skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd noticed this too but I've found that the best results usually are now on page 2 or 3 and the first few pages I've mentally written down as 'sponsored links' so I've just trained myself to ignore them!
Good luck getting the advertising bandwidth to grow...
Celine's 2nd Law, a/k/a "shoot the messenger".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws

See also Hyman G. Rickover on Quaker Problem Solving:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28uxu6/more_hy...
> - People like and expect stuff on the internet to be free;

God damn. The race to the bottom where users are now unwilling to even pay 99 cents for an app on iOS is what kept many of us working for our Corporate Overlords instead of ushering in a new golden age for the indie developer.

I'm so sad now. That would have been Easy Street; we're left now to find the niches I guess — as is usually the case with powerful corporations running the show.
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Yes! Maybe I'll build a premium customizable version out of it. Do you think that'd be useful? Bing charges around $5 per 1000 searches, so the premium version would be around the same (with caching covering hosting, maybe).
Finding review of tech gadgets and hardware is quite easy. Even niche products usually have dedicated communities and sites with in-depth knowledge. It's the boring everyday products and large appliances like washing machines that are really hard to evaluate sicne their reviews basically amount to affiliate spam.
Well, look at it this way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKKg4lZ_o-Y [Asteroid Discovery - 1970-2015 - 8K resolution]

Take your pick!

And remember one doesn't need a tidy Hohman transfer. Rather the opposite in fact. The nastier the intersect angle the better.

(Hopefully we don't end up on some watchlist :-P )
I appreciate the caveat. Caveats are almost never given when people give advice and it is exactly the thing that people get stuck on when they take the advice to heart.
Curiously, it seems to be the backlight that's the cue for me. Anything, a phone, a laptop, a desk screen, can bring me into a distracted state very quickly. I really hope e-ink devices will give me a bit of a relief once they become affordable (which is delayed due to expensive patents, as I understand it).

I experience this when trying to read lenghty text on e-ink devices vs. a computer screen or phone. On the other hand, a kindle or remarkable don't give me as many options to distract myself so a more versatile device might still distract me even with e-ink.

Time will tell but for now it subjectively feels like the light emission (any color) has a very adverse effect on me, unless distraction is what I'm looking for :(
Why is there no way to get taxes? Taxes were collected throughout history, beginning with the earliest recorded history, when nothing was electronic. Cash still enables tax collecting.
Democracy needs ignorant people, says science (2011)
> Trying to arbitrarily and artificially correct such problems with bureaucratic checklists is a tragic and infuriating response

It isn't just an infuriating response, it is racism and sexism. There is institutional sexism because they implement it. Your motivation behind your deed is irrelevant.
Something I've noticed as I've started to more actively try things with crypto wallets(which have made inroads on being identity/login solutions) is that there is a refreshing transparency and friction to the on-chain interactions. There are many things that cost a fee and make the wallet prompt for my password again when interacting with blockchains, but I haven't used Ethereum, so I've never seen a fee above a microscopic amount. And even given that the fees don't impact me, it throws the reality of what it costs to run the system in my face, making the low friction and opacity in big tech UX look shady by comparison, like, "well, why are you rushing me through this?"

Something significant happened to our trust model when we made that little leap from computer systems still "driven" by front office desk clerks and receptionists to fully automated ones - the ability for the intermediary to properly look out for you disappeared under the lens of KPI, as OP notes. So computing tech became more of a weapon for all sides - a thing to exploit or be exploited through at hyper speed. While the crypto way of doing it has a long way to improve still and also suffers frequent headliner exploitations, the core of it reminds me of the past in a good way; both "no questions asked" and "gets your permission". It just needs "smart enough to spot and correct grave errors".
> hard wait time to unsubscribe

It really is the grandmother excuse "you the user dont know what the unsubscribe button is doing, so we ask you to wait 3h and confirm 4 times because maybe you are clicking by mistake since you dont know where and what you are clicking".
It's very tricky, and while I think it's usually a safe bet to look for racism when some US policy is inexplicable, building code inflation is a problem in a lot of places. Each individual measure usually makes sense, and may even be driven by a particular incident - see the Grenfell fiasco in the UK which is forcing everyone in an apartment to check for flammable cladding. But the totality of the measures can be quite onerous.

We get a particular version of NIMBYism here in Edinburgh with living in a UNESCO world heritage site. There's strong pressure to freeze the city core in its 19th century appearance; I broadly agree with that, except that exceptions seem to be made for the most expensive and ugliest buildings. While round the outside two-floor suburbs are going up.
I had this issue with a less controversial topic yesterday.

I was trying to explain VACnet someone and wanted to link the original talk. Youtube didn't have it anymore. 3kliksphilip covered the topic and he linked to the video. It said the video had been removed, though not why. 3kliksphilip's video helpfully said it was a GDC 2018 talk in the first sentence, so I searched google for that and found the video hosted on another site.

I don't think censorship was at play. I just think the world of mutable data is volatile and impossible to keep a 100% accurate up-to-date index.
Just looking through the top of the list I see a lot of usernames that I'm not familiar with and some of the more recognizable users further down. There is definitely a significant difference between comment count and karma.
How to Write about Africa (2019)
The inner circle effect is absolutely real. Some projects get rid of it with very loose commit-bit policies, but even getting to that point can be painful. There are software projects I'd like to contribute to and have (I think) reasonable ideas about, but no way in hell am I running the gauntlet of the communities involved.
Yeah, the best way to get upvoted on Hacker News is to write a negative post about the future of crypto, it doesn't even have to be a good post, a badly written one like this will suffice.
After regulatory constraint, this is probably the key to the problem.

Excellent question.
> I work in the web3/blockchain world.

> Is most of it a scam? Sure.

I appreciate your honesty, but HN is not just about tech. We are humans first of all. If a new tech is used mostly to scam people, you can't be surprised most people here won't appreciate it, whether it's fresh or not.

Also, the aspect of novelty fades in time. XML was a novel thing back in the day, too. But scams do have real, negative consequences on people's lives.
I also struggle to understand how the users of HN don't see, what I think is to any thinking person, the clear advantages of values of blockchain systems.

Immutable ledgers with permanently recorded and inalterable activity make many issues with not only fiat currency desirable, but the applications into other areas are, quite honestly, limited only by the imagination of those who develop the technology further.
> By this definition, c and c++ don't have "real" byte types either, because they undergo integer promotion for operations, and the generated code is operating on register sized values

They're not actually operating on register-sized values: the code labelled x86 is also the x64 code, meaning GCC operates on 32b when the native registers are 64b. Likewise ARM.

Your assertion is even more debatable when Clang actually operates on 8-bit registers on x64:

mov eax, edi
mul al
ret

(it does not on ARM64 as `mul` is only defined for 32 and 64b)
Writing unlike coding can use repetition in ways that are valuable to the reader where they wouldn't be valuable to the program (DRY principles).

The concept about delivering value in a given span of time for writing is great and in coding it could be similar to having valuable pieces of code in each function (single responsibility).

Personally I don't understand why I would write like I code. It's more limiting. Wouldn't it be more about coding like I write? There are many lessons in the writing process that already apply to authoring code.

Mind Maps/Whiteboard Ideas -> Outlines -> First draft -> Self Edit -> Professional Edit -> Publication

Each of these steps is similar to a high-level design which can have the biggest optimizations.

I think Steve McConnell & Bob Martin have great weaving of the "code like you write" ideas especially around code readability, self-documenting, reading old code to influence new code, and removing redundancies where possible to name a few.
Some of it is because a lot of features that used to be unique in Lisp (or few other "rare" languages) became way more available in other languages - partially thanks to Lisp&co popularising them first.

Other stuff is that it tends to take some time working, and actually ending up using some of the more interesting bits, to see effect.

Lots of people for example talk about macros when it comes to homoiconicity, but rarely (outside of old lisp wizards) do I see people going further to how Lisp makes it easy to build languages and compilers that are easy to debug and handle - I'm not just talking about the common idea trope of "write DSL for your program", because a) you're going to write a partial language specific to your program anyway, no matter the language, you might just obfuscate it calling them functions and types b) the easy manipulation of code and lack of parsing (and thus poof goes half the dragon book) means that writing compilers is simply... simple. And with CL's macroexpand and similar features in other lisps, it tends to be much easier to figure what is going wrong (and it's reasonably easy to add reporting of errors in compiled code down to specific form)
I don’t have a feature list off the top of my head. The basics that Strava offers would be a good start: show your GPS tracks on a map, allow sharing with friends, a chronological feed of your friends’ rides.
Can't give any great advice here, but my intuition is that it's going to depend a lot on the company.

I have friends that have worked retail jobs where they aren't going to care at all and will probably use it as an excuse to fire you.

I work at a company where a coworker was fired and afterwards told some of us that they were dealing with mental health stuff causing it, and I think my company would have been more helpful if they brought it up earlier by perhaps helping to find a therapist through the insurance or changing their roles for a while. For example if the frustrating part of coding is tough to get into, maybe switch to building out documentation so you have something you can see tangible progress on daily/hourly, and would still let them add the same amount of value if not more.
People will upload the cool tricks they have learned with their knives on Youtube and TikTok but I doubt many of them would be brave enough to upload their mistakes.
I see I'm not the only one who has had that thought. Ethical issues aside, assuming that you could ensure the variant was extremely mild and that infection with it conferred immunity to all other variants, there is an argument to be made in favor of it.
One thing that I have noticed that FAANG doesn’t do well is: help people with sleep issues.

It’s not their job [0], but I do think there are some talented insomniacs that are great employees (given that they can mostly work on their own schedule, except for meetings). I remember that I interviewed for Facebook and I was so sleep deprived, I could barely write a for-loop. Ironically, I passed that interview but I couldn’t pass others that required some more creative thinking or more memorization.

[0] While it is not their job, FAANG companies do mention that they are accommodating candidates with mental health issues, and I’d argue that insomnia (diagnosed or undiagnosed) should be one of them.
Good idea! Would you pay for a premium version where you can customize the whitelist (and additional features) if it were available? Bing charges around $5 per 1000 searches, so I guess it would cost about the same. (Google's API is limited to 10K searches / day, even when paid)
You might be surprised at the amount of bipartisan support you would find for legislation that favors American manufacturing and morality. The opposition in red states would be from an enlightened industrialist's view that even these terrible jobs are still jobs that lift Indian families out of poverty and that this is part of the hard road to the middle class. Furthermore, this proposed legislation might harm constituents by increasing the prices they pay for phones.

That said, you really only need one state in the entire country. With one state the options available to Apple become: eat the fines, change, refuse to sell in that state, or create an entirely new SKU for compliant devices.
Ethereum is moving to proof of stake instead of mining, that will remove all superfluous carbon emissions.

When we're talking about web3, we're generally talking about Ethereum:
https://web3js.readthedocs.io
I am a software engineer with education in mathematics and I have been working on a formalized mathematics project for the last 16 years (on and off). There is no particular purpose of this, other than it is a good mental workout and a satisfying way to acquire understanding of various areas of mathematics by writing proofs that are sufficiently detailed and correct that can be checked by a machine. I would like to improve the presentation of the project at isarmathlib.org and I would love some help with this. Of course there is plenty of math to formalize as well. If you are interested, you can contact me through the project's GitHub Discussions or other links at the project's site.
I have a better one, refuse to play the game unless desperate to get a job no matter what.
This is great advice. There are provisions to allow you to set aside a little over $50K per person under some circumstances (and as the business owner, you have a lot of influence over whether those circumstances apply). If you managed to employ a spouse or family member, you could put away substantial sums for the future in case the fortunes of the site turn downward.

Kudos on the decision of “this is great the way it is”; just make sure you’re stacking firewood for the winter. (Contact the advisor soon, so you might be able to make a 2021 retirement contribution before the filing deadline.)

Specifically ask your advisor is there’s a way you can make these contributions under Roth treatment and what their advise is there. Personally, I’m shooting to have at least 30% of my retirement investments at retirement be Roth so I can control some of my tax exposure then (and I don’t expect taxes to go down in the next 10 years), but if you’re paying for pro advice to your specific situation, pay attention to it not an internet comment based on a few hundred words of unrelated context.
How about donating to charity? If you don't need the money, there are people in the world who are struggling to get clean water.

Spend some time to verify that your money goes to a good cause and not to scammers.

You could start by donating to a local sports team to buy equipment to those who can't afford if, for example. Then go see their games to see what you've accomplished.
> What is this weird fascination with capitalism on HN?

It's the one doing the data collecting in our lives.
Probably referring to Ethereum moving to proof-of-stake, which is set to happen in June https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/08/ethereum-is-slated-for-anoth...

It's been delayed before, but hopefully it happens this time. I don't own any, but it would be nice for GPU prices to normalize and the environmental cost would go down substantially.
I find it so difficult to understand why there isn't a greater focus on first-principle approach to the web3 discussion, and wonder if perhaps the reason is that few people can make a cogent argument for their pet project/coin/DAO/etc. on those principles.

All the inefficiencies aside (for now, although ultimately they'd need to be addressed), the notion that you can create a public ledger that can be trusted without a single centralized authority DOES seem like a really interesting innovation. Just go ask some of my family members who lived overseas under regimes of hyperinflation just how valuable the idea that you could have a currency that no one controls is.

But NBA TopShot? CNN clip ownerships? It seems to boggle my mind how that is related... AT ALL... to this potentially new property afforded by blockchains. Over centuries it seems we have evolved institutions, laws, etc., PRIMARILY to address this issue of trust. But rather than seeing web3 projects that seem to tackle issues where does institutions have failed, it seems everywhere I turn is just someone doing something that can be accomplished the good ol' fashion way but adding a crypto element to it because of the hype/FOMO/etc. I mean, take the topshop example... could the NBA really not have done that with just.... yknow... a database?!?!?
thanks for sharing that
Thanks. I found a good article with visuals showing things have improved, as you say.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
The government services dont show me any ads or dark patterns. How is it where you live? Does the IRS really try to trick you?
Zotero has a Wikipedia article about it and the other thing doesn't.
What does the site do out of curiosity.
It will be awesome to see also different spectrum layers ( UV,IR... ).
Because the AI is designed to maximise revenue and profit growth and is otherwise completely indifferent to societal consequences.
I said "directly" blaming, very important distinction.

The people making the garbage is still the ones to blame for the garbage itself. The reason people make such garbage is because a subset of people accept it. But nobody is saying the people accepting it are doing it out of an evilness (maybe they're saying it's out of "dumbness", but I would disagree with that too).
> Moral of the story: if you want to go off your meds, make sure a doctor is keeping an eye on you. No matter how good the good times feel.

It might just not work with bipolar. If bipolar person go manic, then reckless behavior, overconfidence, and unlimited optimism may beat any moral of this kind.
Also you could really only develop a strain that was more infectious/less deadly in mice, using mice.

Once you jump it back to humans it's a new roll of the dice on whether it's more or less deadly and infectious.
Is Apple's case really a dark pattern? I can start a software subscription trial and immediately cancel. Do that with a random third party and suddenly the cancellation page is "down for maintenance" and you have to call in for support where they try to sell you a discounted package (cough Adobe.)

Also do you really want to go around typing in credit card details into every app you pay for? for every in-app purchase, for every movie rental, every song purchase? How is that user hostile?
> The best tool for this is something called "loving detachment." I'd recommend you read about it, and about the concept of co-dependency in general

Do you have any resources that you'd care to recommend? I've found it challenging to find good resources. I find recommendations like the one in this article, "just listen", to be profoundly unhelpful.
Their CO2eq are all calculated according to the same ISO standard, but they don't have solar so the numbers only exist for hydro, wind and nuclear.
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NP :) It's exciting to have people using & commenting on something I build.

> I will look into fine tuning it for my needs. It is an interesting approach to a very annoying problem.

If a premium version were available with a customizable whitelist, would you pay for that? The API is around $5 / 1000 searches so it would cost about the same.
I agree. He uses statements like "this was a test unit and I'm sending it back at the end. I will purchase one with my own money" to make it seem like he wasn't compensated. Be really needs to start it off saying he was, but not with the unit.
BS. Billions of pounds are pumped into light and dark methods of taking our attention. Or do you think those billions are for charity?
"And not everyone was aware that he was living in that office, apparently."

I never met him and yet I knew. He is notorious for doing that.

I lived in my office for a few months, too, and the fact that you live there is pretty hard to hide from visitors. Starting with various small objects that do not fit into a normal office, ending with the fact that even with reasonable levels of hygiene the room tends to acquire a certain "human" smell, especially in the winter months when you can't just have the window open for most of the time.

RMS is a worldwide known weirdo. I can understand that his behavior in general might make people uncomfortable, but trying to label him as a rapist was way off.
I think the key difference is: being payed with a deadline or being payed with a purpose.

The first might produce quick, but unsustainable or less perfect results, the latter might take more time but will provide significant benefits (in this case for maintenance, time wasted/energy consumed by build pipelines on a global scale).
Comfort is a pretty subjective thing. Your experience, while valid, is merely a single data point and it would be quite premature to disregard the review or even the whole outlet based on it.
> I never had to justify it, nobody forced me or expected me to be using Office...

You had it easy it seems. When someone sends you a document which contains convoluted structures and only renders in a very recent version of Microsoft Word, and you have to fill it for work purposes, you have no other choice (We're a Linux shop, but not everyone we interact uses Libre Office, so yeah).

> Whats ease is what you have learned. Had you began with Linux since 1999 you would not even know how to do anything on Windows or MacOSX.

I started with a C64 in 1989, jumped to a 486 some years later and installed Linux in 1998, when there was no documentation, and dial-up was kinda hard without any. So I double booted Linux and Windows for a lot of years, and despised Windows since Windows 95. However, I can use all three without problems, making all other ecosystems work with my Linux systems (I adapt them to talk with Linux, not vice versa).

> The "easy to use intuitive" eventually becomes the dark UX hell it is today, a slow descent.

No, it's not. Automatically adding another bullet point is not. Marking the center of a shape and snapping to it is not. Having sensible defaults and intuitive key bindings are not dark patterns. Also fixing bugs in two days, getting direct replies from developers, your feedback taken seriously are not dark patterns. The bitter part is they can be all done in FOSS, very easily (I've developed such software for some projects, and it's well loved), but developers are not motivated or bothered by it.
This is quite timely, was getting frustrated with some CORS issues last night because I am using the domain & api.domain schema. Will have to give this a try.