skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> That doesn't change the fact, that I just really don't like marketing and don't want to invest the time

Exactly. And you don't need to. No one says you _have_ to market. But marketing leads to attention. So I think you know the cause effect here.

>> . I want to get the benefit without investment because I dream of a world not existing where everyone would do research to find the best.

I'm not sure I can say this without being a dick, which is a pity, because I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm saying this out of a place of respect.

There are around 8 billion people on earth. I promise you that if I did all the research I'm pretty sure (statistically) your projects are not the best. There's an even chance they are not even average.

Plus, I'm guessing there are likely 100 projects that do what your do. Should I do a deep dive into each one. Do a comparative analysis? 1 hour on each? Say a month's full time job? Repeat for every bit of software I've ever installed?

Did you install each BSD build and every Linux distribution, and every other OS out there before you selected one for your computer? Did you try Oberon or reactOS? Surely you did your own research for this most critical part of computing?

Of course not. We outsource our research. We Google. We solicit the opinion of others. We use whatever is convenient, available, and in front of us.

Me, I did research. I decided that people who were prepared to put effort into marketing would make a product that better fitted my needs, because they are showing interest in customers.

Again, I say this not to be a dick. You have choices. You understand cause and effect. You are welcome to do the work, or you are welcome to labour in obscurity. It's your choice.

But make no mistake, you are not doing your own research, and you are not making the best product. I'm sure you are making things with value, but if you don't get it out there, we'll, the result is well understood.
While the term "LGBTQ+" is highlighted in blue, every instance of it also includes a parenthetical about "or other atypical heterosexual relationships." The labelling is awkward but this seems to me to be there specifically to avoid applying the LGBTQ+ label to incest jokes.

The author was raised in another culture and I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here. There are plenty of cultures (even in the US!) that would lump together queerness and incest and forms of sexual transgression. The fact that the author included the parenthetical means that they are aware of the distinction. But the perspective of the Chinese censors is probably to consider non-normative sex as a single category.

Perhaps the author intended to highlight the negative effects of censorship by emphasizing the largest and most significant effect of that censorship?
These faces aren't really that similar. The doppelganger effect is mostly coming from similar clothing, hair style, facial hair, glasses, and so on.

To use an example, look closely at the features one by one of the two men. Individually they're all pretty significantly different. But your eyes gloss over the differences because the hair, glasses, and beard are nearly identical. However those are all changeable features. Grow the hair out, shave the beard, and lose the glasses on one of them and they'd be far less doppelgangery.
the article makes good points, but i don’t think the conclusion is obvious. for example, i want the freedom to not interact with Google. a ruling to require Google provide services to every individual might allow for a future corresponding ruling, that individuals must interact with Google (or at least, this becomes the socially acceptable view, which shapes laws later). wiser, i think, would be to prevent any single company from becoming critical to participation in society.
> Truly equal temperament didn't come around until well after Beethoven was dead

Source for that? The concept and practice certainly existed well before Beethoven's time but it's less clear at which point it became the norm. Even the wikipedia article on 12 TET has "citation needed" for the claim that it happened in the early 19th century.
I also noticed that all images/video/css loads from the same site.

I think this might just be a high-quality site, but I can't help but wonder if this prevents youtube or some other service from taking things down via supurious DMCA requests.
What's a break period? Where is that described?
I'm not about to watch a 50 minute video to find out something that I already know. The entire premise of a biblical/textual god is based on the idea that there is no evidence and that's why "belief" and "faith" are required. Unless you have specific evidence, the initial statement stands.
thisdoppelgangerdoesnotexist.com
the kind of censorship that happens when you're building a multibillion dollar tent pole franchise for the entire planet is different.
Actually, I think there's a more benign reason and that is references to those kinds of things are just a bit below bar for normally civil programming.

If you've ever watched the banal things that people go through to get something past daytime censors, or, get a PG rating for films etc. it's similar.

This is not 'Xi's authoritarian' system so much as 'different cultural standards of the moment'.

Respect that in some parts of the world they don't talk or joke about STD's in that context.

I wouldn't want to be subject to it, but this is not the kind of censorship that's a problem.

Note that in the West, we 'self censor' tons of jokes or things that might be a bit off.

Finally - I'm 100% certain there are examples of this kind of censorship which are problematic, for example, the mention of 'Taiwan' etc..
This type of censorship isn’t unique to China. Numerous scenes and whole episodes of The Office were silently removed from streaming services. The episodes were renumbered so you wouldn’t notice:

https://www.newsweek.com/comedy-central-caves-cancel-culture...

This article goes so far as to praise the censorship:

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-office-edited-censor...

As usual, piracy (or the legal purchase and ripping of old DVDs) is now the only way to access this material, which was deemed suitable for public consumption as recently as a few years ago.
My parents were so mad at me when I installed Comet Cursor on the family computer.

I was 9 years old, and I think I had grabbed it from a shady site that had modified it to stuff it with additional adware and malware...the computer went really slow after I installed it, but I had a totally badass cursor that looked like it was being electrocuted, so overall I think it was a fair trade.
Imagine reading this vacuous nothing-burger and thinking to yourself "Yep, that's what I'm paying $40 a month for."

The only interesting part of the entire article is Peter Thiel railing against the fact that startup founders are getting older, mostly because Thiel seems to be an opportunist who wants fresh meat to exploit. Someone who has been around the block a couple of times might be thrilled by the idea of Thiel investing in them, but they're going to be more cautious because they've already got the bumps, bruises, and callouses of being in the industry.

The reason that so many founders were so young a couple decades ago is precisely because they were at an age where they could imagine online services at a time when even the act of purchasing a domain was seen to be a weird new thing. So they got rich off of building the infrastructure and services of the modern web. It was easier from a market standpoint, even if it was harder technically because they had to help invent or fund a lot of the things that ultimately became the web we know today.

It's like complaining that nobody since Newton or Einstein has come up with new universal laws and ignoring the fact that it's harder to just observe new things and report on them than it used to be. It's not enough to witness an apple falling from a tree anymore, now you have to build an LHC and smash exotic particles together.

Coincidentally, it's what the "young guns" who are web 3.0 proponents are missing: they didn't experience the web BEFORE there was a web 2.0, and they assume that it is the way it is today because of some nefarious plot. They sit there on their pile of shitcoins howling in the wind of a better tomorrow without recognizing that web centralization was a feature, not a bug. Nobody wants Usenet anymore. For the unwashed masses, it's a dystopia. Worse, they put the cart before the horse when they create tokens and then try to come up with ways for these things to actually be useful. They want to get rich from being the idea guy.
Young founders are into crypto and it seems to me Silicon Valley is not the center of gravity in that area
The latter. Every large company on the planet uses Linux which is GPL.
I wrote Zola because at that time I was using Hugo + Pygments and while Hugo was fast, Pygments was the opposite. I'm pretty sure Zola can build a 1k page website with syntax highlighting faster than Pygments can highlight 20 pages.
Outside of my zsh config, aliases, etc one of the things I do with it is keep a list of my brew packages (brew leaves > brew.txt) and dump it into the different systems I use.

I have a lot more stuff synced but that's one use case I rarely see mentioned if at all.

I wind up reinstalling or using new laptop/desktops all the time and its very helpful to keep things in sync. I HATE getting off my work laptop that I just spent 8 hours deving on and getting on my personal laptop and missing things. And vice versa.
Dell has a proven track record of great support for a) "business" products and b) under premium support contract.

They throw in a year of that coverage on (most?) new purchases, but you can add at least 3 years.

For consumer and out-of-contract stuff, it's pretty industry standard. Their cheap stuff breaks a lot, but so does most brands.
It's the sort of thing that happens in places like Argentina.
Not pointless for those of us who have an FT subscription…
I think it's pretty inarguably better? The alternative is never being allowed to be critical of the military at all. You don't need an f-35 or a tank for a documentary on American war crimes.
In my jurisdiction, 71% of the education budget goes to teacher salaries, so education expenses couldn't have grown substantially faster than teacher salaries.

And Baumol doesn't require salaries going up, it works just fine if salaries stay constant while the price of consumer goods goes down.
I don't think those are DevOps by themselves. You have to be doing the Dev part of the system in addition to the Ops part. The traditional format is that some team or tram member would do ops work while others did the dev work.
Super impressed by this comment, really shows a lot of character and humility from GT. Will be following the next chapter with interest.
This is some very SV-centric view. That kind of transparency is possible with up to ~50 employees and plenty of businesses in the 10-50 person range are stable enough you can assume your job is safe. Not everywhere is searching for PMF-to-hyperscale.
I think this is a great point. When agile and rapid release is done correctly, it should work out as "kaizen for software" not "we overhaul our UI and workflow every 3-6 months".

Small incremental change is easier to test in most cases, the issue is, changing software that was designed as a whole over to incremental feature improvements is hard, because often the existing bulk of code cannot be meaningfully unit tested.
But I don't think the original DevOps (TM) specified that every person was required to work on every part of the stack? Just that you need to have full-stack skills and responsibilities within the same team?

That said, I probably wouldn't want to hire someone with just one hat. It's ok to have a preferential hat, it's not ok to refuse to wear any other.
Much of this brouhaha is about the niche of online businesses, which is the thing that's most visible here on HN, but which really wasn't the primary focus of GDPR which applies to all the businesses in society, the vast majority of which aren't global websites.

If I look at the changes implemented by local telecommunications companies, local banks, local supermarket loyalty programs, local pizza delivery chains, local real estate brokers, etc - these types of businesses had all kinds of widespread shenanigans before GDPR, but now they overwhelmingly have acted in good faith, and have given users clear and convenient ways of opting out (because, really, they didn't have a choice). Like, we don't see EU phone carriers selling location data to advertisers the way they do in USA - now that is a significant thing compared to some blog putting on a cookie.

For most companies, the transition has happened reasonably well - it's just that a few (but large and highly visible) global companies are holding out because of political reasons preventing enforcement - mostly stemming the fact that Ireland's DPA is currently permitted to unilaterally shield them from the rest of EU and has motivation to do it because it's financially beneficial for Ireland to have Facebook/Google/etc have their EU domicile be in Ireland.
Wow, have a little heart why don't you. Sure, this isn't going to revolutionize anti-poaching, but it shows two things:

1. Teenagers can build cool things too! We need more kids interested in STEM and females are underrepresented, so these "puff" pieces are great inspiration for the next kid who happens to come across it.

2. All that was needed for her solution was a cheap FLIR camera connected to an iPhone 6, meaning you don't have to be rich/VC funded to experiment with hardware solutions.

This is Smithsonian Magazine, not the Wall Street Journal. I say bring on more stories like this!
I have noise induced tinnitus and have found that benzodiazepine makes it completely silent. That silence comes with a pretty steep price though, in regards to the side effects. So there certainly is potential for a cure, and there's always a few trials going on. One that's particularly interesting is https://www.withpower.com/trial/phase-3-tinnitus-6-2021-925a.... I don't remember where I read it, but the reason they're trialing Etanercept is because they tested it on 12 people where I recall 11 of them experienced quieter tinnitus. If it works, then we have an FDA and EMA approved product for treatment.
I can't even imagine how it would impact sea levels at all.

A mechanical thing that would work is digging up material from the seafloor and dumping it on land.

The costs have to be astronomical though, aside from environmental considerations.
> The root of inflation is an increase in the cost of goods & services.

That's a tautology.
I mean, taking your image at face value, sure. But I don't know if it is fraudulent, I don't know if it was properly controlled, I don't know anything at all about the procedure.
I can't help but wonder what the first-pass of censors did to the big bang theory (I'm pretty sure internal review and the rating service that gave it tv-14 cut stuff out too)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32632286
You have to really stretch the meaning of censorship for that to count
Oh dang. Thanks, I didn't realize that.
Yeah, good point, that would do it. I was thinking of measuring current between the patient and the interface somehow. That would be a lot less trivial.
This is right. If people vote for censorship in a democracy, that's a perfectly fine form of governmental heterogeneity. What's happening in China is not that.
Is there a map somewhere that simulates various coastline changes based on sea level rise?

Ex: the 10 meters mentioned above
Are they ? I enjoyed playing with lisp and even python ast.
Personally I'm mostly offended how stale and unoriginal a lot of these jokes are, but I can definitely see why the censors took offense at some of them.

For example, the joke about the Chinese restaurant ("I'd be more concerned about what they're passing off as chicken") plays off of the stereotype that Chinese people eat dogs and cats, and the “passing off” remark implies that the Chinese restaurant owners are deceptive and would immorally and illegally serve their guests a different kind of meat than advertised. I can definitely see how that joke would be considered offensive.

The author labels that joke as "harmless" but you don't have to be a Chinese censor to interpret it as reinforcing harmful stereotypes. I dare you to show that scene at a liberal college and notice how few laughs you get.

Similarly, the racist remarks about Chinese people made by Sheldon's mom are somewhat offensive if taken at face value. I guess the joke is supposed to be at her expense instead ("old people are racists" is an American comedy cliche, if a somewhat tired one) but it's conceivable that either the censors didn't get that, or they feared that their audience didn't get that, so they decided to cut it out entirely.

"They wouldn't get that" is probably also the right explanation for censoring the joke about Jews eating at Chinese restaurants during Christmas, which is a very American tradition. That doesn't imply the joke needs to go, but I can see how that would, at best, leave Chinese viewers scratching their heads.
And yet Democrat's party or party of Democrats is entirely correct. How exactly is it supposed to be interpreted as a slight in this day and age?
> Seems worth doing just to bring life to the desert.

Possibly. But you also have to consider the knock on effects of making such a drastic change to Earth's ecosystem.

Life to the desert could lead to death to the rainforest...

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...

Neil Stephenson's Termination Shock is a great narrative about how any kind of active attempt to address climate change chaos could lead to near hopeless geopolitical complexities.
Even better, if we abandon the idea of an octave base of 2, we can get other scales. What divisions lie between, say, powers of 3 or 5?

(You can find these naively by brute force!)
"You have no right to possess drugs"

That's the entire problem right there. It's also mostly untrue - with very few exceptions there are legal ways to possess an use lots of drugs, including cocaine for example. But drug possession should never be a crime. It is a wildly illiberal approach.
I think it means devs that write their pipelines themselves. Someone else has to enable the devs to do that
Why don't we do both? I have ADHD and take medication for it. It has worked wonders for me personally. It's certainly not for everyone, but just because it only works for some people doesn't mean we should stop those who it works for from getting it.
I think you're the only one here who doesn't belong. If you read the HN guidelines you might be familiar with the lines "Be kind. Don't be snarky.", which certainly doesn't get communicated when you tell someone to "STFU".

Nothing you contributed to this conversation was even slightly intellectually gratifying. They have every right to be frustrated with the way you handled this.
Ten is a tiny number and you can do an analysis of similar quality to a smaller setup. I really don't understand your argument here.

If you put the pipes far out then that's so so so much ocean involved to get a river's worth of water. The right design could even reduce the salinity near shore as runoff increases (or trivially counteract that, of course).
It can, admittedly, be a bit of a problem when you need 5 pistachios per second to survive and you're tripping over the shells trying to collect them fast enough.
What types of changes would you make?
> I've got the voice of doubt in the back of my head always wondering what I'm missing, what if they're right, etc. It's a serious bummer.

There's probably a saying somewhere along the lines of "There are two kinds of programmers: those who admit they get Imposter's Syndrome, and those who are too afraid to admit it."

We all have those doubts. I've been in this since... what, 1994 professionally I suppose, and I still have doubts. It's totally normal. IS is not limited to software development either.
Companies will generally tolerate developers to not have experience with certain tools but they will only hire them based on the assumption that they will learn those tools on the job. The problem arises when the developers don't like a specific tool; maybe they know better tools to use for this project. For me, as a developer, it's a deal breaker if a company expects me to use some tool which I'm experienced with but which I don't like.

It's a mistake for companies to assume that just because someone has 3 years of professional experience with a particular tool, that they like that tool. I've witnessed many developers catch Stockholm syndrome after spending lot of time using (and becoming an expert in) a specific tool but I regard this is as a sign of inexperience.
I don't.

I wouldn't consider most workplaces I've been in totalitarian - though maybe you've lived in some pretty nice totalitarian countries I'm not aware of. But I also don't see why customers shouldn't demand what they care about from companies.
Ok sure.. but. Let's say you eat tuna every day for two months. You're likely to build up a significant amount of mercury in your body to the point where it's causing oxidative stress and antagonizing most major organ systems in your body. Are you going to notice that? Maybe your body will over the period of two months start to require maybe 15 more minutes of sleep to help cope with the new level of cellular burden it's experiencing. Are you realistically likely to be able to point to this subjectively?

All of these actions we take as part of our lifestyle have a profound effect on our physiology on the macro level; but we're not likely to notice any single factor's contribution in isolation.
It's not that you can't, it's that the risks of getting caught doing it and punished for it are too high relative to the reward.

If you don't believe that deterrence is a real thing, there is a lot more human behavior that needs explanation than just the relative lack of ACH fraud.
Software used to be built before Agile...

Let's at least keep solution design and also get senior engineers to help estimate

And do away with daily stand up and bs rituals.. a meeting is needed when it is needed, not for the sake of "following the process"
> Most people don’t. Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use things like: …

“Most people” don’t have a clue what any of those things are.

The only non-tech people I know who have any of what you mentioned only have it because I installed it for them.
There are a couple of ways this transaction can go, with different rules. There is an ACH truncation on checks, with follows ACH rules of reversability. In that case, they're only sending the MICR line of the check, not capturing an image.

There's also Check21, which is much more likely to be what they're doing. That takes a front/back image, and is essentially electronic settlement of checks, using check settling rules. For true fun, the electronic image can later be printed out on a larger piece of paper with it's own MICR, and now it's an IRD (image replacement document) and it can go back into the legacy paper settlement system.
There was 12 notes in Western music before 12 equal divisions.

This Mozart piece played in mean-tone temperament (historically accurate) has better tensions and resolutions than the equal tempered version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsEdK48CDY&t=700s

(The chipper ending to this piece is believed to be not written by Mozart.. the song was incomplete when he died.)

I even prefer Chopin in unequal temperament, but I'm not as confident about whether Chopin used 12 equal divisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJT5Q6HooyA
Is there a source for that image which confirms what you say it shows and from a legitimate experiment?

This whole concept is new to me so I don't have a dog in this race, but sharing a single out of context image rather than the research it (hopefully) came from doesn't do much to prove your claims.