skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you get notifications for comments on HN?
After I make a post or leave a comment, I don’t get a notification of a response or new comments. Are there rss feeds or email notifications?
Who wants to put money down on it mysteriously going missing or being irrecoverably damaged in 2027?
Could you please expand upon how it was like the 'discovery of fire'? There are many ways to interpret this, and I'm not certain I know what you are saying.
Really? Which chemicals can it not remove? If true, I might be better off getting a distiller then.
First: It's not about quitting this job. It needs to be about finding the next job. This should be an upward progression of your career toward the next big thing, not just disconnecting from the old thing.

As for when: You said your job pays decently well and you're working with good people. Don't underestimate the value of that! If you're not actively escaping a toxic situation, it's not a good idea to rush your job search. Take your time to find a known good working environment as your next step.
Has everyone forgotten Elsagate already?
That's because ideas shouldn't be bundled together just because a person said them. The I Have A Dream speech is famous precisely because it is the most important/widely agreed upon of his ideas: evaluate individuals according to their own character independently of whatever collective you might otherwise assume characteristics of. That's a good idea. People like that idea.

We don't talk about King's socialism as much, because what he said in that arena wasn't particularly revolutionary, and many people don't find socialism to be compelling (myself included). Hence, remembering ideas.
There's a decent amount of infrastructure involved in getting 802.1x authentication up and running in an efficient manner. While it does provide very good security, it's not widely used because of that.
> there are plenty of jobs where you absolutely will quit

And so what if people refuse to do shitty jobs? Perhaps we as society can do without those jobs. And if we can't, we should value them more
> so we raised a bunch of funds and bought a cool book.

For about 100x its estimated value. I'm not sure that's really playing with a hacker mentality.

The plan is also to burn the "cool book". Again, I'm unsure how that fits into a hacker mindset.
If intuition is consistently biased in the "stay" direction then it's not exactly wrong to say "if even your intuition says you should quit then the case for doing so is most likely overwhelming"
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbellmar.medium.com%2Fw...
Yes and sites like Crypto Panic! What I wanted to do was focus on building a community with quality discussions, as opposed to (in some cases) the homepage being filled with information about daily price moves
Aha okay noted
A4E seem to take it okay. That it was a funny image was half the reason I included that part.

Chillax.
Yes! Though there is an optional ui-react module, this is not a React library per se. There's nothing to stop a Vue equivalent except... my lack of current knowledge about it. Noted!
It fails in multiple ways.

For example the volume (hypervolume) gets concentrated close to the surface of the sphere when dimension grows. For example, if you have symmetric multidimensional probability distributions around the zero it becomes weird.
That would almost certainly violate some contract you signed when you were hired.
> HM is a bubble with bias against Google.

It seems that way to you because the front pages of Reddit, HN and Twitter are Google's only support channels.
I had a disc i bought at the end of line to fix a mac of a friend, some decade ago! and when refurbishing old macs to Linux become very handy, as before i could install linux sometimes i needed eEFInd.
Show HN: Simple interactive tools to improve statistical intuition
In the recent months while taking a course in statistics and signal processing I built a handful of visualizations in order demonstrate some of the basic but important concepts I (re)learned.

I already posted a link to the fourier transform visualization a month ago. [1] Since then I worked on some more tools some of you might find helpful or interesting:

- visual proof of Bayes Theorem

- visualization how parameters of a gaussian distribution can be estimated

- interactive binary hypothesis test

- effect of a function on a random variable

The tools are not meant to give a fullblown introduction on the topics but more to deepen your intuition while learning from other sources or at least having already heard about the underlying concepts. But the visual and interactive concept of the tools might even allow to discover the core ideas and relations by yourself.

The section "Other Educational Tools" is older stuff that I included because it might be interesting as well.

All the code is on Github but it's really hacked together and not polished to be read by others. [2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455894

[2]: https://github.com/laszlokorte
PinataHub: Explore the world of leaked secrets in GitHub
Being able to quickly and efficiently set up a group pitching some creative vision but lacking any experience with Netflix-sized budgets? Preferably without installing some cookie-cutter producers that make everything they touch look, feel and taste the same? That's huge if they are good at it.

I'm not saying that they are, but now that streaming seems to be basically solved (it has become a commodity) this is the quality that will likely make the winners.
The entire point of an API is decoupling. A decoupled API makes double sense for a SPA. It's the client-server architecture on a silver platter.

This idea got muddled when people started making websites as SPAs, which necessitated SSR for SEO and first-page load. Now you blurred the lines between client and server, otherwise known as isomorphism, which is a good sounding word for a bad idea.
Like it happens with current salaries. The problem is not universal income but an economic system that rewards rent seeking.
> So poor people are lazy and the rich aren't?

Honestly, yes --- not always, but frequently.

I am sick and tired of the mentality embedded in the sentence I quoted. Do you think the rich are rich for no reason at all? That their rewards are unfair?

Success is not the universe sprinkling good fortune on mankind at random: success comes from hard work and the courage to take advantage of the opportunities that time presents to everyone from time to time.

Let's be honest with ourselves for one and acknowledge the connection between teachable personal qualities and desirable outcomes.
Ask HN: Adware or Malware Website?
Hi HN community:

I set up a new MAC a few weeks ago and installed Firefox as my default web browser.

Firefox use duckduckgo as default search engine.

I’m searching some tricks of using zsh. All of the searches are using duckduckgo. Then, this happened. This happened to me a few times already.

One of my web pages was redirected to a Zsh download for Mac from coldballs.co.

https://coldballs.co/zsh-for-mac-os/ (be careful with this link if you are on Mac)

This link is masqueraded as a Mac App Store download page.

On my Ubuntu machine, the link above looks fine.

Then, I searched the same query on google. I won’t be able to see this website on the top search pages.

What is going on here? Anyone can explain? Thanks.
One could argue this has nothing to do with willingness to work. In many professions verbal abuse is simply that: verbal abuse. One could say abuse does not count as work (except in healthcare perhaps, e.g. psychiatry). Just like getting beaten up should normally not count as work (except in MMA or as a security guard).

Your point still stands for the professions for which abuse is part of the job by definition. However, I get the idea that too many industries are tolerating it while it could go away by having a culture change.

Another reason why one could argue it’s not the same as willingness to work is because if one is willing to work a job where abuse isn’t really common then you could say that person does have a willingness to work.
The indelible hash – a fiction about blockchain and our possible future
I know I'm in a minority with brushed metal but I really liked it, yes its official usage guide was vague and it probably was abused a bit but from a purely aesthetic point of view I liked it, like a lot of things in Aqua of that era it made things feel very tangible. I'm one of the apparently few people on HN who actually liked the touch bar (but not the lack of a physical escape key) on the MacBook Pro as well so take my opinion with a pinch of salt!
During this era Apple sent third party official devs a shirt when the new OS released. I still have mine but they are quite worn out from all the wear. Wish they still did that but I appreciate how much less expensive Apple developer accounts are these days.
An ancient philosophical issue is the most fundamental question of the Internet:

'Do two people, who don't know what they are talking about, know more or less than one person who doesn't know what they are talking about?'

(courtesy: Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
This article kinda feels like an elaborate excuse for not leaving your current employer, partner etc.

I mean seriously - why take shit when there's a 90% chance you're working on another elaborate CMS/CRUD-looking system? There's millions of them out there, you don't need to subject yourself to terrible experiences. Just go someplace else.
IME, Kubernetes helps solve scaling problems. If you aren’t there yet, it’s unnecessarily complex for you. It requires at least 2-3 dedicated ops members to run.
Check your spam box. There's probably one saying "we have control of your camera and we've seen you playing with yourself". There's usually a bitcoin address to send a few hundred bucks to so they don't "send all your contacts the video".

Give it a few days and go look at the address in a Blockchain explorer. There's usually 2 or 3 transactions.

I guess you send 10m emails, you get lucky a handful of times. Spam works enough to make it worth it, especially for what, 7 minutes work?
HN insists on changing some Arstechnica submissions to behind the FT.com paywall

Here is the link to original submission https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/amazon-halts-pla...
The more money you have - the less value a marginal dollar has.

I think there would be a massive pressure to raise minimum wage.

Why would you work for $7.50 an hour and pay $1 in taxes - spending the majority of your day to make ~$50 - that doesn't buy much - and you don't have much time to spend it anyway?

When your options are either do that or be homeless and hungry - most people opt for work.

But when you have other options - spending your entire day to make $50 seems dramatically less appealing.
Cable tv makes $70 per viewer per year. Assuming the same for Netflix, they’d need a third or more of their users to churn to be non accretive. If they create a no-ad tier that’s slightly more expensive, I doubt churn would be that high.
I literally have a playlist called 'modern 80s' which is 2020s music releases that kind of sound like they're from the '80s. I definitely subscribe to the 30 year nostalgia theory!
Meaningless.

It's not meaningless. It's not enough to prove that basic income will have a long term positive impact, but it is enough to show further experimentation on a larger, more long term scale is worthwhile. It's decidedly unreasonable, not to mention unscientific, to dismiss something because you don't like it.
Well, in Denmark we have the equivalent of Basic income and I'd say we have a major problem with peoples willingness to work. Some families are on welfare for generations now.
Which is exactly what will happen. The pay for those jobs will increase, until such a point where it becomes cheaper/easier to just not have the job in the first place.

I don't honestly know why whether or not people will work even factors into one's support for UBI. Some people will keep working, some people won't. Nobody will starve so that seems like something in the "pro" column at least.
My anecdote: It would reduce my willingness to work for others but it certainly would not reduce my willingness to work for myself. And it would allow me to take on entrepreneurial risks that I other wise can’t afford at this place in my life.
Would they get any more than the status quo?

I suspect the extra support may translate to decreased profits for landowners. Tenants would have more time and money to file maintenance issues and represent themselves in the legal system, which would cost landowners. In Ontario it costs $50 and takes a lot of time and energy to file a complaint to the LTB. Tenants would also have more ability to change their situation in response to abuse, shop around for a better deal on housing, etc.
Few of them work the checkout at walmart, or in a cement factory.
Everything about your comment is wrong. For one you're not giving your lunch to anyone, More analogously you're putting something in the refrigerator, and people can take at their own leisure and risk. You can poison it if you want, in fact it's a pretty common workplace tactic for people to mix in something like a laxative to THEIR OWN food because they're tired of it being stolen everyday. Again you make the choice to use the software, or take the food, the risk is on your head.

And the cybersecurity industry would like to have a word with you since you don't believe it's possible to create malware.
I'm Joe, the guy who made takejohndown.com. Thanks for defending me on that other post, I saw a bunch of traffic from hackernews, surprised the post somebody was made was deleted, but then again I've been banned from the /r/NYC sub now just for posting a link. You won't believe how toxic it is there: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/s5nvz0/my_landlord_doe...
exactly. Sometimes you need to give the market a hand to set it free.
I remember seeing ads for this BBS in "Boardwatch" magazine, back in the day (early to mid 90's.) I was really into the BBS scene but didn't do much long distance calling.

We had several local warez boards, many of which masqueraded as more legitimate operations. Typically you registered with a regular account, then sent the sysop a private message that so-and-so referred you and mentioned the warez.

I ran a BBS myself but was more into the H/P scene.
Though whiskey doesn't age in the bottle making it a weird investment in itself. The ten year old bottle I bought twenty years ago now costs much more to buy it again, is rarer but the whiskey is not better, it forever stays at ten years old once out of the barrel.
Fat shaming is basically virtue signaling, there's no evidence that it's helped anyone, there's plenty of evidence it bullies people into stress eating and suicide.
Nice, but honestly, Polars offers a nice enough API that I don't miss dplyr as much when using it. I probably wouldn't bother with another API on top of Polars unless it were particularly feature-rich.
More than one Python program, more than one Julia program:

> many "inline" annotations etc.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Yes, one of the most revelatory pieces I've ever read.

(When I wrote that King had 'no power but a voice', I didn't mean 'no power but oration'; I meant that all King could do was speak to people - individually, in organzing meetings, publicly, etc. - and try to persuade them.)
> the rights holders were planning to set up their own networks anyway

I really wish they'd gone through with the original Hulu plan of being co-owned by the major networks and stream all their content.
Sure it does!
https://wiki.makerdiary.com/nrf52832-mdk/
That's what they'd certainly like you to believe. The success of ycombinator depends on it!
I’ve discovered that paper a couple years back and indeed, once you hear it it just makes total sense, in a funny way
You can go ahead and define it as centered on the cube. That still demonstrates the strange nature of high-dimensional spheres even if there wasn't a unique solution for touching all the other spheres.
> Admittedly I've never watched the Goon Show

Being a radio show, you could watch it with your eyes closed.

As radio shows go, it was actually very visual.
>My spouse worked for the state government as part of a benefits/disbursement program. She took phone calls from benefits recipients

Not to excuse bad behavior, but one of the arguments for UBI is that it could help streamline the convoluted systems of government benefits; under a simpler basic-income system perhaps those callers would be fewer and less angry.
There's alot that people aren't taught.

https://standpointmag.co.uk/the-troubling-legacy-of-martin-l...
> So poor people are lazy and the rich aren't?

I’ll tell you a secret: rich people don’t work. Most rich people just work enough to maintain their wealth. You just don’t see them because there are not CEOs or celebrities.
The article says that yes, it worked on previous models.
Not if it was paid for by a tax on rental income. 100% tax on everything over the equivalent mortgage payment on the property would be a lovely cap on rent values.
We've done that experiment. The results are self-evident.

This isn't suggestive, valid science. It's the equivalent of setting up a "scientific" contraption that purports to be a perpetual motion machine. You can create a pretty convincing fake perpetual motion machine, but because we have a broader theory of mechanics, we know perpetual motion is impossible, that the purported machine must be cheating somehow (even if it's not immediately obvious), and that to give funding for further study based on that machine's existence would be absolutely stupid.
My layman’s interpretation is that creativity thrives under constraint.

The Office and Parks and Rec struck creative gold under strict network constraints. Easy to produce, affordable ensemble cast, relatable content. Then, as they found their footing, they could expand upon this soulful base and have more elaborate sets, celebrity guests, broad plot arcs, etc.

By contrast, Netflix shows are unconstrained, working from the other end. They are trying to spend endless money to emulate these predecessor shows in the late stage when they were massively successful, rather than when they were uncertain and fledgling.

I think Space Force is a good example of this. All the right pieces to make a hugely successful show, high budget VFX, setpieces etc, but no soul.
According to one study, if you're 50/50 on quitting, you'll end up significantly happier if you quit: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2020-levitt.pdf (p18, Table 5).

Research on psychology (loss aversion) suggests the same thing, AFAICT.
The fact that properly done experiments have the same outcome doesn't mean that these "let's go to the psych department from 1-4 this afternoon to get a $50 gift card" pseudo-experiments hold any real value.
Most definitively, but at least people who do not have connections inside of google could stay in businesses. Which speaks to just how big of an issue all of this is.
I looked up several, most were unfinished, many just a table of contents.
Black people were protesting these statues in the 60s too. A more realistic viewpoint is that it took nearly 60 years to gain enough power to do something about them.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/black-protestors-have...

If you want to continue trashing BLM, maybe look into how MLK was received in the 60s. There are a lot of people trying to amp up myths to intentionally use MLK to disparage BLM. Make sure you're not unintentionally getting caught up in that.
> In short, currencies are usually bad choice for store of value.

> Also I recommend people not use crypto as investment, that is probably not smart idea to consider long chain of cryptographic signatures and hashes as a large portion of investment on your future.

Re-read what you wrote there again for me. How do you pay for any goods or services if you:

> dump it as quickly as possible to buy physical assets

So, like cars that depreciate in value the second you buy them? (note - I recognize the last 2 years this has not been the case...but thats a historic anomaly) What other physical assets are you aware of that consistently outpace inflation? Housing? What else?

> or other investments

Like ones denominated in....US currency?
Strongly agree.

I lucked into some great coworkers for my first two jobs out of college. I assumed the whole industry was this way.

Then eventually a company came along and offered me compensation that I couldn't refuse. I joined assuming I'd be surrounded by good coworkers as before, but I was wrong. It was toxic from the top down, but they used the high compensation (including back-loaded vesting schedules and signing bonuses with long retention periods) as a hook to keep employees in the toxic environment.

I made a lot of money, but it took a major toll on my health. I ended up taking time off after leaving that job, to the point that the extra compensation was largely a wash relative to what I could have made somewhere else.

YMMV. There are great companies with great compensation, great tech stacks, and great people. But it's rare to get the entire combination in one. FAANG type jobs with an easy manager might be the most repeatable option, but even there you can end up with a bad department or bad manager that defines your experience. Nothing is guaranteed.
Something not talked about often, but I wonder if basic income might lower the "applicability" of what people spend their time on. I know if money were not an issue I'd spend my time working on projects that sound fun, but might not have a path to profitability.

Money, besides being a motivator is also a signal to markets on what people want.
We don't have UBI in the US and many people here would say the same.

I think many are quick to conclude motivation is the cause without considering any less visible underlying reasons that cause people to be in those situations.
Yup, never heard of it.
On the basis of brain: neural-network-inspired changes in general-purpose chips
Nobody wonders why people don't want ads and want cheaper content. But these shows everyone watches cost a lot of money.
> There’s really no good reason to stick your neck out at a dysfunctional place

I'm reading "The Pentagon Wars" [0], about how US Military used to develop weapon systems in the 70s and 80s; here's an anecdote from the book:

> General Gavin recounted how he had to bury fifty young men near the village of Gela, Sicily, in 1943.1 The men had pieces of their own bazookas ground into their bodies by the German tanks they had been trying to stop. Their new bazookas had failed to stop the tanks. General Gavin condemned the Ordnance Corps for not testing the bazookas against German tanks that had been captured in North Africa. There had been considerable controversy back in the States over the development of the bazookas. At least one prominent scientist on the project had resigned because of his conviction that the warhead was too small to stop a tank. Sadly, he was proved correct. General Gavin was angry that the Ordnance Corps bureaucracy had given his troops an untested weapon.

The book is great for a number of reasons one of which is describing how defense contractors were compensated on delivery not the quality. The bulk of the book deals with Bradley fighting vehicle development that was a death trap. James Burton, the author, ends up being pushed out of the military for raising a lot stink about the Bradley but not before making a huge difference in the design of the vehicle, that ends up saving a lot of lives.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
> You're ignoring the fact that they chose not to work during a pandemic, at jobs that almost universally had very poor protection for employees - little to no PPE, in some cases not even hand sanitizer and/or soap

Are you friends with any roofers?