skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Laguiole flatware is beautiful. It is a true mark of craftsmanship, and it is priced as such. As much as I appreciate their elegance, I don't need a $100 spoon to eat my cornflakes in the morning.

We tolerate less poor design, because spending time on money on something which in the end is not truly worth the time or money is focusing on something unimportant to most people....especially at a job they most likely hate.
I've just outlined for you a long list of ways in which getting an Uber is superior to hailing a cab. Some of those differences are realized by simply having an app that goes along with the service. Some of them are realized by having a ride-share business model rather than a medallion system with a fleet. Taken collectively, it's a cohesive solution to the problem of "I want to get a ride to Baker St. that doesn't suck". Here are some examples:

- Waiting out in the cold --> Reserve your drive from inside, monitor your driver's position, only step out when they're arriving.

- Driver resents your trip destination --> You declare this ahead of time, and it is accepted by the driver ahead of time. Also, driver rating system discourages people from being rude / guilting you for having a place to go

- Fare was surprisingly high --> You get a quote ahead of time.

- "Credit card machine isn't working" --> Your credit card is already entered in the app, so you don't even have to worry about it. It's charged automatically.

- Car is kind of gross / smells weird --> People use their own, more modern, nicely appointed cars. Drivers have good incentives to take care of the car. Rating system encourages good behavior on both sides (throwing up in an Uber hurts your rating a lot).

On the other side of the coin, Uber's system is solving problems for somebody who wants to earn some cash on the side:

- Reputation system allows you to stand out from the crowd with good service

- No obligations to be on shift - work for as long as you want to. Compatible with having other jobs.

- No need to invest your life savings on a medallion whose only value is to make you one of a sea of undifferentiated, unaccountable yellow cabs

- Don't need to patrol to "find" the riders, so lower downtime

It is a better system. Declaring that it's "NOT" without any backup will not change that. And if you come back saying "so what, local cab services have an app that does all the same stuff now" (now that Uber forced them to to be competitive, that is), then may God have mercy on your soul.
"What happens when my logic board inevitably dies? All of my data on that device is toast with no way to recover it."

Backups are your friend. Backblaze, Arq, etc etc etc. Tons of cheap options out there.
HN doesn’t promote comments based on a secret, politically motivated algorithm. Users also don’t get banned if they express a contrarian opinion. If I post something skeptical on Covid origins or the vaccines, I won’t get banned from HN. People can downvote, reply, or ignore as they choose. Even comments that are “dead” can still be read if one chooses. There is some common sense moderation, for example calling someone a nazi or some kind of slur can get you in trouble, but ideas themselves aren’t censored. HN doesn’t “fact check.” Ideas on HN compete on their merits generally. When Twitter and friends use “fact checks” as a weapon to suppress other viewpoints, that’s the problem.

The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story right before an election is a shining example of the problem with Twitter. All sorts of “fact checkers” claimed it was a false story. Some even claimed it was a Russian plot (none of those who claimed such things had their Twitter accounts suspended by the way.) Two years later WaPo and The NY Times verified what the NY Post said all along.

Hillary Clinton maintains the 2016 election was stolen. Yet she’s still on all of the socials. There are still Democrats that claim 2004 was stolen and videos of their theories are still on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=77i_pC3lp04

The problem isn’t one of moderation. It’s a problem of so-called fact checking. Twitter, by “fact checking” has become a publisher. Moderation isn’t the same thing as fact checking. HN users do the fact checking (as opposed to HN itself,) but it’s left to the reader to decide for themselves.

Secret algorithms promoting content and opaque fact checking is the real problem with Twitter.
It's more like a mall complaining that while they're trying to serve 1000 customers, someone has gone and dumped 10000000 roombas throughout the stores which are going around scanning all the price tags.
If a country has elections every couple of years with more than one party (i.e. you vote the party) and the country is in friendly terms with US they call it a democracy.
I really love the comparison with previous year(s) on some pages and that helped me spot a real error. The navigation is so much better than turbo tax too.

If anyone is looking to convert from turbo tax, you can import your previous return as pdf and that could cover a lot of details already that don't change year over year.
No. When I say that bots exceed the amount of real traffic, I'm including people "window shopping" on the good side.

My complaint is more like, somebody wants to know the prices of all our products, and that we have roughly X products (where X is a very large number). They get X friends to all go into the store almost simultaneously, each writing down the price of the particular product they've been assigned to research. When they do this, there's scant space left in the store for even the browsing kind of customers to walk in. (of course I exaggerate a bit, but that's the idea)
God I wish there was a podcast about this kind of thing: just get stuck in deep to some kind of hyper-focused thing per week. Even if sometimes I don't fully understand every concept, I'd take that over having "atoms have a thing called a nucleus" being the general level of explanation or recycled press releases levels of content for the commute.

Really winds me up about things like James May's programme where he'd spend an hour taking apart a lawnmower and self-deprecatingly call it nerdy to go into that detail. No! You could spend an hour explaining the metallurgy that goes into the case hardening on a single bolt or how the gear involutes are adjusted for the expected wear pattern and I'd find that more interesting than an hour skipping all the detail and, worse, pretending that was a deep dive.
Most people want cheap hardware and software. That's about the whole story right there.
Presumably, she would rule the same if the case were that the person sitting next to me on public transport actually had COVID or some other dreaded disease and wasn't wearing a mask and that it was otherwise proven that his or her failure to do so had endangered my health—or even worse, his or her actions of not wearing a mask whilst knowing that he or she was infected with COVID would actually cause me illness and bad health.

No doubt the judge would also rule similarly if the scenario were essentially the same but with the difference that I was suing the bus company because I was forced to alight from the bus and had to walk - the suit being over the fact that there was no safe public transport available for me to catch.

P.S.: if I've gotten the gist of any of this story incorrect then it's because the full story is behind the Wall Street Journal's paywall.

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Edit: see updated comment below
OK I'm considering a TL;DR. If you ask for it, I think I can write one. Yeah wall of text, what do you think I should do? Shorter paragraphs? Thing is it has to be a wall of text because my whole life since getting into college is on my comments section, I'm accountable to the bitchvictim media for all of my comments. I have to split quotable, meaning easy to cherry-pick, phrases so they can't get the parts they want without including the part, the meaning, that they really really hate. I have to write defensively, walls of text, those walls of text are defensive walls, my comments as a whole are like a fort and the walls of text are its walls, it has to be fortified by highly technical punctuation/phraseology. It's like Paul Graham said, he gets port scanned by forum trolls.

It's a whole art to it, free speech in forums. I want to develop the art form beyond its current state, like treat Hacker News like a forum for essayists, every comment an essay, but I am stuck thinking how.

The crazy thing in my view is despite my comment history containing, and acting as one of the precious few records of, my lobotomy, I actually have done a pretty good job--this is just me talking here, my perception--of not saying stupid shit that will fuck my life up. There are two comments that are favorable of Pinochet, but I consider that excusable because the torture, the lobotomy (the medical thing they did meets both criteria according to the US Federal Codes), can in fact make you think false things, and that is why those two comments were made. But overall, I think holding consistency as the highest fundamental moral value just transforms your bullshit into this strange thing, like let's think of a name for it, maybe not-bullshit, nonbullshit, no that's too long..."truth" yeah that's a good made-up word, a bullshit thing that sometimes looks like the only thing that isn't bullshit, and it's good because the concept of truth is tightly related to broadcasting, consensus, witness, and belief.

Sometimes I can write single sentence paragraphs too.
how can anti-virus protect against it?

it has no way of telling that that device isn't a logitech keyboard, and can't tell that it's not the user opening up elevated cmd.exe and accepting the prompt
Teams, seriously ingenious teams.
Because, if apple is an indication, it takes an enormous amount of investment to make a limited line of products that have those details ironed out. Just like most products, computers are also messy.
Yes, I am. Because I am active in the weightlifting community, I'm aware that muscle size has absolutely no correlation with nutrition or micronutrients beyond protein intake. This is extremely obvious if you ever took steroids, because you can become huge eating McDonald's and instant noodle, but even without them the same effect is observed.
I don't think the desktop version makes any guarantees about data privacy, analytics, or anything of that sort. It routinely connects to the mothership from what I can tell.
I've told this story before, but it was fun, so I'm sharing it again:

I'll skip the details, but a previous employer dealt with a large, then-new .mil website. Our customers would log into the site to check on the status of their invoices, and each page load would take approximately 1 minute. Seriously. It took about 10 minutes to log in and get to the list of invoices available to be checked, then another minute to look at one of them, then another minute to get out of it and back into the list, and so on.

My job was to write a scraper for that website. It ran all night to fetch data into our DB, and then our website could show the same information to our customers in a matter of milliseconds (or all at once if they wanted one big aggregate report). Our customers loved this. The .mil website's developer hated it, and blamed all sorts of their tech problems on us, although:

- While optimizing, I figured out how to skip lots of intermediate page loads and go directly to the invoices we wanted to see.

- We ran our scraper at night so that it wouldn't interfere with their site during the day.

- Because each of our customers had to check each one of their invoices every day if they wanted to get paid, and we were doing it more efficiently, our total load on their site was lower than the total load of our customers would be.

Their site kept crashing, and we were there scapegoat. It was great fun when they blamed us in a public meeting, and we responded that we'd actually disabled our crawler for the past week, so the problem was still on their end.

Eventually, they threatened to cut off all our access to the site. We helpfully pointed out that their brand new site wasn't ADA compliant, and we had vision-impaired customers who weren't able to use it. We offered to allow our customers to run the same reports from our website, for free, at no cost to the .mil agency, so that they wouldn't have to rebuild their website from the ground up. They saw it our way and begrudgingly allowed us to keep scraping.
This is an argument for lifting + cardio to help the brain.
I agree sites had different policies and I'm (intentionally) simplifying the history.

> Neither one of them had any common carrier protections to protect or to lose by these policies.

That is precisely the reason sites had a light moderation touch for years. I'm not sure where you're getting that from? The consensus (from lawyers I was advised by personally) was that too much moderation would open you up to liability, and so most social sites just enforced their ToS without wading into full scale moderation.

> I can't name any prominent American politicians who really want social media to publish everything that's allowed under the First Amendment. Do you know of any?

I'm sure there's probably at least one, but I have no interest in what politicians say they want. They're so often the people the Supreme Court is protecting us from. To me the question is what principles should guide us, and my answer is the First Amendment.

> I don't think that he understands how broad the First Amendment actually is...

I think he does understand how broad the First Amendment is. I also think he's probably much more willing to sacrifice short-term (or even long-term) revenue than most people would expect. I don't claim to know for sure though. And he might change his mind in the future.
I'd say just unlucky. My Thinkpad Carbon X1 is rock solid, no issues the last 1.5 years even though my large cat frequently sleeps on it.
My takeaway is that there is a big reason that the "robotaxi" is still on the leaderboard of VC investment plays.

I'm surprised that Uber/Lyft never tried lowtech self driving: basically have drone operators guide the cars when they are not in use, and then just monitor/track the drivers when they use them.

Then a "sweeper crew" can handle the outliers/stranded cars.

Basically the scooter model but with cars.
I've been using Credit Karma the last few years for taxes until they sold to Intuit, at which point their tax division went to cash.app. Initially I tried going with them until I realized that I had to download their app on my phone to even sign into the desktop to do my taxes (it was requesting I scan a QR code or something). I couldn't even access my previous tax returns that were stored on Credit Karma without downloading the cashapp to my phone. Eventually I caved, but only to contact their support to retrieve my returns and formally cancel my account.

I shouldn't need to download an app to a smartphone for something that I exclusively intend to use on a desktop. I went with FreeTaxUSA in the end.
Just Google search the tracking number. Google will link to the status.
As someone that has been on the other end, I can tell you devs don’t want to use selenium or inspect requests to reverse engineer your UI and wish there were more clean APIs.

Have you tried making your UI more challenging to scrape and adding a simple API that requires free registration?
Until someone commandeers the Mormons' generation ship to push an asteroid into the sun
Ooo, I like the concept. I just logged in and submitted one for this URL: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/18/world/ukraine-russia...

Two things come up for me:

1. I'm curious, how do you imagine people will discover there are comments on a specific URL? Will it show up in their browser? An embed that sites can use to show it on their site? Other?

2. I found that the name made me feel a little confused and hesitant to engage, because I didn't want to roast the article I submitted. I get the feeling you started in one direction and may be opening up, but I'm not sure.
Las Vegas airport camera with flight tracking and ATC
Harry Reid Airport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsr9Se63SQE

LANZAROTE AIRPORT (ACE|GCRR), Canary Islands, Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqBgKIBBh8
I would love to use one of the free products. Unfortunately, for me, TurboTax is the only one I've tried that will import all of my brokerages... Seems small price to pay.

And they always get me with the "Audit defense"... I am not sure how useful it will be if I ever get audited (I err on the side of caution when doing taxes), but still some small extra amount of money for extra peace of mind...
I'll stick to Arch Linux way for now, thanks.
> I'm pretty sure there are tasks out there that I could get done in a month even though they'd take a team of 10 people 10 months to do, but if I trained those same people they could probably come close to my performance.

Part of this may just be how we work in teams, versus in isolation. Like I built an Internet search engine alone, as a hobby, in less than a year.

If I was a member of a team of 10 people tasked with building a search engine in a year, I'm not sure we'd be able to complete on time following standard software engineering practices. So much time is lost iterating on designs and pair programming and having daily standups and looking at burndown charts and coming up with goals and debating the definition-of-done for each task and having meetings with stakeholders and preparing/having demos and drinking coffee and iterating on API interfaces and discussing code standards and so on.

While sure, that makes me 10x more effective than that team, but that is a hypothetical team including myself. In reality, I have a modicum of talent that is magnified with an extremely effective way of producing code quickly.

To be very clear: I'm not saying all these things aren't there for a reason, it is only when myopically focusing on shipping code that I appear like a miracle that is 10x faster than myself.
It's actually the fourth power over the weight of the axle, so almost all road wear is from very heavy heavy vehicles such as trucks and the like.
Sorta unrelated to the article. But it linked to a NASA blog post on how the moon was formed. There's an embedded YouTube video from 2006 that has a computer simulation on how the moon was formed.

Was NOT expecting a (drum'n'bass) banger of a track on that video when the protomoon hits the protoearth. Shazam couldn't properly identify. I love old internet posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sr-MriOCzw
Blimps and dirigibles are the solution for sure. Love those things on principle.
I think that the secrecy at Apple is ridiculous. I interviewed for them and they couldn't even tell me they were working on the launch of a CI/CD product. Like, come on. That's not exactly spaceship tech.
The (very real) problems the author cites are problems with management, not story points. "Pressuring or coercing... Immediately discounting... Comparing and judging..." It doesn't matter what project management tool/technique is the object of these actions; the actions themselves are the problem.

I hesitate to play the "you're just using them wrong/misunderstanding them" card, but it's worth at least alluding to its existence. Like any other tool, story points are powerful and helpful in the hands of people who want to and know how to use them to improve things, and difficult or even destructive otherwise.
I'm on my 3rd(!) company supplied macbook in almost 2 years. Macbook Pro, 16'', 32GB. First Macbook: screen broke in the middle. Second Macbook: screen broke and MacOS is complaining that there's something wrong with the SSD. Third macbook I just received and can't tell what will break. But break it will.

I only move them around the house, never on the road. When I move them, I place them in a Thule Gauntlet. I really take care of these babies as I find it wasteful not to.

So that is my anecdata on the 'stability' and 'care' of Apple.

My experience differs from yours. Both are wrong and true. You could just be unlucky, and so can I. No need to completely write off Dell or Lenovo over that though.
Persistent storage is not really a bottleneck. Single-threaded performance is. This is the innovation we are waiting for.
A good example is CreditKarma. They came out with a great webapp and TurboTax immediately buys it and puts it behind a mobile app. They got rid of the webapp. Personally, I refused to even try the new version because I didn't want a mobile app.
>VR Chat is only VR.

This is incorrect. VR chat (and Rec Room) has a non-VR client
Ok, if you were me what would you do differently? I wish to be enlightened ...
You're going to point out where the code violates the law then, because it otherwise refers to normal agreements that get executed mechanically.
You might be getting hung up on a phrase, that while awkward, isn't the point of contention here.
Were you including flat engines in that statement? Like, an online 6 is better balanced than a flat 6?
If not, do you happen to know how a flat 6 compared with an inline 6 for vibrations/balance? A quick search didn’t find me anything. I know flat engines have to offset the cylinders a little.
Row major vs. column major, row vectors vs. column vectors
Interesting and both are sold out. They seem kind of rare. Probably for a reason! I guess it would be bad if somebody like…had a trashbag’s worth of them with “You Won 1 Free Bitcoin” noted and sprinkled them around commercial and public properties a 100mi radius. Or sent out 1,000 in the mail for example.
Everyone claiming that Twitter and other social media companies are infringing on their free speech are arguing that these companies must allow broadcast messages.

Telephone companies do not allow normal customers to broadcast messages. A telephone call is a targeted communication. You are calling one person, or perhaps a handful of people. Additionally, there are laws that (at least attempt to) prevent spamming and robocalling. Telephone users also have the right to be taken off of companies call lists.
The original Learjet’s wings and landing gear were derived from a military fighter aircraft, the Swiss FFA-P16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFA_P-16
> Some will argue that one could never be a good developer following those principles.

I'll argue those people need a reality check based on how things work in every other profession.

My dentist is a great dentist but she works 8am-3pm and most decidedly does not spend an additional 8 hours slogging through leettooth exercises on topics barely realated to the practice of dentistry.

My friend is a respected surgeon, but when he clocks out of the hospital he goes cycling and to the beach.

Same goes for pretty much every professional career outside of software development. Many of those have continuous education requirements, but they are done as part of the job. For example my dentist is out several weeks a year on that, not available for appointments.

So I agree with the above list, but there's nothing to apologize for in it. Working 9-5 and then completely disconnecting is the mark of a professional.
It means the rocket doesn't have to reserve fuel for a landing burn, and has more leeway in how it positions itself after re-entry, since the helicopter can move at least a bit to intercept. (NB SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters are too large to be snagged in midair by any extant helicopter -- and conversely, RocketLab has already announced that they'll be attempting SpaceX-style propulsive landing for their upcoming, much larger Neutron rocket.)
That was a failure because it was unenforced. The cookie consent banners are a failure of lawmakers to enforce a protocol solution.

It is really weird seeing people apologize for this clunky piece of legislation. "That's how it is supposed to be: a qualitative step down all across the internet."

You know what people do to get around this trashfire? They install adblockers.