skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Terrible UX

If you're browsing on a desktop, configure your account to always use the old reddit experience. If you lurk without an account, use old.reddit.com. If you can, install RES, it's a game-changer.

If you're browsing on mobile, don't use the official reddit app. It's garbage. Use one of the many 3rd party apps. Personally, I use Bacon Reader.

Don't bother ever browsing /r/all. Tailor your subscriptions to the subs you actually care about.

Try to find more niche subreddits. Subs like /r/AskReddit are just massive karma farms.
It is hypocrisy to for the NRA to campaign for effectively unrestricted gun ownership and open and concealed carry rights in public places, but then be ok with saying no guns allowed at their own meeting. If people carrying guns isn't safe for NRA meetings, then why should be ok at any other place? Why should public spaces be less safe than an NRA meeting?
I know, that's why I ask: is such a voting system possible?
What we can say with certainty is that in the 15 years prior to the first gun buyback in 1996, there had been 13 mass shootings in Australia. In the 21 years since more restrictive firearm policies came into effect, there has not been a single mass shooting in the country.
Ah!!! Thanks for pointing that out, we'll take it down.
Reddit has actually clearly improved; they’ve grown so large they no longer are a community and are just everyone on Earth posting stuff.

Usually this would be bad, but not when your old community was the dorks on Reddit. So they no longer have the problem where the first reply to every post is a long chain of bad puns and the second one is the answer.

Some of the default subs did seem to get all their content replaced with Facebook memes, and AskReddit shows me a teenager posting a new “how do I get the ladies to like me?” question every day, but that’s life.
6000/0.04 = 150 000

Essentially, those 6K a year is the equivalent of a 150K portfolio
i am in full agreement that, for instance, a shell script consisting of grep piped into sed is as deserving of being called a “program” as grep and sed themselves are

it does come down to where you draw the line, though -- is a PaaS subscription plan technology? not the infra behind PaaS firm's epic load balancer that lets them provision leanly and fatten their margins. not the javascript minifier that does its damned best to cut down time from link clicked to prices and features in browser viewport with animated gradients in background. not even the spreadsheet from the accountant who drafted up expected returns across a range of pricing schemes. but the subscription plan itself. that thing, which we conveniently refer to as a package pretty often. is it also technology?
Basically, another functional Google product made worse by Google's ridiculous promotions process.
Yeah I hate this. Part of the reason I do not like the interior of all Tesla vehicles. I test drove one and asked the salesmen what happens if the screen breaks - he told me that it actually happened to his Tesla and that because of parts shortages it took months and months to get it fixed. When this happens all you can do is drive the car and open and close the windows essentially - no sunroof, no AC, nothing.
> be prone to selecting outliers.

I didn't phrase this well. I meant "selecting a highly disproportionate number of outliers" since having a large sample will also have outliers, but but will be much less likely to over represent those outliers in the majority in a significant way.
I guess I think the footnote and "paper of record trying to morph into an academic journal" argument is silly.

The 1619 articles in the NYT magazine (used in this blog post as a prior example) were not footnoted. The subsequent book version is heavily footnoted, plus includes info on contributors and an index. This criticism feels like someone complaining about character development in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings: that's not the nature of the medium.

Relatedly: the NYT is hardly overreaching (and if they were, I don't consider it a justifiable criticism). Newspapers do analysis and inherently do summarization and selection. While most such articles are "small" (i.e. reporting on the recent shooting) they have had large analysis, most notably the Pentagon papers that weren't merely published but extensively analyzed. They do "long form" multi-article analysis all the time, from the recent Tucker Carlson pieces to analysis of the complex timeline of the Jan 6 incident.

The definition of newspaper changes all the time and frankly more long form is a good thing.

(the comments here are orthogonal to any criticism I might have of the NYT in general)
If you are not asking that rhetorically, then the Gemini Trusted Network Processor (GTNP) using GEMSOS achieved a Class A1 certification in 1995 [1] and included ethernet device support in its specification. This is adequate to implement a TCP/IP stack in a unprivileged context. My quick read of the report does not allow me to confidently assert that they do simultaneous ethernet device multiplexing which would allow a trivial implementation of multiple independent data streams over the same link, but they do appear to provide at least a generic time-partitioned device multiplexing solution which would allow multiple programs to transmit and receive serially rather than just being bound to a single program at boot time. This is adequate for a large number of use cases and removes the TCP/IP stack from the TCB and thus requires a lower degree of scrutiny as its failure modes do not cause whole system failure.

If you are asking rhetorically, then what NT kernel, NT kernel derived, NT kernel component, or even any code associated with the NT kernel in any context has been evaluated to Class A1, Class B3, EAL6, EAL7, or equivalent demonstrating proofs of security adequate for usage in high assurance systems? Arguing the NT kernel has achieved less security as a tradeoff to allow it to solve a broader use case is only valid if they have demonstrated the ability to actually make a tradeoff by achieving high security in a narrower use case nominally or at least qualitatively similar. If they can not actually demonstrate the ability to achieve the alternative, then they are not making a tradeoff, they are choosing the only option they can do.

And this is what they have demonstrated. At no point have they ever demonstrated a equivalent, or even qualitatively similar level of security at any scale within orders of magnitude of the scale demonstrated by the Class A1 systems. And it is not like they have not tried. They have attempted numerous times to certify, demonstrating a desire to succeed and at least meaningful effort to do so, and have failed to certify at anything more rigorous even in highly constrained configurations to the extent that they have given up.

To use a analogy, this is like having two energy companies and one of them says, "We have chosen a fusion energy solution that does not generate net energy because we believe that only fusion will be adequate when we have a interstellar civilization that needs to operate in the interstellar void." while the other has a working, economically efficient, solar energy solution that generates energy on the Earth today. Asking, "Can you point to a solar energy system that could generate adequate energy in the interstellar void?" as a counter argument is just plain silly because the existing fusion energy solution also does not work there and in fact does not work anywhere in any context.

[1] http://www.aesec.com/eval/NCSC-FER-94-008.pdf
https://gamerant.com/black-glove-cancelled/

This game looked like a lot of fun. It’s a bummer that it got canceled.
MIT means it's only open source for as long as Google feels like it should be (and only the parts they want to keep open). Older versions will still be around to fork from, but maintaining a fork of an OS is a pretty large task.

Android is also open source, and is notably very difficult to simply fork and do your own thing and then actually use the thing, unless you happen to be a handset maker.

My OS entirely driven by Google? No thanks, they're making enough of a mess of the web (and Android lately, TBF).
Maybe moving to a specific instance of Rice's theorem is clearer. My point is that while he can't solve the halting problem—i.e. he can't reliably determine whether any arbitrary program will halt—an infallible programmer can reliably write his own programs such that they always halt.

So, to go back to the original point, you can't reliably determine the correctness of every possible program. But you could, if you were not prone to error like all humans, always write your own programs such that they are always correct.
You call it degradation, Reddit calls it "explosive growth".

The UX redesign was hugely successful in attracting new users, users who could then be monetized.

The "useless answers" are wildly popular responses because people generally prefer to meme, not solve problems.

Your complaint essentially boils down to, "Why do people not behave how I want them to?" and that, my friend, is a question as old as time itself.

From the HN guidelines, but it also applies to Reddit:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob[0] illusion[1], as[2] old[3] as[4] the[5] hills[6].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926703

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
Dead Internet Theory (DIT)

TLDR: Large proportions of the supposedly human-produced content on the internet are actually generated by artificial intelligence networks in conjunction with paid secret media influencers in order to manufacture consumers for an increasing range of newly-normalised cultural products.

https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...
How many hours do you sleep daily?
and How do you rate your current health on a scale of 0-10?
A simple (if impure) solution is to add a secondary "Someday/Maybe" list. Call it something like "Eventually/Remotely-Possible".

Limit your S/M list to a comfortable number of entries, and drop the ones that don't make the cut to E/RP. Review S/M regularly, review E/RP only when curious, or when one of the items becomes of renewed interest.

I'm an archivist by nature. I don't like to delete items. E/RP can grow to thousands of items, and that's OK. Occasionally one will be revived. The rest will be keep each other company.
I maybe should have mentioned that we also have direct deposit here for pretty much everything i.e. the bank knows where you're employed and how much income you make per month. I've heard from e.g. students without permanent jobs that they don't usually get this perk (anymore). But yes, it's essentially a credit card with very low interest rates, although I have a credit card as well and the debt is automatically deducted from my bank account at the end of the (CC billing) month. There is also a section in the online banking to view CC transactions even though it's a separate entity from the bank, so any changes to e.g. region locking, limits, etc. must be done via the CC website.
Quotes from https://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-did-government-g...
yeah, suing a corporation with a pro bono lawyer is a low friction way to deal with systemic economic injustice and consumer hostile business practices.

In what world? c'mon.
These are perfectly good arguments, I think somewhat undermined by the usage rather than feature based price segmentation. It ends up feeling artificially nickel-and-dimey, in a local-sync tool.
Jurisdiction issues are complex. In this case, the jurisdiction is defined by the location of the customer, not the business.

If your business ignores EU courts, that might not have an immediate impact, but in the longer-term, you have a liability if you ever do business in Europe, want to be acquired by someone with a business presence in Europe, and potentially in the future, travel to Europe.

GDPR is framed as a human rights law, and that has long-reaching claws.

It is currently not well-enforced, but there are many examples of clawbacks coming in. For US slavery, those clawbacks are coming 160 years later: buildings, businesses, and schools are being renamed. Statues are being torn down. In some cases, you're starting to see reparations (see Harvard). Milder versions of racism are subject to cancellations; things acceptable in 1980 are having repercussions on people's careers in 2020.

Then you've got issues of when you're persecuted for an unrelated reason, and the government is looking for an excuse or pretext to take you down. A famous mobster was taken down a century ago for tax evasion.
You nailed it with this piece.

The goal of Niklas Luhmann (Zettelkasten) = written output (tangible).
The goal of Nik Milo (LYT) = contemplation (intangible).

Niklas Luhmann didn't partake in PKM; he did Analog Knowledge Development. He did this in order to write and produce—specifically in creating a thirty-year theory of everything for sociology.

For the past year, I've been teaching how Luhmann's workflow actually worked (using his same tools—pen and notecards). Here's my YouTube channel which may help understand his workflow: https://youtu.be/YfMNwusO6fk

Update: I didn't realize this was you who wrote this, Bob! You already know about me so I didn't need to post my stuff and continue to advertise myself everywhere (like I can't help but do!)
Cryptocurrency is unique in that it allows pseudonymous, irreversible transactions of unbounded value. https://www.lawfareblog.com/ransomware-problem-bitcoin-probl... is a good long-form write up of the argument if you're interested, or https://www.investopedia.com/articles/bonds/08/bearer-bond.a... if you want to read about why we've prohibited financial instruments for similar reasons in the past.

Wire transfers are also hard to reverse, but banks have security ceremonies around them to prevent misuse, and good luck to you if you want to pay a $20MM ransom with an international wire transfer. Even if you were able to find a banker who wouldn't call the FBI on you, the recipients of the transfer are exposing themselves to significant risk of capture by interacting with their local banking system and by providing you with the details of their account.

Cash being convenient for small transactions and difficult to use for large ones is a deliberate feature. The point is to strike a balance between usability and vulnerability to misuse. E.g., you have to declare when you're moving more than $10K across an international border, and it's actually hard to smuggle that much cash due to the weight and bulk. Gold is also heavy and bulky, which is an important security feature of Fort Knox (even if you break in, how are you going to abscond with tons of gold bars?).
Also discussed 5 days ago at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453219
The use of "design" in the context of the structure and capability of human bodies means precisely "literally designed" to many religious people, including many readers of HN.

So I don't think it's out of place for the GP to address this.
I'm not convinced that a NFT is a more meaningful form a recognition than a five-dollar coffee mug bearing the firm's logo. At least I can use the mug as a pen holder; what exactly am I supposed to do with a worthless NFT?
This is a business, it's not passive income. It requires maintenance, support, etc. If he were to just let it ride, income might increase for a while but ultimately wither out and die.
$6,000 / 0.04 = $150,000. in other words, if OP had saved $150,000 and was withdrawing 4% per year, they would have the same $6,000 as what the app is generating.

the analogy is imperfect, because presumably the OP is spending some time to generate that app income; it's not totally passive.
They are probably deep into Tesla equity , which clouds the judgement of the cult memeb...ehm I mean shareholders.
That's why i said obtained not transacted
Thank you!

See my other comment for what I did to promote the app [0].

Short version: Instagram account to follow people and have them look at my profile. Useful website with a link to my app as "content marketing" and Apple Search Ads.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508328
I'm really confused why I keep seeing arguments suggesting that that excerpt in any way matters to the argument of reparations.

I've never had a strong opinion on the topic in either direction but the argument of, as you put it, "this is _our_ wealth, which we created, and which we simply want returned to us." doesn't require excess wealth to have been created by slavery, it simply requires that some of the wealth didn't go to the people that did the work to produce it resulting in those people (and their descendants) not profiting from it.

Like I said in the other place I saw this, wage theft is illegal because someone isn't getting paid for work they did, its not in any way based on that theft providing economic growth compared to paying folks.
I own a small (~500k in sales/annum) ecommerce site. Enough for 3-4 employees, premises and a small owners salary.

About 50% of our sales come from organic search results (Google). We write a lot of content, have long form product pages, put out YouTube videos, sponsor blog posts, etc etc. but we have NO IDEA what really works, despite paying for services like ahrefs.

All we know is that when we drop off the first page of Google (which is increasingly filled with content and ads instead of search results) our sales take a dramatic hit. And that hit could easily make or break the business and the people we employ.

So Google, when you make updates like this, it has real implications on millions of small businesses. It’s not just a feature for “user engagement” or “customer satisfaction”, it’s a big deal.
Some of reddit is good: many smaller subs feel genuine and have great discussion that I can't find anywhere else. Also, the product is less engaging than other social media networks, which is better for using it in moderate amounts (as opposed to more addictive products like twitter or tiktok). Some new innovative features like predictions.

Some of reddit is terrible: relentlessly pushing people to the mobile app, garbage notifications system.
Certainly an aspect of my willingness to switch was that email encryption end to end only worked with other protonmail users, and unencrypted emails in transit are already readable, and they could surely be compelled to capture my decryption password the next time I used it anyway. They're still subject to swiss law which isn't quite as libertarian as protonmail sometimes implies.

I think that for most people (or at least me) the attacks that protonmail is good for aren't especially likely and can trivially be rendered useless by the kind of adversaries they would theoretically have worked against.

Disclaimer: not a security expert, just based on my impressions. Sorry if I got any details wrong.

At least fastmail isn't Gmail sending your info to marketers.
I have also had this experience. Renting a car is very strange in that regard, but other car rental businesses are happy to take my business with a refundable security deposit, so not my problem.

In fact, I find it strange and shortsided, because the people without credit are generally going to be the people who have less of a hard time fulfilling their payment obligations.

Other than that, it has never affected my life. You can get a manually underwritten mortgage still today.

There is always someone else who wants your money more.
There's a lot of 4x games that factor in unrest / rebellion uprisings as something you have to manage.

I want a 4x game where you play from the side of the unrest / rebellions.
>I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this

Part of what attracted me to software engineering in the first place was an interest in "how things work", and being able to move between levels of abstraction (e.g. I know how IP, DNS, TCP, HTTP and JSON works, but most of the time I can just treat it as "sending objects"). So it was a bit of a eureka moment for me to realize that running a company is really just expanding the levels of abstraction that you operate with. It doesn't matter how well you code if people can't understand the user interface, so I got an interest in UX and usability. But it doesn't matter how user friendly it is, if it doesn't solve the right problem for people, so I got an interest in product development and customer research. It doesn't matter how good a product is if people never hear about it, so I got an interest in marketing and sales. And it doesn't matter how well I do all of that if I can't pay the bills, so I got an interest in pricing and monetization strategies.

Juggling all those needs, and trying to shape the company and all its aspects into a cohesive whole is just as demanding and interesting as doing the same for a software project - it's just expanding the scope of which requirements and concerns you bring into the equation. For me at least, it's also been very rewarding to do the whole thing end-to-end, and it's felt like more of a natural extension of my ever-broadening interests than I would have expected. Bookkeeping can be as annoying as debugging, but in the end I'm really grateful that I understand how each detail works.
It's me, dude! :) (and thanks for reading!)
An alternative approach is to limit the precision and latency of commands.

For example, you can tell a soldier, "attack this general area" or "attack in this direction", but you can't actually micromanage their movement and other actions.

Then you introduce mechanics/stats like "communication effectiveness", "professionalism", "morale" which increase or decrease the precision, latency, and effectiveness of commands. For example, an elite special forces unit might have perfect command reception, allowing you to micro it. But a grunt would have very low reception and need a nearby commander's aura to boost their reception and allow even the most basic commands through.
eBay, Amazon, and Etsy have all devolved to an alibaba outlet with some differentiation.

It’s getting hard to find the things eBay was famous for (used goods) amongst all the buyitnow alibaba junk.
In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use. It's such a disaster I can't understand how it ever passed testing.

The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn't too bad. The best experience is had when you unsub from all the main subreddits and only browse the smaller niche ones. Although they can be pretty toxic too. If you're looking for better quality in depth discussion on a hobby or topic I'm sure you already know better forums, but if you want beginners guides and more superficial meme chat it's a great resource on the whole.
It doesn't look like Logitech media server can run on (or stream to) a Raspi Pi Zero, which was an important feature to me, given the current electricity prices. A Raspi will consume 0.7 Watt, which is hard to beat. Most of the devices seem to be proprietary from Logitech [1], not open source or self-built.

[1]: https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Family_Ove...
Both Star Control II and Mass Effect create this sense of alien-ness, where you feel like you're really trying to deal with alien races using human concepts and, unless you can break out of that mold, you won't succeed. In SC2 this is quite literal, since the game runs on a clock of sorts, and it's possible to get into an unwinnable state.

The best part of SC2 is that it is impossible to know ahead of time if your encounters will result in making loyal allies or barbaric enemies. The only way forward is to keep exploring the galaxy.