skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you grant the idea that a person working at MTurk is just a normal person, which personally I doubt. You have to contend with both the fact that they're highly likely to be lying about their identity in order to maximize the number of tasks they can be included in, and they're also likely giving trash answers in order to complete the survey as fast as possible. I spent a bit of time doing mturk for a while, and it was absolutely one of the first things I started to optimize - "How do I get through this survey quicker". It's incredibly difficult to earn minimum wage doing mturk, which brings us back to the idea that it's unlikely it's just an average normal person doing it.

It's absolutely possible to produce a rigorous statistical result from the data, but that's useless if the data is all lies.
> Surround your fusion reactor in a very thick blanket of opaque hydrogen plasma so the neutrons can bump into something.

If you compute how thick that plasma would have to be to stop neutrons you'll realize this idea is totally unworkable.
>Would it not make sense for you to get user validation with a smaller scale poc than the herculean plan you outlined. Also your plan seem to focus too much on funding goals than user acquisition or product market fit.

I used to think in those terms. Thing is, it's a multi-dimensional problem.

Dimension one is a human resource limitation. One person pitted against a rapidly evolving technology landscape with very high technical bar. What that equates to is making one demo/MVP after another and eventually burning out. Or, compromising quality. Early on, it was possible to do it the traditional way. Things are now moving too fast.

Regardless, the reward in either scenario is funding based on whatever "product market fit," and users that require tending to. Best case, you might end up a multi-billion dollar company if you make it. One not all that different from pile after pile of technical debts that routinely waddle to their respective exits, then exist in some hellish afterlife post-exit. That's typically defined as success. I imagine one loses their soul in the process of even creating such a thing.

Point being, I view user acquisition and product market fit as poison pills. Not just for the company optimizing for it, but for society as a whole. They are a large part of what is wrong in the world.

Dimension two is expansion of scope. The more you think, the more beautiful things get. It's really hard to go back and limit scope once you've woven ideas together over the span of years in a kind of tapestry where individual concepts end up almost symbiotic. Fortunately, I inadvertently dedicated my time to this type of thinking rather than grinding out demos.

So, what you're left with is selling a vision. Absent any track record, it still necessitates a demo—but the nature of that demo becomes fundamentally different—as does its target audience. More of a living design document built to help convey that vision.

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>Unless you are planning to create a spacex style capital intensive company, I don't see why you need so much funding for.

Well, the goal is for people to wake up one day and find out that the way they interact with computing as a whole has fundamentally changed forever.

On HN, you see people grasping with regularity at individual threads which constitute pieces of this puzzle, with no clear consensus on what should be done. There's an almost morose acceptance that pervades the current technological hellscape in which we live. Now people are looking back at dreams of what once could have been as a way out of this mess, but that alone isn't sufficient.

In any case, things get expensive at that level. I'm in my mid thirties and the core team I want to hire is probably twenty years my senior on average. Some of them probably don't even care about the money.

In all likelihood it'll go nowhere and I'll remain a nobody, but it's already been a wild ride, and hopefully I'll at least have fun and be spared the stereotypical startup/accelerator/VC grind.

Hey, perhaps somewhere along the way I'll even figure out how to not sound delusional.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to make the space in the comment header clickable to collapse/expand, which will reduce the distance a bit. Would that work for you?

The other alternative might be to add a setting to move the collapse/expand arrow to be part of the icons on the right.
As much as I recognise the good that Mrs. Thatcher did for the UK, I think a lot of the public debt reduction was down to North Sea oil.
> Thanks for expanding! And do you see my other three refactorings similarly lacking?

No, all four are fine and most people use them in code all the time. They're not completely identical to ternary operators because they move the location of the JSX outside the place where it's used, which can make it harder to read the code at a glance.

> it sounds as if you just didn't like JavaScript

Yeah, I see that as a failure of EcmaScript, as I said in the first comment. JSX has to work within the unfortunate boundaries of the language.

> for the small gain of not needing the curly braces and a return statement, you pay a huge cost of not being able to use any statements in your code

That wasn't intended to be a meaningful part of the example, I was just writing the shortest component that let me show a particularly style which would be nice to have in EcmaScript instead of ternary operators.
There's parts of security that don't require code, like writing general policy, dealing with regulators, facilitating threat modeling, running tabletops, etc. I wouldn't hire an entire team of software engineers for security just like I wouldn't hire a team of folks who can't code.
Meet-up for what group?
How to End the War in Ukraine
I think I'd rather stay in my lowly AI research basement ;)
Yes and the difference of those adds to the difference of the end price.
I don’t think those things matter much on the whole, and I also think Swedish (tech) salaries are actually lower than what they’re paying in the US.

But the Swedish krona has lost ~22% against the USD in a year. So a 10% margin seems pretty reasonable given they haven’t raised prices during that year and nobody knows how the currency will fluctuate the upcoming year.
Should you delete your Patreon account after they laid off their security team?
Implementing SAP in retail has its own challenges. The large number of products ("articles") sold, locations ("sites"), handling POS data etc.

My first ever SAP implementation was for a large retailer and the project was cancelled (they later implemented SAP ~10 years later after the product matured somewhat) and another project 8 years later was also cancelled. Only two SAP projects I've been involved in that have been cancelled and both were retail (and using IS-Retail, SAP's solution for retail industries).
I don't write it like that, but I wish I had better alternatives that weren't hard to read, one of which I described in considerable detail.
You're right, he founded the Felix brand in Sweden first then brought ti to Austria later.
Hopefully they'll be a pony in there somewhere?
Former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands retired from being queen in 2013, she felt like the duty of her position belonged to the next generation.

Queen Elizabeth could've just passed on the throne to her son any time she wanted to.
I am unable to feel comfortable WASD-ing with my moonlander, so I switch back to a "traditional" keyboard for gaming. I think it's mostly the ortholinear aspect that makes it not great for me in this context. I never really tried to get used to it anyways since I don't play keyboard games much. I've had my moonlander for two years now, it's my primary keyboard that I use almost every single day.

However, lately I've been using a traditional keyboard more, mostly because i keep mixing more between home office and not, and leaving my moonlander at the office. I have no issues using the one over the other anymore since starting biking to work.
> It literally is as easy as fill out the form, user is automatically banned, no verification required.

Hahahaha. No. Eventually, mass reporting could make it happen, but a single report does not cause a ban. If that's what your kid or his friends have told you, they're lying to you.
Both, plus people reuse passwords for random websites that might be malignant, plus they share them through social attacks, plus they put them in Post-its, plus they use easily guessable or brute-forceable passwords…
>"It's true that there's an asymmetry in that it's much easier for the people making positive comments not to break the site guidelines. In a way that's not fair—but it applies to all threads equally, regardless of whether the topic is monarchy or something else. It's also an unfairness we can't do much about—it's intrinsic to the problem of how to operate this forum."

Why are positive but controversial comments fine, but negative but controversial comments bad? Why is what's positive and negative defined solely in relation to the thread being posted in?

What if Vladimir Putin had a heart attack and dropped dead tomorrow. Certainly, that would be far more historically consequential than the death of the Queen. It would therefore have even better claim to being posted on HN.

Would you only allow positive comments on that thread? Comments that eulogized Putin as an emblem of stability and moral authority? Would you freeze or delete any comments that questioned that response?

I say this not to be facetious. It's a more extreme example, but I don't think it's qualitatively different.
Clearly, it doesn't make sense to allow only positive comments regardless of the subject. When it's highly ideological and contested - as is true of both Putin and the Queen - that just arbitrarily empowers one side of the debate and infuriates and alienates the other half.

I honestly think the only fair response - short of superhuman feats of moderation - is to delete the thread.
> drop the processes that made it big in the first place

This is pretty much never the case, and more often than not the company is successful despite those process, not because of.

Many processes evolve on an ad-hoc and as-needed basis, with some tweaks here and there over time as the company grows and staff turns. You eventually reach a point when no one can remember how a process came to be, or why Sarah has to export four files from three web interfaces and copy/paste data across two Excel files to send to John over in accounting that was just trained last week on how to use this file to true up actuals.

There's only so many ways a company can track inventory, or manage purchase orders, or calculate product costs, or represent sales order and invoices. An ERP acknowledges that a vast majority of businesses operate with the same set of industry-specific operational primitives, and businesses have learned that it's both more time-and-cost effective to adapt your business to the expectations of the ERP than the other way around.

In the rare case you're doing something novel, you can still build your bespoke solution on top of those existing ERP primitives without having to re-invent how the numbers come together so your company can spit out the three financial statements.
> It seems anyone can come to Reddit or the orange site and rail against UI programmers all day. But if we sit down and explain the situation nobody is very interested to listen.

And when someone tries to make things better with a new take or tool they get shat on here with “hurr durr those JavaScript developers always jumping on the new framework of the week”

HN, where sneering at web devs always gets upvotes and somehow never gets old
I was being facetious - people can use crypto contrary to regulation just as heroin sellers sell contrary to regulation.

There's consequences in both instances. It's just how rule of law is.
"JSX is a gotcha-riddled kludge to clumsily shoehorn HTML into a JavaScript function return."

Author's opinion, and one I find very strange. JSX with TypeScript is one of the best features of React, it's a dream compared to Angular's awkward arcane syntax (that didn't have type checking until what, a year or two ago?).

I get that people don't like React, that's fine. But "React is popular because it's popular" is an intellectually dishonest argument. There are obviously good reasons technically competent people choose it for projects.
I suspect Minetest's status owes a lot to its name that sort of implies being a test implementation rather than a game proper.

Any MC alternative will becomr popular when MS removes or closes down MC JE, which is imminent because presumably without it people can publish patches that bypass protections as described in the linked thread
Oracle is actually a great counterexample. When they started out, they lost the db data frequently, and the IBM folk laughed, wondering how they expected to compete when they weren't even Durable.

It turns out Larry started by selling to people doing what would now be called "Business Intelligence", and for them Durable wasn't a necessity, it was just an edge case (they were always side-loading from production anyway).

Oracle then used the profits from this beachhead to fix their durability issues before they started selling into segments that expected their databases to, you know, keep data.
One thing I'd like to see is the ability to filter out posts with less than X amount of points. At certain times of the day, the first page (30 entries) has ~30% of entries which are low points, and I usually prefer to avoid these.

Thanks for your work!
Project owner here. Most likely yes, pending speakers' consent.
France built its nuclear power stations in the 1970s decades before anybody was interested in global warming and for completely different reasons.

Germany really only kicked off Energiewende in the early 2000s.
Perhaps the server you’re playing on has a plugin that disables chat reporting?
That article says Lidl/Schwarz has abandonded SAP and gone back to their custom system. That surprises me because I have a friend who does SAP consulting for them.
do you display the exact same static image on your oled tv for weeks, like an ad banner would?
Greetings to a NeoVIM user from an Emacs/evil user. There are at least two users at the same company who dislike VSCode with some passion :)
Eh, it's also because the British royal family is basically a reality show.

The Dutch royal family, by contrast, have a bit more privacy.
Yep, I figured it out. I suppose your images are made of large dataset to crunch, for the most part and a smallish part with the R/python/whatever code do execute.
> One of the most fundamental characteristics of evil is that the evil person cannot help but desire to gain fame for their crimes. (Just look up how many criminals have been arrested by their social media posts.)

Selection bias, no? You're drawing a conclusion about the whole from the subset who seek fame and get caught.
Very "but think of the children!" sort of argument against the countless things that should be kept away from children, including vitamins, medicine, cleaning products, and sharp objects. Yeah, thanks, keep the drugged candy away from kids. We know.
This video goes over the history of ketchup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWlqxGQXZx8
where do you see goals imposed on them? i am precisely saying having goals does not work.
CUDA vs MPS happen as apple software is always behind hardware by a lot.
ortholinear works very well when you use a split keyboard, but i find it worse for non-split keyboard. The angle of your hands factor in here. With split they're parallel, so fingers are also "straight". However, the traditional layout isn't symetric anyways, so your right hand gets the best ergonomics vs your left.
Revolution of Dignity
Hacktoberfest 2022
> A good friend of us happens to be working at a high level at the EU commission. Discussing about Bitcoin/Crypto, his answer was simple: "We will ban all crypto as soon as we consider it to create problems with taxes".

'Banning all crypto' is just as realistic as banning all use of end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) in apps, tools, etc because it allows criminals, terrorists and scammers to hide their communications for doing illegal activities.

The fact is, a total 100% ban on either of them is an unrealistic and hopelessly utopian request beyond delusional.
Best for me: https://api-reference.checkout.com/#tag/Payments
No, it's essentially slightly flexible plastic, it's not going to have a perfect curve. Look at some reviews, they already note that it's kind of annoying. I forgot where I saw those comments, I think the whole idea is bonkers so don't keep it around in my head.
Its really tough to change that mindset though, once it takes hold, its so deeply ingrained. ("Ober sticht unter").

Basically the whole education system needs to push discussions more, were you have to argue a point, proof you are right and stick to your guns. Something regarding this is going right in some education systems and cultures, and fails utterly in others. Its a education to lead, instead of education to be led.
In movies as well as in real life kings and queens are always played by the others. People like a big show - now they have a reason for a big show - but at the end of the day she was just an old woman living much too wealthy off taxes representing an anachronistic system of government.
I was intrigued by the term so I looked for instances of it in archive.org .

Most of the 13 matches assumed you knew what it meant. A few clarified in passing, like "Some metal halide lamps may fail in a non-passive manner, spraying hot glass from the shattered arc tube."

My favorite was https://archive.org/details/sim_i-d_1996-11_43_6/page/15/mod... :

> Although the only measure most of us associate with light bulbs is wattage (which, contrary to popular belief, doesn’t measure light output but energy use), there are seemingly endless variables to consider when comparing light sources. Ask a lighting expert what you think is a simple question and you’re soon knee-deep in terms like “chromaticity,” “color rendering index,” “lumen maintenance,” “optical efficiency” and “non-passive failure” (an extremely polite way of referring to a bulb that explodes).
> I was disappointed in this moderation warning.

You were disappointed that there was a moderation warning when some people are celebrating her death? Her job was to take pictures and open hospitals. And random people who dislike the idea of royality or dislike the UK are posting some rancid patter.

Sure all, it's all over the top, sure many people don't care. The warning wasn't there for people who didn't care. It was there because there are literally people going around acting like this woman was a war criminal when she held no real power, if she ever tried to use any power she technically had it would have caused chaos and resulted in that power being removed and the royal family being removed. Some people acting like Indians would be dancing on her grave even though they've been indpendent for all of her reign and every Indian I've met has been interested in the Queen and royal family like all other people are. Or the Irish are happy she is dead, maybe in the 80s or 90s at the peak of the troubles but most people won't care just like most people in the UK don't care.

And let's be serious, you won't have to bite your tongue that much since most other people will be complaining about it all in a few days.
Excessive planning permissions are cancer, years of discussion if you can build a house on your own land.
If you abuse pings too fast, you will get stopped after five seconds (which still allows for a good 20 pings to be sent, that all make sound and bleep on your minimap). But otherwise, you can just stay and do it slowly, and there's no limits.
This is by far the most important event in the last 30 years. What a truly sad day.
Seems like they were just desperate to have a startup rather than naturally having a solution to a problem.
That last mile problem, getting news from telegraphs to people's homes, was solved by newspapers. e.g. The Daily Telegraph[1] is specifically named for that purpose.

They were printing reports from all over the world.

As an example the modern sporting event the Tour de France was started by a newspaper in 1903 and was reported on daily. That wouldn't really have been viable financially without mass communication. In fact the race exists solely to generate those reports.

There's a very good book called The Victorian Internet that covers early mass communication if you're interested[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet
You're in for a fun time if the company responsible for those gTLDs goes belly up and fails to pay their ICANN dues.
As someone who is over 18, and has a child who is under 18, I would quite like to play with them.
In the laptop market, Apple seems to be a better value purchase, but for some reason the smartphone market seems to be a huge premium for not much value compared to the competition.

I understand that in western countries there are network effects like iMessage, etc. A good Samsung or stock android-ish phone almost always seems like a more versatile/capable device.

There was a time when I heard that there were great iOS only apps but I don't know of any in 2022.
Why cycle time is a better metric than velocity
Not quite.

I'm an occasional outdoors person. A device with most of the Garmin features that is also a really good smartwatch for the everyday, which is 90% of my time, does appeal. A Garmin would collect dust for most of the year.
I would argue, on the opposite, that being unaffected by the passing of significant symbols of our lives/traditions, is the product of modern indoctrination.
> Why is it likely?

At this point it's just a real estate company with an opera front, at some point the brits will wake up and see it for what it is
If you want acceptable performance in a reasonably complex react app you absolutely have to memoize. The fact you think this isn’t the case suggests to me you haven’t worked on a big react app.
Emacs and (Neo)vim users, unite!
Great idea. Tornado cash already implemented it years ago. :p

https://tornado-cash.medium.com/tornado-cash-compliance-9abb...
This is so true! As the author of a (small) ERP/MRP SaaS, I am often amused when I read HN and observe the thundering herds of fashion followers — today it's Kubernetes and Rust, Postgres and sqlite have a longer lifespan, but tomorrow it's going to be something else entirely, and you necessarily need to use those :-)
I am not much into JS but I have seen countless jokes about JS/NPM having so many modules. I never understood why JS/NPM ecosystem has so many modules? I guess JS isn't that versatile language.
> Thanks for posting the happily ignorant code snippet that I have been waiting for.

Thank you from being so civil. IMO displaying a badly encoded string beats crashing on a runtime error most of the time. I'd rather see "hÃ´pital" than "Error 500", if you will. Maybe don't think your personal assumptions carry any validity out of your own choices, preferences, or uses.

I imagine the difficulty working with a huge codebase lacking refactoring and maybe even predating utf-8, but where would you be if it was written in Python 2.5 originally?
Isn't Salesforce the alternative?
I'm a fellow UAE born! Hello!! I live in Canada. Was just looking up moving to Scotland after seeing footage of Balmoral castle. Something about the beauty of the highlands captures the imagination. I'm of South Asian decent so I am a bit weary of how welcoming a new place will be.
AJAX and DHTML are not synonyms: The latter predates the former and refers to interactivity via client-side scripting.
> No retirement!

Or lifelong retirement, depends how you see it
Note that you can't mod Bedrock servers (which is the remade, not-running-like-dogshit Minecraft. For now, they are at feature parity, but nothing guarantees that Java edition stays for long)