skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed - and a glance at the ads on even mainstream sites sure back that up. They're mostly shilling casino mobile games, scam tech (like 'portable air conditioners' that are just a fan that blows over a wet sponge for $75) and the big one, unregulated dietary supplements sold with disgusting imagery and "One weird trick" ad copy. It is almost entirely just utter bottom-feeding trash. And this is what's paying the bills for 'reputable' sites like CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, whatever.
Yeah, that was incredibly stupid of me, that's also fixed now.
You could flag how many revisions it has been since the comments were updated in a function as compared to the code, but if that became a metric, someone would probably start optimizing for it by making trivial comment changes without doing real review.
Sensational title with subtext of: practice doing things that are closer to the land, obscured by fewer abstraction layers. That’s my take, anyway.

For those who have a caldera of a story bubbling up, by all means get it out! For those who want to make art for the money/fame/power/etc, maybe don’t? Though I’m not telling anyone what to do directly, I might vote for regulation that supports a living wage for work closer to our basic needs, freeing up more people to be creative for the joy of it and without the pressure of money.
The socket thread does not do blocking reads.
I enjoy this example from television, a name change for a popular baking show when it was brought to the USA led to editing the logo on a glass plate in many shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OEwbocwYF8
Didn’t we all (collectively) have this discussion the last time someone put the math functions in a library and rendered math calculation programmers obsolete?
Yes. Communication and availability overlap is important to get certain kinds of things unblocked. Plus, career-wise, it's bad to be a vampire no one ever meets or sees regardless of electronic responsiveness within their working hours.

Although, I think butt-in-seat mentality was always broken if an employee could broadcast or interact from anywhere. There are certain kinds of pair programming, whiteboarding, co-design, collab, and conversations that lead to higher signal in-person vs. remote.
I have multiple mentions crediting the original creator and linking back to him (within the README on GitHub as well as on the website itself), so it's not like I'm trying to make it seem like the code is my own. The purpose of [redacted] is to ensure that there is always a version of the original Wordle site that will remain available for free (without any major modifications or differences).

As for the licensing, I chose a license that would require anyone using [redacted] to give credit and disclose source, ensuring that all further forks and derivative forks would point back to the original Wordle site and would have to use the same license to continue the requirement of giving credit where credit is due.

I've already notified the original creator of Wordle, and of course if he or NYT demands that the content be taken down on the grounds of copyright violation, that's a completely different story.

It should be noted that I'm not making any money off of Wordle or the Wordle brand (unlike many others).
> The founder of Oculus admits it sucks.

Palmer Luckey? I believe you, but I was wondering if you had a quote/reference for that.
I'm generally a Woolsey apologist, but the GBA localization of FF VI is pretty much definitive. Censorship aside, there are a lot of little details that were mistranslated or omitted in the SNES version, and the plot is less clear than it could be as a result. The GBA localization fixes a lot of errors and IMO retains a lot of flavor, even keeping or adapting some of Woolsey's jokes ("son of a submariner" -> "son of a sandworm").

This is a situation unlike FF IV, where there really is no "perfect" localization (the SNES translation is pretty rough, the PS and GBA translations have some inaccuracies and out-of-place jokes, and the DS translation is high quality but very stylized, plus the game is fundamentally different). It's also unlike Chrono Trigger, where the Woolsey translation is similarly riddled with inaccuracies, but the accurate DS translation is pretty boring.
^ this. You need to have a high WAF - wife acceptance factor. Another analogy is that grandma needs to be able to stay in the house and not need a computer science degree.

Your home automation system is a complimentary enhancement to a traditional, switch-on-the-wall and physical TV remote control set up.
> My feed is full of shit I don’t want

I don't log in to Facebook very often, but when I do it's not bad at all. I scroll through a few updates from friends and family and catch up with a few people, then I close it for another week or two.

There isn't just one "Facebook" that we all see, obviously. Your feed is going to be a reflection of the groups you've joined and the friends you keep (and haven't muted). If you've just accumulated groups and connections for a decade without doing anything to shape your feed, I could see how it wouldn't be very interesting.

But if you take a few seconds here and there to "like" things you want to see more of, hide things you want to see less of, mute the obnoxious people you don't want to hear from at all, and leave groups you're not interested in, it's not bad at all.
It's less the time, and more how it interacts with the rest of your live.

Like the bodies instinct related to light amount and how you allow your body to sleep getting out of sync.

Or how day time tends to be more noisy and as such is more likely to disrupt your sleep.

Or how meeting people fits less into your sleep cycle.

Or how most people are not night active all the time, but switch between periods of night shifts and e.g. not being night active on your free days (because you e.g. can't go to the SPA at 2am).

Or how bright lights, even such advertised as daylight lights, often do not replace day light properly.

Etc.

So, while the time doesn't matter directly in practice having a "off" cycle is much much more likely to affect your life implicitly in negative ways then a more day aligned cycle.
yeah, I guess it could have to do with big flashy ideas that capture the imagination. More cynically, I guess there is a perverse incentive in that marginal improvements reduce the pressure for major reform.

My favorite simple reform that everyone hates: encourage the training of more doctors and nurses. Wages are a major driver of healthcare costs, and there are a number of constraints on the supply.

Another is to bar hospital price discrimination between different insurance providers and cash payers. The idea that hospitals milk some customers to subsidize others is absurd
Much of the problem being identified here is not a matter of waste, but rather a question of taste. I read a very good biography of Kafka by Reiner Stach that described how dominant literary culture was in Prague at the time. Writing seemed closer to contemporary athletics. Bankers, businesspeople, and upwardly mobile people often encouraged their kids to be writers first, and practical secondarily. The endpoint for sports is more obvious than the endpoint of writing, or music, and even especially game design, but a culture-wide appreciation and perception of the medium in question could better triage candidates for cultural survival. Does the author of this newsletter also think there are too many pick-up basketball games vis a vis potholes? I agree with others that have made the point that this has more to do with the lower barrier of entry to market.

Our culture is dominated by those entities that can make massive capital investments and industrialize culture. For a variety of complicated reasons, I would point this out as the issue. It is rather the successful entities, and not the apparent failures, that produce the problem of over saturation. I am forgetting the name of the movement, but contemporaneous with Schubert's lifetime, there was a kind of at home arts movement. The bourgeois were still not spending their free time filling potholes, but no one was aspiring to a salaried post in the grand facade of entities with immense capital reserves and an industrialized capacity to influence culture. If we were less atomized and a greater appreciation of our cultural expression was common, I believe it would be easier to come to grips with talent, or our lack thereof. It is no sin to lack talent. It only makes talent all the more incredible.
Yes. I feel like too many people are making the argument that social media spaces are the "town square" (legal concept) despite the fact that it has never been established. It's much closer to individuals sending in their opinions to a newspaper in hops of being printed in the OpEd section.
The Ethereum team must be well aware they are late by about 240 years. This reads like how government power is derived from the consent of the governed, but with some of the words switched out.
Not all grep implementations provide an “-o” option
For example, Plan9 grep.

Solution:

#!/bin/sh
# usage: $0 pattern < file
x=$(echo x|tr x '\34');
tr -d '\12'|sed "s/$x//g;s/$1/$x&$x/g"|tr $x '\12'|sed -n "/^$1/p"
So what? You think you have the authority to dictate how other people choose to spend their money?
No. Encryption was considered to be a munition. Wikipedia is being loose in its terminology and could benefit from some revision here.
> I don't call any youtubers who advertise a VPN or Skillshare a shill for the company, it's clear that money was exchanged.

You don't? That's clearly shilling too.
On the other hand there have been numerous examples of people who knew relatively nothing about a field and came to completely dominate it.

That is the incredible thing about Silicon Valley. People who knew/know nothing about various industries when starting come to utterly dominate them.

Amazon should never have succeeded. They knew nothing about books compared to booksellers. They won anyway. And then proceeded to utterly crush every other company in retail. And they continue to do so.

SpaceX is utterly absurd in its existence. Utterly absurd. Boeing and Lockheed had way more knowledge and experience. Yet they are about to be pushed out of a lot of launch.
Hadn't heard of this, but given how well done his translation of Mother 3 was it's got to be great
+1, I also work a remote west coast job from the east coast. I haven't set an alarm since 2020 (apart from a few early flights). It's been great.
Respectfully, you have no clue what you are talking about and should read https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/new-campaign-targe...
Yes, of course, the Milgram experiment can be taught as a tragedy and a lesson in experimental ethics. But it's "correct results" are almost always taught, even being published as a pop-science book, when they cannot be know because the experiment is too ethically problematic to be replicated in a modern setting.

Ironically, the "correct results" are often cited as the reason for the tragic suicide of one of the participants.
Assuming the author is primarily directing this sentiment at people attempting to make a living in indie dev, then I agree with them. Or at least with the larger purpose of dissuading people from "following their dreams d'art" as a primary rather than secondary occupation. They should be discouraged. They should live in a world where it is common knowledge that pursuing acting, or film making, or writing, or gamedev as a focal point of their life is really stupid. Because actually accomplishing that is ridiculously bullshit hard, while sinking crippling amounts of time and money into the training is relatively very easy. If you want to spend your life making indie games more than anything else in the whole world and are driven towards it with single-minded intensity then you are unlikely to be dissuaded by everybody telling you it is a bad idea, and thus might also have the drive required to weather the punches.
Not just filler. Everything before the "but" is negated.

I'm not racist, but <some racist shit>.
Psychology currently is just a pseudoscience, really. It is at the same stage the general medicine was before microscope was invented and bacteria discovered: they try to analyze some phenomenon, but they have not discovered the underlying principle yet. My bet is: the real advancement in treating mental disorders will come from AI/neural network researchers, not psychologists.
Yeah, I know. That's a good example that the list includes both Alternatives and Similar projects. It's definitely imperfect in that direction as of now. That's something I'd like to improve in the future. I guess incorporating some on page user feedback like "Is it an alternative - Yes / No" could do the job...
The author seems insufferable at cocktail parties.
I dunno. The boat is being built behind the bridge by a local company. I'd be pissed if it was just Bezos sailing through for fun.
That sounds like an issue with how Java was designed. There are plenty of languages that solve Java's boilerplate problems without adding new syntax for records.
I wonder.. I don't think that applies to everyone.

Most of the stuff I buy is either commodity (clothes, always the same t-shirts, pants, shoes, my colleagues joke it's my 'uniform'), food, or weird-ass stuff that nobody advertises for. Like second hand computers or electronic components to build cool stuff.

And reviews I usually get in depth from other users on tech forums like XDA and local ones. Before I buy a phone I know pretty much every little thing there is to know about it :) Not just the gloss, all the annoying bugs too.

The only thing I buy that's really advertising sensitive is games I think. Or some hacker/maker stuff you'd see on hackaday. I know advertising affects me. But I'm pretty certain not a lot of my purchasing is driven by advertising.
> Before I moved to HA, I was in the smart-things Ecosystem. That was also very easy out of the box, far easier than WiFi Device

No offense, but I think you've already proved that your perspective is a bit skewed towards the technical. I don't understand how buying and installing a hub, then installing an app to connect with that hub, and then using that app to pair is somehow easier than installing and app, and then using that app to pair.

> It has nothing to do with ease of access...

Looking at Amazon, I'm seeing many times the reviews for WiFi smart switches. This would make it appear that people are purchasing them. Why? Are they already locked in? My theory is that people see the product description, see WiFi, and say "I have that!". People see Zigbee or "hub" and say "I don't have that, it's $50 more!". If we could do a word count for "incompatible" between the two, I'm sure it would be many times lower for WiFi devices. I know I see that word often when I look through Z-Wave and Zigbee reviews.
Probably this is true, but I bet accurate self-evaluation based on facts is positively correlated with driving skill.
Yes, You Should Quit Using Google Chrome
Thanks for that. I just tried out pyscript. I found it a lot more pleasant to write automation in a real programming language. It also more or less addresses my complaint about needing multiple rules. In the tutorial, [1] the motion_light_rear example addresses this via sleeping + task.unique. It's not the approach I imagined, but it's aimed at the same problem.

[1] https://hacs-pyscript.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial.html
Then run the experiments again in secret. Find people who are so passionate about your epistemological model they are willing to take the risk of renegade experiments on themselves. That would be an actual adventure, much better than roleplaying a yelling match at each other in comments sections.

EDIT: Hell, pretend play is for weaklings, I'll be your confederate jumbo-dumbo test taker faker, and let's go a step beyond the original experiment, let's have me actually suffer serious shocks in our Milgram Repro, for your n >= 30 guineau pigs to see. Then we'll know even better and that can be the new standard. And I'll be your confederate convict prime, set aside in especially horrible solitary confinement conditions for the Stanford Prison Repro. And when you watch me and others actually suffer horribly for days on end due to your decisions, I'm sure you'll simply have zero suicidal ideation, and you'll repeat your "we can't know!!!11!!1" drivel.
I think you're overconfident in your understanding here. It's a very complex subject. Removal of trees from an area of land will result in greater dryness. Trees, in a substantial way, create their own climate and can increase precipitation.
> Google are not winning.

Even worse, they are completely disincentivised to do anything about it, since presently the ads occupy most or all of the real estate most users see anyway. Buying ads to show up in that section so you aren't drowned out by spam is exactly what benefits GOOG's shareholders. And I say this as a GOOG shareholder, lol.

I've come to believe that the organic results are a niche product that Google could eliminate tomorrow and most consumers wouldn't really realize anything had changed. They'll go to the first result 99% of the time, and 99% of the time that's an ad.
There's bad, poor, ok, good, and great CGI just like every other aspect. There's probably far more CGI in movies than the poster thinks. There is weightiness in plenty of CGI. Thanos was one of the best villains and he was basically all CGI. Tons of weight and feeling in almost all of the MCU movies. There was a lot of cheezy, bad puppets in old movies - I was there and it's usually pretty painful to rewatch them. I used to love watching the Star Wars trilogy every year, but hadn't done so for about 7 years. I watched it this year with my son and ... it's a bit rough at times. Some parts are brilliant, others don't hold the shine they used to.

There was a period up to, maybe 5 years ago or so, where CGI was generally pretty awful, as it was just actors pretending in front of nothing but green screens, and the CGI was crazily complex and perfect. That was my least favorite era.

But filmmakers have learned to do clever things with CGI.

If you haven't watch the series by Corridor Crew about Good and Bad CGI, I highly recommend it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4WrKeoeZhk&list=PLwVUbPpIRn...

There's lots of great descriptions of what makes good CGI good and bad CGI bad.
> In sports, it's called betting. But in business, it's called investing. It's the same thing, only one is more widely accepted an legal.

One incentivizes people to build iPhones and the other takes money from poor people.
Google Stadia: there are 50 Pro games to choose from
In my experience it's the exact opposite. It's almost always easier to leave product decisions to the user and add a new setting. And if you have very few settings, your software needs to "just work," which means quietly handling edge cases you would normally rely on the user to troubleshoot.
Or I could just go follow different groups I care about on Reddit. 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.
ie. Right now i am learning to weld off an old Canandian body work man on the other side of the world, like taking an apprentiship with a master in the comfort of my home, on demand. Ive never enabled notifications on my phone, its always on silent, ive never installed a FAANG app on it, i use my phone as a tool. Im getting a education that would cost me time x dollars x effort if i was enroll in a traditional technical collage.

Just because your have found yourself searching for meaning in your life through your phone distractions, doesnt mean its a bad thing. Its your body telling you that while you may be making some money right now, your actually not persuring a dream that is satisfying your inner yerning for a meaningful existance.

I cant watch a movie at length anymore, but i can keep my phone next to me for an entire day and actually forget its there enough to go looking for it in other place when i actually need it. I love my work though, coding is a hobby turned passion turned career turned never worked a day in my life after quitting k-mart at 20 to live it. Yet im divorced from a doctor who spent every hour of every day she was not working, distracting herself with her phone, gaming, ignoring the world, obsessed with stalking people on facebook, getting despressed with her life, trying to bandaid it with InstaSatisfation, because of all the trauma she has suffered yet never dealt with. On the outside, she is a success of a women, and will save your life in the ER; but in every other situation, she is a complete mess on the verge of suicide due to unresolved PTSD.

Your education, or your job does not define you. You are more then your successes (and your failures) and the WWW has allowed people to see this at scale more then anytime in history. its reshaping our society, and what we grew up with, what our parents valued, is slowly fading away for a new modern set of skills. Those modern skills dont resolve around books, or attention. But the ability to wade through through loads of crap to find the gems that add value to your existance. Not distract from it.
Ironically I feel like the change away from chronological order is what started the slow decline of my feed. I used to see things from people I cared about but didn’t interact with much. Now all I see are things from the same 10 people that I’m closest with, and I don’t care to scroll further.
One thing I've always appreciated about Amazon is its willingness to experiment with everything. Offering reduced hours for some would hit so much resistance at most large corps and never get off the ground.
when I was doing study abroad in Singapore, there was a class on corruption in south east Asian governments. However, they were not allowed to discuss Singapore in that class.
How did you get these users? They signed up on their own through the app or website? With such a small amount of users, you should collect a phone number and just call them.

For figuring out which features a user wants, my old company tried this and had a lot of success. The product was aimed at small businesses and it was a dashboard to help them manage Yelp, Google, Tripadvisor, Foursquare, etc. listings all in one place. So we figured they would want to update their info like phone number or hours, so that should be one tab, and replying to reviews was another big thing so that was another tab. Those were set in stone. But we weren't sure if they wanted a tab for promotions (create a campaign and post it on Google, Yelp, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and customers could redeem with a QR code and there would be analytics), competition (pick N competitors and track their ratings, reviews, etc side by side with yours), social media (see mentions of your business across social platforms and see sentiment analysis over time), or learning (a series of online videos that you could watch, tailored to your business based on different metrics).

So we built out the first two tabs (profile and reviews) but we had dummy tabs for promotions, competition, social media, and learning. Clicking those would popup a form where we would let them ask to be notified when the feature was available, with a freeform text field where they could explain why they wanted or didn't want the feature, or what they expected it to be. It turns out that competition by several orders of magnitude was the most requested feature, and promotions was a non-starter (only a fraction of a percent of users ever clicked on it).
Well, scrolling by fingers on screen is inconvenient, but e.g. FBReader app allows switching pages using volume up/down buttons.