skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not, because I use the "upvoted comments" and "upvoted submissions" as a collection of useful links and TODO study. So if the reply is not something I may use in the future, I do not upvote to aviod bloating my link list.

Although it made me feel somewhat guilty to the people who answered my question, like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31598801

But I sometimes upvote comments I do not need saved, just in hope to draw the authors attention, if I reply days after his comment and want him to reply back. I hope he will notice the karma change and will look around.

And rarely I upvote opinions I strongly agree with and want to endorse.
Tackling the "core problem" of "all life has evolved to build a surplus of energy given a surplus of resources over the course of the lifetime of our universe" feels way harder to solve through willpower than addressing the biology directly.
I would only be surprised if the other manufacturers are NOT doing the same.

We (collectively speaking) do the same at work. We optimize for what gets us promoted rather than what benefits the company. Companies optimize for revenue rather than a good user experience.

This behavior of trying to game/cheat the benchmarks is entirely consistent with human behavior in other areas of life.
I'm half assuming they do something special, half responding to the comment which describes them as a hardware company. But yes, ideally a webcam should have the basic functionality available just by plugging it in, no special software needed.
This is the answer. Camera and processor from a several-year-old smart phone, which is now quite cheap. Sell it for $500.

So far no one has, there must be a reason no one can.
I'm going to try this with my ad blocker. HN karma makes this place significantly less pleasant to frequent. I'd like to speak my mind without obsessing over whether or not my comment appeals to someone.

I wish this was a setting on HN. For uBlock origin users, this is what I'm trying right now:

! 2022-06-20 https://news.ycombinator.com
! Top karma
news.ycombinator.com###karma
! Profile form karma
news.ycombinator.com##.profileform > table > tbody > tr:nth-of-type(3)
! User karma
news.ycombinator.com##td > table > tbody > tr:nth-of-type(3)
! Comment score
news.ycombinator.com##.comhead > .score

Seems to work fine.
Yes, whether I agree or not, if I read it and it's not a troll comment, I upvote it for the time spent.
hmmm... this seems like a joke but I can't help but think "I may disagree with what you say, but I will support the right for you to say it"
I am an enjoyer of sarcasm and irony. One principle of sarcasm in the written language is that there needs to be a bit of a 'tell' to reinforce that it is sarcasm. You need to write it in such a way that it just doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

For example, I'm fond of pointing out that I'm aware that American scientists have mathematically proven that it is not possible to determine sarcasm from the written word.

That is clearly sarcastic because thinking that you could mathematically prove that is just not grounded in reality and nothing anyone would seriously suggest, so it provides a 'tell' that it is sarcastic. Read sarcastically it is self-referential and makes perfect sense.

Another classic example is _A Modest Proposal_ where its so over the top that it has to be sarcastic.

Just posting something "edgy" without any kind of a "tell" isn't really sarcasm.

I can't really find much of a 'tell' in this whole article. The whole article is consistent with him being a total narcissist. And the way that goes around "correcting" people by forcing them to watch him solve their problem the "right" way is something a narcissist would do that someone who was actually instructing and teaching someone else wouldn't do. So if I read it like he's just a narcissist then its all consistent. If I try to read it like he's being ironic, then he's at a minimum both really bad at sarcasm and irony and still really bad as an instructor.
Yeah it makes me a bit sad.. torrents are technically really cool, and the casual anarchist in me likes how they remove the need for expensive infra/bandwidth to serve huge data.

Yet the overwhelming use by far is just to pirate vids.
It’s unlikely he’ll see your reply!
Safe?

Almost all RTGs use Pu-238 which is an alpha emitter. It is so active it gets red hot from its own energy. The reason they use it is that alpha radiation consists of relatively large particles which are easy to capture and thus take advantage of their energy. Also, gamma radiation would probably interfere with instruments and it's super hard to block in a lightweight spacecraft.

But it's not safe. Get a dust particle in your lungs where there is no protection from alpha particles (unlike the skin, which would at its worst develop easily-detectable skin cancer), and you'll die a slow and painful death. Not what I'd consider safe. Not instadeath either like I said, I know..
We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel
Yikes.

"What is my purpose?"
"You format the document."

More seriously, why does an AI need to emulate full human intelligence and respond to prompts to call itself sentient in order to translate a document, order a pizza from the restaurant or tell me what the weather is today?

Being able to parse language and form coherent sentences is one thing. Telling the prompter that you're a sentient being is another.
A solid book for crystallizing a lot of key ideas.

But yeah, they need to make a new edition and cut out a lot of the “scientific” bits the crumbled after the replication crisis gained purchase

It’s a hard book to suggest when topics about careful thought are backed up my junk science
Why did inflation spiral out of control: a retrospective
I am thanking you later.
I do this as well.

I also rarely actually upvote stories. But I upvote all comments that I find interesting.
Right, that's the point. Unless you're stuck in some shithole country like El Salvador, there's no purpose to cryptocurrency.
Ok I did not know that, but I thought Chernobyl was already an old design when it was commissioned?
Universally yes. I figured I was cumulatively wasting hours of my life deliberating on whether or not people deserved upvotes. In reality, if someone put any effort into replying to my dumb self, they deserve to be upvoted by me at the very least.
Dupe? This was posted a few days ago already and was maked as a dupe then.
I am immediately reminded of this saying:
"Anyone can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands". I guess Nikitionsky wants to apply the same standards to software engineering.
Regarding notifications, try HN Notify[0]. It came up a long time ago and I've been using it ever since.

I love getting replies in emails. If you don't follow up on conversations, no one learns.

[0]: https://hnnotify.xyz/
> No, you don't lose much muscle (I lost 0.1%)

How did you measure this number? Unless you were on some kind of drug, this seems impossible.
Sure it is a good feature to have, but this sort of attack is going to be targeted. You don't do it to everyone. In the unlikely event you do get caught then you can act dumb in almost all cases. Blame Pegasus or whatever...
Rtings is great for the data they provide, but they can have a but of a blind eye for other problems. For example, Rtings will tell you if a TV has bad contrast or poor audio, but they're not going to mention when the color is so uneven you can see a pattern on solid colors.
> one of the highest rated books by the Hacker News community.

I hate to be cynical, but that is usually not a good sign. There are sites collecting the most appreciated books of HN and the ones that are not about technology are too simplistic.
I bought lumina last september, still has not received it yet. only emails about delayed shipments
I suspect the real motivation is cost in many cases. Minimalism involves less work to fabricate and cheaper machines. The ornate past tended towards "more expensive materials, cheaper labor". The cheapness also extends towards designs - it is harder to screw up minimalism. Look at architecture blogs snarking about McMansions and misuse of decorative features.
I upvote comments to keep track of what I've read so far.
You can go way, way longer than 6 months without calories, depending on your fast stores. Yes, if you fast you should still ensure you're taking vitamins.
Yes? That's how bug bounties work. Companies that care about their security pay for bugs. Those that don't, don't. Sony care, but $20k for this chain of bugs is pretty poor, especially when they offer up to $50k (for criticals). I'm curious why Sony think this is a High severity and not Critical.

EDIT: looks like it's not critical because of this https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/1535424299397369856

In which case, 20k still feels low, but not as unfair.
I think it was a while ago, but at this point, the cost of pointer chasing and memory overhead of separate chaining mean that is is being phased out.
I frequently use my phone while in a meeting. I can't see how using your phone as a webcam would be productive. Using a phone, like an old iPhone model you have upgraded from, would be neat, though. But there are a bunch of apps that let you do this today, I believe.
"when I needed systemd binary logs? - and I realized I never needed them."

that is my sentiment.

Linus was hesitant about binary logs.

I think they are just not unix. They are doing the wrong thing correctly (I would prefer doing the right thing poorly - or better yet doing it well)
This feels odd to me - it sort of feels like manipulating the graph for your selfish purposes. It also feels kinda cheap - as in devaluing the value of upvotes.

I upvote comments I strongly agree with/like.
If the comment seems to be from someone engaging in a productive conversation, yes, I upvote even if disagreeing.

Tangentially related: if there is one thing that I wish the mods re-evaluated in the guidelines is the idea that "downvotes are okay to signal disagreement". I am not going to say something silly like "HN is turning into reddit", but I will say that the discussions have been more politicized, people are forgetting to "keep their identity small" [0], and it feels like people are ever more trigger-happy to downvote anything they see as opposing their worldviews.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Try to break into Haskelling - leetcode doesn't apply + it's a lot more fun that normal programming. I don't normal program anything large anymore. Waste of consciousness-seconds :)
What's interesting is, if it goes to court, Google will want to counter the claim of sentience, first by arguing about proper definition of sentience, and showing that Lambda doesn't mean any proper definition. And that's likely to be easy to demonstrate through a thorough interrogation by experts trying to "outsmart" the algorithm.

Or Lambda is indeed sentient, in which case any attempt to demonstrate its non-sentience will fail...
Oh I am well aware of RH CoreOS.
Can someone tell me if my understanding is correct?

Soland offers a service to loan stablecoins out. To do this, you need to provide some amount of their solana coin as collateral. Additionally, because it’s a loan they expect their initial stablecoin back, plus a little bit extra.

So someone had a /lot/ of solana. They believed that they could make more money in some alternative coin, rather than keeping their existing solana. So they convert their solana into stablecoin using soland and buy some other coin using that stablecoin.

Since then, the crypto markets have lost a lot of value. The chance that the lender can pay the loan back is very low. Additionally, there’s a clause that says if the price of solana goes below some amount, the solana used as collateral will be sold.

Now, if the collateral is sold, it will introduce a huge supply of solana coin, which drives down the price. This feeds into the solana price dropping, which sells more collateral. A death spiral.

To avoid this, the DAO is taking over the account and selling the coins prematurely, before liquidation happens.

Is that right at all?
If you're talking about "Her" I hated that movie because the male human lead was such a depressed sad sack
True but they might not know what it is.

And radiation is something that's pretty unversally poisonous (instead of biological poisons which tend to be only poisonous to certain species). I don't think there's a single species on earth to which radiation isn't deadly.

I just think the records would have been better launched on their own (and hundreds of them in different directions of potentially life-sustaining systems). That'd have been cool (even though it's still a total long shot).
Besides IPE, there is also Asymptote. (https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/)

I think the lack of uptake is due to inertia. It takes a lot of effort to get up to speed with any system, so you are most likely to start with and stay with whatever people you know are already using, which seems to usually be TikZ.

For just the occasional illustration, it's easier to make do with something like Inkscape. (https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/)
With React by itself, you need to know the API's URL. You should read about environment variables and how React handles them.

You would have one environmental file for local development, and then in production, you'd use Render.com's environment variable settings.

One of these variables would be something like REACT_APP_API_BASE_URL (doesn't matter what you call it, as long as it begins with REACT_APP).

Then you prepend all of your API calls with that in your React code.

Next.js does not have this setup step because it serves your API and static site from the same s
Node server by default, so all of your API URLs would just be /my-api-call (because the API and fronted would have the same hostname, whatever it is).
Amongst the long list of comprehensively rubbished popular/woo science books out there, that one is certainly out there.
Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship
Same! I can also attest to most people not thinking about the problem this way and it being a huge pain to get most engineers and designers to think in terms of “responsive first”, as opposed to “mobile first”.

Trying to impart this way of thinking was one of my biggest failures managing a product engineering team. I’m curious if others have successfully gotten teams of designers and engineers to stop worrying about mobile/tablet/desktop first and instead think in terms of an infinite number of viewport configurations?

To be more specific about my problems: in my experience with designers is that they want fixed viewport sizes so they can come up with “pixel perfect” designs. The tools they used tended to have fixed canvas sizes and dimensions. For “responsive first” designs, you need something that’s constantly changing the viewport size.

Engineers struggled because they wanted specs to implement against that were also pixel perfect. From a tooling perspective, I noticed most use Chrome and NOT the responsive view. I don’t know how anybody can build a responsive web application without being exclusively in responsive view and constantly resizing the viewport.

If I had to generalize the struggle between design & engineering, they felt they couldn’t meet the requirements given to them in a reasonable amount of time unless “mobile” and “desktop” were scoped separately.
Watching Intel once again go through a period where pushing frequency is the main way to gain performance has definitely led to a sense of deja vu.

How long until modern laptops can boil pasta the way a Pentium 4 desktop famously could?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veALz35LV9U
Can confirm. I remember it swapping heaps on my 32MB machine.
Will Safari 16 be available on older macOS?

Short answer: you'll get all of new web platform features (Container Queries, Subgrid, etc.); you may not get certain Safari-specific features that require a feature only present in macOS Ventura.

You can get Safari Technology Preview for Monterey and Big Sur that has those new web platform features right now [1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/
Useful today is a matter of time preference, and as all software is now essentially free, the cost is computer time you already have available. It may not be a law like a law of physics, but it is an observed law of behavior.
Why not use the "favorite" list for that?
Signal is not as convenient. People want convenience.
Hi Darek thanks for doing this AMA. If you had to pick 3 leetcode problems that are most representative of those seen in google interviews, which would they be (can just be topics too if you feel google tests for certain data structures etc)
i wouldn't have submitted this for less than $1M
This is a highly simplistic and an ideologically-flattering (it's pretty obvious you subscribe to left wing views) picture you paint of the situation. Here's a mirror image of it your alternate right wing self might be saying on another HN in another universe:

?>>>? Right leaning politics need trust worthy news to survive, left leaning politics don't as their goal is to upset tradition and revolt on the status quo. If nobody maintains the status quo the left wing polices win by default, noise instead of news helps to create chaos, choas is the bread of revolution and malcontent.

As you can see, this sort of "I define my side to be the more accurate view of reality" is highly malleable and can be used to support any side with semi-convincing "just so" stories.

And you're not actually describing the left-wing/right-wing divide here (itself a highly simplistic and outdated view of politics and economics dating from more than a century), you're describing the conservative/progressive divide, which tends to correlate with the left/right divide in the US, which might be where you are from. But even there the correlation is not perfect, Trump for example was fairly 'progressive' in his populist politics, his extensive engagement with the public on Twitter was a very novel form of presidential press releases that upseted many traditions and angered many political conservatives. See how conservative/progressive is multi-dimensional ?, you're just too used to a few dominant dimensions being coorelated with a left\right slant.

Furthermore, even accepting the dubious renaming of conservative\progressive to right-wing\left-wing, it's still a leap of faith from here to assuming that the progressive side always benefits from representing truth and reality as it is. In fact, this is almost gauranteed to be false, because even if conservatives are randomly guessing, they would still get roughly 50% of the world right, and since progressives always oppose conservatives in this hyper-polarized political climate, they are gauranteed to be wrong that 50% of the time. This seems to be supported by reality as being a progressive is associated with a higher chance of believing there are 700 genders and that biological males are women, so there must be at least some situations where progressives ("Left-Wing" in your parlance) benefit from a mis-representation of reality.
My window faces onto a neighbour's house. They have painted this area white.

On my webcam, the window is behind me and it picks up this area outside the window and assumes the picture is overexposed because it doesn't expect to pick up large areas of basically #ffffff, and tries to dim the rest of the picture and darkens everything inside. Too much in fact, so it looks like I'm in a really dark room. The Logitech software does not support adjusting this behaviour, only adjusting the picture after the fact like the brightness sliders in your favourite image editor, so boosting them to compensate for the underexposed feed the webcam is providing the computer just results in a super washed out picture with still awful contrast.

I could rotate my office setup but then that introduces other issues, like glare on computer monitors or poor legroom due to radiator or insufficient space for a desk due to the neighbouring en suite cutout. I could close the curtains on the window and then just rely on electric light.

But these are all solutions worse than the problem of my webcam feed being underexposed, so they're not happening.
You're commenting about an article that is literally about video quality. Everyone here is talking about video quality.
Modern finance is much better at handling fraud. Insurance exists, and recourse also exists since anonymity is not a requirement.

Decentralized finance has thus far been demonstrably worse than everything in modern finance. It's illiquid, transaction costs are higher, full of scams, buggy, and recourseless.

The whole space needs to grow up fast.
it says 19 on the site, not 61
> I read all the time, but not in a deep, concentrated way. Despite knowing these things are problems, even though I typically read or learn on them and do not play any games on mobile devices, it has taken me to admit to myself that I absolutely must distance myself from mobile devices, and even my computer, if I want to get back to long-form, deep learning.

Somewhat related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739940

Once I started printing things and not reading them with a screen, my reading of real books went up as well. When you're reading on a screen, you don't realize you're competing with physical books. But when you're reading something physical, you do become aware of it.
Solana is constantly down and having transaction fail due to low TPS. I don't think they could lower the performance anymore than it is.
If I were to speculate, Bolt steals and monetizes a ton of your data. App gives access to GPS, which can then be sold to hedge funds, advertisers, etc., with some veneer of GDPR-compliance.

Perhaps customers are no longer sustainable without that.
There's a pretty relevant blog that recently came up on this:

https://soatok.blog/2022/06/14/when-soatok-used-bugcrowd/
Hardware requires manufacturing ($, and slow change cycles), and prices are cut-throat.
> we dehumanize people too just as completely

I had a talk with someone recently about whether we should talk about Russians as Orcs because it is dehumanizing

I'm re-watching Westworld right now because the new season 4 is about to start. The idea that a Google chat bot is sentient is laughable in the context and exploration of what makes up sentience that Westworld explores so masterfully.
There are good USB cameras, just not a the price point reviewed here. For personal use (sitting in front of a normal display at a desk), I strongly recommend and use https://www.huddly.com/conference-cameras/one/.

It's a device you likely use every day. Spend the money, get setup once, and move on.
Is this rhetorical? Because it seems naive to assume would honest about any of that.
It's a form of just-world fallacy. It's comforting to think "bad things happen only to stupid people, and I'm not stupid."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
"Her" was indeed one, but I think you might be talking about "Lars and the Real Girl."

A very funny movie. Lars refrains from being intimate with her until they're married.
Not parent, but favorites are public, while upvotes are private.
I have no illusions about being able to keep a nation state attacker off my devices, but not having all of my correspondence shared with all kinds of third parties by default sure feels nice.
I generally use Wirecutter for my reviews -- anyone able to, um, compare and review the two?
> They believed everything corporations said, because they had no time to check.

I remember a story from a famous freelance investigative journalist who found evidence of disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 election. He collected a huge amount of evidence and testimony, and sent it to news outlets across the US. Most of them came back with:

"Uh, we contacted the <person/group accused>, and they're denying this. We're not going to run the story."

Who'd have thought people accused of nefarious, potentially illegal activities would deny doing them?