skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have something truly paradigm changing you are not going to be able to get reasonable suggestions about it from big public discussions, and even less if you don't say exactly what it is but just use an analogy that does not (it seems from your concluding remark) map very well to the actual problem your insight solves.

When you say you have gained some insights about a domain, it sounds also like you might be a crank, for example if I gained some insights regarding topology and stochastic processes and was going to devote time to working on it, I would actually be a crank and end up sending my important mathematical proofs around to people who would be hard put to respond charitably to my ravings. Not saying that's you, but lots of otherwise sensible people gain insights into something outside their normal realm of expertise and then go on mad errands to save the world, generally very intelligent people, not realizing that these domains require more than just intelligence to gain an insight into them but also many years of study.

Finally when someone says they have a paradigm changing thing but cannot divulge it, some people may feel the person is either pretentious and does not realize they do not have paradigm changing thing, or that the person is unhinged (because talking about paradigm changing things before the paradigm has been changed will naturally sound unhinged to some people)

All of which says if you believe strongly you can change the paradigm you will have to do something to show it to people, and even the people you show it to (in my experience) will probably be too limited to see then possibilities in what you propose. The proof is in the pudding, and the weirder the pudding the more you will have to work to get people to eat it and realize how delicious it actually is.

Also when someone says their idea sparks fear in them because of the implications this is also a weird thing, because it implies what - a possible result of your idea is dystopia, mass extinction...? This contributes to the whole feeling like maybe you are overthinking the situation.
Because valuing close friends through the lens of what personal gain they may yield is more than a little sociopathic?
I know, right? This is kind of how I feel about org mode (in Emacs).
You don't have to be "into" the stock market i.e. doing day trading. That's unlikely to make you rich unless you do it as a full-time job (and even then...). You can get lucky, but that's usually about it.

Instead, invest a regular amount of money monthly into ETFs. Those are relatively low-risk, but should still yield significant returns over the course of decades.

It's true that most people (at least in Germany) don't trust the stock market. The problem is that your wealth is being eaten up by inflation and interests on savings are low or even negative. You will lose money. In addition, Germany's mandatory pension funds are in a bad shape and most private insurances (e.g. Riester) are not worth it.

The situation is not the same as in my parents' generation and unfortunately, a lot of people are not realising that.
Contrast this to two sports I particularly like : Tennis ( Federer & Nadal ) and MotoGP ( strong comradery and drivers are genuinely happy for each others wins ).
Eventually the tokens for governing will increase in price, and web3 will have the same problem.
> Meanwhile in most European countries, punitive taxation makes it extremely difficult to move up in social class, even from middle class to upper middle class.

This is not true. Several of the highest taxed countries in Europe also have the best social mobility in the OECD: https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/1-5%20generations.png

It might be the case that Germany is particularly rigid, but that is not transferable to most of Europe and certainly can't be attributed to taxes.
Respect to Andrew for creating RuneScape. I wonder how many people coded it.
This is what really got me into programming - wanting to write similar MMO. 15 years later still unrealised dream :/

I also miss the times where there were active gamedev forums and everyone had their own game engine, now everyone uses Unity and Discord I guess.
I think I agree with this, actually. :-/
Good to know. Is there any way to ban yourself or do you need to keep a list.
Yes, although the recipient is not supposed to be exposed to that - see the UCU strike starting today.
I have read the article top to bottom... and yes, it's relatable, comparable, it leaves me with envy that I despite numerous attempts I haven't managed to build a reliable system like that and turn it into a habit.

In no way do I feel it makes any of the connection cheap.
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While I'm doing the same on a small scale for fun, I think it's important to mention that this is not some magic feature of Bitcoin, but just a speculative effect that works with any kind of asset, as long as its value grows disproportionally to the value of the currency you bought it in.

This only works as long as the price of Bitcoin (and other crypto currencies) "goes up". If it stagnates or drops, you can lose money, even more than the current inflation.

E.g. Calculating the Dollar Cost Average for the last year would show that you probably would have lost money, with a negative ROI of -11%.
As others have noted this is 100% about disastrous management decisions around a software flaw.

These decisions, made over and over again, must surely come close to criminal negligence.

This will be a case study in the future, it's just awful how these post masters were treated.
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I'm not sure what you're saying, but the spread between buying price and selling price is exactly how the temporary middle man gets paid for the risk they take in matching up buyers and sellers. The size of the spread depends on how large the perception of that risk is.
Retail _traders_ tend to lose money, retail _investors_ who buy and hold tend to do OK in the long run.

> investment is tied into a basic necessity, like a house

? What does this refer to?
I believe freedoms can be restricted to everyone in a region by a monopoly (government) if a very large group of people in a place vote for it. Not 50%, it would take higher percentage than that. And this way you can create basic laws, agains murder for example, nukes, heavy weapons, basic insurance, etc. And said people should have a right to withdraw their vote. If they want to censor TV this way they can. It would he stupid but they can. However to meet definition of democracy in my books, they also need to have the right to withdraw their support for that restriction of freedom, and if the threshold is not met, the law is abolished automatically after a certain period. Having a certain people create laws is ripe for corruption, and we see that everywhere including Switzerland.

If you cannot get the majority to support your censorship, and still believe it is good for a lot of people, you have to create standards and create programs that adhere to such standards that people can subscribe to voluntarily.
They hit 60 in the sprint events. You could argue that it should be similar. Speed skaters and cyclists use about the same muscles and have similar front cross-section. That leaves the difference of rolling resistance vs steel on ice, but both, IIRC, are low compared to air resistance.

Speed skating speed drops off faster at longer distances than cycling, though. I think that’s mostly because you can’t for any moment rest while staying in the ideal low body position. They also run out of oxygen faster because sitting low to lower air resistance isn’t ideal for breathing.
As a Swede in Switzerland, I think the main difference to the US is the cost. European commissions is mostly "buy and never look again." That fosters a culture where only a few people care and talk about it.

In Switzerland, I have to pay ~0.1% stamp duty on every purchase and sale of stocks and ETFs (in a Swiss broker). The UK has a 0.5% stamp duty on stocks. The idea for these brokers to compete on price doesn't make much sense at that point. It's "fine" that the normal fund has a 0.5-1% fee. There's some movement here, but only if you care to engage outside your existing bank (IBKR in the UK, Avanza++ in Scandinavia, Degiro in Europe in general).

Investing is good, and---as has been said---pensions are often invested in the stock market, whether you know it or not. But you just don't talk about it, because being active is costly. In Sweden, the defined contributions are auto-invested in a balanced fund unless you engage. There's something to be said about having sane defaults when you create a system.

As for the US, I'm not sure Robinhood was a step in the right direction. We should encourage people to own companies, not try to profit from Brownian motion. But that's perhaps a topic for another discussion.

Finally, I'm heavily into the stock market. I have several accounts across the world (though not really by design). I'm fascinated about this oddity that I can buy more food in the future just by having a different piece of paper, compared to someone else. But I also spend a stupid amount of time trying to find ways to reduce cost of investments. My guess is that most people don't, and it's kind-of the first step for a European that's paying >1% in fund fees. Or who don't even know how much they're paying.
That is the main problem? Really? Not that facebook reads your messages, processes them, do what they want with them?

Use a secure messenger, but not facebook.
So any thoughts on this company, Repography? Their dashboards look really cool, but the only way to give them a go with my own repositories is to authorize their Github app to "Act on my behalf", whatever that means, or to curl some unknown code and pipe that into bash locally on my machine. Neither option is one I'm particularly fond of trying, without additional assurances that this is a legit org.
I don't know. I just feel like they could have spent a bit more time convincing me it's safe to do that authorization thing. Likewise, I could have downloaded their script and audited it before running - I just don't have the time to do that right now.
I've done the same time. Spent nights and weekends remodeling my home over 5 years. It was never 'finished', and the quality was never as good as the bits that I did hire out. The entire time I felt like I was living in a construction site.

When I got my 2nd home, I hired pros. The pros tell me they want their kids in my job.
Censorship is cool when cool new tech companies are doing it.
And I even used a Motorola Atrix with the Lapdock - that was underpowered and disappointing too. Great idea for the time but a few years too early.

The hardware was nice though.
Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning
Some comments here claim that he is treating people not as friends. IMO these comments are not charitable a interpretation. While it is a plausible interpretation, I have strongly learned from HN to be charitable and optimistic when reading someone else's point of view. I know with topics like this that perspectives vary more wildly among people, so let me show you why I can be more optimistic in my interpretation.

I think it's perfectly fine to separate emotions and reason like this. The reason: I am on the other side when it comes to managing my friends: I am not separating reason and emotion. Because of that, I am failing hard at staying in touch with people that I would like to stay in touch with (I am noticing it with certain friends of my as well). I am succeeding to stay in touch with a few people, but if I'd have a system like this I might be able to stay in touch with many more people that I'd like to stay in touch with anyway but for some unknown reason have some sort of blockade or friction.

Other than that I think the interpretation is not charitable enough, I also have personal experience that it might be wrong. For example, I view the dating markets strictly from a market perspective that is heavily inspired by micro-economics and "common sense". Initially, such a perspective is detached from emotion, but there are certain points where it is attached (e.g. with supply/demand questions like: "what do I want/need from a partner" or "What can I offer? What do I want to offer? What do I need to offer?"). Moreover, upon meeting people there is empathy, sympathy and human intuition involved. Sometimes the emotions will be so strong that I have a compulsion towards meeting a person again (e.g. falling in love). Those emotions are not helping! Sometimes I feel the right amount that is also in line with my other needs and in other cases I don't feel enough about a certain person when I don't see them (but when I do see them, I am delighted to catch up).

Management of personal life != how people are on a moment by moment basis in personal life

I think by having a system like this, you can put Dunbar's number to shame.
I see this easily implementable in Obsidian with Dataview plugin, with random notes about ppl to boot. Like gift ideas etc. I have notes for important people in my life anyway cause I have terrible memory :/
I often have a mismatch between communication styles leading to problems with such reciprocal expectation about contact like you describe - especially since I try to be conscientous about other people's time. In fact, the more I care, the harder it is to possibly interrupt someone who might be in middle of something important to them.

I see this system as a way of preventing backsliding into rarer and rarer interactions when they aren't pushed by common activities.
A book that everyone should read, at an individual level, is a book that no one should read.
It is a bit hazy, yes. For me having a total order relationship is one of the intrinsic properties of intuitive numbers. Complexes don't have that, but reals do, so I'm sure if you meant you can put them in the slot, but you'd compare the modulus.

That's why I'd prefer to relabel them like "2-d numbers" for instance, to make it clear that some properties are affected like going from points on a line to points on the plane.
You are likely indirectly into the stockmarket, through pension funds or social security. In the USA, a lot of people (especially in big tech) are more directly involved through a 401k, which allows to pick stock/bonds.

It could also be that you prioritize investing money into a house instead?
counter examples:

"Hello" in ...

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ (Kannada)
नमस्ते (Hindi)
வணக்கம் (Tamil)
ہیلو (Urdu)
こんにちは (Japanese)
ନମସ୍କାର (Odia)
>Put him on paid leave as a brand new (expensive) employee?

That's exactly what my employer did when my daughter was dying from leukemia. It's also what I would do for an employee in the same situation, even if I had to trim my own salary.
> Of course, not everyone publishes content or updates regularly. In that case, I usually just ask what they’ve been up to lately.

> You’d be surprised how many people are really happy to get these kinds of messages and they often spark all kinds of deeper conversations.

I had an acquaintance I barely had any common interests with that every few weeks out of the blue would ask me "what's up?". Not once did it lead to any value for me or him and just mildly annoyed me and made me less likely to cooperate if he ever needed help. I'd still help him, because I'm a helpful person but I'd have more mixed feelings about it than if he was just memory of last pleasant interaction from few years prior than fresh memory of scheduled networking/nagging.

I think if you can't personalize approach to provide value to that person with your interactions you should skip keeping in touch because you might be worse off.
> Greyscale-AA is the “natural” approach to anti-aliasing.

> Subpixel-AA is a trick that abuses the common way pixels are laid out on desktop monitors.

I disagree with this notion of subpixel-AA being "abuse". If anything, grayscale AA is a simplification, assuming that each color component of a pixel is emitted from the same area. Of course subpixel-AA is more complicated, but it doesn't mean that it's abuse.
Some things are simple to some people - and cripplingly hard to others :/
I've addressed this in another comment.

The short answer is that it's a mistake to read my comment as saying 7 segments per se in the usual figure-8 shape is universal to how brains comprehend writing. It's not. You can dig up counter examples all day because that wasn't my point.

My point was that for a given language, the writing system tends to evolve to the point where each glyph contains just enough distinguishing features to not confuse it with any other glyph. There is also selective pressure to reuse the same segments but in different combinations, rather than try and come up with wholly different lines for each glyph which can only be learned by rote memorization. The end result of these pressures is that any language will evolve towards its own version of a 7 segment display. Call it a k-segment display, where k is only slightly higher than log_2(the size of the alphabet). I don't know what the k segment display looks like for Cyrillic or Greek or whichever other alphabet you pulled the other glyphs from, but I'm sure one could be found.

It definitely exists for Korean, as the Korean alphabet was designed in the 19th century and the sub-letters are intentional. I mention this because one of your chosen examples is a Korean letter.
I mean, at some point. Well, yes, they're keeping the old users happy.

As much as I hate the new design (and I mean, I hate it). old.reddit is keeping a lot of people happy.

And as long as that fallback works (and it is an official fallback) it is hard to justify not using it.

And I think reddit knows the rejection to the new interface is huge amongst old users (and those who contribute the most). I hope they know that if they flip the switch they will digg their own hole.
Hey HN,

I've built this Interactive JavaScript Knowledge Map that allows developers to get a glance at _most_ topics in modern JavaScript.

Students that are following https://LearnJavaScript.online, will be able to track their progress using this knowledge map. It becomes interactive as they will be able to see the completed branches and click on them to go back to the related lesson. They also have a progress bar that completes as they further progress in the course.

Let me know what you think!
Yes you are right. If just connecting to the Pi, port forwarding is fine (and I use this).

When adding more devices at home (IP cameras etc.) and not connecting just to the Pi then the Wireguard VPN comes in.
If text rendering hates you, an editable text renderer is 10x worse.

Anyone who has spent any time working on contenteditable or any of the browser based rich text editors knows what a nightmare it is. The temptation to abandon all hope and start from scratch with a canvas element and build you own renderer and editor is strong. You start researching how to do it, maybe even create a quick prototype but quickly discover all the edge cases in this article and more.

People who have spent significant parts of their career fixing all the inconsistencies between browsers and devices such as Marijn Haverbeke with ProseMirror (and CodeMirror) should get a Gallantry award for the work they have done.
Not the parent, but I live in Germany and while the new coalition government is expected to push for moving he public pension system to stock based pensions, the current system consists of a public pension system (that employees pay into via their employer to pay out current recipients who previously paid into it) and a private pension system everyone is strongly encouraged to pay into. As I understand it the private system is not directly tied to the stock market though.

For most people outside the very niche finance and tech investment bubbles stocks are largely understood as a form of gambling and managed funds as a high yield alternative to a savings account with a small risk of losing money (but this requires some disposable income so again this is somewhat self-selecting).

The ordinary Hans Wurst (German Joe Blow) just follows the economy section of the news for a general feeling of if things are going good or bad because line goes down means prices go up and they probably won't get a raise.
I've also played on Lunara and I remember Liches of Archinare to this day! I remember how proud I was when I became a member, even though I was just a low-rank peasant :P
or é (which appears in lots of "English" words, like résumé), or ä (which appears to be the preferred spelling of doppelgänger in most dictionaries [1]), or ' as in "it's". Even ignoring that other languages exist you run into countless problems
Not sure if it's what you really want to see but there's a new solution called Serverless Cloud that lets you write only code in JS/TS. This platform handles the infra management itself. It has frontend sync, global CDN, secret management, event-driven design possibilities. https://www.serverless.com/cloud/
If its required by law, then telcos need to comply, that isn't in question. If that is not what the majority wants, they need to elec governments committed to change these laws.

I am merely pointing out that, once the law permits doing so, actually not storing something is quite easy.
I hadn't heard of it before, but it looks a bit like Clan Lord, which I played in 1998.
> This should induce criminal charges not against the software developer, it should induce charges against management and those that believed the data is enough for a conviction. Difficult case because that would also implicate judges and public prosecutors. Of course that will not happen, but they are guilty far more than Fujitsu.

Not against the software developer? Let's wait and see whether they did due dilligence, shall we?

This happened over a very very long period of time.

People committed suicide over these false charges. Ruling out prosecuting the developer if it can be proved that they knew, did nothing, colluded in silence, etc., would be insane.

FWIW, I don't think "public prosecutors" in the conventional sense (Crown, CPS etc.) were even involved here. The Royal Mail is (like until recently the RSPCA) one of the few entities in the UK entitled to bring its own prosecutions. The Royal Mail pretty much invented the concept of formal investigation and prosecution. This is the Post Office acting with the assumed prosecutorial power of the state; the CPS may not ever have been involved.
This is regulated in some senses (doing this as exchange is a big no-no).

Also this is theoretically, the point of High Frequency Trading...

Sadly this is only theoretical, seemly they are quite willing to make the market messy to force this difference to exist so they can profit more, and not many governments so far are bothered by that.
Why? Happiness and valuable shared experiences are also gains.
I really hope that it ends up with Post Office management in prison for a long time. There seems to be evidence that they shredded incriminating documents:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252498245/Post-Office-st...

According to one interview I heard, part of the problem is that the level of compensation that's actually required in this case is enough to render the Post Office insolvent.
You understand that you're arguing against the existence of moderated forums like HN, right?

Why do you believe that it should be made impractical for sites like HN to exist?