skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! ReadMe founder here. I'm always excited to have other companies working on docs :)

I haven't met Ana and Maria yet (hopefully will!), but it does seem like we both agree documentation is incredibly important for APIs. Based on what I've seen, ReadMe thinks about things a bit differently. Our goal isn't to just display all the info about your API, but rather make your API easy to use, debug, etc. Our docs are interactive, know things about your users, etc. We want the docs to be the full UI/UX for your API.

So, tl;dr = similar problem, and hopefully you check us both out :)

(Also, $170k later, we're ReadMe.com instead of .io these days!)
Yes, there are carbon costs.

I think your observation and sentiment would be best used in being vigilant about where Proof of Work is done and the emissions improvement it is having in those places, and rallying against certain kinds of sites.

Its almost not really about what the network does, its about how it is an economically viable emission reduction for fossil fuel sites - in the absence of anything else - as they produce this digital commodity sellable on the open market.

Just a different perspective that relies on acknowledging that it isn't going away. I can see that being a hard pivot, but I think the sentiment is very useful in making sure Proof of Work isn't used in things like more re-commissioned coal plants, or co-opted by governments in the future to gain control of the network at a financial and environmental loss.
Looking through the code, and am surprised to see just how much it takes to provide a secure source of RNG in an operating system.
I think this is the reckoning of people realizing that technical solutions do not always solve social problems. Firefox itself started as a fork against Netscape’s commercialization, and now has reintroduced many of the same issues: Pocket, telemetry, DRM. Google’s original paper explicitly identified the conflict of interest in search engines funded by ads, and now it is the largest ad marketplace in existence. I think now when people see something like LibreWolf they ask “for how long?”
Yeah and they are very much subpar, same as Whirlpool cca 12 years ago also sold through Ikea. Bought some kitchen appliances when buying Ikea kitchens (twice), all had some minor or not so minor issues.

Whirlpool fridge had door isolation strip uneven resulting in some heat coming in, from Day 1. Induction stove had few flat touch buttons responding only to strong pressure, kind of randomly, also Day 1. Electrolux - dish washer is well below average in quality of cleaning, our 15 years old Bosch does much better job. Also Electrolux - stove hood, something broke inside after maybe a year, so it performs at maybe 20% of the basic speed. Faster modes don't work at all and it shutdowns itself after maybe 5 mins. This one is especially annoying since its built into the wall.

Fuck these trashy brands, I'll never ever buy anything else from them. Its Siemens, Bosch and Miele, but mainly Bosch which doesn't command Miele's high price and reliability/features are OK for us. I am not rich nor patient enough to waste so much time, money and energy on anything else.
Hackers, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Pierce Digital Iron Curtain
You can easily statistics-wash your reasoning into something that seems at first glance beneficial. If I remember Pinterest's blog post about their nag-screen correctly, the argument would go something like this:

- We continuously improve the UX of our services using an empirical, data-driven approach.

- One of the KPIs we optimize for is retention of Prime customers.

- Our A/B tests showed that the changes introduced by Iliad significantly improved the retention rate.

- Therefore we decided to roll-out the changes globally, so our whole userbase can benefit from the improvements.

It's still intentionally introducing a dark pattern, but you don't have to use any ugly words anymore when taking about it...
This is great, I'm going through something similar as the OP and definitely helpful!
> a lot of food has corn syrup in it

Trash food.

> Cheaper feed leads to cheaper meat.

Great, don't eat meat. It's incredibly expensive, and not just monetarily.

If we're facing a food shortage, corn seems like a really bad place to dump money.
Same; it's excellent, powerful communication.
I kept the website purposefully vague to just mention "planning together" in general. I was thinking this might be helpful to plan corporate events, but haven't really thought of many other use cases.

Do you have any in mind? Definitely interested to hear of any ideas!
"I don't remember what I did yesterday." is shorthand for either "I was switching between lots of small tasks" or "I feel like I didn't make much progress and don't want to admit it". Neither is bad but devs don't like to be called out so they gloss over the details. A good scrum master knows what each dev has on the sprint board and they can prompt for more info if necessary, but generally it's fine unless it's near the end of the sprint and there's a hard deadline.
The Roman Dictatorship: How Did It Work? Did It Work?
(Unrelated to original post) That only helps if you know the keywords curl and json. My actual problem in the past has repeatedly been that I a) forget how the graphical file manager on my system is called because I use it a couple of times per year (dolphi, konqueror, thunar, whatever...) and b) I use i3 or xmonad and don't have a "start menu" to just browse.

I think I should just put a symlink called explorer.exe in my ~/bin/ and then I know where to look ;)
I’d say that the security matters more when considering transaction costs, no? The article mentions solana as being significantly less resource hungry than bitcoin or ethereum, but solana is using a variation of PoS as far as I can tell. He mentions that ethereum is moving to something more efficient, which I understand it is, but again that is PoS.

POS might be less resource intensive, but is prone to it’s own kind of centralization (e.g., those with the largest stake make the rules ,or decide transactions as the case may be).

So the author’s argument that blockchains don’t have to be as wildly inefficient as bitcoin isn’t wrong. However, so far, that improved efficiency introduces various degrees of centralization. Centralization in a system that is effectively marketed as being secure because of its decentralized nature.
> Apple are going to choose pico given how similar the editors are, there's no real downside to going with Pico.

This comment has me seething, so I should probably stop before I say something that I'll regret. But I want you to know that this couldn't be more wrong.
Hey, no one make a call! I'm going to log in to the Bloomberg terminal.
"on a phone"

SMPTE suggest that 4k for viewing is only worthwhile for people with 20/20 vision once the viewing angle increases beyond 30 degrees.

I'm currently looking at a 40cm wide screen, I'm 80cm away from it, which is about 30 degrees.

For my phone to fill that amount of space it would have to be about 10cm in front of my eyes due to binocular vision (if I just use one eye it's a bit further

When I watch something on my phone it's typically 50cm away, about 15-20 degrees viewing. 720p is more than enough at that size, 1080p if you have particularly good eyesight.
you can also search "total return" for the ticker, eg. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=SPY+tot...
I value my input devices, for they are the tools with which I interface to the world.

If you want to dip your toes into custom keyboards, I'd recommend finding some 60%-ish board with hotswap switch sockets, since that will let you experiment with the choice of switches before you have to worry about soldering anything. Plenty of 60s are available as kits, or just interchangeable parts.
Amen.

One of the things I'd like to work on is silly, local, small crypto projects that will be appealing to people that don't give two craps about blockchains or crypto. I think if you can make projects like that, then you could be onto something. (I have some interesting-in-theory running club stuff, local scavenger hunts, etc.)
> average investor should probably be using a financial advisor

I've known more than one person with an advisor that shuffled them into opportunities that made money for the advisor or had complicated stories so that it sounded like the advisor was providing value-- and as a result massively underperformed the market.

The best advice for the average investor is extremely simple... and not worth paying a lot to receive since you can get it for free from bogleheads. As a result there are a lot of free or cheap advisors that make their money from customers in other ways ... and not necessarily to the customer's benefit.
you’re over thinking it. parent comment is rooted in respecting your coworkers, not being some subservient drone who doesn’t add anything to the conversation. coming in and saying “we did this at my last company” provides no room for learning why we do things this way here now, and serves to alienate you from your coworkers. there’s a long period of learning and listening that should be respected. you will have better quality input if you spend the time to understand why before adding anecdotes. it’s very good advice. of course speak up if you have something to add to the conversation, just be mindful of how you do so.

I’m sick of this black and white attitude being spread about how displaying any kind of thoughtfulness to your coworkers or your professional life is unhealthy for you.
I suspect OP conflated "I am reporting malware in a package on npmjs.com" with "I have discovered a bug or vulnerability in a package on npmjs.com." The later shows what they report[0] whereas the former does allow for a report to be made.

[0] https://imgur.com/VSZbZ0Q
Wouldn't that only be true of the reference encoder libaom?

This is the description the dav1d page gives:

dav1d is the fastest AV1 decoder on all platforms :)

Targeted to be small, portable and very fast.

Since they use the word fast twice I was wondering how fast.
Show HN: Find and Research the Right Electric Car Based on Your Specific Needs
Hi HN! We are looking for feedback on the Electric Driver, a site that helps car shoppers easily more objectively find the right electric car that more closely matches their unique needs.

Having gone through the process of researching and buying an electric vehicle and helping others we learned that car research sites do not meet the needs of electric vehicle consumers.

Specifically, we developed a new process for researching electric vehicles that more closely aligns with how consumers evaluate and make purchase decisions.

Needs-Based Search: The auto industry today uses a year, make and model or search by body style to search for vehicles. The problem with this method of search is if a person does not know what specific vehicle, they want they are forced to wade through most vehicles looking for the ones that meet their criteria. We developed a new method of search that asks the shopper what criteria (Eg. I want a safe, reliable, fuel-efficient 5-seater under $35K that can go 200 miles on a single charge) is important to them to electric vehicles that best meet their needs.

Comparison Based Shopping: We developed a new method of comparison shop based on the three strongest candidates based on your needs. Based on what criteria you told us was important to you we compare and show the trade-offs between each electric vehicle and highlight the vehicle that most closely matches your needs. We believe people by natural use comparisons.

Personalized Electric Vehicle Information: based on your location and other criteria we show you what it costs to drive a mile in a specific electric vehicle versus gas in your area. We show the consumer expected maintenance and insurance costs look like versus gas and we also show you want compatible chargers are available in your area. We also explain the environmental impact of switching from gas to electricity. Based on your location your electricity may be generated from Coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, or renewables. We show what your state power mix looks like can calculate the estimated carbon emission from buying from the utility.

Our goal is to educate and help car shoppers find the right electric vehicle that fits their needs.
This project has been bootstrapped.

We are looking for feedback beyond our friends and family and the limited group of people we have been testing with. As you go through the site was questions you have did we not address, what could we do better, and anything else you want to share.
Base64 Malleability in Practice
Volkswagen recalling 23,192 SUVs in Canada for possible 'unexpected braking'
Any time you use the word ‘should’ (or variants) you’re describing the world as you want it to be, not as it is.
Apple is not really friend of royalty-free video formats. They hold some patents on h264/hvec and might see av1 as a competition.
Honestly, do you think you'd ever be happy with anything Mozilla produces? The comments like this from people who will complain about everything are completely valueless.

We're lucky to have an alternative to the WebKit oligopoly. If you don't like Firefox, just stick with the other browsers and let the rest of us that are trying to prevent a monoculture continue our work.

I don't work for Mozilla or have ever done work on Firefox other than bugfixing, but I'll gladly run an alternative browser so the web doesn't end up stagnating like it did before.
Drop an email in your HN profile, I’ll reach out shortly.
I'm tired of Amazon. I cancelled Prime and switched to Walmart+. Pretty good so far!
Simple answer is: use (self-)hypnosis.

The motor cortex can be "reprogrammed" (that's a metaphor) pretty easily. You already have the muscle memories, you just need to lay in a new "key map" (that's also a metaphor.)

I'll give you an example of what's possible: I was playing ukulele and a friend of mine said something about playing left-handed (I'm a righty.) I paused, went into a light trance, "rewired" my motor skills from left to right and vice versa, and then opened my eyes, turned over the uke, and started playing left-handed. It took maybe twenty seconds.

(I'm not saying the above to show off. I'm not special. Anyone can do this, you just have to learn how to operate your own nervous system.)
This is the sort of thing which results in chargebacks, after an end user is positive they canceled.

Even for Amazon, too many of these can cause issues.
The marketplace of ideas has decided that the flat earther's are wrong, not censorship. That's literally how science works.

It's perfectly fine to invite whoever you want on your show, unless you're Joe Rogan apparently?

Please stop with the fear based, hand wavy: 'millions have died!' to justify censorship and medical tyranny.

It's not that simple. This is:

* a novel vaccine developed with novel technology for a novel virus, where the effectiveness data has changed numerous times and breakthrough cases happen constantly and the FDA is fighting against requests to release the data that they used to approve it?

* A virus where the 'experts' completely ignored natural immunity and now years later are acknowledging that it may be as effective or more effective than the vaccine.

* A virus where every state and numerous countries have lifted all covid restrictions despite people dying in the THOUSANDS DAILY?

You should support the questioning of everything, even the earth being flat, and let the marketplace of ideas decide instead of ideological news media and medical dictators who think people are too stupid to think for themselves and/or are guided by whatever back alley deals they're making with big pharma.

And if none of this raises red flags for you then I worry that you're completely lost in the simplicity of ingroup/outgroup ideological propaganda.

Remember, Lobotomies won the Nobel prize.
Zillow's estimates of home values in my area have consistently been 150% of actual prices, as far as I've seen over the past years. Not that I've looked that closely and given that this is a hard area for them with low sales and a broad range of values for reasons not easy for their algorithms to quantify.

However, I always took that to be intentional, sort of a "see how valuable your home is / how high the values are where you're looking at"; hype that cost them nothing but made everyone feel better. Did the person that set that "glamor bonus" fudge factor get fired or just wasn't allowed to talk to the team deciding offer prices?
Indeed.

Index funds or any investment choice are not just about return, they are about return on investment. And the investment I'm considering here is my time and energy.

Grant the OP the fact that value investing is a good idea. If I don't want to invest time and energy on evaluating businesses (and the author makes the point that it is really hard to do, with his examples of malls and Smith and Wesson), then what are my options?

* Trust someone else to do this. But he makes the point that active investors almost always underperform the market.

* Buy everything (aka an index fund) and hope the winners outgrow the losers.

* Stay out of the market and invest in other sectors which might have good returns (my skills, real estate). These have their own risks and costs.

The alternative is to try to best the market as a part time investor, which to me feels like a loser's game.
There's no telling just how many times I've had to turn Pocket off.
That's a really cool idea! A friend mentioned something similar. I will look into that, I think the UX might be hard to nail down.

I am not sure on how to best indicate it, but it might be interesting to show availability of each person as a shaded background. Darker shade would mean more people present. I will put it on my backlog, thank you!
who had no clear picture of making a consistent interface, even if only by convention.

There are few conventions that are consistent across domains. As a concrete example I worked on a code base where functions from some libraries wanted angles as radians and the others wanted them as degrees. Both where internally consistent and followed all the relevant conventions for their domain, however when they intersected it was a pain.
> Outside of your one cherry-picked, non-representative example energy source, bitcoin miners are competing in the same energy market as everyone else.

It wasn't a defense of bitcoin mining. It was an observation of that one sector within a sector, which is on a path to becoming much more representative because it is one of the most viable for bitcoin miners too.

It lowers the energy cost for bitcoin miners well enough, it doesn't lower the exploration price for flaring sites enough, just reduces their emissions.
It could be a lot simpler than that - ya know? The work always sucked but at least some of the people were okay. You take away the people and now nothing about your job is good.
The FTC has been pushing back against "click to subscribe, call to cancel". Back in October, they released a statement against such practices, warning that they "may be illegal" or something along those lines (I can't find a good source and forget the details). From what I understand, it was a somewhat soft statement meant to serve as a warning against this dark pattern, indicating that companies may be legally liable, but not outright banning the practice. It read more like a warning shot to get companies to shape up or face stricter regulation.

I wish they would take a harder stand. If you've got one-click signup and don't have one-click cancel (fine, maybe you can add in a confirmation click, or even an immediate email with a confirmation link it it), you should be fined enough to make it hurt. $10k per impacted user or whatever.

Here's a random not-great article about it: https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2021/11/ftc-cracks-down-on-c....

The Economist still follows this dark pattern and it's pissing me off. I signed up for their print + digital, realized their digital content sucks, and now that I'm not commuting on mass transit anymore, I don't read the magazine enough to justify a subscription. A year later it auto-renewed because they require a phone call to cancel and I get sick of waiting on hold.
I'd like to be indignant with you, but until a week or two ago, I was definitely in that camp. There's so much hype around crypto that it almost felt like there had to be nothing there, and if there was, it was hard to identify what it was. And yeah - there's definitely some cool stuff happening with NFTs, but at least for me, there's a lot more "what in the world is this money laundering" than there is "oh cool".
Just added it, looking forward to hearing from you!
> The Little Book That Still Beats the Market

Go look at people's experiences investing using the advice in this book. It typically is negative. Also, the book really is just a giant ad to subscribe to the author's stock picker.

> Professor Aswath Damodaran

I've attended his talks. Very entertaining, but he conveniently sets up his valuations in a way that they can't/shouldn't be tested. He even pointed out that it's entirely 100% speculation based on story telling, and that he doesn't care if it's accurate.
I wouldn't say that it is negativity. It's criticism that is mostly constructive, which I appreciate because nowadays it is popular to ban/cancel criticism on forums or social networks.
The Kindle has a huge dark pattern where to turn off the wifi to save the battery life, you have to turn ON Airplane mode. There is no labeled wifi switch. I am sure it is so they can keep the screen saver home page advertisement up to date.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Ah yes, how nefarious - openly funding candidates that favor criminal justice reform to lower the prison population. Very 'bad'.
> I would always finish by asking for advice on what it takes to be successful at X company

Strong agree on this. I also recently switched jobs and I asked this question of everyone I interviewed with. I got thoughtful answers from every single person, and several common themes stood out that convinced me the company's core values really wound their way through the fabric, rather that just being trite platitudes.
As for how you can enable such a feature on Windows, you can find the instructions here (first section of the page): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-your-mouse-...
So you're saying that a given 4k source compressed to Xmbit will look better if it's not downscaled to 1080p before compression, but instead downscaled by the display (I don't believe there are any phones with a 2160 line display)?
I prefer mechanical keyboards because, when I started using computers, pretty much all the keyboards on Real Computers (as opposed to C64s or Timex Sinclairs or whatever) were mechanical. I learned how to properly type in a Keyboarding class in high school that was done on IBM Selectrics.

That's what I associate with a "good keyboard."

I can certainly use something else, and often do, but one of the things I look for in a laptop is a good keyboard. It's my primary interface with a computer, and therefore it's worth paying attention to.

That said, the people who adopt a mechanical keyboard all mention the comfort of the clicky-keys. I agree with this. The feedback means I have an indication that I'm typing what I type that doesn't require the mental round-trip of seeing it on the screen first. The membrane keyboards are a lot better now, but every now and then you get one that's particularly mushy. I find myself striking the keys harder, which tires out the tiny joints in your fingers.