skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were useful once upon a time I think, but those days are long and gone in my opinion. And they are leeches. They are the prime example of making money off of people's data (which is at least one instance of their being parasitic). Maybe back in the day this was acceptable because their search and Gmail benefitted users, but I don't see that anymore. For Gmail, I currently use Gmail because it just happened to be the best e-mail 18 years ago, and it's hard to switch. There's very little about it today that makes it the best.

Over the past six years, they've made $755 billion and not a cent paid to people for the use and sell of their data. And all because they provide services like ads above searches and link to shopping websites and Wikipedia, meanwhile selling people's data to whoever? Honestly, it's so hard to use Google as an actual search engine it feels like Google is more like a directory these days. Like, when I have to input a search as:

"yes" "i" "really" "want" "to" "search" "these" "terms"

something is broken. The only other product of Google that I really use besides their search and Gmail is YouTube, and that's only because it's entrenched. It's pretty adversarial towards, well, everyone except copyright holders.
A72 cores are faster in this specific instance, but more generally there's a ton more support for the Pi-based boards so doing any work with them is easier than other SoCs.
Sony Buys Bungie
Does your program looks at past results and infers who's going to win somehow?
The gym that I go to (and pay for) have ads on most of the displays (some are running TV programs). Ads for local businesses and “upgrade your membership TODAY”. It irks me. I don’t want to be distracted by these flashing screens.

But I guess there is no law that says that patrons should be shielded from ads. And I don’t think they would listen if I gave them a complaint (why would they give up a source of revenue?). So I don’t know what can be done about it short of a concerted effort by many members. And they (and myself) would probably not be motivated enough to go to that level of effort just to get rid of some irksome ads.
Ahh, so it's this specific scenario that requires the staking of ones's life. Got it.
(Author of eRPC.) I'm glad you've found the project useful, and my apologies for the code and build quality, and NIC compatibility issues that you faced. I'm very interested in learning from your experience (perhaps even as a GitHub issue on our repo), especially w.r.t. how the code organization should be improved, although I understand the list might be too long :).

I know of some issues myself that I plan to fix, e.g., using macros to decide which Transport class to use -- this should just use virtual methods; messy inter-mixing of congestion control and packet I/O; some "performance optimizations" like preallocated buffers that are just not worth it.
> Its curated because people attempt to confirm and verify the information

Isn't the Tom Brady retirement news fiasco enough to convince you that most media does not confirm and verify information?

For those not familiar with this...

"NFL Twitter Revels in Tom Brady Retirement Fiasco: ‘Gisele Asked Tom to Take the Garbage Out Now That Hes Retired and Tom Had Second Thought’s Real Quick’"

https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-news-twitter-revels-in...
In what sense isn't it relevant? I still feel this is too focused on business and revenue against real value to society. Is a US$ 40-50k Model 3 more valuable to society, as a whole, than 10 simpler EV the size of a golf cart being used by people who can't afford a US$ 40-50k car?
Exactly this. I would rather take the "most unsafe" vaccine of the last 30 years than take an Advil. (I am a biochemist)
I do ~900 km trips with 2019 Model 3 SR+ multiple times per year in Scandinavia. -20°C winter temperatures are not unusual. Travelling with my family, including young kids. No problems. 2-3 hours driving, then 30-50 min charging. I actually like how EV forces you to have more breaks.
The developers are there but they are so far removed from the customer experience that it seems like they aren't. Large companies don't like developers talking directly with customers because they tend to speak frankly and honestly.
Ha, no, that's not his name. I'd have to think about it for a bit to recall the name, it's been a few years now. He retired :(
This is great - I really hope to see this take hold. I work for a key player in the legal software space, and easily-parsed contracts would be a game-changer for us. Especially in regards to billing reconciliation between two firms, where there can be a lot of back-and-forth over contract terms. Being able to easily parse and present the terms of a contract could change this forever.

I noticed that it seems to be limited to 50 contracts per month currently. Are there plans for larger tiers?
This thing looks far too much like a digestive tract for me to ever consider going inside it willingly. I suppose after direct observation for a while I might be more comfortable with the creature but I feel like I'd never get past that initial feeling...
One of the services I happily pay for is Youtube Premium, though I could do without also having to pay for Youtube Music at the same time. I have same experience as you, when I somehow not logged in to Youtube. It’s a surreal mess and it’s the same 5 - 10 ads, if it’s that many, on repeat. It’s unusable.

Technically I don’t use and ad block, I just run DuckDuckGo’s privacy plugin. You can show me ads, but not track me, weirdly enough it’s 98% the same result. It facinating that ad tech cannot see the difference between ads and tracking.
I managed to get a 48" flex bit stuck in my wall when I was running ethernet last summer. Since it was the last hole I needed and it only cost me $9 at Harbor Freight, I left it in the wall and called it good. The $90 bit from Home Depot probably would have meant removing a bunch of drywall and then having to patch it.

The batteries on my ~20 year old Craftsman cordless drill are finally getting to the point where they won't hold a charge. I'll probably have to bite the bullet and wade into the mess of "brand-name" tools the next time I have a significant project.
> If f is a smooth function with df=0, then f is constant.

Why would this be wrong? If the derivative is zero everywhere, how would the function not be constant? Or does this mean something completely different?
The legal system is a bad fix for this, though.

The most they could reasonably do here is attempt to sue for fraud for lost time and salary paid. It's unlikely that they can bring a criminal fraud case, so they have to prove damages.

Damages in this case are probably

- Lost time interviewing

- Any salary paid

If they caught this on day 1, they just don't have enough damages to make this worth pursuing (aka - they lose far more money trying to actually bring a case than they would be just firing him immediately and eating the lost time).

Basically - why waste time on a small claims verdict against this guy for trivial amounts of money?

The courts aren't going to lock him up for this, and even if they win, he can still go right to the next company and try again.

This is the kind of thing that other professions attempt to solve with extra-legal associations and certifications (ex: a lawyer might be disbarred for this - an action taken by the bar association that revokes his attorney's license, making it impossible for him to practice in areas that require such a license).

But software really has no such guardrails in current society (both a blessing and a curse).

I don't really know what it is you'd prefer this company have done in this case.
I've noticed they go hand in hand. Fast food or junk food ads showing amazing looking food that doesn't actually look that way, insurance ads to make sure you're a little worried, and then medication to solve many of the ills from eating junk food.
He's been saying that for years though, from the time he perpetuated 9/11 being an inside job, to arguing that the moon landing was a hoax, to his current position on COVID. What exact mindset inspired by Joe Rogan would you advocate for people? To believe in and promote fringe opinions for the sake of being contrarian, and then after some degree of damage has been done you go ahead apologize for it, say you're going to work harder only until the next fringe idea comes along for you to capitalize off of?

I don't agree that such a mindset would help accomplish much.
It’s true, but if the incentive for the employer is just to terminate, and there is no other consequence, then there is no dis-incentive for the fraudulent employee to keep trying until they find someplace their deception is unnoticed.
I have yet to find a question Reddit has a good answer for, so I also add `-site:reddit.com` if my query has been SEO'd into a page full of their spam.

The net-net of all of this is that I buy a lot more stuff from brick and mortar stores now, where they've done the curation, and will only carry the stuff that sells best per square foot, and minimizes their returns.
Indeed. The first Nissan Leaf had a 20 kwh battery in 2010. The latest model you can get in a 40kwh and a 60kwh variant. And you can upgrade the battery in that original one with a 40kwh one that is a drop in replacement for the original one. The next ten years are going to be interesting. Assuming nothing will change seems more foolish than most other predictions. IMHO 2x capacity improvement is pretty much a done deal. There are multiple viable paths; it's just a matter of building and scaling production for this. 4x is very likely and 8x not unimaginable. More a question of when than if. 8x is probably going to take a while.
Hey HN! A while back I posted about Archivy, a knowledge base I was working on that encouraged archival of online content (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199419).

I realized that one of the reasons knowledge management is overpowered is that you can create this tapestry of knowledge and ideas compounding off each other, and that's even more true if you integrate it with content from online.

This process is useful but it takes time to link and tag. So I decided to try and see how we could automate it!

Espial creates an auto-generated organization of our knowledge, conceptually and structurally.

This allows you to discover new connections in your ideas and search them based on meaning, not keywords.

The show hn links to the code, but I explain more of Espial's goals here: https://www.uzpg.me/tech/2022/01/31/redefining-pkm-with-nlp

Hope you like it!
Nobody is shaming devs for making/wanting to make money. We're asserting rights to control the systems that are intimate with our lives as opposed to being hamstrung by fly-by-night operations.

Free software is not against allowing people to make money. In fact, their model is that people are paid to make changes and support the free software and those changes are shared. And it's still possible to make software and get paid without sharing it.

Free software in fact depends on legal protection.
Coincidentally, this has happened to me a few times!
Ad companies gave up any right to not be blocked decades ago when they were serving actively malicious stuff that would backdoor browsers and own earlier versions of Windows. Since then it has been irresponsible to use the internet without a robust ad-blocker.
@sed -ne '/@sed/!s/## //p' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
Cook county IL (the county that encompasses Chicago) legalized some forms of gambling (not in Chicago). Gas stations, bars & even hair salons now have game rooms in them.

I find it pretty sad as there is no glamor at all in dunking dollars into bad slot machines at a shell station. But I didn’t find the scratch off tickets they sold at the counter glamorous either.
Peridot: Developer machine management for Linux/OS X
A lot of times the price differential is such that I can buy two or three of item x for the price of a single premium version. If you seldom use the tool and it isn’t getting handled a lot (transportation, etc), this is the way. You can replace the item and still come out ahead.

There’s also that motto of “I’m too poor to buy it twice”, which comes into play when item y has a price like 75% of the premium version and/or you know the tool will have some rough travel and high demand, or time lost from outage isn’t acceptable. Then just spend the money on known-solid brands.

Reviews are an area where I really value specialized forums more than social media or blogs or industry publications.

In all cases with reviews even when no monetization involved, there can be a bandwagon mentality for brands and also people convincing themselves the high price they paid matters for something (even though it may not).
There are other causes of inflation, and a commodity-based currency makes it harder to control.

You can see this in action in the historical inflation chart for the pound sterling (GBP), where data is available since 1750:

https://www.in2013dollars.com/UK-inflation

The gold standard was suspended in 1931. You can see wild swings between inflation and deflation before that year (with an overall trend towards inflation, as the pound did lose value over the centuries). Most economists believe steady low inflation is preferable.
Thanks all great points and I think I was trying to match the tone of the parent comment, sorry if it comes off sounding arrogant or gate-keepy that was never my intention.

The elitism you sensed was just me struggling to articulate my frustration of going through the rigorous academic route, yet in this industry there is a plague of graphic/10-week UX bootcamp designers who are polishing portfolios and getting hired above junior levels and thus dragging down the field of UX design when they make deleterious design decisions in a user interface and are either uninterested in or too inexperienced to run proper usability testing or UX research methods to evaluate unintended/harmful designs.

“The market seems to want generalists, because they seem cost effective, and because most operations are too small to support a team of specialists,” says Steve Krug, a veteran usability specialist and author of the influential book Don’t Make Me Think. “But I think it’s pretty hard to be really good at more than one of the many subspecialties. It’s a conundrum.”

The skillset to understanding user mental models and behavior is a key component of being a great UX designer and allows you to illuminate where harms exist in design and that can be mitigated when design matches user mental models on a user population representative level. Having this skillset and design practice would have easily caught the issue presented in the OP regarding confusing button schemes in the Tesla V11 UI update.

The fact that it was pushed out to Tesla drivers without nuanced user testing by UX professionals (UX researchers if we break it down into specialization), says a lot about the design team at Tesla, or lack thereof. All this has nothing to do with the developers who are simply taking these designs and implementing them, who are typically overworked and focused on delivering features driven by success of measured KPIs.
So where is the proof that all parties signed located? On your servers? So do I rely on your company still offering the service if there is a contract dispute 5 years down the line, or how do you proof in court that the contract was signed?

Second question: would you sign ndas since a lot of contracts are confidential?
Re: grappling with how to update registration prices after an ENS domain expires --

Different stakeholders want the expiration auctions to work differently. For starters, there are the Devs, ENS owners, ENS users, domain speculators, token speculators, ENS newbies, and more.

Normally this would just be "devs and community", i.e. "we listened to the community and took suggestions". But with ENS anyone can own tokens and vote on what actually happens to the protocol.

There's discussions happening on Discord, in the forum, and twitter to figure out what to do. Then there's another layer where token owners choose delegates and those delegates vote.

It's exciting to see this kind of structure come together, where the friction is, and what ultimately gets built. It's unlikely this specific DAO will succeed, but part of it will work and the model will improve. Imagine a world where this works and all stakeholders play a role in how Twitter, Spotify, or even HackerNews change. Super interesting to me. Understand that the docs and UI for all of this needs a lot of work so that others can join in.
>> Expected range plummeted from 500km to 300km. Actual range was more like 250km, probably thanks to the cold temperatures.

It is currently -17c where I am. Expected to go down to -28c in the next couple days. A 250km range in winter is simply unacceptable in my area (northernish canada). That is only a couple hours at highway speeds. But the real killer remains the absolute temperature limits on the batteries. If it cannot handle -45c without invalidating some warranty, then it just isn't useable. I cannot afford to spend that sort of money on something that I cannot park outside.
There are! I just had no idea how positive the reception would be. If you're interested in a higher tier, just reach out to the email in my profile and we'll set something up.
Writing your own emails or resume isn't required or expected. Some people have assistants that do a lot of work by proxy of you. Its just very awkward that it becomes noticeable in a negative manner in the workplace.
That’s not how Netflix works. Netflix pays a one time fee for content to be in its platform. It’s not a pay per play deal like Spotify.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of sponsorblock. Thanks!
It's like the flip version of the guy that got let go and then re-recruited for his just vacated position.

https://twitter.com/firr/status/1456324664628846599
At some point we need to decide as a culture to reject advertising. Stop putting ads on our own websites and apps, stop linking to sites that advertise. Either charge me money for the content or give it for free. The world will become a better place. Less compromises and capitulations to advertising companies, less mindless consumerism, less distractions. More funding for actually good content (thus a monetary incentive to create it), lower consumer prices (from less money spent on advertising).
Knowing long-term effects (1+ years) is not a precondition of approval for most vaccines. It just so happens that vaccines usually take a long time for approval, so we end up knowing long-term effects as a side effect.

This is because there generally isn't a known mechanism for vaccines to have long term effects. Not ruling out the possibility, but we understand how vaccines work pretty well. Also, most vaccines are subject to a cost/benefit analysis anyway (we don't give the rabies vaccine out to everyone) so the miniscule chance of having long term effects has to be weighed against the much more likely long term effects of the disease.
Google has turned just 24 years old and is allready a monster since more than a decade. Historical Google was just us being blazed by the promises of the future.

They single handedly lead the assault on our online privacy. Not that no others were trying, but they succeeded.
Thank you for the link to the book. It reminds me of a product I worked on. The first version was command-driven, because that's what us programmers were used to. When our own sales people proved unable to do a demo without messing it up, we knew it was time to go back to the drawing board. We tucked the keyboard away in a drawer where you would pull it out only when needed, and replaced it with 6 buttons. Those buttons let you pick from a preconfigured menu, which walked you through the process step by step once you selected something.
I would gladly visit other sites but with SEO exploitation they are staying in the way. So maybe they owe us.
Gods Go Data Structures
YouTube Vanced is miles above NewPipe in features: https://vancedapp.com - If you frequently watch videos on Android and haven't given it a spin yet, do so.

SmartTubeNext is excellent on Fire Stick, if you can get the damn APK installed!
Curious - why does Youtube not figure out how to outsmart ad blockers? Is it technically not possible to embed ads into the video such that the ad blocker cannot detect it?
most likely this is betting arbitrage. check the odds on different bookmakers and try to find an opportunity where you can bet on both sides and win regardless.
It's really not that subjective. Take the feature set of mass-market cars from 2000 - 2008 and then just ... stop. That's your baseline. There's nothing magic about the 2000s it's just happens to be the era juuuust before people started complaining about smart features in cars.

* Media controls are handled by swappble receivers that can handle anything from tapes to Bluetooth and satellite radio depending on your preference. Everything else is physical nobs and buttons.

* Cars have cruise control, hydraulic power steering, probably power windows, push to start as an aftermarket add-on, and probably remote lock/unlock.

Broke teenagers in the early 2000s were able to figure out "basic car with add-ons." It's amazing that huge corporations can't manage.
Recording without consent is illegal in some states (CA, for example)
Who is they? And define quality control.
Crazy people who commit fraud are the same people who continue the fraud and make things weird. Get away from the crazy.
In my team, Duty Managers / Service Delivery Managers / Operations Managers. Communication in every which direction is #1 skillset I look for in the team (as well as being organized, disciplined, eager to learn, sense of ownership).

A lot of the job is talking to technical teams, talking to functional teams, talking to business teams, talking to management and executives; translate, summarize, liaison, co-ordinate, plan and inform. Customize medium, format, length, message for each group to enhance understanding. Develop spidey sense of paranoia against assumptions, misunderstandings.
It seems to me like lumping lesbians and the queer into this calculus is a little insensitive because it was almost exclusively gay men and trans women who bore the brunt. I'm sure this press release ran by a publicist who said, "we have to use all the letters or else we'll get torn to shreds on Twitter."
We were a Linux System Administration consultancy. The product wasn't the e-mails, but nearly everything we did for our clients was designed/planned, scheduled, organized, and documented in e-mail. Yes, sometimes we would work on things with the client on the phone, those were usually followed up with an e-mail about what was done.

These e-mails were copied to our internal mailing lists so that they could be peer reviewed and someone else could be cross-trained on it in case the primary wasn't available. Also, every task we did had a one sentence description written up that would be shared with the team, again as a kind of peer review.
Lazy is an odd choice of words? Lazy normally means that the data is only derived when needed, but most graph models work by pushing data wrapped as events through pipes?
>The gutting of campaign finance reform means politicians are effectively owned by PACs and corporations now.

Whoah now, you're saying that documentaries critical of Hillary Clinton shouldn't be able to be legally distributed? Because that was the origin of Citizens United
yes, lazy, dataflow, reactive, I wrap all this in the same bag. Am I wrong ?