skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have missed my point.

Set -e is not global. It only applies in some cases. In other contexts (inside a function when called as if <function>) errors will not be caught and once you realise that you realise there’s no hope of writing error proof logic in bash.
> TV shows have seasons. Seasons have episodes

This isn't always true. Some shows release specials that aren't linked to any season, but go between seasons. Some shows (like web serials) release in one continuous stream. Sure there are workarounds/hacky solutions to these, but assuming all shows have the exact same hierarchy is a bad assumption to make.
Yeah, it's just a flock of birds flying down.
I’m in a tough spot because I threw that off in an offhand way, but I didn’t really think it through and now I’m in danger of presenting substantial, but nonetheless circumstantial and anecdotal evidence of a phenomenon that is real and harmful (which is good) but attaching it to a specific person (which is bad in general and mega bad for me personally).

But I kind of have to cough up now: the rumor mill, and it was exactly that, has made credible claims that Socialcam was a dead end that got pimped to Autodesk as their path towards social media relevance, including some influential angel back-scatter, and then the principles promptly fucked off to Thailand and rested their vest until they got big jobs at YC on the back of building…Socialcam.

Twitch is a name everyone knows, AMZN got their money’s worth. The other highly YC-connected justin.tv stuff? Yeah, not a big splash.
I don't understand why this is surprising.
Nah, this place is wonderful. Just ignore the BS and stop worrying about correcting everyone.
Appending "reddit" to the beginning of search queries could get SEO'd away too if enough bots start posting to reddit :/
> When a pile of "capital" is destroyed (i.e. a bushel of wheat spoils, or a factory burns to the ground, or the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody are somehow lost forever)…

Well, at least one of these examples is actually capital (the factory). Of the remainder, one is just plain property, not a capital good, and the other is information. Capital is property which serves as a means of production. Sometimes the term is used loosely to include highly marketable goods (money) which can stand in for the means of production (e.g. "raising capital"), or even more loosely as in "human capital" (referring to the capacity for labor as a means of production), but it does not include commodities consumed in the production process, such as the wheat; nor information, which is non-rivalrous and thus not property, much less capital.

With that said, you're basically correct about the difference between currency other forms of property—goods with utility beyond their use in trade. For the most part there is no advantage to society in having a larger or smaller amount of currency (in aggregate). For economic calculation it's best if the supply just remains constant; any variation will temporarily affect the allocation of other resources, but eventually the value of the currency will adjust so that the total purchasing power of the currency equals all the goods available for purchase. It can cause problems if the supply changes too rapidly, making prices unstable, or if so much currency is lost that it starts to impact divisibility. For example, if bitcoins grew in value to the point where one satoshi was worth a month of labor we would need to modify the protocol to add more significant digits, or introduce a parallel system for day-to-day transactions, much like silver vs. gold.
I don't want to work more hours and I don't have the nerves it takes -- or rather, I do -- I could handle anything, but I don't want to.

I still work toward some small product that'll make me an extra hundred or few a month, though.

People like idlewords (Pinboard), kalzumeus (Misc), and jcs (Pushover) are far more inspirational to me than whoever runs Snapchat or some other mega-SaaS.
The YouTube app on Apple TV is a giant middle finger from Google to their users.

I’m convinced that not a single person on that team dog foods on an Apple TV at home.

I wouldn’t trust myself the app on an Apple TV around children because I wouldn’t be able to hold back my cursing when attempting to scroll a list, selecting an element, using the seekbar, or use basic functionality implemented on other platforms like “add to watch later”.
That'd be a hell of a hunting technique if the predators keyed into it: Driving the entire flock to crash into an object, allowing them to prey on the dead and injured.
Have you considered that there may not actually be any good results for the exact phrase "gulp admzip"? Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit?
The author makes some decent points about localStorage generally, but I think really misses the point on what makes Wordle so successful and endearing. It was built as a side project for a very small audience and just happened to have massive, organic growth. If Josh Wardle had thought about all of these described use cases in advance, there's a much higher chance that it never would have gotten off the ground as a side project. Additionally, the massive growth would have presented much harder (or at least much more expensive) scaling challenges, whereas with it being entirely client-side it is much easier and cheaper to scale to millions of users.
> But I guess it gets clicks for the conspiracy-minded who think he's Darth Sidious instead of just some smart rich guy who happens to like Trump

This is... not why people dislike Peter Thiel.
I haven't consumed significant amounts of ads in a long time, only some logos in sports and the occasional visit to family or the rare times adblock fails (YouTube premium user too). So I can only imagine how hilarious that must be.
Not at all, if the topic is "search relevance is getting compromised for ad revenue". I posted a similar finding yesterday [Google search relevance fail: result for “Africa longitude”](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337563) but didn't get much traction. By the way, for that query, Bing's image results are much better, but the #1 site hit is still the same SEO-manipulated auto-generated page, not any reputable reference source like we might expect. And that is a basic query, nothing to do with Reddit, social media or YC personalities. I tried the query on Reddit, the results are a disorganized jumble. So, the surprise winner on that query is... Bing.
I heard "gullible" isn't in the dictionary, either.
Am I the only person who's vaguely interested but won't try this until it supports dual boot?
Depending on where you are, the legal system might already block or complicate larger cash transactions, i.e., legal system already intervening on the transactions level.
A lot of the Government debt is short dated, so it needs to be rolled. For example according to [1] (the official source), about $4 trillion of the debt is in T-bills, so they mature in less than 2 years, and about $13 trillion in T-notes, which mature in less than 10 years.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2022/opd...
Duckduckgo uses Bing and they also pay millions to be included.
> What are browsers doing about it?

I really hate this narrative. Why should the browsers give a damn? There should be nothing required of the browsers, the only ones to worry are the idiots writing faulty UA parsers and baking in their assumptions.
I fully understand your point and defaults are very strong.

That being said, I try new search engines from time to time and always get back to google, because non of the others have worked for me (in a professional context). I probably do 200 searches per day and google is most likely to give me relevant info on my first query (maybe 80-90% success rate). All others I have tried have been around 40-50% win an avg. of 2-3 search queries to find my result. That is a huge daily time sync on 200 searches per day.

I will also test your search engine.

And before having tested it, I have some unsolicited advice ;) At least these are things that would make me switch:
1) you are strong in my vertical. 50% of my daily search queries are professional. Probably 10-20% are programming related. If you were better 20% better than google at delivering results for that subset, I would probably use you.
2) If you had very strong support for my locale. Based in Germany, 50% of my private searches are in German. Most search engines, apart from google, suck in German. My assumption is their market share is so small that they don‘t put effort into any language specific search syntax understanding. German or large language groups like Spanish, Hindi, French come to mind.
3) If you can‘t become a default search engine on safari, maybe you can role your own browser (chromium fork or something) where you are the default. You could package it as: MySearchEngine App. It is actually a fully functional browser, but users really use it because they want to use your search engine. That might give easier access than having to manually navigate to your website in safari.

</ end of unsolicited advice />
That looks promising, I'll take a look, thanks! I had gone through the list of kitties but somehow didn't think that one was what I was looking for.
A less charitable interpretation --- and unfortunately one that could be true --- is that Google does not want you to think. It wants to keep you stupid because it's easier to deceive those who can't think and bend their thoughts in the direction that gives G more $$$. I'd say it's not merely optimising for the stupid; it's actively encouraging it. It wants to be your brain, control your thoughts and life.
The same problem here. Turn on VPN, works fine, i.e. from Japan.
I don't think so. The bulk of them flew right away afterwards.
Because seeing the beatific vision is a grace, God does no wrong to His creatures by not giving it (for any reason or through any mechanism).
I'm really sorry that you have been the victim of such forum drama.

I also agree with you that people on this forum are on balance likely to dismiss non-mainstream medical approaches. If you are open minded about these and want to discuss them without prejudice, you'll often be met with responses that may be snarky or unfairly dismissive. That's the unfair reality of holding non-mainstream ideas. By default, they are off-piste, niche, etc...

However, I didn't see anything like that in any of the responses here. A very valid point was raised that you support your proposition (ie that HIV might be helped by fasting) with a Quora link. People who are not closed to the idea will find that the link just contains some anecdotal information which at best can confirm sub-conscious pre-concieved biases, but not be a robust argument.

Worse, it plays into the hand of those who are outright dismissive because you served them a perfect strawman to attack.

Ultimately, with any discussion forum you have to consider the audience. People don't owe you anything and particularly a forum like this where things are supposed to be debated based on merit, the bar to debate claims is relatively high.

All these considered, it would've been better to simply ignore the quora link, or at least strongly annotate it saying it is just anecdotal and should not be taken as supporting evidence.
Of course it's still hackable.

A search engine finds 50 pages that are exact matches for the search. Which one does it present as the top of the list? How does it decide? Unless it decides literally by a random number generator, however it decides, someone will try to discover the algorithm, and exploit it. This is true whether or not the search engine allows or displays ads.

> I'm not interested in a pedantic argument. If you didn't understand what I meant then you should have asked for clarification.

I don't think it was a pedantic argument or a misunderstanding. I think Lascaille understood your position and disagreed with you, not just pedantically but over the substance.
I fail to hit zero fewer than three times a month. It's absolutely possible.
The Submarine: Influence, PR and News Media (2005)
I can't agree with this take. It's not lazy, it's a set of tradeoffs that didn't land the way OP would prefer, but that doesn't make it universally wrong.
I briefly looked into the same possibility, but I am trying to keep my physical modifications of the iPod to a minimum – mine is pretty tight in there with the big battery, although I could buy a deeper back plate.

Power and audio can easily be multiplexed, but I don't know about the playback control piece. The dock connector needs to be intact for USB
The die-hard crypto believers are even more bothersome than the crypto skeptics. I might well believe that zero-knowledge proofs might turn out to be the foundation of some new cutting-edge technology, or whatever. But if you just tell me the equivalent of "dude, these Bored Gorillas will change the world!!1!" that's just not very interesting on a social or intellectual level.
Most people don’t literally say “goo goo ga ga” to babies; what they actually do is echo babies’ nonsense sounds back at them.

I subscribe to the theory that this helps babies understand what they sound like, and therefore helps them learn how to produce the sounds they want.
Falcon 9 has already made ever non-reusable rocket obsolete and look like a child's plaything by comparison. And the current industry players aren't even trying to compete. It's pathetic.
Whoever we're referring to with "the right" in this discussion tried this before, and they got, in my opinion, bullied into conforming rather than people trying to bridge a divide. Now that the right wants to create "Safe spaces" free from "persecution" and discrimination, they're being told to not go into bubbles and why are "they" the ones that want to further the divide.

If it wasn't so society-level sad, it'd be comical how the majority flip flops on issues when it suits them. Even your post, I'm sorry, smells of passive-aggressive condescension against these individuals.
I'm aware of the drawbacks of localStorage. I accept them every time I use them. But it has advantages too. I'm not going to stop relying on it because sometimes, it is the right answer.
The technical stuff seems to be all Chinese on sites like bilibili, gitee etc.

For a more business perspective there are some twitter-accounts - maybe: ruima, danwwang ...
> Transferring real estate into a trust isn't a viable way to keep ill gotten gains from a bankruptcy court. Selling assets would only be sketchy if she attempted to divert some of that money, which isn't mentioned (and I'm sure those transactions received intense scrutiny).

I get the sense from the various posts and book excerpts and her podcast appearance that she isn't the sharpest tool in the shed nor a criminal mastermind, so to speak.
Make sure they don’t forget! In the chaos after birth, sometimes these things slip through. I’m not sure what happened when our first was born, but I do remember the folks who came by a bit later to pick up the cord being annoyed that the delivery team didn’t save it.
This is a bit of a "tree falls in a forest" situation honestly. If an employee does this and then succeeds at the job, is there actually a problem? If they turn out to suck and need to be let go because they're unqualified, or because they lied and are unqualified, what's the practical difference?

Like, certainly there's a gut level "but that's wrong!" reaction but is there actual, meaningful, unique harm caused that is not addressed the same way as all new-hire harm is: via a probationary period.
This looks like a Boids implementation that gets the flocking behavior right but has a bug in ground collision avoidance.
Assume this is evasive behavior due to a predator or predator-analogue (i.e., a drone might also be mistaken for a predator and cause this behavior).
Swiss CERT informs companies via snail mail about security issues
Video available for Europeans here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/14/why-did-...
Many auth providers allow anonymous auth, which creates a UID that can be used to store and secure data. Only later the customer can link that account with another identity provider (e.g. socail, email/password). This gives the low-friction benefits of local storage and the flexibility of cloud storage.
What about the rational haters?
> But I still think that anyone who would want to leave their relatively egalitarian western society to live among such inequality is morally defective.

Open up your closets, cabinets, etc. How many of the goods you own are made in the West? How many are made in places like China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc.?

How can you say that Western society is "relatively egalitarian" when the majority of the goods Westerners consume are produced in poor or developing countries where inequality is the rule not the exception?

For heaven's sake, for decades, the West has literally shipped its trash to these countries for disposal or "recycling".

The West is only "relatively egalitarian" so long as you pretend that the West is a closed, self-contained society. In reality, the West has outsourced poverty, ultra-abusive labor practices, corruption, pollution and environmental destruction to countries most of their citizens can't locate on a map. Out of sight, out of mind.

If a Westerner is "morally defective" for choosing to live in poor, polluted, corrupt countries, what should one make of the Westerners who wouldn't want to even visit them but have no problem filling their lives with products made in them?

> In these third world countries, the lives of affluent expats and the natives who serve them pretty much don’t intersect at all except through the service relationship.

Ever lived in, say, the SF Bay Area? The dynamic between the affluent and the people who serve them isn't as different in the West as you make it out to be. The hotshot FANG engineer making $400,000/year and living in a $2.5 million house in Cupertino likely isn't "intersecting" with the cook at a Chipotle who shares an apartment with 3 other people in the worst neighborhood in the East Bay and commutes with multiple people to Mountain View every day.
As a complement to your points - it's worth pointing out that "blunt" != "intentionally rude" / "personal/character attacks".

I've seen lots of people on HN who are straightforward, but don't verbally abuse others when correcting them (although they might get a bit terse) - complaining about them is very different than complaining about those who actually start attacking you personally when you disagree with them.

(I, personally, try to be a polite form of the former, but as most people who have extensively commented on the internet can tell you, it's a slippery slope)
I would assume almost all daily users of Wordle would consider having to have an account in exchange for persistent, cross-device statistics a worthy trade-off. And presumably a well-designed app could even abuse LocalStorage for anonymous play, and include a mechanism to hand off and save your data, should you wish to, via a login.

Social OAuth and passwordless email login (essentially one-time codes) are both pretty low-effort ways of managing auth without storing a lot of sensitive data or having to manage passwords.
The author posted a full throated and mocking anti-bitcoin article in 2014 [1] when the bitcoin price was $300. Since then, bitcoin has thrived, and so has cryptocurrency in general. BTC is up 100x since Peter posted his original article.

A lot of anti-bitcoin crowd gets ego invested in their opposition, and the result is articles like this, which misunderstand the fundamentals of bitcoin.

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cr...
Maybe a microburst [0] of air from a developing thunderstorm? Basically, an extremely powerful downward burst of cold air. Seems to have killed birds in the past [1]. This is absolutely terrifying during takeoff/landing inside an airplane [2].

[0]: https://www.weather.gov/ama/microbursts

[1]: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/mystery-solved-unusua...

[2]:
https://youtu.be/Q3Sr2F_xxLo
The site says open-source but there's no link to code, only a suggestion to sign up for early access?
I did not realize the extent to which I have come to automatically privilege Reddit thread responses when selecting among search results,

for all the reasons enumerated.

Wow.
Aligning AI systems with human intent
These ideas extend well beyond the realm of streaming apps too - so much of the software I use day to day is shockingly bad. Far, far too much churn driven from ladder-climbing obsessed middle managers who want rewrites and redesigns and engagement to go up up up.
I think there are a few other theories we should investigate first, but I'll add time travel to the list.
The distinction is certainly one worth making (reversibility within the ledger vs. "meta-reversibility" in the context of the social/legal system that ledger is embedded), and not just at an academic level as underlined by your example.

In my view, both matter when trying to understand a payment system.
> It's probably worth noting that Wikipedia breaks character occasionally and does the banner panhandling, intentionally nosediving UX to put an ad front-and-center.

They are asking for donations to fund their best-in-kind free project. I know ads aren't popular on HN but if you don't want ads, and you don't want a donation banner, how do you expect sites to be funded?
> It's also the kind of thing that can open a backdoor for free will in a deterministic universe, your brain in this chaotic state might behave deterministically but the actual state would never be knowable with enough precision to predict the outcome of inputs for any amount of time (butterfly effect).

I think all it would mean is that the human brain is non-deterministic.

That’s different from free will though which is really an untestable, philosophical idea rather than a testable scientific hypothesis.

In any event, a random chaos state can be both non-deterministic and not intentional, or what many would call “free will”.
And...modern web cruft is a memory hog. Chrome's built in task manager shows the tab I'm writing this comment in as using a reasonable 50MB of memory. Meanwhile, I have a couple of YouTube tabs that are over 200MB each.

The problem is the world doesn't hold web developers responsible for being wasteful.
Would the Northern Cities Vowel Shift do it?
>an audience that is more to the right on the political spectrum

maybe, but consider the sheer geography of it. a solid plurality of HN users hail from NYC and the bay area, two of the leftiest places in the anglosphere.
No, of course not! Let’s throw away perfectly good computers. Yes I know that you can use Linux but I expect that if I’m buying a chromebook, I like the OS as well?
End of the day, the sovereign state possesses ultimate power. For awhile some people felt that Bitcoin, et al made them immune to the authority of the state.

The reality is, unless you’re in a particular situation, like a Russia-based criminal who kicks the big up the chain, you’re not out of reach of the law.