skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember the pre-marketing internet economy of the late 90s and early 00s and oh boy was it nicer than this shiny turd.

You mean when everyone became obsessed with beanie babies, Furbies, and got suckered into Enron / Worldcom scams?

Marketing just took different forms back then. It was physical, store-bound. It wasn't online because people were at the malls, reading newspapers and watching TV Ads. In some cases, people would listen to "boiler room" calls over their landline telephone to get pumped/dumped.

All that has changed, is that today we have centralized all forms of marketing to the internet. Instead of stores pushing us marketing at the front of the store as we walk in, we get hit with ads on the top of Google / Amazon's pages. Instead of boiler-room scams being pushed out by telephone, we get Facebook groups pushing cryptocoin rug pulls.
Illegal for less than 30 days, right?
> Excluding them would be an enormous wealth transfer in their favor.

A temporary one. Ensure only people over a certain age who own land are excluded, and only while they are alive. Once they die (or sell), the inheritors/new owners are not excluded. And ensure you can't make it perpetual by placing it into a trust.
I like the GUI/UX, but in essence Napkin et al are basically a regurgitation of the same app over and over, only varying the UX to appeal different tastes/audiences.

For example, what do these apps do that aren't already implemented in others like OneOne, LogSeq, Obsidian, Dendron, etc?
> The economic channels behind the negative correlation between inflation and income inequality are still unclear. How this negative correlation turns to be positive for higher inflation rates also remains to be better understood.

Until the causes of the correlation is better understood, it could as well just an error in the model.
> By 2055, the "minute" displayed on a clock may be incorrect, which again may cause issues with legal timestamps.

I'm not following here. What defines "legal timestamps" in our current system? I'm unaware of any laws in the US that uses the actual position of the sun to determine the time.

"Noon" when the sun is at the highest point, can vary over an hour across a timezone.
Sounds like classic depression and burnout to me.

Sounds trite but I've found running outdoors to be quite therapeutic. Your brain kinda half shuts-down the conscious thought parts and you just get on with physically moving. You don't need to be going fast or anything, but just being out for 20/30/more mins feels quite relaxing. I find that running around/exploring new parts of town or forest or coast or something especially relaxing - everything is new so you are soaking it up rather than getting lost in your thoughts. I have some fond memories of running around suburban silicon valley when on tedious business trips, not because the scenery was so wow, just that it was novel to run over to Moffet Fields or be in downtown SF and run into the Pacific Ocean etc.

Tl:Dr - try outdoor physical exercise.

Good luck. I hope you find what you are looking for
One unfortunate side effect of this is that this behavior ultimately gets priced into the market. When a house with an ADU will reliably fetch 20% more than one without, then eventually all houses on the market will have ADUs, with the consequence that people buying will need to depend on short term rental income in order to make their mortgage. I’ve seen this happening where I live (West LA) over the last ten years, and it feels like a net decrease in quality of life for everyone at this point.
Those are good reasons for you to get circumcised. They are not good reasons to do it to someone who cannot consent. You should also consider that statistics regarding complications only count complications that required medical intervention. Nobody goes around asking men "does anything bother you about your penis?" and noting down what annoyances could've been caused by circumcision. There are a lot of men who don't know that not everyone is bothered by loose underwear rubbing on them or that getting your frenulum licked is supposed to feel really nice.
Ask a non programmer what each means or measure the time newer devs take to understand it. On its own maybe its easier but I suspect for people its the same or saying var is easier.
LISA is incredibly cool!
Why do you need a 'specialized programming language' when kube for most people, is just waiting for various objects via api?

I mean, sure, ATM it can be a bit painful to generate your 'Deployment' object in json or yaml or whatever, but then it's just a post to the kubeapi and it's done.. You can do that in any language you want..

What am I missing?
Which is endlessly infuriating to me. Whether its dumbing down or making it hard, the decrease in usability is a consistent hinderance.
Internet and the smartphone
Meanwhile I just bought a new scooter (sit on and ride motorcycle scooter) last week. Gets 90 miles to the gallon. Admittedly, it's not as efficient as an EV, but the $3500 price tag sure beats the $48,043 average new car price, and the insurance is significantly cheaper too. It's also a blast to ride! I was able to pay cash for it so I don't have a loan to repay.

Before everybody starts in on but you can't take it on vacation bit, yeah, of course not. That's what I have my paid-for 2015 Honda Civic that I bought used in 2018 for $10,500 for - and it's now paid-off. The scooter extends the life of the Civic, so I only need to drive the Civic when I actually need a car. I'll now be driving that Civic until gas is no longer sold.

Want more oomph than a scooter? You can get a motorcycle. Heck, you can get a motorcycle and a scooter both brand-new and not pay much more than I did for my Civic in 2018 - right now in 2022 at your local dealer!

In this era of re-thinking transportation, EV's are but one option. Scooters, E-bikes, and motorcycles are other options. Heck even electric motorcycles are starting to appear for under $10K.

Edit: Add link to Ryvid Anthem - https://ryvid.com
Another toothless fine from the government. A measly $3M is nothing for these giant corps. If you want a fine to stick, make it a not small percentage of their gross sales. Otherwise, this just gets rolled into cost of business and not a deterrent for future problems.
Should we also get rid of leap years because programmers regularly screw those up? :)
> If we end leap seconds, it doesn't take long - only until 2028 - until "midnight" is sufficiently far from "the middle of the night" that you will have to consider the legal issues caused by events that happen just before or after 0000 hours.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If we stopped introducing leap seconds, then why would the legal world still care about them?
>exactly this sort of deplatforming hadn't been part of their own playbook for years.

Can you source this, repeated examples of Democratic policies to deplatform ideas?
I think making sub-letting normalized again might not be worst idea. At least for people who like that sort of stuff. It is easy way to increase density without actually having to rebuild anything.
I second the commenter who said to drop the game.

> And this is coming from someone who got into computer science _because_ of video games.

Consider that you may not be the same person anymore and that different things are important to you now.

At the risk of losing precious karmas, try listening to Jordan Peterson. He's helped a lot of people in similar situations.
Fun thought, we have only ever had positive leap seconds so far, due to slowing of the Earth's rotation. However, we could have a negative leap second. The rotation has just been consistently slowing since we started caring. But it could speed up again the future. We can predict rotation speed to a certain degree, but not completely. That is why leap seconds are announced only a few months in advance, instead of years.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/negative-leap-second.html#:....
Gathering Steam: Unlocking Geothermal Potential in the United States
The general public can submit an observation proposal, which will then have to compete with all of the other proposals in peer review.
On the other hand, it's pretty clear that chronic depression (and other psychiatric illnesses) are partially heritable. So, maybe not an "imbalance" but chemicals are involved somewhere.
Hell, often we don't even achieve that.

Many, many products are 1.2x for one demographic and .8x for another.
I would like to see the 1031 exchange become available for people who intent to occupy their properties. It makes no sense that someone could own and live in a home for 50 years, want to trade for a smaller home, and be unable to afford the taxes.
Scientists have recorded signals in the brain of a cat to capture movies (1999)
Among cinema's greatest scenes, there is certainly the ending of "The Battle of Algiers", directed by the extraordinary Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo (Kapo, Operacion Ogro, Queimada).

Another amazing scene, not tremendously well know, is the one with the final words of Sacco and Vanzetti during their trial in the movie of the same name directed by Giuliano Montaldo. Gian Maria Volonté interpretation of Vanzetti was monumental.
Can't help but agree with 80% of this post but strongly disagree with the solution. This feels like a hack that punts the problems to the future.

UTC has the leap second cause it's not "real time" and so now we're just gonna never sync up UTC to real time at all? How is that the solution? Either we deal with leap seconds or we need to implement something that can't go backwards and properly models time. Leap seconds seem much simpler...

In the end we didn't get rid of SQL cause of SQL Injection. We fixed the frameworks and promoted the solutions. We may simply need to make a push for languages and etc to just properly support time and promote how to do things correctly. It honestly seems easier.
I get the feeling here, especially as a fellow alt-os user, but think for a second about these sites discovery pattern. Generally my mac aligned friends go to the physical store, or go to apple's site, there is fairly little choice involved, significantly less than the number of choices you can make from (a)cer to hp (z). These sites simply realize that analysis paralysis is generally a problem of win/lin users who'd rather not bootcamp their macs
To quote Scott Adams in the Dilbert principal.

"If you experience any ethical problems with [marketing] remember the [marketing] motto 'were not screwing the customers where holding them down while the Sales people screw them.'"
Less true than you’d think. America outspends the rest of the world by an incredible margin and could probably happily halve its budget without being invaded by Canada or Mexico. Many European countries have spectacularly (too) low levels of defence spending and are still doing Ok, because they’re free-riding on NATO. Ukraine spent quite a lot, and spent it well, but Russia’s so much larger it doesn’t make enough of a difference.

But yeah, there are many things we could better be spending the defence budget on than galaxy formation research.
To be fair, many of the original rocketry enthusiasts (German Rocket Society) were interested in the concept because it could put man into space. It was co-opted by governments to apply the research to weapons. In essence the government was willing to fund their research. However, there were rocket scientists that wanted no part of it but they were coerced into it.
Why would a monopoly be interested in providing the near possible service? They can simply lobby to make upstarts impossible, or buy them, or bleed them dry with localised dumping prices, or steal all of their best ideas given they have more resources. All of these have much higher margins.

It's not a "weird thing" it's the inherent reason why anti trust laws and regulations are required for efficient markets, and why rent seekers always argue for free markets
Pricing Page Analysis: 12 Interesting Findings of 998 Startups
What's most common these days for pricing pages? This article looked at the pricing pages from 998 startups:

78.3% of startups = had a free trial, with 14-days being most popular

93.8% of startups = no credit card required upfront

3 plans = most popular (41.4% of startups)
False color images are common in astronomy as they're working with spectrum ranges wider than our eyes. There's nothing about this that requires a grain of salt style skepticism.
When the problem is “this is too hard for us (but apparently not our peers)”, a valid solution is not “let’s just ignore it, even though our idea would cause an enormous pain in the neck for the rest of the world”.
> we turned housing into a retirement scheme

You make it sound like a nefarious plan or some backroom deal. It seems more like real estate became our de facto retirement scheme due to everything else paling in comparison.

Pensions? Gone.

Savings? Nope, no interest (ha ha) in that.

Stock market? Sure, but its volatility prevents sane people from putting their entire nest egg into it....
There can be many 'why'-answers for such a context. While we can see 'a sensor' with some properties like data format, refresh rate etc. that sensor is a mere 'implementation' of a desired functionality of a product design.

It used to be that the designed feature or function would be very close to the implementation, but that really hasn't been the case for a very long time. People aren't buying "a large bank of memory addresses" but rather "a device that contains pictures", for lack of a better example.

With the watch a customer isn't actually buying a package of sensors, ARM-cores, BMS, Lithium-Ion battery, and display, but they are buying the experience of having a device that tells the time, notifies them if something happens and can track some aspects of their life so they have an overview of it later (be it for turning their life into a game or simply tracking their energy use/consumption). And then all of that for at least an entire day.

Why would the implementation of the feature result in a sensor that can be polled at a high frequency but is actually only pushed at a lower frequency? It's anyone's guess but here is my guess:

The sensor has its own specs but those are set in isolation and might differ based on implementation inside a casing, so they only way to get true data would be to have some form of calibration or offset where a low-power CPU core for sensor tasks just gets the raw values and applies the offset/calibration. Next, there is power consumption where they might have found the perfect balanced duty-cycle between data that has had enough time to cool down and be useful as well as power requirements for the sensor core and the sensor itself. So they have some sort of RT OS doing reading, processing etc. on a low-power core at a lower interval to get a 1% battery life increase. Do that for 10 sensors and suddenly it's worth it. It's quite an investment to have a team of people dive into the hardware, firmware and application development to do all that, so it's likely not a matter of "how can we spend a multi-million R&D chunk on making the hardware less useful", but rather some "how do we make millions of mass produced devices use a little bit less power" concept.

This is also where the push vs. pull comes from, instead of having every application do some interrupt or scheduling, you just ask to be part of a list of observers and when the data changes you get notified. Much more efficient, and if everyone has to do that, there is a much smaller chance of the user experience suddenly changing and support personnel (phone, in-store) getting complaints about something they can't fix because some third party app did it.
Someone commented this on another post of mine and I thought it was more interesting than the original, so I thought to share it here.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32174562

I also had to shorten the title; the full one is "Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have recorded signals from deep in the brain of a cat to capture movies of how it views the world around it."
It is a common illusion of wealthy people that they are disproportionately carrying a burden for society. In fact many of the ultra-rich aren't contributing their fair share by skirting taxes while they benefit by the infrastructure and government organizations that made their success possible.
I really recommend everyone to listen to Andrew Huberman's podcast [0] on Dopamine and how it affects motivation, focus, and satisfaction.

Many people see Dopamine as just a pleasure chemical, but it actually directly influences motivation and focus. We also all have a somewhat set amount of dopamine in a day, so participating in activities that release a short peak of dopamine (drugs, masturbation, etc) means that we have less dopamine, and therefore less motivation for the rest of the day.

I was also recently in a low motivation rut, however after making some lifestyle changes I feel much more motivated throughout the day. I stopped getting high, cut out all porn, and added 2 min of a cold water at the end of my regular shower. It was tough to start, but 100% worth it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU
>Particularly in the case of lead which is soluble in acids. Additionally most lead in leafy greens are surface contamination, not bioaccumulation as widely reported.

where's all this lead coming from, given that leaded gas was banned decades ago? I know it's still used in GA, but outside of airports I'd expect those emissions to low.
There's no need to "detach" from UTC. Just ensure that TAI (which is consistently free of leap seconds) is also supported on an equal status to UTC, for applications where it makes the most sense. Conflating the two would only increase confusion further.
If I get the highest resolution on what I want to show it will be 38. Fixed rules are for freshmen.
The FreeBSD folks run tests on positive and negative leap seconds to make sure things are fine:

* https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-Nove...

Of course there's a whole lot of other userland code besides ntpd.
trips me out the number of folks who will call something like weed toxic but then pop a 30mg adderall xr every single day for years like its no problem
They are not - much of the time, they use similar technique, they are just enhanced by the game environment.

It's not all pure endorphin though. For example, the game shows you that you can add up to three gems to get better rewards from some activity. When you go and buy those three gems and add them, the UI changes, showing you can actually add up to 10!

Or, all of the prices in the store are very carefully calculated so you have to buy more of the in-game currency than you actually need - an item you are likely to want may cost 20 gems, but you can only buy bundles of 17 or 39 gems, for example.

Sure, the endorphin rush is what makes you want the items to begin with, and there are aspects unique to the game design that encourage that. But there are a lot of other aspects of the game that are designed to confuse and convince players to spend more than they'd like.
I think that we, as engineers, need to remember that this is what engineers created. Marketers told them what they wanted in terms of technology and built it, for cash.

Not pointing the blame, but the state of dystopic state of marketing is due to symbiotic relationship between makers and creators.

I don't have a solution, but I'm not sure laying the entire blame at sellers and marketers is correct.
This but in a 2-sphere space is what I need right now for a quantum computing simulator I'm coding for fun/learning.

I'm doing a different thing tho, dot product vs. four cardinal points.
I left a large tech company with the dream of building a startup. I failed and am back doing consulting work and figuring out my next step. After realizing I'd failed, I fell in a deep rut.

You can get out of it.

Small steps is what worked for me. Just one win every day, or a working piece of code, or an admin task I'd been putting off before. It rebuilds your confidence that you can achieve things, and each little thing lifts your mood.

Also, the obvious things baked into our culture work. Being outdoors, especially in the sunshine, added to a healthy amount of exercise every day, even just a walk, helped me significantly. A healthier diet and taking supplements especialy B group vitamins had a big effect for me.

Also I cut out weed and smoking. For me, it sapped my motivation not just when I was high, but for days afterwards.

Good luck friend!
It doesn't matter how good at what they do a particular company is; we still don't let them take over everything.

If we were to be organizing our economy based on what is maximally efficient, it would be much more effective to do so with the government in charge...but somehow, the people who talk about letting one efficient company take over everything never seem to think that letting the government do the same thing, but without taking massive profits, would be good.
Rust's a Must, by T.R.B. Watson:

"""
Mighty ships upon the ocean

Suffer from severe corrosion

Even those that stay at dockside

Are rapidly becoming oxide.

Alas, that piling in the sea

Is mostly FE2O3

And when the ocean meets the shore,

You'll find there's FE3O4.

'Cause when the wind is salt and gusty

Things are getting awful rusty

We can measure it, we can test it

We can halt it or arrest it

We can gather it and weigh it

We can coat it, we can spray it

We can examine and dissect it

We can cathodically protect it

We can pick it up and drop it

But heaven knows, we'll never stop it.

So here's to rust: No doubt about it,

Most of us would starve without it.
"""
Just a few thousand years ago we didn't spend huge parts of our useful resources and lives on militaries.

I really don't see how our imagination has shrunk so far that we all participant and perpetuate this fantasy that a world full of violence, much of which is created by the US, is the world we must continue to live in.
If you do have enough financial means, or parents, etc that are understanding. Quit the job, and take a break. Sometimes you just need to cut the cord. Do some travel, exercise, yoga/meditation, meeting and hanging with people you love or doing hobbies you like or always wanted to explore. A lot of us get stuck into jobs we hate, even though we have the means and options to not keep doing it. Wishing you the best! You got this.
Seems like every time extremist solar fans try to say "I don't understand why everyone doesn't just do it my way, which doesn't work unless you engage in exotic housing outside of cities," and someone points out why that doesn't actually work, they take it like a personal attack
> The difference between men and women's experiences are infuriating and MUST be addressed, but the sentiment is correct.

Are you saying it would be better if men received the same kind of pushback?

> Making a permanent decision is not something to be taken lightly

For sure. And yet - people often have children without too much thought and nobody bats an eye.

(To be clear, that's fine as it's their own business - but the same should be true for sterilization.)
>"Noon" when the sun is at the highest point, can vary over an hour across a timezone.

this is "solar noon" - just "noon" denotes 12:00 on the clock [1]

[1]https://www.bsu.edu/academics/centersandinstitutes/ceres/hel...
Voice over IP. All calls, mobile and landline, seem to run on it these days, introducing a latency that makes phone conversations very different from the way they were back when you had a direct wire connection.
> Who puts up the money to do the projects?

Individuals, or lenders through financing.

> Which party eats the losses?

Lenders

> How would this actually result in more housing?

Really interesting in how this would be modeled.