skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alexa… what is "survivorship bias"?

Implicit in this argument is that you need to build the right thing and talk to the right people.

I've been to industry events where I've seen people give "career limiting" presentations on something awful they've built. And I've seen great people stuck in a corner with the worst kind of industry fraudster.

Sure, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs to meet your prince. But you also have to remmeber that you might end up kissing a poisonous one in the meantime.
Care to elaborate? Seems a perfectly reasonable comment to me.
Wearing masks in an airplane makes sense to the point where service starts and people are taking their masks off in order to eat and drink.

If there is a testing mandate, then nobody without a negative test enters an airplane.

Airlines do not allow social distancing.

Getting vaccinated does not prevent the spread of the virus, but staying at home does.

How many steps (that are actually effective) can an airline passenger really take in order to prevent the spread of the virus?
Thank you for the link.

I agree there are similarities in so far both countries committed heinous crimes. However that 150 year hindsight China has is not something that should be overlooked, in fact, given identical crimes, I can't think of a worse aggravator.
I was searching for skateboard decks on amazon and sorted by price.. The first 5 pages were all sponsored products.
Control was the first game I played on series x after upgrading from a 360 which was collecting dust. Also have a quite decent pc with entry level gpu but control on series x blew my mind. In all honesty xsx graphics fidelity can't be compared to my sons Nintendo switch when you play the games on TV, I assume the same goes for ps5.

Games did improve a lot and maybe all someone needs is to stay off gaming for a bit to notice the difference because the changes are less ground breaking and more gradual.

If you look at Nintendo first party titles they are not even trying to compete in graphics. Nintendo is just always spot on when trying to make games for the age group they target.
It’s worth looking into data if it’s available. There’s a waterway in my city that was very polluted a century ago and is locally considered to be disgusting. Recent data shows it’s one of the cleanest in the city, now. There are clean places still, but you often need to dig to find out.
The law says you have to follow the orders of the captain, and that the captain has the right to remove you for safety purposes. An argument like this would be classed a potential safety issue.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title49/html...
The Atari lynx was burning through battery like nothing, was it 4 or 8AA for like 1 or 2 hours of gameplay?
Raspberry Pi for the win! I love my RPis, and feel like the release and continued support and improvement of them and similar devices has caused a bit of a resurgence of the old "Hacker" mentality. Buy a kid a box of Raspberry Pi's and related components and show 'em the right websites, and stand back. Lord only knows what kinda crazy/fun stuff they'll build. ;)
I'm generally against rewrites as they're often shortcuts for new developers that instantly reject a code base as 'too complicated' without understanding it.

However, I have had success in rewriting my own code base a number of times. This is a unique situation of a one-man-band that understands the business case, handles support, and every bit that went into every decision of the code base.

With this kind of clarity, when you've spent years with the problem domain, you can uniquely rewrite a project to get at the real business case that, now with years of experience, you see what your customers actually wanted you to solve in the first place, or maybe what they evolved to want in the end.

Jim Keller advocates rewrites in a similar way as the only way to progress in chip design.

I think we could rewrite very basic things in exciting ways with this sort of attitude. For instance, we know a lot more about what we need in a desktop OS, an email client, a search engine, etc. Basic things that have gotten a lot of cruft over the years as they evolved. Taking a fresh look could be rewarding.

I guess one could reframe this as 'first principals thinking" but with the caveat that the problem needs to be truly understood.

Here's Jim Keller talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=1361s
Actually that was the original name I had in mind. But I found it to hard to pronounce.
I'm deeply confused aswell. Do you mind elaborating on who that is?
oh wow, I forgot but we did this too.

humanity united through maple seeds
Sometimes I feel like the mods' aggressive enforcement of, what basically amounts to, respectability politics might be hurting HN. The other day someone posted a link to a blog post titled "put bluntly - the effects of sleep deprivation" and someone who had struggled with sleep problems and who, I presume, was sick and tired of hearing people explain this to them like the problem was a lack of awareness. They started their response with "To put it bluntly, fuck you" following by a detailed explanation of their struggle with sleep and all the things they've tried and how they still have to put up with people trying to explain this shit to them.

The mods took the comment down right away of course. But it made me think about how much the enforcement of rules like these might just be reinforcing the echo chamber. Sometimes you need to be yelled at to realize how out of line you are. There was another post where a woman shared her experiences with sexism and having to face death threats and being doxxed because some incels didn't like how she responded to a man hitting on her. Half the comments were questioning her or blaming her for "seeking it out" or whatever. It was really painful to watch others try to respond to comments like that and sound "respectable" and trying to engage with their talking points. It made me wonder about people who post those comments and can go on being engaged with and never actually told how much of a fuckface they're being

Now that I think about it, I kinda feel like this is a major problem with LinkedIn as well. I don't believe in bullying, but I think socialization can be an important tool sometimes
At the root of reality there's some "wavy" equation that propagates changes at a certain speed (of light). The exact form of the equation is of little significance, only its "waviness" matters. This waviness is often called causality. Such equation in a confined area, any area, always and necessarily has many repetitive modes where the original state repeats itself after a certain interval, but all thosr modes exist in abstract, i.e. potentially. An external driving force allows to select one of those modes. This is probably a tautology, but maybe someone will find it interesting.
VCs know it’s BS, but also that they can flip it to a mark.
I feel there are certain dynamics to the game. Back in the 90s rewrites are everywhere and they fail a lot because people were doing it so recklessly.

Nowadays, people are usually too afraid to even talk about it. As a result, many things that could be straightforwardly solved by rewrites were delayed to the point virtually impossible, causing eternal suffering and valuable features blocked forever.
I have the same experience. I assume these websites are just content farms trying to give away free introductory training for Python programming. Later, they try to upsell you to buy training. I see the same when Googling common Git issues.
Just wanted to say that the authors libraries, especially ROM [0], are incredible and have played a huge influence on me as a developer. I learned a lot using and diving through the code.

[0]: https://rom-rb.org/
I have taken to copying a benign string after using a sensitive password and I minimize switching tabs during transport of said password.
Not just it's portability. I've seen kids in coffeeshops. Their mom is reading a magazine and the kids have put the Switch on a table using its stand and then use the controllers to play 2+ player games. No other handheld I know of has ever done that.
Your conclusion of this is fake news since it massively prevents hospitalization and severe side effects, including death, and is thus effective.
It is management failure, not engineering failure!
Almost as bad as the tool by google simply called 'repo', used to manage git repos... Imagine the confusions and difficulties of googling for troubleshooting.
I guess this was meant as a joke, but you may want to read about the reign of Terror and how it led people from all social classes to rat each other out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

See also how people had to get a "certificate of civism" lest them be considered suspect by default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_civism
Can't do that. "Tipping off" is a crime.
Totally agree. Genius is such a great app. I remember being pretty upset when I read this article a few years ago, which shed light on Google's anti-competitive behavior against small companies that make a difference that Google can't make themselves.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/genius-law...
The contract says they can order you off. The entire argument revolves around invalidating the contract due to other laws.
It can be useful of you want to use a non standard way to paste stuff, example a right mouse button in putty.
Do you vary (re)posting time of day, or is any repost pattern useful on Twitter?
These rules were changed after this incident.
This feels like spam. Currently, the same link is submitted 3 times on the Show HN page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30208558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30218660

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30203507
This is like half way there to David Graeber's realizations that lead him to writing Bullshit Jobs
It's whataboutism. The OP has not shown why the situation he's talking about is relevant to the situation in question, nor why their existence or solutions are mutually exclusive.

It's a completely different situation, and the only reason they bring it up is to try and deflect from answering any questions about the proposed issue. They certainly haven't engaged with the issue in question.
Why there always have to be somebody telling you arbitrarily what's right or wrong even for such a harmless and creative things such are a programming languages or concepts and why i always open articles like that even that i know how bad it makes me feel.

I really wish i will finally remember this next time and i will spend the time coding hapily instead, sometimes with ActiveSupport, sometimes not, maybe even with Dry-whatever, if i'm able to overcome Solnic's negative agendas.
Depends on what the new party is about. I have serious doubts that app based signaling, and requiring a politician to adhere to it is a good idea.

Why not a direct democracy at that point? (This would be bad as well)

Think of the money and misinformation that would fly around to influence every vote. I don't really want to have to be involved with politics every day and know enough to make an informed choice. This is why representative democracy scales better.
You've just reinvented the Nobel Prize for Medicine. If bounties of the kind you're describing worked, I would think that the Nobel Prize would ,by now, be the medical equivalent of an S&P rating. But it isn't.

A bounty only works when the value of the bounty exceeds the sum of all other opportunity costs. You should probably ask yourself why most doctors or pharmacologists are interested in the practice of medicine and aren't particularly interested in spending their professional years building portfolios of research on rare and difficult to document diseases. Hint: Despite what you claim, there's still a market involved in allocating value to certain specializations and projects over others even in an ostensibly technocratic discipline like modern medicine. You may call it triage, but it's economics at the lowest level.

The medical researchers that do spend their years toiling in obscurity either have enough grant money to do their ivory tower medical research (relatively) undisturbed or they receive so little grant money that they eventually drift into private industry. The person you're looking for is someone who is rational and intelligent enough to do bleeding-edge medicine and yet desperate enough to have one's worth as a doctor/researcher decided by the whim of the government. That's a very small portion of trained doctors and/or medical researchers and most of those would already work at the NIH, FDA, DoH, etc.

It's likely that a bounty won't change things.
RIP. Not sure about their other headphones, but the portapro is great bang for the buck and the esp950 is technically inferior to stax but still a nice headphone and I generally like it.
I believe Deutsch might argue that when error correction is implemented, a system becomes digital. Babbage's early computer, for example: "thus Babbage's computers assigned only ten different meanings to the whole continuum of angles at which a cogwheel might be oriented. Making the representation digital in that way allowed the cogs to carry out error-correction automatically"

What examples are you thinking of?
I've been using shorthands for websites for a while now, "aw pipewire" looks for "pipewire" on Arch Wiki, "c cassandra" looks through my confluence, "re hotas" is for reddit and so on. It's very easy an intuitive. I'm using Vivaldi, but I'm pretty sure it's a feature in many other browsers that let you add a custom search engine.
Do you have an example query?
Sounds like BlazeTV
Are there really (as of now) 7 North Koreans among us? If so I’m curious how you discovered HN.

I find it especially surprising because that’s more than the 6 South Koreans who have responded to this poll.
United is the one who created the issue and got violent.

They are the ones that should have let him fly and dealt with the issue separately without creating a new incident if they felt he was in the wrong.
Nah. It got the power of a really high end 6 year old Android phone. And with the fan it can provide more power than the same soc in a phone form factor.
Enlighten me
I don't understand why can't he just put his podcasts up on https://www.joerogan.com/ ?

Why isn't anyone who think they have something to say that might be bad for business or controversial not just self-publish? It's normal that distributors and publications would be unsure about publishing controversial stuff that could be bad PR and bad for business, so self-publishing seems like the way to go.
Very simple:domains get blocked very often on a lot of sites where a lot of people want to use them, so there is a big demand for making new domains all the time.(and it's more like few hundreds/thousands of sites)

for some sites I had to try like 10 differents mails
The faucet isn’t exactly isolated as a chaotic component. As it is, it seems to sputter and flow in a highly chaotic way already, never mind what is under it.

I am surprised the input flow isn’t first shown to be of a highly consistent flow rate with efforts to ensure a predictable laminar flow.

All you’d need is to have the faucet fill a bathtub (a capacitor) which then drained onto the wheel through a flow laminator. You could make one of those using a hose pipe whose far end is stuffed with a tight bundle of plastic drinking straws.

If you kick a football painted bright pink at random, I wouldn’t start talking about chaotic pink footballs.

Perhaps they couldn’t find any straws?
It would also be interesting to see what has been cut from episodes which are (partially?) available.
> I'm amazed the DS did that well?

Features of the NDS that may have been forgotten, that all could have contributed to the popularity:

* Two game slots, one for NDS games and one for GBA games, making it almost a straight upgrade (it dropped support for pre-GBA games) so you could have two games in your pocket instead of just one.

* PictoChat, an ad-hoc network chatroom that wasn't just text but also drawing with the stylus. I remember bringing it to school and finding several others were also online, we chatted instead of paying attention to the assembly.

* Download Play, for games that supported it you could do multiplayer on multiple systems with only one game cartridge.

* For that matter, it was their first handheld with built-in wireless multiplayer.

Also in terms of games, I think it was their first handheld that really appealed to the more casual/relaxed players: For example it was the first portable Animal Crossing and introduced Nintendogs.
It didn't last time I checked.
I really didn't think the "linkedin-style spacing" was necessary. The OP was not exactly short, but had a good enough sense of spacing and used paragraph breaks appropriately.
Sure, it's not a "request". You don't need to follow it. Then it gets escalated from a civil contract matter to private property and state security matter, at which point you'll start getting orders.
No. Even in web mail clients you still can’t use so many things that you would expect to. And last I checked, outlook still supports just about nothing
So LWS has landed now?

Great work!
One of the best SaaS websites I've seen. Lets you play with the tool as much as you want without signing up and the business model is totally aimed at businesses with a very generous free tier. Chart tools seem very powerful as well.
https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/serenity-os/id13303295...
>I believe in Wayland, only foreground applications can access the clipboard.

To be precise, Wayland does not care who or what accesses the clipboard. Whether or not only foreground applications can access the clipboard is determined by which clients the particular compositor sends wl_data_offer events to.

So the answer to alexvoda's question is: Wayland doesn't solve the problem completely. wl_data_offer events are pushed from the compositor to the client rather than the client asking for a data offer. The compositor cannot know whether the client may want the data offer, so it has to send the event to every client regardless of whether the client ends up needing it or not. For most (if not all) compositors today, "every client" means "clients that are currently focused", so while a background application can't snoop your clipboard, simply focusing such an application would allow it to snoop.

Furthermore, extensions like wlr-data-control are specifically designed for background snooping, since they're intended to be used by clipboard managers. It's again up to the compositor to apply security to this, like only allowing a single specific process to be the data control manager and not arbitrary programs. For wlr-data-control I'm not aware of any compositor that applies such a policy; it would, at the very least, break `wl-paste`.
What they call high gloss (the name is misleading) appears to be spot gloss: https://cd1.makeplayingcards.com/images/site/card-box-stock/...
> I'm skeptical there will ever be a killer financial app for Blockchain

Not an expert, but I think, stable coins (including government-issued digital currency) and global payment rails built on top of it are going to be that killer financial app. And their proliferation the catalyst behind mainstream adoption of trading real-world commodities and assets on "defi" platforms.
California for example was just as racist as it’s south eastern peers.
I’ve never had to sign an NDA and my whole career is in academia, and a lot of it with funding and partners from industry. The only colleagues I know (some of them working on nuclear materials, so quite sensitive) who are in this kind of situation is because of security clearance, and universities have nothing to do with it.

It’s definitely not normal, and should actually raise some red flags. I would like to know which institution does this sort of things.
> Edit: Sorry about the randomized ordering (I forgot HN does that for polls). Thanks ahead of time for using cmd+f or the equivalent to find and vote for your state or country. Also, each US state is included as "US: {state name}".

I also noticed the arbitrary ordering earlier but it now appears alphabetized. Thank you HN mods for implementing sort for this outlier of a use case.
Spot on, though I think it's not just an issue of 'dangerous ideas', it's more an issue of can the layperson think at all for themself. I.e. less 'free speech' and more dark-ageish 'only these are allowed to speak' problem.
There has got to be white space for a new player in search.
In days past, if you’ve ever experienced an overheated selenium rectifier, you will never forget the unique smell. In this restoration, they all were okay, so I remounted them in the chassis. I replaced the dissected unit with a modern silicon diode.

I don't think I would've put those back. The only good thing about the toxic SeO2 vapor they release when they overheat is that it smells so awful that you will probably be in no danger of absorbing a toxic dose. [1]

It'd be better to replace them with a 1N400x-diode of the appropriate voltage rating, perhaps with a small series resistor to account for the lower voltage drop in the new part.

1: https://yarchive.net/electr/selenium_rectifiers.html
People say that and yet most of the PS1 and PS2 games were 30fps or lower. One of the top games on the PS2, GTA3 (and Vice City, and San Andreas) were all 30fps or less. N64 games as well.

Basically if the game is fun, no one cares. If the game is not fun then they look for random excuses as to why.

Note: I'm not saying they wouldn't be better at 60. Rather Im saying they were multi-million unit sellers and made lots of people happy playing them and yet they were 30. So being 60 is not a requirement for being good.
I have participated in a handful of rewrites. Most of them were indeed unnecessary or harmful.

However, "X2" was definitely an example of an appropriate rewrite. It had the following conditions:

* The existing code "X" was the product of an early-phase startup which hadn't yet figured out what it was going to do. "X" already existed at the point we were still asking questions like, "Who is the customer?" with possible answers like "The NSA and similar entities" even though it eventually became a consumer product - and so obviously it was very flexible but had also been greatly distorted from its original conception to produce a product we were actively selling.

* The existing code was developed and maintained by a third party team. So the knowledge of how that system worked was something we'd need to absorb anyway to bring it in-house. Existing code reflected house style of that team, and X2 would be in our style.

* It was modestly sized. I think our plan said our small team (less than half-a-dozen people, not all of them available for this full-time) would rewrite it in one calendar year, with an MVP in maybe six months and from there simultaneously copying less important features from "X" and also new want-to-have features to get the finished "X2", that's roughly the timeline we followed.

* I was pretty confident we could execute from the initial description of the work to be attempted. I went into a meeting assuming (as I always do in all-hands meetings) that I'd get fired, and came out thinking I should brush up my Java (the chosen language for "X2") but it seemed very possible.

* The non-technical leadership actually wanted a new system. "We need a new pig" is how it was explained back to me by the CEO. (From "Lipstick on a pig" the idea that superficial changes to a product can't really disguise its flaws) so there was buy-in of this idea and nobody yelling at us about why the "X2" MVP doesn't deliver most of the things "X" didn't have yet.

[This software, and its predecessor, had code names but somebody let me name the successor software and I have no imagination so although it wasn't literally "X" and "X2" that's about how similar the code names were].