skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not great, but it seems like the information is actually there, just not exposed very well.

The ratings are very broadly 80% 5-star and 20% 1-star, so technically 4.2 is right. It's just that it's massively bimodal rather than mostly 4-star reviews as you might expect (which you can see if you look at the histogram) and that recent reviews are overwhelmingly bad (which you can't directly see, but those new 1-star reviews seem to be the featured ones).

Right now the app developer chooses with each new release whether to keep existing ratings or restart from scratch. It would be better if the users get to decide (i.e. actually see the chart of ratings over time) and/or it's automated somehow (e.g. if there's a big step change in the latest release, that gets detected and highlighted automatically).
Sometimes I'm tempted to suggest that my communication skills are just fine, it's their comprehension skills that need some work...
“Then there are other people reading who think he's the commensurate con-man”

Does anyone actually think this about Elon? Think what you will about the guy’s persona, but it seems undeniable that he is doing big things in the world (and outside of it).
A long while ago, I used yoga in my morning routine to help set me up. Although Yoga/mindfulness is still part of my routine, I find that being pumped about what I am working on and continuing to find newer challenges and problems to solve goes a long way!

An app/a bunch of apps to engage you in the morning might be what you need.
Google is search/ads. This is their cash cow. Without it, it would have gone under years ago, just like Yahoo, with a bunch of dead-end project that either make no money or go nowhere.
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I expected a "you don't need school to learn to code," and instead found a "there will still be jobs for people who can't code... my 50k on a liberal arts degree wasn't a mistake... oh please let this be true."
What's the point of satellite internet if you can't move the dish around? That would seem to be one of the USPs...
Another tell is that the performer in the video assumes an exaggerated facial expression for the thumbnail image, a common practice in click bait videos.
It's interesting reading about things other than antibody levels now in Nature as well. T-cell immunity was considered borderline conspiracy theory until recently.

I try to avoid conspiracy theories and think this was probably down to the way governments think and are advised, antibody levels mean an instant response in humans to a virus, so keeping them high during a pandemic probably made sense to advisors and politicians. But that ignores so much about the immune system.

I hope this narrative shift leads to some more nuanced decisions being made.
Bookmarking is broken. We bookmark to find them later.

Better would be to save the entire page, not just the URL, as that would likely have more keywords that you'll remember later.

That's what I do, just save pages into a folder.
> 1. the war against drugs has been useless

How do you define uselessness? What's the metric?

> 2. it even simplifies the lives of criminals

In which sense? Weed has massive margins. Legalization means less competition, lower prices. It will simplify the process of selling, but nobody's in this "business" just for fun. They want to make money.

Legalization will indeed raise the gov's budgets due to taxation.

> Wouldn't this be much less of a problem if marijuana was sold over the counter in a pharmacy?

No. When a substance is allowed for everyone, but someone (eg school students), then it's even a bigger problem. Marijuana usage in public US schools is a massive problem. Teens find ways to buy and sell the drug. Legal marijuana will only worsen their fragile brains. It's a cultural problem, after all.
> and earn interest (on dollars if you wish so by using stablecoins like USDC or DAI) much higher than in banks

Who's paying this interest? Why are they paying more for this than they would with bank loans?
Thank you! This was the whole concept behind EatKind. To get people to easily switch a plant-based diet without having to change what they eat on a daily basis. This is especially difficulty when usually it's one person in a household that decides to eat vegan and the rest of the family isn't ready to make a shift in their meals.
Yes I agree completely about how poor Facebook is at indexing old content. They are definitely not focused on anything but the absolute present. Same with Reddit. It's really too bad. I understand, though. People just don't have the will to figure out BBcode or create logins for every forum they are interested in.
Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)
Sure, true but afaik it was the Quest ecosystem that really sold to consumers a very good experience. I never experienced the WMR stuff but I heard mixed reviews.
There is nothing wrong with choosing a different career path and it will bring different skills/knowledge to the table.

However I really dont like how this post potraits the people "having a CS degree" as the same person.
Everyone is individual and brings their own skillset..
I'm not a vegan. I love lions mane "crab" cakes and king oyster "scallops". I hear you can also smoke king oyster to make pulled "pork". Not exact replacements, but definitely some interesting and delicious recipes out there for mushrooms.
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> Now they have to deal with some magic in the codebase. I don't hear people giving advice not to hire smart people.

People do advise against hiring people who write incomprehensible code.

Yeah every now and then you run across some genius with sloppy code style and you have to confine them to a module that you'll mark "you're not expected to understand this" when they leave because they're really that much of a genius, but usually the smart people are smart enough to write readable code.
It's usually either CBD or Delta-8. It's legal because of the Farm Bill a few years back that legalized hemp, making CBD and D8 legal in the process.

Just to be clear though, this stuff won't get you high like weed. You might feel a little more relaxed because of the CBD but that's about it.
Elon isn't a con man because he actually delivers but there is a streak running through him that doesn't seem to care if he deceives people as long as he reaches his higher goals.

He's not a 'nice guy' in my book.
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>its just that

It's not just that. OP's title is "I've built a tool for musicians using mod..."

1. The title is highly inaccurate. It's not a tool for musicians, it's for a specific subset of musicians (like you say).

2. The OP got a front page listing on HN. He missed a golden opportunity explaining things. He probably got a lot of musician visitors that found it interesting, but just got confused and left.
I agree, it's very "SEE THIS INSANE DESIGN FLAW IN STARLINK"-esque. And the design flaw is "They elected to use weather-proof proprietary connectors, instead of letting me crimp my own CAT6
As someone who codes and has a liberal arts degree, it was such a mistake it's not even funny.
> why not give them that choice?

That’s fine. But don’t ask me for donations on top. Sending donation dollars to fund developers pumping a coin is a strange use of resources.
True, but my educated guess as an observer of Mississippi politics... The US will legalize recreational marijuana at a federal level and then give the states the ability to legalize it or not. The state will not legalize it, and if they do, then they'll leave it up to the counties to decide. Most of the counties will not legalize it because it's a very conservative state where Christianity informs the politics more than personal freedoms.

And the grassroots efforts will have a hard fight because of how the power dynamics work in Mississippi. I'm very cynical about progressive politics in Mississippi because I've been a part of the grassroots movements and seen what actually happens. 100+ years of white supremacy is very effective at keeping the power structures in tact, because a lot of the voters are disenfranchised, gerrymandered out of having much power, or have moved away.
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> 180 USD

Damn... hope your wages make up for this man.
Unfortunately, 'code that goes together' is rarely "all these 3 things go together", but more "a and b goes together in one way, b and c in another, and a and c in another. Meanwhile, c is more naturally contextualised as d, which has nothing to do with a or b, so it should really be close to d and far away from a and b, but somehow still close" etc etc ad nauseam.

So, really, the only real way to keep functions linked is to not be lazy, and try to have proper documentation locally in your function which includes a "see also" bit.
if I cared about transaction fees (I don't frankly—I make most of that money back in points anyways), I'd just give them money with my debit card
Don't forget that Netflix has it's own CDN, so you could just throttle anything from that peering connection knowing that only video content is coming from it.

Oh, wait, they've already been doing that for <insert Gary Oldman> EVERYONE!</insert>
That part about YOUR phone number that Apple will not have must be a lie.

If you head over to the Apple App store and pull up Threema privacy policy:

Threema has your CONTACT INFO identifiable to you, if you installed their app.

And I don’t know many people who wont put the phone number down for its contact info.
How much impact would a total cryptocurrency collapse have on the outside economy?
If you're running an Edgerouter I imagine you could have something setup externally to measure packet loss and then if it gets high enough automatically SSH into the router and force it to failover. Of course you'd also have to setup some sort of routing scheme so the external system could then return back to the connection when packet loss went down.
Doesn’t matter at all in the context of freedom. Live and let live.
Election years are big money years for the entire Ad industry. Political advertising is not something that a sane Advertising company will ignore.
This is just wrong. I have a degree in Psychology and went into tech in the mid 90's. I had to learn everything on my own. Is it possible? Of course it is. But the amount of stuff I had to learn on my own was incredible. It is easy to learn how to write a little React program. It is however NOT easy to learn how to write a compiler without anyone to ask when you don't understand something.

Everyone always says, "You never use that in the 'real world'" What's funny is that the people who say that are the people who don't know they should use those concepts to solve some problems. That's what the real separation is between having one and not having one. Trying to explain, say, a discreet system to someone who has never even heard of it is hard. There is so much people who haven't gone through a cs program don't know.

I hope to think this, because I'm in this camp, but people without cs degrees can be good programmers. They just have to realize that it's not "Ha ha sucker, you spent 4 years learning something I did in 12 weeks." It's "I have to spend my nights and weekends for years learning what you concentrated in on college."
The Chinese government has its own interst in forcing such concessions. Still, politics today doesn't really favor consumer rights at all. This bill is the minimum that should be done on the topic of copyright. Otherwise representatives feel very comfortable in the bowels of the industry in general, especially regarding to intellectual property. It makes strategic sense to defend it with a player like China, but it also has become about milking consumers.
Or much less. With a ledger, you begin with an implied schema.
This is an interesting thought experiment.

Harm is relative right.

Steal 10 million dollars from a family owned small business that leads to their bankruptcy and the family homes being lost? Life In Prison.

Steal 10 million dollars from Bezos? Fine. This actually seems somewhat reasonable to me, I have a feeling you are more likely to get punished stealing from Bezos than the family business though.
Containerization has a specific meaning in the context of computers so maybe the title should be changed to "The Hidden Costs of [Shipping Containers]" to reduce confusion for people clicking the link thinking it is going to be an article about the drawbacks of docker
I feel like the culture surrounding CS biases this substantially. Most people I know who got CS degrees were raised in an environment where communication and interpersonal connections were downplayed and analytical thinking was rewarded (institutions and families constantly do this). College should be the place where these students are pushed mentally and emotionally in all directions, but instead we just give them 4 years of specialized knowledge and throw them out the door. The gen ed system encourages and rewards gameification (because if you take too challenging of a class, it can harm your GPA). It's a problem that starts at the bottom and has been exasturbated by a series of perverse incentives.
I took a good look at VR headsets in December thinking I wanted one for software development and concluded: (1) Oculus was the only one I could buy in a retail store, (2) I could pay 60% more and get a better VR headset but in terms of value for an acceptable product Oculus could not be beat -- if logging into Facebook didn't make it unacceptable.
You just said a whole lot of nothing trying to demand people subscribe to the ideas of human rights of a particular country. Human rights are universal, by definition.
I love this! My dog would love to hike this with us. The ~4900 mile/~7900 km trip to get there in the first place, not so much :)
Pretty sure the Quest loses money, or it used to. It was way underpriced for what it offers.

Carmack has also left Oculus, hasn’t he?
I had no idea they launched a v2. I wonder why they would regress so much. The obvious answer is cost... but they have to know how much people want good internet service in remote areas, right? I'll pay for it and I know I'm not the only one.
New technology having lot's of criticism it's normal, specially in a super-connected world that we have today.

I'm no proponent or opponent to Web3, I'm just waiting to see if any sort of good will come out of it.
> I'm super cynical about progressive politics in Mississippi

If cannabis legalisation gets branded as a progressive issue it’s DOA. In Mississippi as well as in most states.
What happens if you just take it there and plug it in?
I'm not an expert on the Starlink network, but their coverage isn't uniform. Even across the 48 states. The constellation provides more effective bandwidth in some areas than others.

SpaceX has a government subsidy to provide high speed internet right across the street from my parents house. But they have no satellite coverage in that area according to their own map. I don't really understand the business plan of SpaceX with respect to starlink.
Not likely as a common workaround was streaming over a VPN service or SSH tunnel.
Or write a strong AI with regular expressions that solves the problem for you.
Not quite sure why the rules of land shouldn't apply? If I read it right, doesn't it say, e.g., "Compound Treasury Accounts are securities, exclusively offered to accredited institutional customers under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D."

The other more important question is always: why is the interest so high? What risks are being taken?

I do like DeFi, but I don't like getting to hand-wavy with laws, regulation, and risk, because that is always more towards wanting to have a different society/politics etc., which is not a technical point.
Why haven't Democrats full-throatily supported legalization? I understand why Republicans haven't, but this seems so popular it seems crazy a major political party hasn't jumped on board.
You can't legalize marijuana while education is subpar. It has to be done the opposite way. Also, why to legalize something that is harmful to your body and brain [1]? I mean, there are SO many publications about it.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
This completely misses the point of art. Art is just an outward expression of thought and feeling, desires, fears, hopes, pain, pleasure. The problem is not that there is too much art or too many games, the problem is there is not enough TRULY artistic art or games. Most games now are created for profit and not because someone is trying to create the world they love. Likewise a lot of “art” created now is made to be sold and not for its own sake. This does not mean something cannot be art but intended to be sold but if it’s design revolves exclusively around whether it will sell the most copies then it is not truly an expression of the inner self but rather an expression that more external possessions would be nice to have.
Also known as “CLRS” - Cormen Leiserson Rivest Stein - the last names of the authors of the book. (Trivia: known as “CLR” in the first edition.)

On Amazon, Kindle version is $84.99 and Hardcover is $121.50. Not to be released until March 22 though. https://www.amazon.com/dp/026204630X/
...What the hell is this excrement? One doesn't 'help' by simply opting to not maximize consumption of a finite resource to an overall wasteful end. On the surface, yes, but in the end, no.

This is like taking the example of people remembering to shut off the water from their taps while brushing their teeth, and saying that a company that somehow makes profit while leaving their taps open 100% of the time is actually doing something constructive for society. There are pathological cases in our market where profitsbility persists despite externalizing costs on everyone else.

God bless.
The problem at hand, though, is that the only reason I can see people working on crypto is precisely for the money. I mean sure, there's some small number of purists out there, but I get DeFi recruiter emails all the time. The only thing they have going for them is compensation.

I would suspect that a large number of engineers working in crypto are heavily motivated by money above all.
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Different principle, but it reminds me of OpenDrop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSls9L_h3Q0
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Photo organization apps were exactly this back in like 2012.
No, thanks. I'll stick with got.
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The Quest has a ton of features, sure.

But:
. I don’t see a lot of apps using many of these features at all.

. I don’t think VR will ever win the consumer space. I’ve been working on it for half a decade now, and I don’t know anyone who regularly uses their headset for entertainment. Party trick? Sure. Everyday use to watch a Vr film or play a VR game? Not really. I own a headset myself and I barely use it.

VR is a productivity and industrial tool, that’s where the true user adoption is. FB is fundamentally misdirected, and the sooner people get that the sooner they’ll realise there’s nothing there at the end of the rainbow for Zuck.
I see. I'm not even sure how implementing ignore files in the root is trivial without, say, using 'git' directly. The gitignore format is quite subtle.

In any case, that's all fine and good, but your tool is very clearly not a clone of ag or ripgrep IMO. Whether you consider it a misfeature or not, the "smart filtering" aspect is probably the defining quality of things like ack, ag and ripgrep. So if you don't have that, I don't think you can call it a clone IMO. The smart filtering feature is right up there next to performance in terms what things users tend to like about these tools.

The other thing you're probably missing from a perf perspective, I think, is parallel directory traversal. Neither ack nor ag have this, but ripgrep does. ;-)
> Basically, war (or the threat of war) is what keeps militaries honest.

It really does not.

> Competition and the threat of bankruptcy keeps companies on their toes.

Only some companies and some of the time.

And from the article:

> One defense of free markets notes the inability of non-market mechanisms to solve planning & optimization problems.

s/notes/falsely claims/

etc.
I want to be able to refer back to valuable writing I've read online. I read something once about effective use of multiple choice questions in a classroom setting. I'd like to be able to find it again.

I want to be able to browse a curated collection of the web around some topic. I've come across a handful of really, really good tech blogs over the years. I'd like to be able to flip through them in one place. I'd like to be able to peruse my collection of in-browser games.

I want to get faster access to sites I use often. This might be seeding the autocomplete algorithm in the address bar, some kind of launcher, etc. I don't know what form this would ideally take, but it's a use case I want for bookmarks.
I keep seeing this recommended. How interesting is this book if you already own a big amount of vegan cookbooks?
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What is exactly what I am trying to say, since the comment up the chain states that e.g. interoperability isnt a requirement of most users
> Genuinely curious: what issues are you specifically referring to?

When central bank/governments lose control or get greedy you end up with hyperinflation. Should I go into examples of how hyperinflation has been catastrophic?

> we don't actually know what the limit is because wallets have gotten lost and will continue to be lost.

We know the limit but we don't know how much is being circulated. Central bank money is the opposite, you know roughly how much is being circulated (if you're government is nice to you) and there is no limit.

> The impact of derivatives to effectively increase the supply

Derivates don't increase the money supply itself, they play tricks using the underlying asset. If you hold the Bitcoin asset yourself, someone playing with derivatives means very little to you. Though if you have your balance on an exchange, that's on you.

On the other hand, in the current system, you have no access to the underlying asset. You don't own 0.00001% of the central bank. In other words, everything you are using _is_ a derivative. Even something as simple as keeping your money in the bank means you are using a derivative. That being the option of the bank to hold no reserves for the money you deposited.
Dropped because WhatsApp now can mine your metadata and make off like a robber at a convenience store.
25Gb ?! Symmetric? Wow.

I guess that's a benefit to a small relatively wealthy country?

My question would be, what do you have to even _use_ that much bandwidth? I have 1Gb/50Mb asymmetric and my Ubiquiti router can't really saturate the down stream. Sure, I could invest in a more powerful router, but in normal daily use we never even get close to max bandwidth.