skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think IT is mostly inhabited by really smart ppl.

One thing really smart ppl have in common is that they see the world as it is. They are aware of thr glaring issues incompetence has brought upon this world.

And that causes depression. Looking at the future there is literally nothing to be happy about.

Ppl are slowly preparing for civil wars, power outages, food shortage and worse.

And those are ppl you would often consider pretty layed back about life in general.
> The second comment touches on how just because the limit of something approaches 0, you can't treat it as 0.

I think this one is a little more subtle. You can definitely treat the limit of something as an exact value.

If you split a segment of unit length into n segments, then each segment has length 1/n. As n goes to infinity, 1/n goes to zero. But at the limit, 1/n = 0, exactly. Not approximately, really exactly, and there is nothing wrong with defining lim[n->inf] 1/n = 0 and using that in a calculation. It's no different than saying lim[n->inf] sum[k=1..n] 2^-k = 1 as you did in the first paragraph.

The problem is slightly different. The person conceives of a sequence of `n` copies of `1/n`. For any finite value of n, these add up to 1 of course; it's just the result of calculating `n × 1/n`. But at the limit, they pull a trick: they say lim[n->inf] 1/n = 0 (which is correct) therefore any sum of these values is 0 too. But we never had lim[n->inf] 1/n, we had lim[n->inf] (n × 1/n) instead!

If you put it in mathematical terms, the argument is:

lim[n->inf] (n × 1/n) =
(lim[n->inf] n) × (lim[n->inf] 1/n) = 0

Which has two problems: first, you can't split up a limit like that, so the first step is already invalid. Second, even if it were valid, lim[n->inf] n = infinity, which is not a number, so you can't multiply with it, and the conclusion that the result is 0 is wrong. You might think `x × 0 = 0` for any x, but that's only true if x is actually a number; if x is not a number the answer is undefined.

This is a similar kind of fallacy that underlies the proof that pi=4, here: http://www.kevinhouston.net/blog/2011/03/pi-is-4-video/, where the author (intentionally) confuses the perimeter of the limit (pi) with the limit of the perimeter (4).
And, did ents have knees?
Protein crystallization can be very difficult and there is no general solution. Kits that screen for crystal growth conditions usually help but optimization is needed in most cases. Then, that crystal must have certain properties that allow for good data acquisition at the X-ray facility. That’s another problem by itself and months or years can pass until you get a suitable protein crystal and X-ray diffraction dataset where you can model your structure.
Who gets to define what “toxic content” is? Is the Great Barrington Declaration toxic? How about studies that show masks might not work? How about public sourced data showing the IFR of Covid was nowhere near what “the experts” modeled early on?
There's also a strong tie between this kind of prophecy and Tolkien's (and Anglo-Saxon literature generally's) love of the riddle form; "riddles in the dark" draws clear inspiration from Vafþrúðnismál, which doubles as both prophecy and riddles. Along these lines, I also recommend Adam Roberts's The Riddles of The Hobbit.
Did these sponsors just start contacting you inbound or did you do cold outreach?
yes, this is an interesting take.

The issue in this case is how we select our representatives, which I agree seems to be unrepresentative and even dynastic. The solution would require refactor of the system though, not a defence of it as the author implies in his article. It is not so much 'social media is undermining democracy' as much as social media is exposing a democratic system, which is in need of reform'
Isn't the amount of diacetyl even in the affected flavours still tiny in comparison to a cigarette? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Also too dangerous to (slowly) drive a set of air stairs and busses out?

(I don't doubt that it happened; I just think someone decided it's easier/cheaper to not try to solve the problem.)
Hear me out... few people want to run for federal office already. The pay isn't great and it's hard work.

If the US was a company, there'd be no question that we'd need to pay our leadership much better to attract top talent. We pay senators $170k a year to manage our country with a $20 trillion economy.

So what we end up with is activists who crave power and elites from rich families for whom $170k a year is a rounding error. Those families then use the power from being in office to enrich their families even more.

One solution could be to double or triple pay for US representatives along with banning stock trading and things like "speaking fees."
Haha some people have actually said no because previous guests had too clean of desks!

I promise that I welcome all workspaces - clean and dirty!
could they have offered you a contract at that point to save the shot?
It looks like you are up to 175 posts of various workspaces. I didn't look at each one, but all the ones I saw were nicely staged, organized workspaces. Did you get any submissions for 'real workspaces' with stacks of books, papers all over the place, and sticky-notes all around the monitors? If you did, did you reject them?

I too, have a newsletter that I started last year about data management. I only have about a hundred subscribers so far, but I am trying to grow it with interesting articles about how computers organize, process, and analyze all kinds of data. https://didgets.substack.com/

If I get a few thousand subscribers like you, I might look for sponsors too.
> just to stop trading individual stocks

Why?

Is buying a particular car not an investment? what about a house?
Buying and selling assets should not be criminalized. Having privileged knowledge is part of the game. Someone who cannot read and write is going to have a tough time in life.

Insider trading is already illegal.

Also, investing in a publicly traded company is a weird way of violating public trust. Its as if the public does not know it too can invest where their politicians have invested.
OP here. I'm definitely not a lawyer, so apologies for incorrect statements made in the thread. I'd love to learn more about correct framing / case history / rights here to avoid sharing misinformation. If you'd rather provide the feedback privately / off-the-record, my email is david at weekly dot org. Thank you!
> He is one of the only characters able to just casually put...

He is the only character in the middle earth that can do that actually. The ring, and its immense power, has control over everyone else incl. Gandalf, Galadriel, and Sauron.
1) CAN NOT be turned on for people over 13 years old
2) Opt-in
3) Just puts a warning over sexual photos, doesn't block anything
With that one line of dialog I was snatched out of this carefully crafted fantasy world and pulled back to our (rather sad) present.
I don't think it was "a mess" (just reread it this spring). Books support a lot more alternatives to structuring a story than most movies, with their tight time limits, want to explore.

That doesn't mean movies are better: in fact, movies are clearly more limited and worse, from the point of view of telling long, complicated stories. But people enjoy movies (me too), so... compromises.
Snapchat wouldn't have added anything to FB as far as I can tell.

Instagram crushed Snapchat almost instantly once it started doing filters/video.

TikTok, OTOH, is a real threat. And it's real threat only because it's an even worse, more cynical social media platform than FB/Instagram.
True, but my premise is that it will be anchored in Arda and the stories and characters of the world he created.
If I receive spam message almost daily for 2 years, and I've contacted the platform (competitor to Twilio) and they said they took care of it (nope!), then I assume the platform could be liable too, no?
How much time do you put in into each edition (or during a month) on average?
Nobody optimizes happiness
It can't be turned on for people 14 years old or older, and it's opt in for 13/younger
Hi, sorry, meant no offense. Apeconmyth is my old account here on HN, which is why I posted from there. I created the new Papercuts account after making the front page. I'm not trying to play games.
One of us has the evidence on his side and the other is just doubling down on poor reading comprehension.
They often use code names on those parking permit signs
Probably true, though as Gandalf himself refers to Treebeard as old.

In Chapter 5 of The Two Towers, Gandalf calls Treebeard "...the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth." In The Return of the King, Chapter 6, "Many Partings", Celeborn addresses Treebeard as "Eldest."

If Maia are included, then Sauron and Radagast (if still alive) would be just as old.
Similarly, McAfee himself is apparently still in a freezer [1], no one seems to be able to figure out what to do with him. I think he'd have found that deeply satisfying.

So technically, we still have a chance of electing him. "Alive" isn't specified anywhere in the requirements, is it? As long as we can puppet him sufficiently it should be good.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/john-mcafees-corpse-still-spanish-090...
"A report from Obscure Gray Corporation demonstrated that more than 8 in 10 people had no idea who they are."
Could be $10K, could be $200K, depends on your tolerance for risk.

And, yeah I was thinking online only. If you need card readers you're pretty much stuck with one provider. Where I've seen people get in trouble with their payment processors it has only been online. Terminals are rather difficult to misuse these days.

If you deal with both online and card readers, keep those on separate accounts. That is two account at the payment processor (PSP) and two accounts with the acquirer company.
You do see the imbalance between the two statements right?

"This virus came from a lab - so we should ban lab research"

and

"You can't prove the virus didn't come from a lab - so we should ban lab research"

Nature is doing far more Gain of Function research than humans are capable of - as evidenced by literally every pandemic in history. I've generally found the people who are the most vocal about banning GoF have literally no idea what it entails and why the way pedestrians talk about is so cringeworthy.
Yes, the opt-in, 13 year old/younger only feature that just warns kids before their nudes get sent around school is puritan.
The Slotted Counter Pattern
A decade ago Reddit hosted all manner of offensive (and sometimes literally illegal) content. It's not human nature that changed; it's the design of Reddit that changed.

If we make generalizations about society using social media sites, we have to take into account that the design of a site, and the idiosyncrasies of online communication, foster unique kinds of behavior.
That seems pretty realistic. Do 7 in 10 of us know employers with headache creating deployment practices? Probably.
Yes mayonnaise commercial is the go-to industry wide cheeky answer going back decades
Not across the board. Demand for consumer discretionary spending outside of the home is up. People are tired of sitting at home. They don’t want to buy a TV and binge Netflix. They did that for 2 years. They’re going out to eat, going on vacation. Trying to get on a flight.
This is thinly disguised advertising.
It doesn't unless your 10 and your parents turned the feature on
"Thomson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers: "It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.""
This seems to be true in my experience, and is a great way to phrase the idea.
JJ is the secret puppetmaster of the whole epic.
Now you can speak to one!

Perhaps it was the age when I first read the books (~12 or so years old) – but I loved the contrasts between the cozy world of the hobbits and the more savage, epic nature of the rest of Middle-earth.

For me, Tom Bombadil never fit well into either of these categories. There was a while where I heard about Tom Bombadil potentially being Eru Ilúvatar, but that theory has been found pretty lacking in various aspects, as well as having been debunked by Tolkien himself.
The guy tried to use a cellphone shop account to sell a used van via credit card. If I was Stripe I'd be holding the money until the chargeback period was over too.
> Every new change you want to make to the store, you have to make about five changes across five different files

This has never actually been a requirement to use Redux. Admittedly, having separate folders and files by type _was_ a pattern that was shown in the docs originally ( `reducers/todos.js`, `actions/todos.js`, `constants/todos.js`, etc), but even in the early days the "Ducks" pattern of "put all the logic for a feature in one file" was a thing that you could do.

Today, we specifically teach "slice/ducks files" as the standard approach [0] [1], and Redux Toolkit's `createSlice` API makes it trivial to do that - just write the reducers, export the matching auto-generated action creators, and you're done.

> throw in stuff like epics

We've actually been advising _against_ using both sagas and epics for side effects for years now, and especially against using them for basic data fetching.

Today, Redux Toolkit's "RTK Query" data fetching and caching API is a complete solution for caching server state on the client, and we also recently shipped a new "listener" middleware that is a simpler alternative to sagas and epics for other reactive side effects.

[0] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-2-app-structu...

[1] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/#structure-files-as-feature...
Thanks! Our whole goal is to tackle the pain of "not knowing where to start" and building up the confidence and knowledge to go and try stuff in the kitchen.

If building a new product means creating a painkiller and not a vitamin, then this is the pain that we identified among many, many beginner cooks: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/app-store-launch-stats
I know a few recruiters who made close to $1 million in fees in the past few years. I dont feel sorry for most of them
You certainly could. You would probably run into a lot of issues in areas that games don't care about that much like multiple windows, smooth window resizing, fancy text layout and input, fast initial load times, matching OS themes and widget behavior, low resource usage at idle, copy/paste/drag/drop, software rendering, etc.
People really don't talk about landslide risk enough. A project with a high tech debt or operations burden is at high risk of losing enough people to zero out the project. Lose one or two people at the same time and suddenly the rest of the team is in an untenable situation. Maybe they were thinking casually about leaving before, but now that their burden has increased by 30% its more serious. Then you just keep losing people until the project fails. Can be basically impossible to restaff the project.
Aya: your tRusty eBPF companion
This is just intrinsic to how businesses are run.

Businesses are run by decision makers. Decision makers delegate tasks to do-ers. If do-ers mess up, it is solely their fault for underdelivering (in the eyes of the delegator/decision-maker).

The idea that do-ers can make decisions or inversely - that decision makers can do (anything beside delegate) is alien in business.
I start all of the sponsor slot with "A Message From sponsor name".

After that they provide me with ~250 or so characters of text (not too strict on this) as well as text + link for a CTA button.

Outside of that, there are no demands from their end. Some ask for the Click Rate after the fact and some don't. If they ask I give it to them.

The main back and forth with sponsors is that when they book multiple slots they often want to test multiple versions of copy and/or CTA button.
The author of this has clearly not read much of Tolkien's legendarium beoynd the LoTR... This is a whole lot of speculation that does not at all fit into Eä, the World that is. Though indeed one might say the same of Bombadil, it is far from clear what role he has to play in Arda, and Tolkien took his cosmology very seriously, so there is every reason to think this mystery of who the hell is Tom Bombadil? is intentional. But the reasonings of this article is exactly those of conspiracy theorists, not those of any serious Tolkien scholar. Seemingly relying on “No hobbit has ever heard of him,” “Elrond, the greatest lore-master of the Third Age, has never heard of Tom Bombadil” as implicitly implying “therefore there must be some great dark secret,” Gandalf's explanations he simply dismisses as not “the true one.” Tolkien was a philologist, familiar with and directly inspired by many different mythologies, for example Väinämöinen, a hero and demigod of songs and poetry from finnish folklore has been pointed out as a possible inspiration for Bombadil. Though from his close connection to nature one would rather expect him to be a sort of demiurge than a hero, neither evil nor good, and indeed as opposed to Väinämöinen whose adventuring is due to his seeking a wife, Tom has a wife and makes a big point out of this, he is content, and has no desire for evil. If I may continue my rant I'll add that the very creation of Arda is by music, taught by Eru Ilúvatar, the One, to the Ainur. There is little doubt that Bombadil is among the Ainur, one of the Maia on par with Gandalf and Sauron. It seems entirely plausible to me, that Bombadil indeed is as he says, the oldest, of special significance to Ilúvatar, prior to Arda and whatever may be happening in it.

I'll also add that I have never heard of any Tolkien enthusiast not liking Bombadil before this. I suspect the author of this article is among the minority who thinks that abruptly breaking into song is lame, mistakenly of course, hehe.
I've seen anarchy described as the removal of "unjust hierarchies", which feels like a cop-out that allows for hierarchies as long as they're "just"? But who decides that? Naturally, it'll end up being the ones with the most resources.
And so how do these members of congress pay for staffing, research, etc? with just 150K per year?
I happened to be in New Orleans when LBJ was filming and they were about to shoot JFK being shot, we’re lining up extras, etc. I just asked a PA if I could be an extra in the scene and she said yes, so it doesn’t always take social engineering.
The question from LaunchDarkly, btw, was as follows (asked to "500 software
developers across a range of industries and job titles"):

> Have you or someone you worked with ever left a job due to
pressures from over minimizing mistakes (i.e. avoiding rollbacks
or failed deployments)?[0]

...Which I also would not be comfortable summarizing as "minimizing deployment errors"

[0] https://resources.launchdarkly.com/ebooks/release-assurance-...
On that timescale my bet would be on very large telescopes built in space nearer us (supplanting the ones built on Earth and launched then unfolded). This wouldn't perfectly substitute for a solar gravitational lens scope, but it could do a hell of a lot.
I can confirm that, anecdotally, this is a fairly accurate portrayal of the reasons for my burnout over the last couple years.

The past several years at my company have been particularly focused on “quick and dirty results” that I predict will end badly, and so far it has every time, leaving me feeling responsible despite management decisions that ignored the consequences and recommendations I laid out. It gets old.

So, shortly before the pandemic, I took initiative to work extra nights and weekends to build a working prototype of a new version of our core internal app, that would ultimately let us go faster and would transform the way we communicate and give us unprecedented flexibility with our clients.

It was passed off as “that’s nice, but let’s get {x} out the door first”. It quickly became apparent that there was, and will always be, another {x} that needs to get out the door before we do anything else.

Having more autonomy and trust that I might actually have a solid grasp on what projects will yield the biggest returns, and being able to commit my focus to those tasks, and being able to hold my managers to the same accountability that they hold me to when making decisions, all would go a long way to improving my job satisfaction AND most importantly, improving our product and our value that we provide to our clients.
The C2 wiki used to be bog-standard text. A few years ago it was revamped with some grand ideas about becoming more interactive and collaborative, giving the server less control over the content, etc. Unfortunately this didn't seem to pan out, but it's now stuck with a reliance on client-side scripts :(
Don’t optimize, don’t recommend. Chronological timeline of only things you directly subscribed to. If you want to go down a rabbit hole, you should have to find it on your own.
Stock trading bans are huge detriments to rich people and minor detriments to poor people. 170k is frankly a lot of money. Sure, it could be more. I don’t think it’s all that necessary though.

Something that makes it hard for rich people to represent poor people without losing some wealth seems great to me.
Show HN: API to track and control account sharing
I can vouch for not being reliant on ad marketplaces and instead having personal contact with your advertisers.

One way to increase your fees is to keep pricing the same for existing advertisers for a while and charge a higher rate to new advertisers. As you fill in spots with higher priced ads you can then transition older customers to the new rates.
If you mean "direct democracy" by "technically democratic" then you have a point. But direct democracy is totally flawed and rightly no country endorses it. (To make this clear, Switzerland is not a direct democracy, they merely have more plebiscites than other countries.) Real direct democracy would lead to horrible populism, short-sighted and uninformed decision making, and a tyranny of the majority. It would also likely be hijacked in no time by taking over mass media, and turned into a real dictatorship. Representative democracy with minority protections and strong power divisions is way superior and what people mean by "democracy" (at least upon a bit of reflection). I don't see how social media could possibly make representative democracy more democratic. Since the posters who actually know what they're talking about will always be in a small minority, it's hard to see how social media could make voters more informed, for instance. Most posts on social media contain no new information at all, all the information in them is aggregated from traditional media in a usually extremely biased and selective manner. The vast majority of posters employ no journalists, have no correspondents, and do not gather any news of their own.

In my opinion, it's important to distinguish between different types of social media, though. Heavily moderated forum-based social media like Reddit and HN make it possible to have halfway civil discussions, although the amount of noise and misinformation can still be high. I personally consider them relatively neutral or only slightly negative for democracy. They are good for finding like-minded people interested in niche topics, which can be good or bad depending on the topic.

Social media like Twitter and Facebook, on the other hand, seem to have no positive effect at all. Their rules of conduct basically enforce and select for passive aggressive posts and intellectual insults. It's unbearable for everyone involved and merely makes everyone more aggressive until they have customized their feeds so much that they create echo chambers. Such social media systems polarize a lot, even more so than traditional media.
I could get behind something like this. If you are re-elected, it would raise your salary.

At the very least, I don't see a problem with blind trusts or only investing in broad index funds and in a specific trading window. Politicians should be able to invest for retirement like everyone else.