skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to be careful about being a technology reactionary and just finding confirmation bias: e.g., I'm tired of change and find something that confirms my frustration.

One trick I use to shake up my persective is to remember the other side of the equation: When change occurs, some things are lost, but also some are gained. In some ways, I expect we function better reading on screens. Or I try to look at it the other way, remembering that there is nothing more natural about the older technology (usually) - it's only what we are accustomed to - i.e., what if instead of moving from technology A to B, we were moving from B to A? And then remembering: A has matured (being older); B usually has not but, if adopted, will mature.

One thing I would guess, if moving from screen to paper, is that the technology wouldn't keep up with our cognitive processing; I think we just accept that paper is that way, but personally, having switched to reading PDFs (with bookmarks, search, etc.), I find paper very slow for any sort of random access. Also, I expect that as screen reading tech matures, the level of stress distraction will become much less. As a simple example, look at the recent boom (afaict) of applications offering and people using dark mode and night color mode.

Another trick I use is to remember the outcomes for past reactionaries: They are popular and self-justified in the moment, but in the end all they did was waste time and miss out.
It really does and I agree this is the biggest and most difficult problem we face as a species.
Very true, but if you can delay the inevitable long enough to get a substantial part of the population vaccinated, then there is value in that.

However, that strategy fails when you don't have access to the vaccine.
I'm a software engineer and no one I know owns crypto.

Everyone is in their own bubble these days.
IIRC, that's the default verbiage that goes out when someone pulls the "oh shit" lever.
Whoa, thank you! I’d had that same question, and now that makes much more sense.
They issue more stock and the existing investors’ ownership is diluted.
I use NextDNS which works pretty well but yes it does seem like ads on platforms like this are creeping back in.
> I don’t really care that much what Karen from high school thinks of her morning latte and spending the time to improve my feed is just not worth it to me.

If you're not interested in content from people in your social network, then I don't understand what you're expecting to get out of a social network anyway. Facebook isn't a bad way to keep up with friends and family, but if you don't like your friends on any platform then you're probably not going to have a good time.

In other words: You're not their target customer. As with any business, trying to extrapolate your own use case on to the general public is going to be very misleading.
It's not mandated by POSIX: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/g...
Large portions of AWS are widely regarded as waking nightmares. Elsewhere largely seems to be fine.
Nah, they're looking for those who get that endorphin rush when something works which they then exploit. Seen this since the '80s. "Young, smart, willing to work til you drop - you're our kind of hire"
doesn't seem very Amazonian to me lol
Apparently so is HN
I looked into this again and the hotkey situation seems more unclear than I suggested. You could not log into your Battle.net account, so it would have been somewhat time consuming to change all of your settings manually. If I had to guess, I might wager that Serral changed some of the more important ones manually but not the others, but this is just conjecture and maybe he changed all of them. I don't know if anyone but Serral would know this, however.

In any case, Serral said this, which you can take as you will:

https://twitter.com/ENCE_Serral/status/1192023800961019904

"It was okay, I doubt i would lose too many games with a proper setup. I think the 6.3-6.4 mmr is pretty accurate, so not bad at all but nothing special at the same time."

On the one hand, surely it doesn't seem surprising that the player who lost, the human, would say the above, and so one may be skeptical of how unbiased Serral's assessment is. On the other hand, I would say that Serral is among the more frank and level-headed players I've seen in the various videogames I've followed, so I wouldn't be too hasty to write off his assessment for this reason.
I have this too. Someone had a good list of things to be doing to optimize your environment. They definitely help. I would add:
1. putting on pyjamas at a certain time every day (e.g. 9:30 pm).
2. not eating anything after 8-9 pm, only drinking water.
3. have other activities like reading to do in the 1-2 hours before bed.
4. no stimulants in the afternoon. No chocolate in the evening. (easy to ignore but makes a big difference).

The biggest psychological bad-habit I had to get over was ignoring my body/mind when I felt tired. If that means falling asleep in weird places, slightly earlier than expected or when there was still something I felt I needed to do, then just accept defeat for that day and let sleep take you over. Allowing my ego to accept defeat at the end of every day, to let sleep be the victor, that is the best way I can frame it for myself. In the end we're creatures that need sleep and to deny my own biology in that regard will lead to my own undoing.
My understanding is that melatonin is a threshold kind of thing, so it makes sense to dial in a specific dose. For me I found that 1mg gave me as much "get to sleep" effect as 10mg, so I would just use 1. I wasn't able to find dosages less than 1mg so I never experimented further.

For me, I took melatonin before bed for a month or two and then stopped, and when I stopped I didn't notice my time-until-sleep being any different. My assumption is that my natural melatonin production eventually started happening at the right time once my circadian rhythm was fixed and the supplemental melatonin wasn't needed.
I guess it’s hard to make ads look organic when it’s chronological?
But it does! Author is just plain wrong.

Here there is piece of the very important math research which community failed to replicated in either positive way (confirm it) or negative way (reject it)
A. Google a multi-billion dollar company does things that impact (billions?) of paying users without caring about consequences.

or

B. All those things were considered and in the end the executives though it was worth the backlash and the risk of paying a fine.
Facebook doesn’t sell consumer data. They sell ads which they target using consumer data. Not at all the same thing.
And this is how we reach the technological singularity and how programmers become as equivalently out-of-demand as piano tuners: self-programming systems.

AI will eat any and all knowledge work because there's very little special a human can do that a machine won't be able to do eventually, and much faster and better. It won't be tomorrow, but the sands are inevitably shifting this way.
This whole fiasco has me convinced that the medical industry suffers from the same hubris, profiteering, and strange collective delusion and ignorance that caused the 2008 financial crisis.

I'm old enough to remember the financial crisis, when it was always assumed that things couldn't be as bad as they were because there's no way thousands of high paid bankers could all be so reckless and have it wrong at once. After all, these are the smartest people in the world, right? Surely they saw this coming. Surely they're not that foolish...

Well, it turns out they didn't see it coming and they were that foolish. It turns out they were all consumed by arrogance and, collectively, were far more incompetent than anyone was willing to give them credit for.

The inescapable fact is we don't know the long term effects of lockdowns.
And everything (absolutely EVERYTHING) is open and published
I'm still a Facebook user (over 30, with kids, friends all over the world, and lots of groups that I care about), but the Reels thing is making me seriously consider leaving for good. It's awful, cringeworthy intrusive clickbaity videos from random kids I've never heard of every few posts on my feed. I clicked the X to make it go away but surprise, it's back. At this point their demographic is not the TikTok demographic, and they're just going to drive their remaining users away trying to force that.
I used to work at Amazon.

I have a bunch of friends that either work on dev tools, or used to. Relative to the rest of AMZN, thats the team you want to be for work-life balance and promotions :)
Pilots spend a lot of time on simulators, I believe.

Seems like there would be economies of scale if the federal government created some really realistic simulators programmed with all the common accident situations and then everybody could be required to pass a test every four years or something.

I imagine it would be so much more enjoyable and hopefully more effective than the defensive driving classes that exist now.
Pixel art platformers are easy to make and have the capacity for timeless fun. Try not to be too harsh. My kids drawings are crude but I appreciate them for what they are to me. Games and art I made as a kid and teen were also mostly for fun.

While it did cross over to excessive at some point, I learned and moved on. Now I'm not living the game dev dream of my youth but enjoying an easier life as a boring programmer/manager. And I still enjoy simple and complex games alone and with family.
The fact of generating words programmatically is hard to mask. You end up with all kinds of computational biases humans don't have.
> Zelda Randomizer https://alttpr.com/en

Not to mention the mindblowing Super Metroid / A Link to the Past
Crossover Randomizer [1], which had a race at SGDQ 2019 [2].

[1] https://samus.link/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uujsW7yFkZU
I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time following what thing I said you're objecting to.
Final Fantasy VI is not a game about Japanese culture. Turning onigiri into donuts is one thing, but good localization needs to help the new audience understand the story as it was interpreted by its original audience.

That said, most of the censorship in this game had little to do with "cultural norms" and a lot to do with Nintendo of America applying extremely strict standards to games, which itself had as much to do with politics and market maneuvering as it did American culture:

https://www.filfre.net/2021/04/the-ratings-game-part-2-the-h...

> Senator Lieberman: So, people actually complain that they can’t have the more violent game on the Nintendo system?
> Howard Lincoln: That’s correct. Letters and phone calls say, “Leave in the violence! You’re censoring!”
can confirm, am an Amazon engineer, morale is terrible, am also leaving this month.
Interpretation of the title is completely wrong. Restrictions did have effect but severity was not the most important factor.
Apologies, I don't quite follow your reasoning.
The fundamental assumption of this paper is wrong.

In an epidemic, there is a sharp transition between exponential growth and decline. There is also a fundamental difference between temporarily reducing case numbers and then letting them grow again, and reducing case numbers to zero.

Some countries, like China, New Zealand and Australia, competely eliminated the virus using lockdowns and other measures (like contact tracing).

Other countries locked down, but not hard enough to get rid of the virus. Then they reopened and let the virus spread like wildfire.

Treating these two strategies as the same is nonsensical.

The zero-CoVID strategy (China, NZ, etc.) is fundamentally different from the mitigation strategy (most countries). They both use lockdowns, but in very different ways and with competely different outcomes.
Academia is a rather poor choice if your goal is income (industry pays much better). I agree that academia isn't as idealistic as one often presents it, but the principle currency in academia isn't money but prestige. Plagiarism and other forms of academic fraud are largely motivated by an attempt to look smarter and more productive than one is in order to win recognition from one's peers.
During the time they added stories to Instagram there was still more signal then noise. I enjoyed them because my friends shared casually and it was actually fun to go along on their vacation or bike ride, and not just see the perfectly composed photos which are usually the more polished summary of what the stories covered.

At this point, IG is Facebook. The feed is a slurry of signal, random suggestions, shitty ‘memes,’ and ads. When I stumble onto a Reel somehow, it’s the same crap. Stories worked for me because it was my friends. Reels is just random flotsam, and it seems like a ton of it is just reposts from TikTok anyway.

Meta’s repeating pattern is to enter every new format, screw with the chronology and cram it full of robo-content until it’s unbearable to look at. That Zuck calls chasing short-form video fad a long-term strategy is pretty telling. They have nothing but crap to sell, and if (if) Metaverse turns out to be anything, it will just be more crap, but you’d have to have your face inside a helmet in order to to enjoy the boomer arguments, shitty ‘memes,’ TikTok reposts and whatever else the content slurry that yields the most engagement is.
The automated suggestion finding alternative seems poorly done and stuffed with ads:

- https://www.libhunt.com/posts/564420-lifetimes-clones-and-cl... (what's a post?)

- https://www.libhunt.com/r/owning-ref-rs (Tokio is unrelated to owning-ref, fluent.js isn't even the same language, and Scout APM is a stealth ad, not an alternative, and "fortify" wasn't even mentioned).

- https://www.libhunt.com/libretro/RetroArch (351ELEC doesn't run on the same hardware as RetroArch, aliaspider/pcsx2 is an outdated fork of the actual PCSX2, and SonarQube is a stealth ad).

In fact for the first two URLs, I think I found libhunt.com in Google search results, and they were entirely useless. To me it's worthless SEO spam like Pinterest.
Any suggestions as to where one might find those glimpses of the future? I enjoy HN for the high average IQ of the conversations, but I'm always looking for new venues.
Repeatable and repeated are not the same thing. The Milgram experiment is repeatable in principle. It is falsifiable. The reasons to doubt the claimed results are not because we can't do it again, but because of the details of how it was done.

We also should not do it again.
This is made up out of whole cloth. I've never in my life seen a education analysis where C grades outperform the rest, give me a break.
The reason that comprehension is decreased, is that when using a smartphone, you are mentally in the "world" of the smart phone, no doubt different for each person, but for me involving a bunch of unconscious behaviors such as: swiping, changing from app to app, scrolling, etc. The phone is a focal point & battleground of the attention economy. So many forces attacking your attention, few of which are in your best interests or serve your goals.

An iPhone can be configured to work in your interests, but it takes quite a bit of effort. Aggressively curate the notifications. Turn most of them off. Put the phone on silent. Turn on all the "humane" features Apple has developed: the focuses, "wind-down," the sleep aids, etc. At night, leave your phone on your desk. Do not take it into your bedroom. Read a book in the bedroom.

Try to use the phone to achieve specific goals, which you pre-mediate. That's the goal.

Paper books exist in a totally different and simpler economy. It's not that they're perfect, but they're simpler. They're more about authors genuinely communicating their thoughts directly to you. There's an innocence lacking from smartphones.

You can feel this if you pay attention. A smartphone gives me a stimulated, "something cool around the next corner," "on the verge of fulfillment" kind of feeling. That's why it can suck you in for literal hours if you let it. The feeling in many cases is a lie. You'll find yourself just swiping and tapping for no reason at all, just automatically, unconsciously. That's the trick of "variable rewards" e.g. a phone is a slot machine. A book is a quieter more peaceful feeling. You're just reading the author's words, one after another. You have no option to switch to something else. The magic of books is created by your own active attention & focus. Some people can probably achieve this on a phone, but it's definitely harder.
AI Visible Thoughts Project
The same people who spent money to provide much of France's electricity with nuclear. The ones who built Japanese and American and Russian and Canadian and Chinese nuclear plants.

The rambling anti-nuclear / pro-carbon rhetoric somehow handwaves about how you can't do that and how renewables will magically solve everything. They were wrong 50 years ago, they were wrong 20 years ago, they're wrong now. Nuclear power still provides as much electricity as wind and solar combined. Today.
No. Facebook lost users globally for the first time in its history. This is probably the biggest take. Facebook has peaked.
When you rip it open you'll find Skype for a heart.
Yeah idk I thought the same last time but somehow Facebook always comes back buy buying everything And copying everyone
> The PC games are amazing

I'm a PC gamer and have a very capable PC but haven't bought any VR equipment because I don't know what I'd play.

The issue is probably that I'm not looking for an excuse to buy a headset, I'm waiting for a reason. I don't seek out information for VR and none of it is getting through to me.
Finally, someone with a similar Facebook experience to my own. I've been reading threads about how horrific the FB feed is for years, but my own is literally 99% updates from friends I don't get to see, and an occasional ad (that is interesting more often than not). Glad to know I'm not completely alone!
Not a gamer, but isn’t that list a smidge underwhelming? I’m sure “hundred days” the winemaking simulator is a fun time, but is that really part of the flagship 60?
I believe that the way forward isn't complex UIs or things like ribbons. Command palettes [1] solve most of the problems of discoverability while also helping power users by giving them quick access through shortcuts or highly configurable settings.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373536
Stock price changes after earnings are almost always in reaction to changes in future guidance rather than the past quarter's performance.
> Out of all the health problems one might have, improving sleep is the easiest to fix

… when the sleep problem is internal. Dependents with their own sleep problems are not often dealt with easily.
Except for the Superb, which was their own design and actually a notch above anything else made at that time by VAG.
It's only really a win-win if the backpack was the best choice you could have made if you were fully informed about the entire market.

And that best choice is probably from the manufacturer that spends the most on making their product. Not the one spending the most on advertising. This undermines the win-win concept.
A console game generating $500 million+ in revenues, a high performance optimising compiler used in production, an embedded web server used by companies in the field, Android software used for warehouse management, commercial 3D engines etc. And much more I can’t remember right now. Why?
In reality this is devaluing existing crypto relative to other assets. The OP still stands in that money does not flow into crypto. It's not a black hole. Fiat money is being traded for an asset between two parties. The other party gets the fiat.

In other words, you can't create or destroy USD (for example) through a cryptocurrency. You can only affect the cryptocurrency itself. Otherwise we'd have a large problem on our hands...
Thank you for the great tip.

1. Yes, I have those metrics.

Here's how I imagine I'd carry it out:

1. manually send an email with a link to a survey on google forms

2. if they fill out the survey, offer $ to chat on the phone

3. If they don't fill out the survey, pester up to 3 more times to take the survey. Use different email copy each time, gently remind them to take survey and reply in the same email chain.

In the 4th email, write "understand they're busy. If they get a chance, please take the survey. Thank you."

If you find problems with the above sequence, please let me know.
Depends on the company. Dilution is normal, but some companies are buying back stock to use up excess cash; in this case, they can issue those shares to employees.
I see. Nice work!
> There is never a step where I hold any opinion over what the user should do.

What do you mean "never"? If you've put one button on top of the other, you've just created a hierachy. You are telling the user that button is more important than the lower button.

Have you ever hidden elements until it can be revealed by click on "more" button? That's you telling the user it isn't as important as unhidden elements.

Have you made defaults? That's you nudging the user into what _you_ think is the sensible choice.

In my opinion, design is fundamentally about having an opinion. A refined opinion that matches a lot of users is what is commonly deemed to be "good design", but obviously not a design never match all users.

> What I want is irrelevant. What matters is what I think the user wants.

What you think the user want is still what you want. But I think I get what you mean here, you don't like the anti-patterns and nudges that drive users to do what is "worse" for them. I agree with you there but I would argue that they are all still "design". Design is about manipulating people and whether you do it for good or bad is a moral choice.
Hope Zuck has been selling some of that stock on the reg so he's got real cash when the Meta train comes to the end of the line.
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Amazon is notorious within tech for being cutthroat. The impression I've gotten from the outside looking in and knowing people who've worked for Amazon is that stack ranking and firing the bottom 5-10% every year was and still is standard operating procedure. It may even be that positions get filled by managers explicitly for that person to be fired to protect the rest of the team.

On top of that, the vesting schedule sucks (5/15/40/40%) and the RSU value is overstated: it assumes growth in the stock (no other FAANG does this). Yes I know there's a sign on bonus. No I don't care.

So in such an environment, what would motivate someone that would get paid 20% less to ostensibly get a day off when you still need to be compared to your colleagues who are working the extra day? It seems like setting people up for failure and paying them less for the "privilege".
The overarching theme I'm seeing is one of FB jumping into whatever format bored people turn to, then slowly cramming it w/ ads until those eyeballs drift to the next fad, rinse and repeat.

Regardless of how one might dislike it, the "generate outrage => show ads" thing has been working just peachy for Fox and friends. So my cynical take is that FB will continue to do just fine even as people shift to different consumption formats, and even if tiktok took over the world, because fundamentally, bored people will always exist and fads come and go.
I don't know how they compare but here's another edit that's 1080p and about 50gb: http://www.maple-films.com/downloads.html
Good point. In that case, legislation can be amended to close previously-invisible loopholes.