skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... if work was optional, but sufficiently and progressively rewarding, then people would choose to do the jobs that they're currently not choosing to do.

So many jobs not only pay like shit while extracting so much value from that labour, but in most cases you also have no incentive to give even the slightest shit about it. No ability to buy into the company, no autonomy, very little functional leverage over increasing your fixed salary, and in most cases not even remotely knowing how much the conpany is making.

My current company thought it was wierd that I basically just peaced out for a bit when they ran out of money to pay me and at the same time aren't the slightest bit transparent about details regarding potential acquisition. Likewise I learned early on that if you don't literally have either a seat at some table, or a real stake in the company, or any decision power, you might as well stop trying after your work is done with an acceptable level of quality. It ain't worth it.

Lots of companies rn complaining about worker shortages, but they offer crap pay and it's fixed. You either don't get a commission, or you get maybe a gift card as a bonus from time to time. Most don't offer benefits.
Not sure about the other filmmakers but Tarkovsky was pretty much the establishment, a token avant garde cinema in a sea of state propaganda movies. Yes "Andrei Rublyov" was shelved, but that's about it, really.
Many others had some of their movies shelved for all kinds of reasons. Risking their lives? Well maybe, if you can consider mental breakdown, heart attack as risk.
But I bet Hollywood directors/actors risked their lives more by being in the same hotel room with Harvey Weinstein and his exposed puny dongle.
The FBI Forced a Suspect to Unlock Amazon’s Encrypted App Wickr with Their Face
They were convicted of antitrust violations in destroying the streetcars to monopolize transportation, but it was overturned basically on technicalities:

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/334/573.html
This will also democratize the market for comics. It used to be you needed to be able to draw to be a comic. Now you can just have ideas, and use This Comic Does Not Exist (which does not yet exist) to generate the imagery.
When you raise funding at a startup, you're usually creating new shares which dilute old shares. If a seed round VC is able to get out with a 20% loss then they might be happy, but what will actually happen is that the seed round VC's 10% share turns into a 8% share AND they look like they've taken a loss because the 8% share is worth less.

In growing markets, the 10% turning into 8% doesn't matter because it was 10% of a $1M company vs 8% of a $10M company. You're still richer (at least on paper) than you used to be.
This is the reason California has a housing crisis. Hyper local power just leads to people in desirable areas voting themselves a handout at the expense of people who move there.
I'm using both a git repo for remote sync / save and notable as a markdown interface/gui for it because it allows for automatic tag and frontmatter update for these markdown files.
What sorts of subreddits have been nuked for dubious reasons? I know admins have been abusive of privilege in the past but it seems pretty small- to normal-sized-potatoes as forum admin ego tripping goes.
My phone is nobody’s platform. It’s my phone. I paid for it. I demand the right to use someone else’s software on my device if that suits me better.

It’s not like apple subsidises the devices with income from the App Store fees. They’re just double dipping, and I’m glad the EU is slapping that down.
Ask HN: Anyone else use calendar for “recording history”?
People usually use calendars to schedule meetings or plan what to do where "in the future".

What I like to do is fill all 24 hours of every day in my calendar with what I did (rounded up to 15min blocks) so that I can check in the future. I plan days in advance like others, but as I live each day, I make sure all the calendar records "in the past" are accurate.

People around me don't seem to do this. I'm wondering if I'm alone in the universe, or if my habit is a niche one that I cannot find similarities offline in my life, but can on developer communities like HN.
Ah, so exactly the same model like the sweatshops in Asia. Pay just good enough that they can't afford to not do the job. Very generous.
Mr. @dang, I would like to kindly request that the title is updated.
thanks for sharing. what i've found is that talk therapists often lack the experience or insight/framework into our specific industry. I think that the issues of our industry are unique and that it requires a certain kind of therapist to understand what one is talking about. or, perhaps I haven't encountered the type of therapist capable to venture into any kind of new territory presented.
We've banned this account for nationalistic and religious flamewar. You can't do this on HN, and you've been doing it repeatedly. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "Some day, I suppose it's possible for someone to be a better No Limit Hold'em player than me. I doubt it, but it could happen. But, I swear to you, I don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me."

An approximately optimal strategy for Limit Heads Up was determined: http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/ is a Limit solution.

Machines don't play No Limit perfectly, but they're good enough to have beaten the best humans available when they last tried, so I expect if Stu had lived long enough they'd beat Stu too.

Interestingly Gin Rummy is not seen as a major AI research target. I found some undergraduates playing with relatively simple AI approaches for Gin Rummy as basically a getting your feet wet exercise, but this is apparently not in the context of "Here's what the grown-ups did" but rather "Nobody is exploring this, so whatever you do is actually novel". So there's a real opportunity if somebody is interested.
It's not about property rights--it's about control of land and resources. Look at this map and tell me how you defend the blue areas against the red ones:

https://brilliantmaps.com/2020-county-election-map/

A civil war isn't "every Republican vs. every Democrat." It'd be rural areas vs. urban ones, and it wouldn't really be a fight. One side has substantially less land, guns, and fighters than the other. It'd be unwinnable.
I rarely see forums that don't automatically lock old discussions, to prevent necromancy.
Cancellation is not always easy. Any “recurring” charge will helpfully reopen your closed account. I guess it’s better to just use prepaid gift cards for subscriptions.
> Slitherlink

One of the best mobile puzzle games ever

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ejelta.sli...
It's So Hot the Clouds Are Melting
>Yet when billions of dollars became available as a result of COVID what did the governor do who ran on the slogan, 'fix the damn roads'? She gave the money to GM for battery plants!

I understand the discontent, but the logic seems to follow. Assuming you have Michiganders working in the battery plants, they get paid producing batteries, and then taxed by the state. The taxes pay for the roads, and workers can buy homes and other things while remaining in Michigan (flight seems to be a bit of a crisis in Detroit, last I read). And the cycle, ideally, repeats year after year.
I wish we would just resurrect usenet newsgroups. I like the idea of open protocols
Specific anecdote - SaaS companies selling to other SaaS companies is going to cause a mini-winter in that sector. My company (which we thankfully sold last year :praise) had several (though not exclusively) high-growth tech companies as customers.

Now, when I look at layoff announcements, I see a lot of our former customers. Additionally, with budget freezes (driven by VC RIP decks), these same companies aren't buying new software for a while, even if they would benefit from it. And many tools now are priced based on headcount. So it's sort of the perfect storm - valuation resets so you have to go a lot farther with your current funding, reduced retention revenue because your customers are paying for fewer seats and harder sales because of budget freezes. Ick.
Came here to recommend the NN group. Plenty of free resources, guides and studies from the “godfathers” of UI/UX design :-)
I don't believe it is a problem, but people can have preferences for things that don't rise to the level of public policy problems, and if they'd prefer to live out in the country, God bless them.

A lack of density closer to cities is a real problem: it makes living close to where you work prohibitively expensive, and promotes sprawl.
VCs as a whole are followers, not leaders (with small exceptions). they all just fly into the latest hype bandwagon hoping to replicate the last big success.
it saddens me that we have not put more thought into this topic and we constantly put our education, safety, and services on the economic roller coaster.

no matter how much your home is worth today or in ten years you and other in the community want a standard level of education, safety, and services from your local governments. this should be priced as a service based on the cost to provide it to the members of the community and not based on dynamically changing home values

property taxes should have a baseline cost to cover the essential services (schools, critical infrastructure, safety, etc.) that is the same for everyone (no exemptions) and a variable cost for the non-essential services (parks, beautification projects, etc.) (very limited exemptions) that can be based on the value of your home or land

this way the essential services are always funded and not impacted by economic downturns or property appraisal disputes/challenges and local governments don't have to play the game of increase the millage rate to make up costs for essential services
What malware? I've been using Android for over 10 years now. I've never had an issue personally. But I consider myself tech savvy and I don't install apps from untrusted sources.
Also, iOS had multiple 0-days in the past. So you don't need to give users freedom over their paid for devices for them to be compromised.
Here's 3 facts

There's a disease going around.

There's something in the food giving people cancer.

Some people with certain politics attacked their neighbors yesterday.

Each of these facts will make you afraid of something. By choosing which fact to report I control you.
This is true, however I like that I can use a cloud storage I am already using than having another service I need maintain.

If dropbox drop off the Internet there are other options I can use to sync.
I have friends in VFX and in animation, and the VFX friends are... less happy than the animators. The animators bitch about how the corporations are constantly trying to get one person to do the job of two but the union is constantly pushing back, the VFX people just accept that shit like "oh we didn't get paid for the last month of work because the shop closed up" is normal for them.
Maybe another fun example: Data entry. The state has some official paper form, people want to type it in the computer. So I created a page with fields in a reasonable order: First identification, then contact info, then the different aspects forming the purpose of the form.

One day, I manage to acquire an actual form as provided by the state. It turns out to be organically grown and the resulting field order made no sense at all. The first field was a phone number, for some reason. Name and surname were actually on 2 different pages, with lots of stuff in between. No idea how it got so messed up.

So I ordered the fields in my form in the same bad order as the state form. Users loved it. The could just tab-tab-tab quickly fill it in.
I think the design is actually for us under 60, who got into the car listening to a podcast on earbuds, and want to continue listening as we drive off.

What I can't get over is that I can be driving the car for 3 minutes before the podcast I was just listening to will play in my car (which does not have this play command quirk).
Not all. But the vast majority. And they're the ones that have experience using them, too.
Not true according to my citation and others in the past. Looking at the Western states that over-represent, the Idaho, Arizona, and even Oregon have more in common with Texas than California/D.C. The PNW themselves deal with a vocal secession movement.
It would incentivize building a comparatively more expensive building that maximizes the developers profit. Whether that means shoeboxes or livable space depends on how much those things cost to build and how much people are willing to pay for them.

If you just want single family homes with a big lawn you probably shouldn’t be living in Manhattan, which is the point of lvt.
This is the perfect example of myopic thinking coming from the chemical Focus

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

The brain is a lot more than chemistry, and that's not even looking at the human being and their interactions with the environment.

there are patterns encoded in the structure and biology of the brain. There are psychological feedback loops and complicated interactions between a human and their environment.

Saying it must be a chemical imbalance is akin to debugging a malfunctioning computer and saying it must be a signal error from a loose wire. It ignores programming sending signals on those wires and it ignores the input to the machine from the environment
tell that to fang companies. some fire less than 2% of the work force.
Why is it intrinsically a good idea that "Vermont" be an entity that has some say in political affairs? "Vermont" isn't a person, nor is it even a collection of people with a similar culture or ideology (by far the biggest divide is rural vs. suburban vs. urban; the second biggest is race/ethnicity; any state-by-state divide is much less significant than those two).
I'm saying that the people that are liable to create an octuply-nested low-effort comment referencing nothing more than a Thanos snap, Rick Astley, "yikes", "oof", etc. aren't likely to spend the three minutes required to create an account on a forum.

Forums are more insular by nature and have a separate set of cultural problems, but consistently ultra-low-quality posts isn't one of them in my experience.
Democratic societies don't decide laws based off what "experts" think is right, but instead based off what the entire populace thinks. If I was European my opinion should matter just as much as one these "experts."
How would opening up the API and payment system ruin the product? I want to buy audible books from the audible app on my phone but I can’t do that. I want to subscribe to Netflix from my phone but I can’t.

Seems to me that opening this stuff up would make our phones better, not worse.
> trying out wild combinations and cracking my friends up

Wait until the next edition comes out where it automatically learns the sorts of things that crack you up and starts generating them without any input from you.
Not enough page-clicks?
I don't know about dead, but they've been in decline since 2013. The U.S. Presidential election in 2016 accelerated it. Most news outlets killed their comments sections around this time.[1]

It's certainly less fun to discuss things if you're liable to get into an argument. And arguments degrade the readability of discussions for others.

The transition to mobile phones certainly could be a factor, and the related Eternal September concept.[2]

The increase in monetization is a factor, since advertiers don't want to be associated with objectionable comments.

I think comment voting, though it has some benefits, is ultimately pretty toxic as well.

But all these are proximal causes. This is a long-term cultural trend affecting forums, wikipedia contributions, office politics, and everything else. Anthropologists would say political fractionalization is increasing. People increasingly don't want to collaborate with those they disagree with on an expanding list of isuses.

But even this is a proximal cause. What drives political fractionalization? What drives culture to be increasingly morbid?[3] I think the fundamental cause is that the energy gradient powering civilization is in decline. It's a Peak Oil -type idea, but focused on EROI instead of oil production.[4][5]

In their heyday, forums were amazing.[6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comments_section#Closing_of_co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32166902

[4] https://twitter.com/clumma/status/593890418028253185

[5] https://gist.github.com/clumma/4c5016f808adde034a575f1dd7d40...

[6] https://twitter.com/clumma/status/1538934712743231488
Yes, at least in the startup SaaS space. As lurkervizzle put it, it's a kind of ponzi scheme, though in that case I think the "victims" are investors. And mostly the seed investors, less the LPs and GPs of the VC firms.
If the market cost of renting a unit drops below the landlords' cost to maintain the unit, the renter doesn't go "oh well, that's a shame, I guess I will pay the higher amount."

The landlord either eats the loss or gets out of the game. Since vacancy is the worst possible outcome for a landlord, they can't just hold their units off the market to get the price they want.
The Spiders That Choose Death
My perspective is more based on what faction would fight over someone else’s turf here?

No one seems interested, in a physical space way, at least so far.

Would the feds fight Texas over texas? Doesn’t seem like it.

Would texas go to the Feds, or New York, or whatever, to fight to take it? Doesn’t seem like it.

Seems more like everyone wants to lob angry messages at each other from over the border.
I did not make it up.

The size of pterodactyls;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus

Pterodactyls could fly from birth:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2284950-baby-pterosaurs...

And the bit on Resource Partitioning in https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/ecology-ap/co... has the principle that in the presence of competition, animals focus on whatever niche lets them outcompete.

But while I'm throwing out trivia on flight, have you ever wondered why bats only fly at night? It is because their wings have very thin skin. This is an even better aerodynamic surface than feathers, but offers them NO protection from sunburn!
The best part is that it’s only acceptable to talk about Hunter Biden now since the media is in the middle of dumping President Biden for a new candidate.
Even the high quality stuff still can't do human faces right.
Google and GitHub freezing hiring, effective immediately
So the other men in the pictures are the uncomfortable ones?
I think it's about the route. For a `thumbnails/123/` endpoint, the parameters are specified in the route. You're encoding more information in the HTTP level, so encoding the error in the HTTP level as well is reasonable, you can definitely have a 404 response if there's no 123 image present.

But if the route is ID-agnostic, like `/cgi-bin/generate_thumbnails.pl` or `/api/json_rpc.php` then you could justify a 200 OK that the endpoint itself was found, regardless of the parameters. In this design the RPC is definitely above the HTTP level.
Came here to say this Discourse [1] seems to be everywhere but I like Flarum [2] a lot, seems to be a little bit closer to the phpBB spirit. Both are OSS and self-hostable.

[1]: https://meta.discourse.org/

[2]: https://discuss.flarum.org/
Is there any point where you think we can question Science, Nature, etc? If so, what point would that be? I think trying to reproduce studies or questioning logical fallacies, inaccuracies; quite easily justify criticism of established journals. Especially important when criticism comes from similar experts with high academic achievements.
> support for breaking the font into pieces

And in the future, Incremental Font Transfer will make this even easier: https://www.w3.org/TR/IFT/
Even when cyclists have their own lanes, they need to cross the streetcar tracks in order to (1) make turns and (2) avoid obstacles (e.g. cars suddenly pulling out). If they don't plan and execute the track crossing at a perpendicular enough angle, the wheel gets trapped and the rider usually wipes out. The victim is then often blamed for getting hurt by infrastructure of a design that is known to hurt people [0].

[0] https://tucson.com/news/local/court-rules-against-tucson-bic...
If you assume 25k MSRP on a base model Prius, and that the car will sell for $5k after 150k miles (absolute garbage offer - an actual number would be something like $10k-12k in today's market), then you get a worst case depreciation of 13 cents/mile. Let's say a Prius gets 45 mpg, gas costs $5/gal which gives you 11 cents/mile. Factor in tires and oil/brake fluid changes and maybe you get another $2k all in costs over the 150k miles, which is 1.3 cents/mile.

All in costs around 30 cents seems right. That assumes absolute worst case depreciation too. And don't forget, the government lets you deduct 58 cents/mile off your taxes, so you actually make a profit off every mile driven.
Optimizing the Django Admin Paginator
> App Store review is not perfect and no one expects it to be.

But Apple is clearly presenting it as such.

> That doesn't mean it has no value or that we should get rid of it entirely.

That is correct, but right now it is the only game in town. There's no secondary stores that present it with competition. Already we read about top-10 grossing apps that are actually scammy. Perhaps Apple will strengthen its App Store when presented with alternatives.

> Curious how you think this would actually solve the issue I linked above.

It really depends on what mechanism that Uber is using to bypass the notifications systems. But off the bat, iOS could force even more granular alerts to the user when sensitive permissions are required.

Curious too, how you think that App Store review currently solves this issue. Uber is already too significant to the platform for Apple to do much more than give them a slap on the wrist, as seen historically.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/apple-tim-cook-threatened-...
Huh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_albatross confirms. Longer wingspan (by 1 foot), but lighter bird.
Taxing improvements is a proxy for progressive taxation. ie. rich should pay more. LVT is effectively a flat tax on acreage normalized by community wealth. To the broad middle class, taxing improvements "feels" more fair.
And Texas depends on the rest of the US even more.

I’m not saying they’d let it go. I’d saying, they wouldn’t need to cross the border to make the impact felt of trying to leave.
Let's be honest here. It's not "disagreement" that's the problem as such. It's if you disagree with the established narrative, or don't take the vax, or whatever else is in vogue you might be fired and get "icky juice on you" by being in proximity to someone who didn't drink the kool-aid.
Startups can't afford to be like that. Those huge companies have a lot of fat so can get away with being slack, which is also why a company like Google can drift around in such an indifferent and aimless manner for over a decade.

BTW the "N" has long had a "fire early" philosophy, and so it will be interesting to see how their current troubles play out.
Forums are almost irreplaceable. You can’t replace a product support forum or a sports team fan forum with something tangential but completely different like a discord, Facebook page or similar.

Discourse is so great these days that it should be the default choice for anyone needing a forum, and luckily it seems it is too.
I left Europe before the full enforcement of this cookies dialog and everytime I spend time there I'm like: how can anyone accept this state of affairs