method upcast in class Bind<A> cannot be applied to given types; return bind.upcast(constrain, t);
Honestly, the thermals in intel macbooks were completely laughable.
Start by denouncing AMP.[1] WordPress has been a major supporter.

[1] https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-...
I do a yearly post of my failures, this is the first year I had a success:

- https://maxrozen.com/2018-review-starting-an-internet-busine...

- https://maxrozen.com/2019-further-reflections-trying-to-star...

- https://maxrozen.com/indiehacking-3-year-review

- https://maxrozen.com/2021-strangers-paid-my-macbook
Author here.

This is a good analogy.

I guess it's still different from what I meant because while making music does not really do harm, software can in the wrong hands.

(Okay, music can still do wrong in the wrong hands, but the scale of harm from software is far bigger.)
I’ve had a couple failed projects I can share:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20190528152755/https://www.theme... desktop app for local WordPress development, built on top of a CLI I made. Had a few hundred MRR within a couple weeks. It used Vagrant under the hood (right when Docker was blowing up), app was built on React (in Coffeescript <3). But ultimately I left because of conflicts with co-founders and burnout. Fun project -- probably could have gone somewhere.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20180809151636/https://alpacaget... web app to discover and book pre-planned weekend getaways w/ itinerary. Couldn’t get traction or sales. Probably needed to do content marketing, but my wife and I had just had our first child at the time, so we ultimately shut it down due to lack of time (she did most of the getaway hunting, I automated price discovery.) It was a 5k line index.js Node app. XD
My guess is these are from Google Consumer Surveys, which anyone can use. So google itself probably doesn't give a sh*t about this data, although I wouldn't bet that they don't track it.

[Edited to add]

Although GCS is intended for boring stuff like which marketting logo or slogan is best, you can actually use it for any question, that doesn't violate the terms. In the past I've used it for joke surveys as well as academic research. Although I haven't done it for a while in case some turker flags me and gets my whole google account banned.
Exhalation and Stories of your life and others by Ted Chaing. These collections of short scifi stories are stunning, and particularly the stories Exhalation and Story of your Life. They combine detailed technical descriptions of the science fiction aspects with raw emotional beauty. The movie Arrival is based on Story of your life.

La Peau de Chagrin (The Wild Ass's Skin) - Balzac. Beautifully written novel about desire and health, with verbose descriptions that I personally loved. Some nice quotes here [0]

Ubik by Philip K. Dick - Pretty mindbending and interesting twist on the whole "(distorted) perception of reality (what even is reality?)" theme. (9/10) [scifi]

[0]: https://knowledge.uzpg.me/dataobj/2771/#quotes
hehe thank you. I'd seen it in a few languages, not that many! It was one of the first phrases I learnt in spanish, years ago - Mi aerodeslizador esta lleno de anguilas.
> Much easier to find data by paging and a special search box rather than searching through the page.

Please just make it optional to show all, I already have a regex search extension.
I was a cofounder of a fashion and consumer startup, it was sort of like a focused Pinterest. We had a very enthusiastic user base before taking on SV money, but unfortunately never grew much beyond that.

I was the engineer (and briefly CTO), and the foremost thing on my mind was marketing and promotion. I was constantly told that word-of-mouth and natural virality was how things worked in the Web 2.0 era, so put it out of my mind and focused on the technical stuff.

I eventually got fired (justly so; I was good enough to get a personal project off the ground, but not FAANG material at the time), and watched as they squeezed out a redesign and an app and eventually sold out as an acquihire. (I’m told that means it’s “not a failed startup” but sure doesn’t feel like it.)

If I had it all to do again, as soon as it was apparent that I had reached the limits of what I could do as an engineer, I would have flipped to being the hype man for the product. Someone should have been hitting the pavement every day making connections at GQ, Supreme, HypeBeast, etc. My partners say we crumpled because we couldn’t build another round of funding; I say we couldn’t get the funding because of dumb naive belief in word-of-mouth.

—

coda: after that, I returned to another side project, a visual RSS reader for graphic designers and artists. Same problem, no plan to promote the damn thing.
The refractive index of air is very close to that of vacuum (which is 1), so most Starlink transmissions between nodes (ground-satellite, and satellite-satellite) will travel at near light speed.
Those people are super shy about what their system is based on, which packages are available, and what is unique to Trisquel.

From what I could find out, it seems to be another Ubuntu-based system, but with all non-free parts disabled. Is there anything more to it?
> Regarding your example, where is this throttle method implemented in javascript

I didn't say it is. I said it should be. But here is a similar functionality that I just googled: https://www.learnrxjs.io/learn-rxjs/operators/filtering/thro...

I'm neither a javascript pro, nor a fan of this language. There are probably better solutions out there.

> And, your code is not easier to reason about for me than the synchronous golang code

I never said it is. If you would be familiar with only assembler, then assembly code would most easy to read. And you need to spend some time upfront to learn other languages/techniques that can make certain problems easier.

So here's the thing. Let's change the idea of this code a little bit and make it a challenge.

Let's say we want to improve the code:

1. Improve performance by sending requests as quickly as possible while respecting the rate limit. I.e. if we have 3 requests, send them all at once. If we have 7 requests, then they should all be sent after 1 second has finished.

2. If a request fails, we retry it up to 3 times and don't count it towards the api rate limit

3. If all retries for a request fail, we just skip it and continue with the rest.

I think this is a very practical real world example. I'm curious how elegant this can be solved in Go. I will also solve it and post my online-runnable solution afterwards. :-)

And then we reevaluate which solution is easier to read.
> Don't let perfectionism get in the way of shipping.

I see this a lot. I wonder if a lot of creatives have obsessive personalities that cause us to want to fiddle endlessly with something before we release it?
I stopped using the official YouTube app when YouTube started to constantly show me literal porn as ads below videos. The images were distorted a little bit but you could clearly see what was going on. I wasn't able to report any ad and it kept happening, so I just stopped using the app and went full ad block.
I wonder what you thing about https://www.monsterwriter.app/ ... I'm exchanging a free licence for valuable feedback :)
> It wasn’t originally planned for tomorrow

Right, it was originally planned for 2007.

It is sorta funny that after 14 years of delays they picked the week of Christmas.
Not exactly a fail, but something I expected at least comments: https://github.com/marcodiegomesquita/rtti
Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid
"Fiery but mostly peaceful protests" said CNN.

> On the morning of Aug. 25, national correspondent Omar Jimenez was reporting live on a second night of unrest that had followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake. As Jimenez stood in front of a raging fire, the chyron at the bottom of the screen read, "FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING."

Tribalism allows such outrages to be celebrated. I guarantee there are tribalists here now who are comfortable rationalizing and excusing the violence, looting, arson, terrorism and trespass.

First, they ignore you ...
Intel apologizes to China for following US sanctions targeting Xinjiang genocide
Could you give me some examples of what you would think would be needed? Have a sister whos kids are going to be getting into sports and feel like this would be a fun side project
> There is no actual evidence China carrying out any genocide in Xinjiang

Well the state department in the USA (Both Trump & Biden), The UK House of Commons, The Dutch Parliament and The Canadian House of Commons have all officially declared it a genocide, so to say there isn't any evidence is a little much.

It's now well established that there are forced abortions and forced sterilisations going on, along with multiple internment camps (which are filled with people that were arrested along with their whole village on the basis of their race / ethnic origin).

And declaring that China would be more respectful of the sovereignty of states doesn't match reality considering what is happening in Taiwan right now. (What is the USA doing right now that we consider similar?)
I almost had this happen on my M1 MacBook Air yesterday. I used the included charger on my M1 MacBook Air a few days ago. I was watching The Witcher Season 2 HEVC 4K HDR (so the highest quality) on it and had Cura (3D printing software) on in the background. I had the notification “MacBook is not charging”, since it was using power too fast apparently.

Not sure if it was draining but the battery wasn’t charging either. I closed Cura and it resolved the issue though, I went from 90% battery to 10% in about 2 hours though before plugging the laptop in.
We've been running a small mail host for ~10 years (less than 100 accounts, but outgoing monthly newsletter to a few thousand addresses) ... we had basically zero problem with delivering to Gmail. Their spam filter, while strict and applies throttling (and a bit of greylisting) is completely livable, compared to the balls-to-the-wall insane Outlook/Microsoft "protection" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982434 )
> They own a Mercedes, BMW, or Mazda RX-8.

I'm not trying to be glib, but what quality of a person or partner were you looking to assess with this measurement? Asking because I've never thought to consider the car a person drives as part of evaluating a potential partnership.

I guess what I'm trying to land on is how you encountered and partnered with people who did as you described multiple times, and I'm leaning towards the idea that you're looking for the wrong indicators.
I started with Rust, and ended up on go. Not because rust is not good, but typically I'm willing to give up what rust provides for a gc and what i feel is simpler syntax, and less language altogether. I am definitely more productive in go after my move from rust in the things I want to build. To each their own! and If i really need to dig deep into low level system language again, I might try to reach for Zig next time, but we will see how that evolves..and if not rust is always there :) its nice to have so many great choices in this space
This is the url I submitted:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/intel-apologizes-for...

I don’t know what happened.
Hmm, guess it's time for a counter-attack : "Sorry, but it's too much hassle to send e-mail to gmail/outlook, please use another provider if you want to communicate." ?
One thing I don’t get about Facebook’s Metaverse push is that Metaverse is just an alternative name for VR, and V stands for virtual.

If you’re going to disallow disconnection between meatspace and VR, there’s nothing virtual left in it.
EdgeDB – The Developer Database
Reminder that linux-libre also removes warnings in the kernel that you're running outdated CPU microcode, because the FSF doesn't believe users should be informed about updates (some of which are security critical) to proprietary software they are already running anyway.

Make of that what you will.
I think that could be the wackiest comment I've ever read on HN.
But its not available to the CPU. A couple posts up the chain has a link showing the CPUs are incapable of coming anywhere close to the full bandwidth of the memory.
I use a Rembrandt sketch as an example in this post: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...

I prefer art to be a lot “rougher” than Valleho’s work, but had a difficult time, doing it, myself; which was one factor in my eventual retreat from art.
Are there alternative streams that anyone here would recommend? The more technical, the better.
> The article makes a string of assertions without evidence.

Agreed, but the same observation could be made about most blog posts. The author is expressing his opinions based on experience and judgment. This particular author has a good reputation so HN readers take his opinions seriously.
Around 100 Million USD
This has to be launched by Ariane - it's constraints are tightly bound to what that platform can do, and it's fairing size. Ariane is optimized for GEO insertion, while Falcon is optimized for LEO orbits. You could have used a Falcon, but a payload like this was actually built around the rocket's capability, and this was designed prior to Falcon being a thing.

All that said it's worth nothing that SpaceX's flight success rate is 98.5 (135/137), while Ariane V's is 95.5 percent (106/111).

The really gobsmaking thing about that is that this is that SpaceX's rate is over 11 years, while Ariane's is over 25 years.

It's time to stop thinking of SpaceX as the plucky, untrustworthy startup.

In the future space telescopes like this really need to be built in LEO, and then boosted to Lagrange points. The number of failure modes beyond the typical rocket / stage / fairing, secondary burns that the folding mechanism and the lack of a ability to test a ton of new technology in zero-g orbit makes this far more likely to fail then anyone is comfortable with, given the overall cost to this.
yes there are norms and expectations restricting everyone, but typically the expectations for women involve always doing more, especially when it comes to clothing… doing less is often unacceptable whereas some of the most successful men in the industry put almost zero effort into the way they dress… a woman putting such low effort into clothing likely wouldn’t even make it to the same position to begin with
I ran a solo branding and web, product, etc. design shop, prematurely took it full-time and bet my livelihood on it, and effectively dead-ended my career.

The small number of clients I got were—according to them—happy with my work, but the only word-of-mouth inquiry that ever came in was a coke-addled soi-disant "tech visionary" with little money and no plan. Everything else came through exhaustive outreach and prospecting. After a couple years, the whole feast-or-famine freelancer thing went full-famine and sent me running back toward full-time/in-house work with my tail between my legs and—evidently—a stink of desperation that took a couple more years to dissipate enough for me to actually find a job. A job that paid significantly less, had worse benefits, and put me in a much lower, less respected position in a much less interesting company, doing much less interesting (and much harder) work than the one I left years earlier. An objective professional regress from which I've yet to recover.

If I've learned a lesson it's that there must be reasons I'm unable to find good work that are too close to me for me to identify myself, and therefor frequent and informative feedback should be sought in high priority.

I saw a number of my peers take the same leap I did and find enormous and continuing success despite having less experience and, in some cases, what I felt was much lesser work to show. Of course their success has since enabled them to eclipse me, as my development has been retarded by several years of bad or no work now.

I want to move toward self-employment again, but have virtually no professional network after so much failure (again, despite all of my few customers verbalizing that they enjoyed working with me and were happy with what I did for them), and have no reason to believe I'd have greater luck in another venture.

I'm commenting to share my story, but am really here to read about what others have learned that I might be overlooking.
Sometime after 2009 I started working on a data mining app that allowed a user to enter medications and cross reference drug interactions. At the time opendata was one of the main information sources, now I think those datasets are managed by openfda.

I brought one person in to work on that with me, they proceeded to buy a domain for the top product name we were considering (canitake.com) within the first day. It was wonderful to get that red flag so soon, I stopped working with them, and abandoned the project. Losing the project was a little unfortunate, the data brought good questions someone might want to ask their doctor about; but knowing what I know now about "doing your own research" a lot of people would not have used this as a way to prepare to talk to a professional and would have interpreted the data themselves.

Not working with that acquaintance again was invaluable, they burned their way through the industry for the next decade. They could have messed up projects I actually cared about.
My favorite of the year was Anna Karenina. If you like Brothers Karamazov it would be right up your alley.
I’m not vaccinated. 37 years old.
Show HN (April, 2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638701
Apple's App Store broke competition laws, Dutch watchdog says
Wow, thanks for the share! I had no idea there were that many temperature sensors throughout the board.
There's a bug in it. Section 2 doesn't work (missing dash)
I worked solo for three years on a 3D cyberpunk shooter all in a custom C++ engine. It was a hybrid single/multiplayer idea, where you would progress through the campaign and encounter other players at the same time. The twist was, in keeping with the cyberpunk theme, once you got to the end it would be revealed that all the players were actually bots the whole time.

At first I was going to commit 100% to the deception. There wasn’t going to be real multiplayer in the game at all, it would all be fake. But then I realized the riot I would have on my hands if I actually tried to sell it as a multiplayer game and there wasn’t real multiplayer. So I wrote real multiplayer. By the end, the project was big enough for a team of 100. I was making cinematics, running a Discord server, trying to figure out how to train an AI to play my increasingly complicated game, it was insane. I ran out of money.

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/QnMz27nPbB4

Code:
https://github.com/etodd/lasercrabs

Dev blog:
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=49277
Something moving with high frequency in the peripheral vision would be mighty distracting. I did not know Teslas allow you to browse Web while driving, this also looks very distracting, the other things you listed - not much.
Just use duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/

Their homepage is 5722 bytes not including images.
Ask again when interest rates are at 4%.
Wow, this guy must have some pull in the company for this to happen
The MathJax part.
Maybe there are questions where the value of learning a thing about the user for future ad targeting is higher than just showing them another ad?

Reminds me of the time a dating company did research (maybe okcupid?) on the best question to ask for matching, and it was something like "do you believe in angels?".
> If you [...] it works.

I've been running mailservers using free software for 20 years. I've run two for personal use, and several for groups like companies. In the old days, you could indeed throw up a server, and provided you don't spam, and you're not in a bad neighbourhood, outgoing mail would be accepted.

In more recent years, my experience has been that it takes time for a new mail sender to be acccepted; could be a year or two to build reputation. That's assuming you do everything right.

My personal mail, by the way, has been on the same domain since about 2001. I've quit running a mailserver now. My small ISP runs a setup that's basically what I would have built, so I use that; the support is excellent. But it's still on the same domain.

Last company I was at ran their mail on their ISPs mailserver. The ISP got taken over; service deteriorated, to the point it became unacceptable. So I built $EMPLOYER a mailserver; it took me longer than I predicted, because the bosses had all kinds of finicky requirements (don't they always) that I had to figure out how to provide after the fact. But that "artisanal" server beat the bejabers out of the ISP system; it was fast, reliable, and when anything went wrong I could fix it - which that ISP couldn't.
If you start planning your rocket launches around religious holidays then that is going to be a bit of a problem, there are just too many of them:

https://nationaltoday.com/religious-holidays/