skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I save TikTok for each night when I sit on a reclining bicycle in the gym and exercise for an hour or two. I've stolen the weight routine from Flywheel so it isn't all legs either.

I do watch some Chinese lessons and electronics repair and cooking recipes and finance tips on there as well as the lighter content, though, so it isn't all pure entertainment.

Since the author prefers walking, maybe another option would be to put Twitter and TikTok just on an iPad and mount it to a treadmill.
If you are fired without cause you continue to get paid via unemployment insurance. At least in every state I have been too.
1,056 Seconds, another world record for EAST
Pretty cheap lesson in FOMO and bagholding though.

Why play with greater fool theory when there are so many other safer alternatives to invest in.
> brittle and undebuggable

That's why I stopped doing it, but I totally get that in low level programming that it comes in very handy in some circumstances.
Usually that would be the job of an HR person. Design for the worst case: if a candidate is bad at working with others, you don't want to expose your staff in other departments to them unnecessarily. (This is why, in most orgs, the "HR pass" is usually the first pass, before any technical qualification — you don't want some random asshole engineer verbally abusing / sexually harassing / etc. your engineers during an interview. HR people are trained to deal with random assholes — they have the verbal judo to calm them down, and the trained-in wherewithal to shut down interviews early rather than trying to trudge forward. People without HR experience, don't.)
> Imagine all e-shops would implement the same public API

Very idealistic, but if you have ever heard the acronym "EDI" then it will become quickly apparent how incredibly fraught it is to try and map ones "local" taxonomy onto a "global standard" taxonomy. Let's just take https://schema.org/brand -- should this property be the legal brand (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.), the marketing brand (Sony), some URI that everyone agrees upon and can readily look up from their desktop?

What is the verification process a fivrr contractor can use at the end of their php work for Middleville Cakes and Cookies to know that the result conforms to the global taxonomy and thus will be consumed correctly by the aggregators and price comparison engines mentioned?

I do recognize this may have a tone of "pfft, what a terrible idea" but I promise I don't mean it in such a dismissive way. I was similarly thrilled back when I learned about the semantic web, too. But having been down in the muck for as long as I have, trying to implement loosey-goosey specifications, has made me realize it's not the idea that's flawed, it's the assumption that all actors have good intentions, perfect knowledge, and infinite time to conform to perfect standards.

And don't even get me wound up about the semantic law markup / legislation as code ...

> with no need for web scraping.

That will only ever be true in some mythical future where the HTML contains only presentation structure and is populated by the aforementioned public API. There are countless examples of some parts of the data being statically embedded in the HTML that are not part of the API response
I'll add to the advice you have received regarding getting a good accountant by suggesting you might want to use a good accounting firm rather than a single accountant.

Depending on where you live, you might be able to get a sense of whether or not there's a dominant firm that is handling financial matters for local businesses. I switched from using a single guy someone recommended to a real accounting firm years ago. The guy was good, no question about it, however, the accounting firm has far more depth. They also have a deeper/wider network through their client base that has come in very handy at times.

Don't pay more taxes than you are legally obligated to. Don't pay less either. Many people confuse tax optimization strategies with greed or some other derogatory term. When you order a pizza or buy a laptop you optimize for obtaining the computer you want at the lowest possible cost. Taxes are no different from this, the laws (federal and state) establish a procedure through which you calculate how much you owe. These laws are so complex that most people and lots of businesses pay more than they should. That is wrong.

A good accounting firm, and, perhaps, a tax attorney, can guide you on how to apply federal and state tax codes to determine how much you owe. Pay what you owe, no more, no less.

While you run a web-based service, you can still take advantage of Section 179 deductions. Make sure to discuss this with your accountant and understand how to use this valuable tool.

As someone else mentioned, don't assume this will last forever. Do not give away piles of cash recklessly only to find yourself in trouble years from now. I am of the idea that what philanthropic billionaires do is the right approach. Accumulate wealth over time. Maximize this for as long as you can. Use the time to learn and understand where you might be able to have the most impact if you put a non-trivial amount of money on the table. Then, once secure in your convictions and with your financial future on a solid footing, became the person who supports the worthy causes you identified and studied while you put money aside.

You can't create a great building without a large and solid foundation. Build that foundation first. Don't be in a hurry to burn money just because you don't currently know enough to know what to do with it. And please, pretty please, with sugar on top, do not give a dime to politicians --of any political party-- they are all a waste of time and money. What to support is a personal decision that will likely benefit from reflection and learning over time. Imagine a day, several decades from now, when you might be able to support a worthy cause with millions of dollars. That would be something, wouldn't it?

If you have a need to help out today, here's one suggestion:

https://www.stjude.org/
And The Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky brothers is an incredible read. The movie is loosely-ish based on that but both stand on their own. The book is tightly written and profound in its exploration of human condition when facing pressure of money and exploitation of something we don't understand.
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This just makes me tremendously sad. We collectively forgot how to design good UI.
Real talk, I don't think you can.

Frankly everything I know about software dev is geared to discourage exactly this sort of behavior.

I would not be happy to see a pull request touching the entirety of the code base for better compilation performance. Not because such a thing wouldn't pay dividends in developer performance or code readability, but because such a change is just inherently risky.

You might be able to train more people with whole program understanding (Definitely a skill that is lacking, IMO). But I doubt you could train someone to be able to "touch every file in the kernel and get it merged".
Of course people in 1968 thought that space travel would be affordable by 2001, and people in 1985 thought flying cars and coffee machine-sized fusion reactors would be commonplace in 2015, so some predictions take longer than others...
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"Insubordination" is the key word you need to look at.
(background: I was and adjunct at an art school (https://mica.edu) for a couple years, planning to pick it up again in the fall. I asked my students "what is art?" every semester, but they never knew.)

This is going to sound a lot like shooting down, but it's a note to myself as much as it's a note to you. You got this. :+1:

There is a difference--huge, massive gap--between, "I want to make art" and "I want to be an artist". The first is about creation and expression, the second is about going to parties and having people be excited to greet you.

Stephen King said it something like, "i meet a lot of people who tell me, 'oh! i want to be a novelist' but what they really want is to have written a novel."

Ronnie Coleman said it better, "everybody wants to be a body builder, but don't nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights."

echoing another response:

> If you can make art and be happy, you're done.

Step 1: make art. Step 2: find other people who make art. Step 3: look at their art. Step 4: show them your art. You can do these in any order, but the most important is the making.

There is no magic formula. There is no formula that all successful artists follow. Art education is irrelevant to success, but it's great for technical skills and forcing you to practice.

Like with any other creative act the two best things you can do for yourself are figure out what you can tolerate engaging with in repetition for the rest of your life and then repeat it.

Good luck!
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You just have to look at Google's profit motive here. Their motive isn't to provide quality search results. Their motive is to show users ads, either in the search results themselves or on the destination sites via their ad network. The SEO spam sites aren't a bug, they are a feature of Google's profit algorithm. Google's search quality will never improve so long as their motivation is to show you ads. Why should it? Competition may help here, either by an outsider like the OP suggests, or via breaking Google up with anti-trust enforcement, or both (my preference).

As a user, your best personal and ethical move is to install an ad-blocker, to make ad-based business models less viable, which will help promote business models that don't abuse the customer.
I'm not sure how you've gone from a suggestion of public benefit to an ideological extreme. Plenty of public benefit stuff in the world is compatible with profitable economic activity. Universal education, for instance.

As another example, science itself suffers today from the lack of public benefit thinking, does it not? Anecdotally it is extremely hard to find funding for total blue-sky research. University departments are cost-optimizing to adjunct faculty or contractors. The resulting publish-or-perish environment arises from said scarcity and feeds back into it to create a vicious downward spiral.
* 2022 ends much like 2021, people thinking it sucked because of the pandemic, and signs for hope in 2023.

* Russia has not yet invaded Ukraine but continues to threaten to extract concessions. However now China in parallel amasses troops around Taiwan.

* interest rates raised from ~0 to 4%+ over 3 rate hikes. more expected to come in 2023 due to continued inflation concerns.

* 2 more covid variants of concern. vaccine immunity escape increases each time but they still do not release a new vaccine different than the original mRNA.

* Still see headlines like: "What doe the Tau variant mean and why are experts worried?".

* 4th boosters are approved but adoption rates are very low.

* Testing is still somehow back-logged and demand for covid tests remains high.

* Oculus continues to dominate VR space with record-breaking sales but top selling app is still just the 4-year-old Beat Saber.

* Tiktok continues its dominance. Older crowd gets into TT and young kids look for something else, but nothing else gain traction yet.

* Apple released iphone 14 which is somehow even more incremental than the iphone 13.

* Trump positions for 2024 run. Fox news continually runs story how Trump was not to blame for Jan 6.

* Biden reassures that he will run again against him.

* JWST releases images. they're only ~50% of what was planned capability due to technical issues but still groundbreaking.
My mother has often said that “a parent is only ever as happy as their least happy child”. I think the same sentiment holds true for marriages.
HN has been like that for a long, long time. You are probably only now starting to notice.
I don't think they actually send them to baltics, as those are stolen from cars here also and they probably catch a better price in Stockholm anyway. Or sent a lot further than that.

The running "joke" is that insurers pay to put your original stuff back into car, as insurers somehow find "used" parts for mechanics.
Whenever advertising stops working, the world becomes a better place.
Typical for the esoteric end of the audiophile community. A lot of the nonsense cable reviewers have turned off their comments on their blogs and insist if they can hear a difference then it must be true. Same people also refuse to do any kind of blind testing and attack the process with a vehemence that suggests there is something to hide about these reviews.

Which is true, the emperor has no clothes and they are paid to describe them in great detail.
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This is a problem I'm working on.

What sorts of unique things did you do that Google failed at? Maybe you read through discussion sites or got tips from books or something like that
> The hard part in all of this isn't finding and stopping spam - it's defining what spam is.

This is one area where Google could use personalised results to provide a better experience for the user. Let me decide what spam is for me. Let me mark results as good or bad, so that the algorithm knows what kind of pages should be prioritised or filtered out the next time. Google SearchWiki was a step towards this but they killed it off.
Holy shit. That is one hell of a rough start to ~2021~ 2022. As others have said, talking to someone can really help - when you're ready.

Only other advice would be to hug your dogs. Sometimes they're better than therapy.
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Yes. Professionals don't hand-edit references in the writing document. Update the template and click refresh. That said, I also use Endnote because it's free for me.
Tarkovsky was truly one of cinema’s great directors. His films aren’t simple or easy, but they are gorgeous to behold and if you put in the time, you’ll be richly rewarded. As others have mentioned, Stalker and Solaris are his two great sci-fi films, easily on par with Kubrick’s 2001. For history buffs, Andrei Rublev is fantastic too.
Hum... I have never seen a SPA perform well with a spotty network.

Yeah, I get what you are trying to get, that an SPA can retry failures, prioritize resources better, reload less data... They just never do that competently, as it is a shitload of work, and the "once downloaded" part is irrelevant, because people only ever load a couple of pages on most sites visits.
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Full time artist here having shown work in NYC galleries, museums, etc.

Make art. Dont worry about anything else. Once you have stacks of kick ass work, promoto online and if you want to be at the top of commercial circles, move to where the artist are and start attending openings, visiting local up and coming galleries.

If your work is good and you are in the community where "things are happening".. say Manhattan 10 years ago, Berlin, etc. Then you still will likely need another gig to eat and pay rent and only be recognized after your dead :) but that is your best chance.
Is there a write up on why you changed the name from postwoman?
https://search.marginalia.nu has a very interesting approach to this:

Use tracking especially and JS generally as a weight in ranking so sites that contains much of any of these needs to be exceptionally high quality to float to the top.

This means sites with limited ads and tracking, typically enthusiast driven pages float to the top.

Now always when someone discusses a novel way to combat webspam someone will immediately counter: if this becomes popular SEO hackers will immediately start doing this.

Well - if reducing page size and removing tracking becomes a leading SEO trick I can deal with a bit of SEO hacking :-)

Yet for some reason I feel Google won't start using this very simple metric :-)
But a second cheap phone. Uninstall everything from it, no data plan, wifi only and use it as a remote control.
Really? I don't think the bureaucratic bloat at Google cares and the original authors of the search engine in its current incarnation are probably long gone. It is maintenance mode and I don't think they dare touch too much.

It takes time and effort to build up a spam site's ranking but it is trivial to blacklist those who get to the top.
When feeding audio over a digital connection to a DAC which takes timing directly from the input stream, bad timing (eg. from optical cables rather than coaxial, and conceivably bad power supplies could cause it too) can lead to sample duration inconsistency and jitter. In the case of a network switch, it's a straight-up scam.

Also power supply hum (60hz it higher for switching supplies) can induce interference in the player's output signal. I'd use a filtered power supply for any player, but not necessarily the network switch. ("Ethernet offers galvanic isolation by design. All connections are transformed coupled.")
Hey, thanks for being nasty.

I know exactly what the essay was describing.

Most of the kids I played with, are probably dead. They almost certainly died horribly. Maybe some of them became child soldiers, and killed and raped. I could have gone on about how I had to treat PTSD, from my experiences over there, but I didn't think that would be helpful.

But I really appreciate your "putting me in my place." I guess I needed it.

I've often found, in my experience, that initiating a relationship on a confrontational basis, is not a particularly good idea.

Have a great day.
If you are a fan, I strongly recommend Weird Studies' 2-part episode on Stalker. Phil and JF generalize the concept of "the zone" and discuss other examples of zones in art.
They are sadly still a thing. The local ACE hardware store sells all their power and audio cables.
This would have been a much better article if they purchased the device and tore it apart to see what is inside. I mean is it full of generic unlabeled chips salvaged off some other switch? Is it all name brand? How is the circuit board layout? Are you at least getting top of the line components?

Also would have been interesting to analyze the audio streams on an oscilloscope to see how "enhanced" (or not enhanced) they were when passed through this switch.

Instead this article just looks at a single review. I mean obviously this switch doesn't magically make audio better somehow. But demonstrating why that is would have been both entertaining and provided a good community service.

I guess somebody should fork over some cash and ship one of these to AvE, bigclive, or electroboom... at least they'd tear it down.
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It’s much harder to get SEO spam style content to maps given the geographic region limits involved… But it happens my favourite example is searching for suppliers of something basic, say structural aluminium extrusions, big and heavy and you ideally don’t want to ship it far so it’s an ideal thing to search for a local supplier of. In Australian results is basically a given that I’ll get results for my city because they will list it as a delivery area they supply to however when you actually try to find them on the map as a pin, nope it’s either not their or just is a sales office not a warehouse or workshop, so they have tricked the system into listing them as local to my area in a way that pollutes my maps search results.

But this only works for certain industries. It’s much less common to see this kind of tactic if your searching for say a coffee shop because they sheer number of local results let’s Google be “hyper local” with these kinds of results.
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I've seen it before (with my own eyes) where a manager would make hurdles like this... then go on to say, "We have found no acceptable candidates we need to use consultants for this project." Then hire consultants, paying them out of the project's budget. Then... use the "data" that show his operational expenses, as a department, are low because he only really needs 3 FTEs instead of 6. (Excluding the 3 consultants that don't count as FTEs...)
I can see one possibility something like this can make a difference: RF and electrical interference/noise. Best thing is: this is measurable. So there should be no need to trust subjective analysis of another audiophile.
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Just a note on that, youtube search is finally getting better, yesterday I noticed it was able to find key words in the middle of a lecture that had nothing in the title or comments. I always wonder about their AI transcription service, it's gotten so good, if they're storing all that audio as text, I guess their search is going to get excellent?