skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that in countries with polygamy, it's not like women are afforded more choice than in their Western counterparts. Quite the contrary. The type of thing you see is a poor farmer marrying off his very young daughter as the 3rd wife of someone wealthy to provide for her. So in practice it's much closer to forced marriages, not unfettered choice for women.
I've seen a few people on here recommending everything from "just use HTML" (which misses the point) to "just use Gemini" (which misses the point even more).

Why not HTML? Why not Markdown? They aren't self-contained.

* A web page written in either format can leak your IP address to external bad actors because of the way inline images work.

* Loading resources from more than one server is a reliability and security problem, and it performs bad on initial load (it's great for subsequent loads, since external resources can be cached, but initial load time is bad and tech designers should really spend more time thinking about worst-case perf than about average-case).

* Downloading a web page is overly complicated. I should be able to download a page to my computer and never have to worry about the origin server going away, and that's not possible on the HTML5 web. This is one of the main reasons for the enduring popularity of PDF. IPFS, in particular, would benefit from a self-contained document format, because it needs to know the full set of dependencies in order to pin a page as a whole, and ensure that you don't accidentally pin an HTML file without pinning its images and wind up with a broken site.

Sure, you can make HTML pages that are self-contained, but because they aren't always, people don't build workflows around them.

Why not Gemtext/Gemini?

* Nobody but nostalgic nerds cares about simplicity of implementation. I mean, come on, Markdown is even harder to parse than HTML is! Nostalgic nerds might be a worthwhile demographic to appeal to, but I think IPFS wants a wider audience than that.

* Inline images are not optional. Too many great creators with a lot of worthwhile things to say are either creative artists or technical artists. In the BBS era before inline images were practical, it didn't stop people from drawing; they just relied in ANSI and ASCII art, and "let's go back to typewriter art" only appeals to nostalgic nerds.

* And once you have inline images, you have to offer rich text layout features like tables, otherwise people will start posting pictures of text to work around your missing features (which sucks for either accessibility, because blind people can't read them, or it sucks for simplicity, because deploying OCR is even more complicated than just offering decent text layout).

If I had to pick something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

* You can download an EPUB, and when the original host goes away, it still works! Pinning an EPUB in something like IPFS can work without requiring the CDN to know anything about the file format, since EPUBs are self-contained.

* Tooling already exists. It's just XHTML in a ZIP file anyway, but there's also EPUB-specific tooling (for example, the Texinfo release announcement a few days ago mentioned that you can export EPUBs from GNU info manuals).

* It supports text and image layouts that writers demand.

* There is one standard.
> The cost of eliminating some deadweight loss is making some people feel awkward or shame when they get to the tip screen.

90% of the places I’ve recently visited displayed a tip screen, and I’ve tipped maybe 5% or even 0%.

I’m alright with tipping properly if I sit down at your restaurant and you serve me food, with reasonable service.

I will not tip you 25-20%, if I drive in and picked up my food myself, and all you did was hand me the food at the counter.

Unfortunately, nearly every restaurant and eatery has this expectation in my area. They give you no service other than literally just giving you the food, and then they want a tip. I should feel pressure or feel bad I’m not paying you extra? Nah.

If anything, I find this behavior appalling, and we avoid eating out. The food isn’t great for my blood pressure and diabetes anyway, and we’re better off saving or investing it for our grandchildren.
I don't know if the above commenter is talking about the same time period. However, the period around 2016 when Trump got elected revealed some odd decisions that Reddit had that it eventually needed to change. It's been a while, but this is what I remember:

How Reddit works is you have various subreddits about different topics. You can go to each subreddit individually to view the highest rated posts about that specific topic. However, most people don't do this, but rather go to reddit.com and see a feed of various subreddits combined. For active users this feed will be tailored to their choices, however, what to show users that are new or not logged in is a question that Reddit struggled with.

For a while, this was done by having some subreddits be chosen to be shown by default. Initially there were only a few, I think around 10-20, and they were handpicked. At some point more subreddits became default, I think it grew to 50-100 if I remember. However, this caused a lopsidedness where these few handpicked default subreddits had orders of magnitude more views than non-default ones, so Reddit was split into two worlds between popular default subreddits and niche unknown ones. Imagine a website where half of it was like Twitter and Facebook and half of it was like Hacker News.

To fix this, at some point they changed it to ALL subreddits being default. In other words, the most popular posts sitewide would reach the default feed, no matter which subreddit they were from. There was a NSFW filter, but other than that there were no controls at all. The people in change of Reddit at this time were very anti-censorship, to where they felt that there should be no moderation other than voting. Around this time Trump was elected and a certain subreddit that could charitably be described as frenzied for Trump started growing in popularity. As a result, a lot of their posts reached the front page of Reddit, and their posts were not just biased but cult like or even containing outright fake news.

Reddit eventually solved this with a feed called popular that was a middle ground, where instead of having a handful of default subreddits, it would be all subreddits minus those with extreme topics. Critics viewed it as censoring, and it was, but it stopped Reddit from sliding towards a 4chan like reputation, and I am confident the Reddit of today would have never been able to be mainstream without this type of change.
Wow, I thought this had to be a joke, but how the heck does someone screw something up so badly?
Best explanation I've read online. Most attempts at describing why boil down to the circular "clinical trials are very expensive because the process of getting a new drug approved is lengthy, complex and expensive".
but "criminal" depends almost entirely on how a country defines and polices crime, does it not? so all you can do is look at numbers like incarceration rate, no?
I feel like there has to be one of those "galaxy brain" progression memes for Octopuses -> Octopi -> Octopodes
you can distribute websites as markdown! Return markdown with a plain text content type and it'll show as markdown, which was designed to look good as-is and not require rendering to HTML
And since we don't know the context they could have shown a closer up burger, or heck, taller burger that is 1/4 and a 1/3 next to each other but further away or stepped on at which point they were asked, what's bigger?

Also, the 1/4 or 1/3 is referring to the raw, uncooked meat only. So in theory you can add 1400 lbs of lettuce to make something larger than my car. (Which is terrible, since lettuce is where you pick up all the disease these days - everyone here should order all their food without any lettuce)
if your patch level is less than 2022-11-05 you are affected :D
It looks like something for a telco.

Someone peeled the skin off a 3D model of the AT&T death star, and origamied it into a coffin wreath.
I think you've found the real problems, none of which are "short form" messaging: I agree with you that there's an aggression to a public forum where message can be commented on by everyone and every past message is "fair game" for "fresh" conversation. Those do seem to lead to plenty of aggression.

In the heyday of blogs, long form posts weren't immune to those effects either and that's why blogs invented things like spam checks and comment lockdowns and comment moderation tools.
I have a few friends who knew him (and Caroline) at Jane Street; their recollections are nothing like this garbage puff piece.

Sequoia should be beyond embarrassed. Yes, their fund is way up. But they did next to zero actual diligence here, and acted like complete fools (and bragged about it!) during the pitch process. Perhaps even worse, they were apparently fine with their investment conveying zero governance, zero board seats and zero information rights.
5% is not that much higher than historic averages. 1990 had 5.4% inflation, and 2008 close to 4%.
> HTML is a subset of Markdown.

Yes, so all websites are already written in markdown. Its just tjat No browsers support the typical header/list shorthands, but that doesn’t matter because even if they did you’d still need more tages to get interactivity and styling working.

People aren’t imagining a world where markdown makes anything simpler they are imagino by that a format change would make people build less complex websites. But why would they? It’s not HTML that makes the Twitter front end or Facebook complicated, it’s the desisted functionality, which wouldn’t change even if the spice code looked more like markdown and less like html.
I have no idea why you think that's bait.

That's the only way I've heard such things used. A claim, but checking that everyone is on the same page.

Maybe it's regional?
0.2% less than expected and s&p pumps 5%. f* this timeline.
How Data Scientists Came into Existence
We might have different definitions of "quickly."

I also don't think that going backwards is a good thing. Yes, BTC is more equitable than a system of divine right of kings where the monarchy literally owns everything. Hooray.
Ohh thanks for the catch. It was a 25% off code. I reduced the price itself by 25% and removed the coupon but forgot to remove the text.

Updated now.
Not everyone said the reverse. And this is too close to "whataboutism" that is typically not in good faith. When you have some legitimately bad leaders on one side, it is hard to take it serious that folks are afraid "of being cancelled" when they are not afraid of the very real harm being threatened by their political affiliation of choice.
... so that in 10 years Markdown will become the same clusterf*ck as HTML is today
At what cost? "allies" as collateral damage, the US seems to be playing the solo game, not sure if that's gonna serve them well when they'll decide to go frontal with China, since their "allies" won't be able to be used as proxy anymore, too weak and no morale

The US announces retreat
> “The environment for these specific octopuses is such that they have this interaction between individuals,” she says. “It’s communication, in a way.”

Watching it, I immediately classify the behavior as aggression. Why they would stop at "communication" is not clear to me.
Isn't the downside to selling covered calls that, not only do you need to hold the underlying, you can get the option you sold exercised, aka you lose your 100 shares per contract?
Some small percentage probably can and it is easy to fool yourself that you are doing better than you are (especially prior to 2022 when most things with retail interest just went up for over a decade).
How does this handle headless? Does it just come with a baked chrome binary?
Feeling frustrated about the lack of equity and inclusion in the workplace for women? Well, you're not alone.

On today’s episode, I'm a woman wanting equity and inclusion in the workforce. It's Fine. ,Maryam talks with special guest Margaret (Maggie) Ruvoldt about the disparities women are continuing to face in the workforce, and the role of employers is shrinking the gap.
How did you make those comics? Is there something that just generates the html for you?
It's as much as the article says:

> “We weren’t able to try and assess what the reasons might be,”
Website is broken, but I infer from the comments that this would fit the bill:

https://github.com/DannyBen/madness/

My company uses it internally for a load of things. I love writing in MD and pushing to gerrit and when it is submitted the change is live.
Musk bans remote work at Twitter, warns staff of “dire” economic outlook
Well, you can thank Jony Ive for taking over the UI as well as the hardware, and rebranding the entire iOS experience in his minimalistic image.

Looks like a bunch of people went to do the same thing in OUP. They probably launched a campaign labeling the thing on the left “skeumorphism” or its equivalent.

I remember when Apple’s interfaces were iconic and user friendly. Then in iOS 7 I couldn’t figure out where the chrome ended and the webpage/document began anymore. The search bar in Google Chrome on iOS was literally a blank white space. I had to tap there to discover search.

Apple… known the world over as a UX leader for its UX guidelines since 1980s … became a follower … of Microsoft’s new mobile interface. Which was later totally discontinued by Microsoft. Well, at least Wozniak liked it.

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=234
Yeah, they tried to set up a call to dissuade him but he stood by his decision. Then only 3 days before the disclosure deadline they decided to pay out.
Huge fan of Streamlit — I've used it a ton at work — and HTMX + Django is my preferred method for building larger sites. Cool work!
> For the overwhelming majority, sure, but for enough people it's life-altering if not life-ending.

I do not deny that vaccines can cause adverse effects - but outside of vaccine trials and Army experimental vaccines, the rate of adverse effects is vastly lower than the rate of the same adverse effect that people experience who get infected.
It's funny how people freaked out over the -0.1% interest rate but don't care about having money in the bank when the inflation is at +10%.
This was for people already recruited. They wanted to sexually frustrate them so they would have more pent up aggression to take out.
This is exactly why we need a more in-depth approach when explaining things to the general population. The whole chain of deductions should be presented and easily verifiable, otherwise it's quite easy for a layman like me to get into a situation where I see two opposite but equally-plausible-sounding claims made by "experts", but no way to figure out who's right, because nobody is presenting any proof, just relying on their own "I'm an expert" authority.

I'm tired of everyone being an "expert". A true expert should have no problem presenting proof to their claims.
Very well written, thank you.
I’ve noticed this with many items. Nabisco Premium Saltine Crackers are $4.5 and Publix store brand are $1.5.

I’m not sure how much they’ve increased as I don’t remember the old price of crackers but I remember them being really cheap.

It seems odd that the inputs vary substantially between the two so is it just that Nabisco has very different labor costs? Or are they just jacking up the price because they can?

I suspect store brand have a very fixed cost-plus style of pricing where they just sell for a fixed markup over whatever their costs are and don’t really do market research for price points.
How embarrassing - VC over the past decade has simply been folks riding market beta, zirp and piggybacking on their friends deals. Maybe this market crunch will weed out the bad bunch but I’m not holding my breath.
I've never bothered to learn Python asyncio. When Python 3.5 came out I just thought it looked overly complex. Coming from a C/C++ background on Linux I just use the select package for waiting on blocking I/O, mainly sockets. Do you think there is something to gain for me by learning asyncio?
> If a coffeeshop wants to pay their employees more they will have to raise prices. This makes them less competitive to any nearby coffeeshops that haven't raised prices.

You what? I can buy coffee from McDonalds for a pound, or I can get the nicer stuff from a barista for £3 the coffee is the same brown warm stuff the environment and customer service is what makes it worth the extra money.

Coffee is a luxury good trying to be the cheapest coffee isn't a winning strategy. It's like trying to make the cheapest super car. It's a race to the bottom larger companies that have scale will destroy you.

Managers do this all the time hire a bunch of 16 year olds pay them next to nothing and wonder why they spend all their time on their phone rather than impressing the customers and winning recurring business.

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Aren't they just referring to the rich elite class that uses nepotism?
A prediction market on whether he's convicted of a felony in the next three years is at 47%: https://manifold.markets/mr22222222/sbf-convicted-of-a-felon...
"In the event anything I've said is used against me in a court of law I didn't mean whatever it is in that way."