skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So feed them.
My list of reasons Medium failed.

- Their in-site discovery sucked. Like many users I would discovered Medium articles via external networks, but once on the site, I never found their "similar articles" feature to give my anything worthwhile. Also their editorialized recommendations seemed to have a hidden social-political agenda. But what media platform doesn't?

- Most of the content had quality barely above a tweetstorm. I think this was caused by the "time to read" metric. No one wanted to invest in reading a 45 minute article, so everything was 10 minutes or less. Turns out you can't say much in 10 minutes that wouldn't be a better Tweet. This lead to a race to the bottom in terms of article quality and length.

- No established writer had much incentive to leave their current platform and migrate to Medium. All other social media lets you cross promote your centralized publishing channel. But with Medium you had to commit to publishing on Medium. Discovery would be an incentive, but it wasn't great.

- The forced typography made all the articles blend together in readers' memory. You may remember the contents of a book, but you often remember the book itself. Typography and style help us differentiate sources in our minds. "Did I read that in a text book, or a news paper?" For Medium, everything looked the same. I have no proof, but I think that made all the articles seem very similar. Giving repeat readers a sense of "Not another Medium article," even when the content and author was completely different. Obviously MySpace style pages would be bad, but even a preset list of themes would have helped differentiate authors.

- They implemented subscriptions, but missed the corresponding publications. If I am going to subscribe, I either want it to be directly to a creator (Patreon/Twitch), or I want a regular publications that include multiple authors (classic magazine/newspaper). Medium tried to mix them together, but as it was advertised it just seemed like a bulk subscription that lacked a managed publication. It wasn't immediately obvious I could direct that to specific creators. Medium should have just allowed content specific subscriptions and skimmed off the top like everyone else. Forcing a subscription at the front door was equivalent to the Wall Street Journal paywell, without the guaranteed content behind it.

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> On the high end, well funded digital publishers from BuzzFeed to Vice to the Atlantic excelled at publishing high-quality journalism.

That's a hot take. I would never classify BuzzFeed as high quality, and Vice is dubious. The Atlantic had great brand name. In school, I was told explicitly by a teacher that carrying an Atlantic is a great way to virtue signal intelligence. Maybe that comment carried more sarcasm than I remember. Their long form articles were great, but recent issues only carry 1 or 2 of these. Their online publications are barely above the rest of mainstream news.
If you only think at extremes you will miss the middle ground.

> Is that close to right?

No, you are letting your bias in
I don't know if this goes against the spirit of the question, but https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news does as you described
Sure, but that's not what CC0 says. CC0 says "No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.", which is more like saying "I reject X."
Because we are still correlating time with the rotation of the earth. Time is an absolute measure, a second is defined as a precise amount of time, and you can count the time that one event with that measure. Only historically the second was defined as a fraction of the day, and was correlated to the speed of the rotation of the earth, to this days we have better ways to define it.

Who said that time needs to be in sync with rotation of the earth? Nobody, who cares? It's a so small variation happening in a so long period of time to not be noticeable to any practice use: it's not that we take the sun as a reference of time anymore! We can keep counting time as we want and not be bothered with something not precise as the rotation of the earth. And for the applications that require that sort of precision, and only them, adjust the time accordingly.

I mean, a meter was once defined as the one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle. It's not that for this reason if the distance between the North Pole and the equator changes we are all throwing away our meters... it's just that we found a more precise definition of one meter. Same happened with the second (and all the time measures, such as a day): we express them in a new format where it no longer matters what the earth and the sun do.
The rate of angular change divided by angle sure as heck sounds like units of time to me. The absolute angle isn't, but the rate of change is, and UTC still tracks with rate of change, with a phase angle we periodically twiddle.

That's like saying a watch or even an atomic clock doesn't measure time, it measures oscillations. It's being pedantic to the point of obtuse.
Zen is often associated with minimalism and ‘calm’. Look at ZenDesk. It’s an apparently no frills support service, and minimalist in design. I don’t mind this. Although the proper name is zazen which means sitting meditation.
I'm responding to the claim that GitHub solved the problem of everyone needing "infrastructure to let others pull directly from their repositories".

What are you talking about? (The general tone suggests that you're refuting something about my comment. What part are you trying to refute?)
IMO it's time to leave fb in the past.
I feel like signing up for the free Audible trial and then setting up an entire server farm of machines to play this audio book on infinite repeat.

Amazon: get bent. And pay your debt.
Or the stranger dies, and whoever inherits the gun decides to fire it.
> "If you doubt this, ask around. I wager you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t want a safer, fairer, more just world for everyone if they could get it."

I wonder if more people actually want others to see our humanity than us to see the humanity of others. I would strongly bet on that actually.

I think a lot of people whose concern for others drops off sharply beyond their own family and friends believe that others don't have concern for them. It can become a preemptive indifference: they don't care about me, why should I care about them.

What I want to work on and help people realize is that I care about you, even if I don't know you. And the work I do to get there is often me realizing how much people care about me. Maybe this is what he's getting at with the starman concept, to flip ourselves from thinking others are trying to hurt us and reacting to them with hatred or indifference, to believing they actually care about us.

And I agree that many people may not want to do this, so I'm mostly just trying to do it for myself. I wonder if his argument would have come off differently if instead of telling people what they should do, he said these are the tools he employs and how they work in his life.
I’ve been programming for nearly 30 years and I feel the same way. 1000loc+ files are increasingly common in my code bases. I find it really hard to read code with lots of tiny files that individually don’t do anything. It’s like the programmer is embarrassed by their code so they’re making me search for the core logic.

Splitting code into multiple files really only makes sense to me when there’s a clear division of responsibilities. That can mean a lot of things - like client / server, utility methods / core algorithm or class A / class B. But plenty of complex data structures are much easier to read and understand all at once. For example, I have a rust rope library which implements a skip list of gap buffers. The skip list is one (big) file. The gap buffer is another file. Easy.
Moreso: it is not a problem that dealing with the nuisance that is leap seconds even solves. It is supposed to match civil time to astronomical time, but astronomers don't use it. It just makes things even more annoying for astronomers, and annoys everyone else, over and over again, for no benefit to anyone.
Or, even better for the environment , we could kill all of human civilization! /s
Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for students after Scratch
PickCode is designed for use on desktop and tablet, and supports creating chatbots, visual designs, and 2D games. There is plenty of functionality missing - you can't add media to games for instance, but the current version shows off the foundation of what I'm aiming at.

I taught myself to code using MIT's App Inventor, so I have an enormous respect for block based languages like App Inventor, Scratch, Snap!, MakeCode, etc. PickCode is my attempt at adding options for students who want to learn more about programming without making the jump to text, or as an alternative to block coding for beginners coming to programming at an older age.

The visual language is meant to lower the barrier to entry to coding but the far more important aspect for me is giving students the ability to make things they're proud of as quickly as possible. A JS/Python API for controlling the chatbot and game engine are in the works.

As of now, there are sample programs to play with and an editor which saves your programs to local storage. Full user accounts, tutorials and administrator accounts for teachers to organize assignments are on their way soon. If you're interested in using PickCode in a classroom or want to discuss feedback, send me an email at charlie@pickcode.io
I agree that we should wait for the final release to make any judgements but these drivers have been in development for three years or so. They're not going to magically improve in the next few months.
While daylight definitely varies, I believe the spectra for the sun at noon at sea level is reasonably even and would be the main goal (as opposed to mimicking daylight in the morning or towards the arctic).

CRI doesn’t measure vibrant red very well and human skin has that red.
Yep! I had the same position back when Clubhouse was just getting super popular and was being called inevitable.

My comment then - "I am a strong sell on ClubHouse at a $2b valuation. Just like Medium and Quora, once the masses are allowed on, the noise will get too high and the signal will get lost."
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144326).
If you think that the demand for talk radio is going away, then I'm not really sure what market you're in. So sure, maybe broadcast radio audiences are losing listeners, but the content itself is not. The audience may be moving to other platforms. I did specify AM, but I should have put that in quotes as we are probably all familiar with the type of programming on "AM" radio.
Is that SQS number JUST for Amazon.com Prime Day support, or SQS Globally?
Somehow people expect to buy straight from the farmers at the farmers market located in the downtown of a large city, ignoring the fact that the farmers do need to.. farm their land. Traveling with their goods back and forth within the city isn't really an efficient use of their time.
To be fair, you'd have to be a mechanic to invent an axle
I think the biggest problem I had with clubhouse was everyone treated it as a place to grow their brand and personal network via some weird combination of bragging about what they’re doing and soapboxing.

The sheer number of introductions I had to sit and listen to any time I joined one…it was absolutely baffling. We’re talking sometimes 15 minutes of just sitting there as every person introduced themselves, every project they are working on, their experience, their favorite shows, their workout routine, etc.

The one time I actually found a conversation about gear talk (film/video) it was just a couple of folks who were new to the industry all trying to power network with each other. It was weird. Podcast ones were just people treating it like their podcast.
From the article:

"EasyTurn is suitable for vehicles with rear-wheel drive, the usual setup in electric cars."
Shouldn't feel bad, gambling should only be done with funds you are willing to lose.
I will say, most of the articles I read that would have been on Medium 2 or 3 years ago, are now all on substack.
Marketers have been flocking to crypto companies like crazy the past years, only now you see some washed up ones coming back.

One I know likened crypto to selling art... 99% bullshit and the 1% is arguable
This was the only thing that came to my mind. There's several sites I'd like to block, not on ideological grounds, but simply because of the technical irritations. Sign in barriers, irritating ads, frustrating UX, etc.

I always swear under my breath if I accidently click a medium link because I forgot to glance at the domain first.
i read somewhere recently that this difference in path lengths can be measured in days, depending on distance and how off-center the lensing is.
> A company that allows it will perform worse in a market because of people believing those wrong things.

This is not why. Look at 4Chan, Parlor, Truth, or any other "free speech" platform. It ends up being toxic and noisy to the point that the vast majority of people will not use it. Thus the company fails, because it cannot reach critical mass for a 2 sided marketplace.

> I'm happy to accept the drawbacks of free speech (people believing in Q, or that the Apollo landings were faked) in exchange for being able to say whatever I want. If you aren't, then there are other countries that make the other tradeoff.

We live in a democracy and you might be the one looking to other countries, if any exist who want to support such an unfettered society. I don't know of any... and even if they did exist, if your company wants to operate in a given country, it has to follow the local laws.
Again: it does apply. But free speech does not mean no consequences, or the right to a platform. And the ones where it does not apply are generally not the ones featured in the mass media as a response to being "silenced"
Interesting, it should be theoretically possible to use gravitational lensing to view a past version of earth, no?
Guessing USB Rubber Ducky is an option
Look out, you're about to unlock forbidden knowledge about the nature of venture capital!
"by this document" limits the effect such that it doesn't [emphasis added] "PRECLUDE ANY FORM OF PATENT LICENSING or patent forbearance" via other documents/mechanisms. (It does preclude one particular implied-permission interpretation, as others have helpfully pointed out.)
wow, 700K ... that is totally insane if that is actually true. years ago i visited the pankow area and it was dirt cheap. this was maybe around 2009 or so. so that is only a good 10 years ago.
I said it was exciting for me as someone who didn’t know about astronomy. I’m very amply qualified to make that assessment. Gravitational lensing and how it shows in images is something I learned about by attending a lecture.
There's no way the cost would be minimal. I would even wager that it would be just as or more expensive to build a duplicate than to build a new design based upon what was learned. Given the decades over which the James Webb Telescope was developed, it has parts and designs in it that are, well, decades old.

And the bill of materials is unlikely to have been the primary cost factor. Extensive research, development, and testing was performed.
Many of the extras (including Madeleine Lebeau, whose face is arguably the symbol of that scene) had recently fled Nazi occupation in Europe, so their emotions were genuine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Lebeau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)#Cast
yeah :-( I see it as "I'm hurting so much, I want you to also hurt." or "I want you to know the pain I feel."

I think we underestimate how much other people are suffering (mostly because most cultures I know teach us not to cry) and feel our own pain, therefore inflicting pain on them to try to equalize it. I think an easier (and less pain-inducing) way is for us to just get better at sharing our suffering.
> Fuel production is much cheaper for EVs, what are you talking about?

No it's very much not. Please see chapter 4 of the linked MIT report:

Fuel production emissions are also
typically higher for BEVs (and FCEVs) because, on
average, generating and delivering a megajoule of
electricity or hydrogen to a vehicle battery or fuel
cell consumes much more energy than producing
and delivering a megajoule of gasoline to the fuel
tank of an ICE
ADUs are not sold separately from the homes on the same lots, so the number of homes for sale has not doubled. The value of a lot with an ADU increases because the ADU offers rental income and/or extra living space to potential purchasers.
i followed this for a while during early days. why couldnt they have simply have purchased 12 acres and established it as a private enclave as show/tell. they haven't proved the concept/idea anywhere before..no city govt..never mind in toronto, canada.. would agree to this kinda invasive private/public partnership. Disneyland is 'smart'. recreational parks all over the world have smart infrastructure. after a while, i realised that this was a tax write off for alphabet and quit following the news about it online.
> The outermost and largest circle, which encompasses all the rest, is that of the whole human race.

Interesting, I think there are at least a couple more outer rings which encompass non-human animals too. In western culture we’ve decided a smaller ring goes around pets (dogs, cats), and then maybe farm animals then sea creatures. Hopefully we can “draw these circles together” too.
Common Lisp programming tutorial #5 by Kaveh808
Candidly, a lot of the reasons why Clubhouse failed is because it did not follow any of those lessons.

Source: I was an early Clubhouse employee and left a few months ago.
Backbox setup for Nvidia CUDA without using Nvidia as default driver (2016)
Presumably most EVs have regenerative brakes. I almost never use brakes on my Tesla (only for urgent stops).

> The big sources of pollution that your average ice car emits now are from the tires and to a lesser extent the brakes.

I'm not sure in what sense these are the "big" sources, but it's not by mass. An ICE car emits like 30kg of carbon per 100 miles while an entire car tire weighs only 12kg.

> At the end of the day the pattern of everyone taking a 5000lb vehicle that you replace every couple years to go anywhere at all is the thing that isn't sustainable, not as much the particular energy source for that vehicle.

Of course, most people don't replace their vehicle every couple of years, which suggests that we can decouple the "replace every couple of years" from the "vehicle" bit. In other words, driving (even when citing the weight of the vehicle, as though it has any bearing on the sustainability) is plenty sustainable, but what isn't sustainable is the same thing that plagues every aspect of American (and to a lesser degree, "western") life: consumerism, throw-away culture, importing cheap plastic garbage from China/etc, etc. Nothing special about driving in this regard.
Yeah I don’t know about OPs health obviously, but he’s describing a lot of the DASH diet which is known to help those with hypertension.
Isn't that podcasts? There are certainly some more topic oriented podcasts, but the more popular ones are basically two famous people chatting on random subjects: eg Joe Rogan
Yes, that does make sense. I'm sure the motivations and incentives of internal marketing teams are much better aligned, particularly if they have been established for a while.
Restricted OS like Android. Awesome hardware has been dumbed down to a pathetic handheld console, turning you into a brainless ad clicking zombie.
> Maybe you stopped by a small town bar and concluded from what’s parked outside.

Maybe you’re feeling defensive and are trying to ignore a well-documented change in buying habits. It’s not a secret that people are buying high-margin vanity trucks at unprecedented numbers - there’s even something of a spike in used sales for the kind of smaller pickup trucks which used to be ubiquitous because they’re cheaper to operate and fit in crowded spaces. I’m thinking of the Datsun my grandparents used for their camper which got close to 30mpg on the highway and carried at least as much cargo as I see on easily 75% of the 15mpg vanity trucks.
I grew up in rural Ohio.

I can promise you that you'll find antisocial behaviors in rural America.

This attitude about rural life coming from city folk is almost infantilizing. Noble savages, the farmers are in your eyes.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the answer to your question is "no, it doesn't scale and is too expensive to maintain".
The categorization of mistake types is completely unnecessary in this context. The problem, root cause, and solution are all inferable from the next sentence.
Yeah it seems pretty unrealistic to expect Intel to catch up to the NVIDIA and AMD duopoly on their first generation of (modern) cards.

Intel seems to have rightly recognized that the driver advantage is a huge moat for those guys - they have to instead compete on price and focus on having good support for titles that will get them the the biggest chunk of the market.

That said, man, if they could have released these a year ago the wind would have been at their back way more than it is now with GPU prices trending back towards MSRP.
most objects like this I have passed in the water seem to be made of some sort of painted steel. I think this is a good combination of durability vs economical. I suspect your electronics will go long before anything corrodes away to nothing, since in my experience its always the electronics that fail first (even when properly sealed for marine use).

Note that the main issue with any barrier coating (assuming there are no collisions) is going to be due to sea life living on/underneath your object and slowly breaking down the material. A copper based metal (read bronze) could be interesting (but expensive) since it tends to stand up fairly well in marine environments and has biocidal properties that prevent fouling/growth. Also very clear to visually inspect since green means good and red means bad which I always thought was very easy to remember.

edit: re-reading your initial comment it looks like you are describing an autonomous vessel of some sort. I used to work at a company that produced such devices and they were made out of composite plastics (which have their own issues that cause them to break down eventually in the water as well).
Ask HN: How to deal with overwhelming criticism and self-doubt?
Last week a colleague told me she is having a tough time at work. Apparently she is receiving critical feedback from her manager and peers, which has led her to doubting her skills and getting demotivated. She admits that the feedback is valid, but it's overwhelming and doesn't know how to address it.

I told her about the cycle of motivation and provided some resources about impostor syndrome. However I didn't want to play pop psychology with someone who is struggling.

Does anyone have experience navigating such a situation? How to deal with valid critical feedback without feeling overwhelmed and losing motivation?
Yeah I love this approach too. I’ve been learning CRDTs lately and I’ve gotten so much value from making tiny, inefficient reference implementations of things before diving in and optimizing. Toy implementations shake out all your misunderstandings of your design, and you can refactor like crazy. Going from simple code that works to complex code that works is much easier than creating the complex code correctly from scratch, in situ.