skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s right. NTR not that useful for launch to orbit anyway due to the really terrible thrust to weight ratio (compared to chemical) and the poor density.
Database engineer folks:

I recently got to talk to someone who had written a query engine on the JVM

One thing I thing they said is that:

> "The buffer manager should probably be rewritten to use the native OS page cache. When we wrote it originally this functionality wasn't easily available and so we used Java DMA (Direct Memory Access) instead."

I'm not familiar with what this means, would anyone be willing to explain more about OS page cache and how you'd implement something like that?

Would really appreciate it
A remake of Alien Legacy, done well, with a more extensive storyline and bigger universe. I would pay crazy money for that.
+1

Contexts solves my #1 annoyance with macOS.
Multi-signature contracts already exist in the real world. Just so you know, multi-signature contracts have been a requirement of real world contracts for several centuries.

Decentralized finance products also already exist. They're called microloans. Someone got a (memorial) Nobel prize for this in 2006.

Multi-party computation. Have you heard of SETI@home? It came out in 1999. It was followed by Folding@home in 2000.

So basically, all of the "innovations" of "crypto space" are just things that have already been done in the real world, but now are being done online less efficiently. I guess that's what counts for progress if you never bothered to learn history.
For the Terrible UX, try https://old.reddit.com/

For the content degradation, I find that creating an account, unsubscribing from all the default subreddits, and subscribing to niche subreddits works well. There are still plenty of great smaller communities within Reddit.
I didn't know this...how do you show transcript?
Can someone tell please if this works well with the cheaper ipad and pencil? I am thinking of buy the cheapest ipad and using for exactly something like this.
Without taking anything away from OP's achievement, I'd caution against this kind of exuberant comparison without some qualification around it. The risks to that app's continuing to yield $500/month in perpetuity are quite different (and, I dare say, worse) than the risks faced by the kind of balanced portfolio that "safe withdrawal rate" implies (to me). I acknowledge that you didn't directly compare with such a portfolio, but you did say the app is "the equivalent of saving $150,000" - again, if this is true it's in a very limited sense only: the app and the cash face a very different set of risks.
Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148527
> Are there people to watch an "Adam Project" and a "Bridgerton" (I assume these are interesting shows) every month?

In case the specific shows threw you off, those were meant just as examples of quality. They don't mean that people would literally rewatch the same show.

As for are there people who watch shows every month? Absolutely, many people watch an episode of a show or a movie every evening.
No it’s not it’s the equivalent of a $6,000 a year part time job.

$150k in 20 years is still exactly $150k and produces returns.

A 20 year old mobile application has no value whatsoever.

Difference is apples and hand grenades.
DF is getting what I hope will be a Single-A 2D release on Steam sometime soon[1], in case you weren't aware.

I like your thinking, though damn that would be one hell of a project.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
DuckDuckGo browser purposefully doesn't block Microsoft tracking scripts
such a generic ask. plenty of recent/not-so-recent threads that get into this, especially gripes about the UX , a long known issue, many here just live on old.reddit.

It was always weak as far as posts and activity in the larger subreddits etc due to the natural effects of huge numbers of random users. The quality of users has declined enormously because of memes and just general public use, but that's the way it is.

Reddit is not really that special, it had explosive user growth due to lack of options out there and ease of use for most to just engage and/or run small forum-like communities. It was almost dead! Back before some big missteps by other players made it get really lucky in user growth. A momentum boost from a fluke.

And that's where the value/real stuff is: the rest of it - all the countless smaller communities -- reddit is basically a forum system for them, and they with the help of dedicated mods etc, people that care about the connections and community, it works great. That's it. That's all it is.
No, that wasn't my intention. But it's interesting that you've got that impression.

It's just good practice to indicate the author of a given theory/framework/etc. right at the top of the article.
You want Hostile Takeover / Warfare Incorporated.
Yes, "pay for a major new version" was the industry model for many years. Office, Photoshop, etc. In the end you're sort of forced to upgrade by file compatibility every two or three years, so it's a subscription with a slightly uneven payment schedule.

There are still some apps that do this, Things is a good example. But that creates all kinds of other challenges when a big part of the product is a service (like ours) if you want to support all versions of the client in perpetuity.
The app is built using Flutter, but I'm using SwiftUI for the home screen widget.
He very much encourages buying a house with 20% down. He just encourages you to do it through non standard underwriting criteria with high interest rates where he gets a cut.
I think the comment more so referred to the returns that $150,000 would yield at a 4% SWR, not necessarily that it'll generate that much eventually, just the equivalent SWR return amount.
I don't know if it's a game exactly but I would love a VR app that's part horror thriller, part psychological exposure treatment that either helps you get over certain anxieties (e.g. get ready to give a talk in VR in your drawers or fall from a tall building) or helps with aversion therapy in an engaging way (e.g. my weakness is chocolate, maybe a horror game that incorporates sweets in some way where they're repeatedly poisoning you and making you lose XP or something).
But couldn't the representatives promise the leaders they will vote in one direction but secretly vote the other way? How will the leaders know their followers are telling them the truth on their vote?
I liked "Statik", a pretty clever VR escape room-esque puzzle game where your hands are stuck in a strange device which you can manipulate in various ways using the game controller. Some levels even allow a second player cooperating via a phone app.
> Terrible UX

old.reddit.com -- You're welcome.

> mostly useless answers

Any sufficiently popular platform degrades like this (including the entire internet itself).

> or it's just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?

Pretty much. HN has pretty ferocious moderation, which is required unless you want every other response to be "sigh unzips." You see this in individual forums in general...once they grow past a certain size, the original intent is watered down, discussion suffers, etc etc.

That said, there are plenty of places on reddit that are still great.
I can't count how often my left or down swipe has been interpreted as a left or right swipe on touchscreens
Yep the human brain is amazing at ignoring these, I never had a problem with it reading anything that I've read in the past and it helps if you wanna go into further depth later when you want more info/context.
I understand your skepticism and I'll be the first to admit there are plenty of dubious uses of crypto/NFTs. For Ribbon, the NFTs act as verifiable proof of an achievement. Lying on LinkedIn profiles and resumes is rampant. The NFTs can also act as a pass for benefits and entry into achievement-gated communities (e.g. a community of verified product managers across many companies).
I think the more visual look of the new design works well for some communities that are more about image/video sharing.

But you're right, it's slower to load and generally slower to navigate, although opening and closing a post is a smidge faster for me in the new ui. I think Reddit got enough VC capital that it has to try to make a return on and they still haven't really come up with a great way to monetize the communities they host. So they're blowing money on engineering and probably seeing more users.

I'm not a product person, idk what the real answer is on what Reddit should have done. I agree I dislike a lot of what they added to it, but I'm just not a product person. I guess having steady growth and a reasonable amount of ad revenue just wasn't cutting it after a while.
The UX redesign is also clearly part of a mobile-first strategy. The mobile site funnels users into the mobile app, and the desktop site clearly echos the mobile design principles.

Mobile users fundamentally engage with the platform in different ways. For one, they form a different demographic segment than older users, and secondly the mobile app frames and filters content in uniquely mobile ways. High-signal content is much more difficult to craft on a mobile device so more mobile use represents a greater proportion of content noise.

Early adopters seek high-signal over content quantity and will move platforms if the opportunity arises. Such a migration will play into future case studies critiquing Reddits MAU-chasing at the expense of hollowing out their long-time user base.
I think that if newspapers are trying to take academic tone and content, it behooves them to also adopt some of the rigor that helps that pursuit.

I too think that deeper analysis is value-able, but when newspapers do that, they should up their game. If they are trying to present themselves as more academic or scientific, they need more citations and possibly a process akin to peer review (or even submitting a paper with underlying materials themselves to a journal if they are doing original work, as the NYT is claiming to have done here.)
Is this better than Chromecast Audio?
The incredible machine 4
I thought the common denominator for this was (and has been, for decades) ETL? Extract, Transform, Load and in that order, because what other order would make sense?

Getting such basic things wrong doesn’t exactly give the reader the impression that the writer knows the subject particularly well.
You mean like suspending parliament? [1]

https://www.gotocourt.com.au/legal-news/suspend-parliament/
Lego Technic Forza. Build your lego technic race car, tractor trailer, dump truck, crane, or whatever, and then drive, race, and build in an open world lego sandbox.
A significant amount of tooling exists since the open source Roslyn compiler is designed to support incredible features for tooling, unlike any other open source ecosystem. C# and .NET were explicitly designed to support best-in-breed tooling (through metadata, easy code parseability, language features, etc).

Gcc, llvm, etc., are no where near capability for the he tooling support that Roslyn supports.
Vespers 2
From my point of view, the quality of discussions is generally getting worse, including here (you could, for example, make a statistic of how many comments start with "I" and do not refer to the referenced article at all). It likely also depends which subreddit you're in; e.g. r/ProgrammingLanguages has generally good contributions and discussions, r/programming not so. Concerning the UX: I'm using https://old.reddit.com/ which is OK and remains constant.
None in particular. Your only requirement AFAIK is that your dream keyboard be split, and use the ISO layout. I don't know what the ISO layout is, but I can't imagine any of those keyboards couldn't accommodate it with(out) some tinkering.
It's a service, so there's a substantial maintenance cost to maintaining multiple versions. Curious if you also feel this way about Figma or Notion? Or for that matter, auto-updating software like Chrome or iOS?
Loom 2
So how would you “structure the economy” to allow someone to buy a house without debt and that allows them to both save for a house and pay for some place to live while you are saving?
Basically the same thing that happens to most forums like this. It was always better when you originally joined, and if it is particularly popular, you get more and more individuals who are simply not of the quality of a smaller self-chosen group.
It's not a specific game per se, but sometimes I wonder how it would turn out if a decent game dev were to take one of those clickbait-y mobile game ads (you know, the ones where it is obviously a dolled-up mockup of a game that doesn't really exist) and actually attempted to make the game it is depicting.
I think classical numbering is fine, no need to inject author's name or the article anywhere else. A link to the bottom of the article to approximately the location of the source is plenty sufficient.
Its clear from the article that the objective of the buyback program was to lower the volume of certain kinds of guns, not all guns.

> One of the most significant provisions of the NFA was a flat-out ban on certain kinds of guns, such as automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. But there were already a number of such guns in circulation in Australia, and the NFA required getting them off the streets.
Run-on sentences, use of "woke"… I think this entire person can be ignored.
Unfortunately I think it's a combination of popularity and exposing what happens in upvoted systems as opposed to discussion forums; the lowest common denominator rules.

"Both sides" fallacies, typically having a political meaning, are naturally going to get exploited on social media sites where both sides upvote the poorly baked, emotionally charged fallacies.

It is alarming to me as a statnerd that the NBA and NFL communities seem to be getting dumber as time goes on, not smarter, but I'm not positive this is a Reddit problem (but possibly, due to how mainstream it is now).
It's ok to point out that there isn't enough evidence for a particular argument without presenting a counter argument. We should strive to believe the truth. If the truth can't be determined, we should accept that consciously rather than grasp on to an idea that fits our predefined belief system.

There are many differences between Haiti and the rest of Latin America. One big one is that Haiti was French, whereas much of Latin America was ruled by Spain and Portugal. We don't really have much evidence on how France's colonies handle independence as they are either still French territory or got absorbed by other countries, e.g. French Louisiana. Perhaps something in the Spanish model led to better outcomes for former colonies. Another difference is that that Haitian revolution was a successful slave revolt that resulted in a purge of the ruling class. Compare this to America where many of the founding fathers were members of the colonial government, meaning they had governing experience. Haiti's government was also unstable after the revolution, further hindering its ability to form a cohesive economic plan. Haiti's primary source of domestic energy is charcoal, which has lead to near total deforestation of the country. Perhaps that played a role. These are just some differences off the top of my head, and I'm not an expert in Haiti.

Again, the debt to France certainly didn't help. But to me, it feels a little too convenient of an excuse to lay the blame solely at France's feet.
Unless there's a reason for an app to be exclusive to a marketplace, then I disagree that it deepens the moat.
I'm not up-to-date with the ongoing state of the UQM2 effort, other than awareness of the subreddit and the streams. They communicate mostly via video and I prefer text, so I haven't kept up since the kerfuffle with Stardock.

I did only play Ur-Quan Masters, though, and in like 2006, at that. I wasn't aware of the original until UQM.
There's a few live action films and series too.

I believe the Terry Pratchett one is currently being made into an animated film or series.
I think the GP means that the NYT has a recent history of peddling journalistic rags as academic papers, without the approval of the academic experts they've consulted. One of those fact checkers even wrote an article about how they were ignored by the NYT:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje...
Why would this matter in the US?
I'm almost done with the Android version and will start working on an Apple Watch companion app right after that (which I think I could charge $15-20 for). I was semi-hoping they'd announce Flutter for wearables at Google I/O alongside the Pixel watch, but looks like I'll have to learn a bit more iOS stuff.
Ah got it. I thought there would be some API where the transcripts could be searched across videos. Maybe that requires way to many resources for Google to index
Which is a minority and not a demographic that the revenue team particularly cares about, sadly.

Also, anyone interested in putting in effort should unsubscribe from any sub that shows up on /r/all and find smaller communities; that's where the real value proposition of reddit lies.
Strategic perhaps, but is it malicious? Apple sells OEM parts directly to the user. They let you rent and even buy equipment used in their own stores. At this point it's no different than repairing a laptop.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think this is a good example of how we could do better as a society; some people who can't get checking accounts definitely can't handle the responsibility. Most of these people however, handle responsibility 10x as complex as this on a regular basis, and something is missing, either in a lack of shared cultural values (a lot of the unbanked are foreigners I think), or a lack of understanding of consequences (how many times have you heard the "I didn't know I'd fall down this well of overdraft fees"?).

In other words, the people involved usually are trustworthy in a generic "is it safe to bank with them", they're just not plugging into the system in a way that fits the defaults.

I'd almost argue that the banking system ought to be more flexible to maximize its compatibility with as many people as possible, and thus far hasn't because of the drive to maximize certainty and minimize all forms of risk.

I have no answers or real solid ideas for how to do this, but "it's all on them" doesn't quite feel right. These are (mostly) good people who will pay you back if you lend them money, and that should matter!

I think my comment got construed as "people can't change so it's all their fault" and I meant it more as, "financial systems should be willing to move closer to where these people are already at, and stop demanding these people make all the changes."

I also don't know how feasible that is, so... IDK! Just thinking via writing, I guess.
Is all digitization good digitization?
Driving has some utility.
I agree, all of the ones I've tried have had major flaws and have no capacity for me to actually either fix the problems or add applications that would make them immensely more useful.

Is there just a blank watch with android that could be bought that I could hack into something useful for a kid?
yes! a fellow HN user e-mailed me about his project "Spawner"

https://github.com/drifting-in-space/spawner

check out the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGsxxcQRKa4
If you're exploring similar apps space, check out https://endlesspaper.app
It's iPad only, but super simple and truly gives you "better paper" experience.
Faster/slower aside, it doesn't matter if it is slower to compress, because you only do that once for most use cases (thinking of downloadable repos or document stores). Decompression happens much more frequently. So, one compression algo that takes a lot of work (and time) to compress but uncompresses with less work than anything else is desirable because of the fact you only need compress once. So, less compute is required.

There could be some use cases where this doesn't work out, such as a compressed network connection, where everything has to be compressed/decompressed in a 1:1 ratio.
turtles all the way down?
It does, although it will slow down if you load in large data e.g. big PDFs or large boards with huge amounts of ink.

I have an iPad I use for testing that cost me $250 on Amazon back in 2019! But watch out for Pencil versions, not all are compatible with every iPad model.
Remember what happened to Digg?
Enabling HTTP3 and HSTS on major cloud platforms like Cloudflare (Enterprise) and so on only seems to enable QUIC/HTTP3 and the HSTS headers are no where to be seen. Is HSTS even a thing?
Linus Tech Tips Visiting an Intel Validation Lab
I would argue that reddit never was really that great. It has gotten worse (the really aggressive advertising and dogshit UI is fairly recent), but karma farming is as old as time, is pretty much fundamentally unavoidable with their current model, and is probably one of the biggest issues with discussion on the site. I avoided the site for years because of the tendency toward low quality high engagement posts, and I know plenty of people who felt the exact same way. I can't speak to what it was like around 2010, but when I started looking a few years after that it was a lot of what I described above.

The only true fix to this is either firm AND benevolent moderation (really only works for small stuff, like HN), or just ditching usernames and internet points altogether. 4chan was, for the most part, low quality discussion, but people at least had a reason behind their post that wasn't ego-flaming to save face on their pseudonymous internet account/getting internet points to feel like they had some clout.
PDFs can be concatenated using Preview.
Or...

Instead of spending money engineering food like this we could actually go outside without being slathered in sunscreen for about 10 minutes a day (depending on skin tone). That might even mean we get some healthy activities in that have additonal benefits while we're out there.

Edit: wow so much hate without any argument as to why this is better than existing supplementation, especially considering existing supplements have more stringent dosing. It's like I've somehow argued that supplementation is bad, when all I'm saying is this seems a waste of money if we already have adequate supplements.
What do you do when it's work or die?

I was injured (series of small strokes)
I have learned to NEVER let employer know you have an ongoing medical issue.

Once they know. You get sympathy for a bit. Then everyone keeps telling how you shouldn't work and should focus on yourself.

Which is crap. Because an invisible injury is nearly impossible to get on Disability.

So work the best you can, or become homeless and die from lack of health care.
Nagel: "What is it like to be a bat?"

A first-person shooter played by sound alone. Screen is black. Clicks go out and you locate targets based on echoes.
> Mobile users fundamentally engage with the platform in different ways. For one, they form a different demographic segment than older users, and secondly the mobile app frames and filters content in uniquely mobile ways. High-signal content is much more difficult to craft on a mobile device so more mobile use represents a greater proportion of content noise.

I'd argue the only thing that really matters about mobile users is they are online _way_ more often. Engagement can be higher on mobile because the access is mobile.
Do you have data to support your positions?

I think it's gotten better, not worse. Though the variance between subreddits is high, so if you're not subredditing well, ymmv.

My only complaint are their dark patterns pushing the mobile app.
I love Arctype. Time-to-visualization is one of its best features. You can go from a CSV to SQL query to shareable chart in like 3 clicks. Also the focus on fully offline usage is a nice change of pace.
Public cloud was the computing cycle of the 2010s
On Alibaba, you get pictures of the factory and business background info. On Amazon, you get nothing.