skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you clarify what is "solving a problem that actually exist" means?

I just looked around and I'm not sure I have anything that solves an actual problem. Like the HN right now, it doesn't solve anything, right. In the morning I bought stuff on Amazon, but it also doesn't solve any real problem. Not sure AWS is solving anything since we can rent servers directly. I used Zoom for a call, but it solves nothing, I guess. Also used Github, but it's just a useless service because we can use plain Git. I can't really find a tech product I use that clearly "solves a problem". The only problem solver I can recall is my coffee maker, but it's an analog device.

So I'm wondering, what it's the criteria to decided if something solves an actual problem or not?
That reminds me.

There was an old movie from the 1990s about Kellogg: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/entertainment/2019...
Back when I was commuting to an office, my favorite thing to learn about a building was where the least-used bathroom was. I would make my daily paid-to-poop pilgrimage to this sanctuary.

It was a slow and spiritual journey, like walking on knees to the Basilica of Guadalupe.
Many if not most Americans have some concept of kilometers and meters, especially anyone who runs, or is involved in sports outside of the big 3 American sports. We just tend to prefer the imperial, as we grow up using and interacting with it. Inches and feet are just easy to reason about in physical space on a human scale, they're great when you aren't trying to do more complicated math.
I never used named colors, I never knew why I should when we have color pickers.
But people care about them, interesting...
I agree that the original statement encourages that interpretation, but I think it admits the interpretation that the parser itself is in C and I think that is what was intended.
If you make argument 2) could you explain how writing a parser is more security critical than any other code that has a (direct or indirect) interaction with the network? At least recursive descent parsers are close to trivial. I usually start by writing a "next_byte" function and then "next_token". You'll have to look very hard to find any pointer code there. It's close to impossible to get this wrong and I don't see how the fact that it's a parser would make it any more dangerous.
Ah, sorry! Mea culpa. Permissioned vs. permissionless systems has been used for so long in my circles that I thought it was a thing...

Even "DeFi" systems may not be permissionless, though. It's just that the permissions are visible constraints (ie. in the code) -- not just randos deciding to deplatform you because, you know, "reasons".

This is an emerging risk to eg. Ethereum. Now, most "Staking" validators are "OFAC compliant". Does this mean that eventually the Ethereum blockchain will orphan any wallet that contains any Eth that went through the Tornado Cash mixer?

What if you decided to compose the Tornado Cash mixer into your payment app, to maintain some anonymity in the face of a repressive regime say throwing gay people off roof tops? Would you consider a permissionless system bad, in that case? Because, OFAC decrees that you are currently a criminal (and guilty without charge or trial) if you do so. What if they decide, next week, that whatever you do presently use is now verboten?

So, these concepts aren't "bullshit"; they are a present, serious concern to free peoples around the globe.
WooCommerce merchants can now offer crypto payments through Coinbase Commerce
Critical for the species on the universal timescale maybe, humans as we know them have been fine without it for ~300,000 years. Horseshoe crabs have been around for over 400 million years.

We might be better off spending the next couple hundred years focusing on making sure we don't destroy our own home before trying to move on to the next (or at least more comprehensive threat detection). There's a very good chance we'll off ourselves before we have to start worrying about anything at even a solar system scale, let alone galaxy or universe.
https://theoutline.com/post/4024/andrew-sullivan-sam-harris-...
The shareholders must be satified. The amount of satisfaction can never reach an upper limit, so everything is on the table in the name of infinite scaling.
I switched recently from Windows to MacOS and I have to say. This thing feels like a Linux OS that has decent app support. For an Apple product it's surprisingly open (not as much as Ubuntu for example), but still a lot better.

The fact is UNIX based also helps a lot of the development process. Microsoft added WSL which helped but doesn't beat having the actual thing.

Finally, the M1 chips are pretty damn good.
Quite a few games (eg: Starfox) in the 90's would use BSP in a slightly different way - purely within each object. The tree would be generated offline (mechanically or by hand), and would often be some sort of branching bytecode (test this, draw that etc.)

It was very useful to be able to use one plane test to discard a whole bunch of geometry, eg: a surface plus its detail, or everything visible through a window.

This still left the problem of sorting between objects - mostly a depth sort was just fine. Special cases like weapons on hardpoints, or vehicles in hangars could be handled by having some sort of 'call submodel' for spaces within the parent model. Beyond that, just dial up the hostile firepower until players stop complaining about rendering artefacts.
Why do you do that, does it have a health benefit?
The Experiment: The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune
I totally forgot about that, it's actually really good.
I'd say the jump from 480 to 720 is huge, and to 1080 is quite nice. 4K is already fairly marginal to my eyes and I can't imagine shopping for an 8K TV. Perhaps at a wall size TV, but I'm still quite well served by a 42" 1080p Sony TV I got in 2009 or 2010 (can't remember exactly).
This only makes sense if you were born and raised in San Francisco, Seattle, Milan, London, Dublin, Munchen, Berlin, Amsterdam or some other big tech city.

Otherwise your statement just doesn’t make sense.
> It says he was on vacation visiting as a tourist. Did you read the article?

The linked OP which I read is an article summary and that summary does not identify the author as a tourist on vacation.

I do not have access to the full article.
Excellent point, but how likely is a good outcome from this trade?

Assume that Twitter is 90% likely to tank at least badly enough that he has to cover the loans, and that $30B is entirely collateralized with TSLA stock (vs Twitter or some other assets).

That $30B is about 5.7% of the $527b market cap. Selling it all at once would certainly depress the stock. But would he have to do that, or just dump enough each month to make the payments? If that's over something like 5-10 years. it'd somewhat depress the curve, but enough to make a short work? If it's a 10-year timespan, it's more like 0.6% per year of 'extra' sales from the event, which seems getting down in the noise. Seems he's also make a variety of moves, e.g. a rollover loan, stock buybacks, etc. to minimize the impact on TSLA price...

What am I missing here?
My family uses Matrix. The default Element interface works in the browser, on desktop, and on mobile app. It was chosen as it's pretty much the only solution that is open-source, supports all devices, has E2EE, supports text/voice/video, and can be selfhosted.
> When that ends and the island is re-unified, we can start saying that colonisation is being addressed.

I objected to your use of the word 'colony' as it does not describe Northern Ireland. The social injustices you are referencing, and there have been many, do not make that word any more appropriate.

There is already a framework affirmed by the voters of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland that the a plebiscite on unification can be held. There is no occupation, and your language does nothing constructive.

It is also incorrect to say 're-unified' as there never was an all island Irish state.
I don't know about recruiting, but I know of at least three groups I've worked with (at different companies) that have indeed migrated together

Easily the most effective people I've seen at any of the organizations. It's been interesting as an outsider to watch

edit:
The peer comment from 'djtango' is on the mark in regards to fitting with the wider culture.

These groups are effective, but they also cause waves. It can be crazy when it's a unified team holding a position instead of newbies being steamrolled by status quo
> Takes an age to load up, but I guess once it's launched you can keep it open, so there is that.

I load up my editor once per day...if it's not still open from yesterday. You can CTRL+W to close a tab, but there's no reason to kill the whole app. I perpetually have a terminal, editor, and browser open. As long as CTRL+N or CTRL+T are instant, and it's instantly responsive after ALT+TABbing into the app, startup times are negligible/immaterial.

I guess that sometimes I'm in VSCode, while other projects might be in Notepad++, Visual Studio, or various vendor-specific IDEs, but a project will last weeks to months.

What's your workflow if not tabs and workspaces? Why would you ever close the whole application?
> do you really want those plastic utensils with your takeout?

There's a place where I always uncheck "include utensils" and they always give me 8 people's worth of them anyways.
I was using Sublime, and only switched to VS Code after starting to use Gitpod. But I gotta say that the whole exentions ecosystem is much better than Sublime's.
So you didn't see any nag for iCloud in the System Preferences/System Settings app?
I want to like Brair, but I have yet to find any one who does use it. Which is a shame, really.
Yes it follows from first principles, a well-insulated house has a structure that is being heated and retains heat (like a pizza stone) as well as the air itself. Heating air inside a cold structure is quite different from heating air inside a warm structure. So your evening heating will have to work harder to warm the structure back up that was allowed to cool in the day. The air in the evening will cool faster and the heating will have to kick back on again, dumping heat into the structure.

If you leave the heat on during the day (and that can be a few degrees lower) then you can keep the structure warm and avoid all that evening heat loss and cycling. But only if you have good insulation. Otherwise you’re just dumping heat out into the environment. The other factor is how cold it is outside, if the temperature gradient is steep then it’s harder to contain hot air.
Sure, I was thinking about software engineer salaries, but finance definitely has positions that pay FAANG wages. Those companies aren't really competing with FAANG though since they're looking for different people.
Archived copy that works without JS:

https://archive.today/Hz81c
Ask HN: Best ways to ask &#x27;Ask HN&#x27; questions on HN for a good response
First off I suppose I should ask if its okay to ask questions about asking questions, but maybe its too late for that now.

Anyways I am considering asking a question on HN and have not done so before so would like any advice on best pactices/methods..

So can anyone advise on how best to ask questions on HN to get really focused good quality responses, how to lead people to give most relevant information first yet still allow for some minor tangential digression without too broader question that insights lots of off topic response.

Also possibly making request for submission formatting such that automatic processing of the thread is possible.

For example if I asked submitters to try to make all answers in a form such that single sentence on a line with a '+' at the beginning showing that is a good thing to do, or a '-' at beginning showing its a negative factor toward goal.

How can I pique users interest to get the maximum number of replies?

What length of question is optimal, do longer question make the reader click next without bothering to finish reading?

Does anyone have any data on what topics have shown most interest(comments/replies) on HN and what proportion of really important highly rated comments go to which topics?

Should I specifically list things I do not want answered in the question?

Is there a best time to post a question on HN that it would get maximum viewing before falling off the first page yet still get good number of eyeballs on the post (when are highest rate of new submissions and highest number of reader viewings).

What have I not though of here in my question, am I missing something?
I'm really glad you wrote that.

I read the OP again, and didn't see any different.

But what I did see is the distortion in my own lenses. There's some
_reason_ I can't read the OP differently, and it's about my stuff.
Thanks for shining a different light on it.
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust suffers due to FTX collapse and doubts over reserves
>long term vs what it represents in the instance.

I did, and that's why I couldn't care less. SLS is abandonware. Starship makes it completely irrelevant
Sure. Some context may be needed. I suppose my views are formed in this way partially, because I became an MBA after having soul crushing jobs, which does tend to change your perspective a little bit ( and give you an insight into what is going on in a head of the front line drone that is forced to implement orders the best way he/she can ).

<< "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it"

1. It is wrong in a literal sense. You obviously can. Maybe you should not ( which is a valid question to ask ), but you absolutely can manage things and not measure everything.

2. It is wrong when taken metaphorically to a logical conclusion. The mantra seems to encourage ( and did encourage based on some of the things managers tried to measure -- lines of code come to mind ) measuring everything. In accounting, there is a concept similar law's 'de minimis' ( I kinda don't want to use that name, because I worry people wills start questioning that from tax perspective, which is its own animal I don't want to touch, but in practical terms, the name matches the concept exactly - basically 'too small to matter'), where accounting for some items in some processes is borderline pointless ( say a screw ). Every so often, people in accounting classes go 'but what if', 'but we can track it'. And the answer is invariably: 'You can, but is it worth it?'

Naturally, you could counter it with: 'Well, you don't know if you don't measure it.', but there has to be a point at which the tracking of atoms get too crazy.

So that is my basic thought on the matter. I can expand a little more, but I think that covers it. Note, I am not saying it is not worth it to measure stuff. I am saying it is important to be discriminating over what you pick to measure, because, people being people, will optimize for it.
I never suspected I would ever read a "we build our own database from scratch" success story. Wild.
Hmm yes you are correct. I didn't realize how common these meanings were...
I haven't seen this be a problem on MacOS with MakeMKV and a good external bluray drive (one a slim bluray and another a LG drive in a usb3 enclosure). I've had maybe 1 bad bluray disk that I backed up out of the hundreds of blu-ray disks that I own, and in that case it was the physical material separating on the disk itself.

Edit: I have one of the good LG drives that works well with Libredrive and as far as I've tested it can back up everything I've thrown at it.
NYC was fun in my 20s, but I could not believe the older people I was working with spent ~3 hours per day commuting to and from Manhattan and NJ/CT/NY.

Their entire life, Mon to Fri, was wake up, go to work, maybe spend an hour with kids or watch TV, go to sleep, and repeat.

And they did not get paid enough to do it from age 30 to 55 or even 65. The only amount of pay that would be enough would be an amount that allows you to quit that nonsense life after a few years.
I wonder if this would work on 32-bit systems? I had an old one and was surprised to see that Minecraft wouldn't run on it because of a video driver issue. It's odd to me to consider x86 hardware actual trash even when computationally capable of running something at a useful speed.
Yes, remote is actually "killer": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...
Somehow, I don't think pretty pictures are going to sway public opinion all that much. Maybe its a generational thing?

From what I found online after a quick search:

https://morningconsult.com/2021/02/25/space-force-travel-exp...
Isn't that the goal? If we can get rid of scarcity in materials and energy then everyone's living standards can go up. If we can move metal smelting off world, pollution goes down at the same time. Am I ignorant to think that would be a big positive for human kind?
Grayscale refuses to share proof of BTC reserves due to ‘security concerns’
"People who love Windows are still going to use, no matter how anti-consumer it becomes."

I do not know one single person who loves windows, but plenty of people who use it, including me, because a lot of software is windows only.
I’d say most people in my social circle liked it. I’m not sure what we have in common given we’re a fairly even mix of genders and ethnicities but I’d say we’re all fairly progressive (not saying you’re not, just postulating about ourselves) and enjoyed having fresh content. Many of us are tired of the usual marvel action affairs.

What we all seemed to like about the show was that it was lighthearted and funny, without overly dour world ending scenarios. It was clearly written with women involved because a lot of the humour was both targeted and different, which as a guy, I enjoyed because there were a ton of really great subversions of traditional male tropes in writing.

I liked that it was basically Ally McBeal.
.. or more pragmatically, safer languages where errors aren't exploitable to get remote code execution.

(I guess that semantics can also be seen as a formally verified property)
WSL is certainly not perfect. If we're just comparing default shell experiences though, WSL's environment destroys the default MacOS one. Default GNU tooling, updated bash version, a real package manager... Microsoft knows what developers want when they install Linux, and they did a nice job with the mis-en-scene.

Personally, using a Mac or Windows device is a sign that I'll be using VMs for development anyways. With WSL, that VM is tightly integrated with my host system - on MacOS it's a window into a different computer. Nowadays I'd prefer to avoid both OSes wherever possible, but I'd probably err on the side of using Windows for development simply because you can install Ubuntu with one click.
I think you are right, but on a more abstract level. I don’t think it is the rocket per-se (people don’t care about the specifics of technology), but a lot of people are asking: “whats the point”.

We know what the point is with James Webb Space Telescope, we know that the point is with each successive Mars rovers. But the moon seems just so pointless. We’ve been there, there is nothing there. We’ve also seen how capable robots are in space, and we continue to be excited to see each generation of robots outperform the previous, bringing in new and exciting discoveries and confirmations. For the moon, there is nothing to be excited about.
The Missing Middle in Tech Education
we are legion
At its core, "reduce" generally benefits both the environment and the bottom line. Additionally, many employees wish their company was more environmental, but cannot make their case unless it aligns with the business.

A slight rewording of your point highlights the opportunity: change happens when business and environmental needs align. This means, the people's best (only) play is to craft policies and institutions that align business incentives with environmental goals (e.g. emission cap 'n trade, grants, etc.). For example, a central repository of public holistic impact assessments could force PR teams to focus on real impact over trivial greenwashing campaigns.

While the national level gets the most focus, local/state governments can move move faster and serve as models for larger change.
The Feature – Product – Company Continuum
On my current gen Windows 11 box it takes 5-6 seconds to launch and 2-3 seconds to finish opening a new window, which to me is pretty jarring.
Wouldn't this effectively reduce the role of the custodian from "bank-ish entity" to "safe deposit box operator"? The custodial entity would need to hold on to the exact assets provided by the customer (the equivalent of your bank holding on to the exact $ bills you originally deposited), which means they couldn't be used for revenue generating activities like investing or lending, which in turn means the custodian could only make money through user fees.

Once the custodian is allowed to do anything that causes the exact tokens a customer deposited to be exchanged for another asset, that opens the door to FTX-style malfeasance.
This comment literally adds nothing to the conversation
Given. I'm just using the opportunity to draw attention to the fact "I wish I could see what's going on in your head" is a uniquely human desire, not the least of which stems from the desire to control.

It is telling, that the figure who is theorized to have that insight "loves us by fiat" and is argued not to exist, or be attainable in that argued perfection by humans.

The end result hopefully being to inspire in the reader an unambiguous understanding that whatever becomes of this technology, it'll be humanity's problem foisted on itself.

We don't have a great track record in handling such things.
Agreed on org mode. I'm more of a vim + vscode user, but I did try spacemacs once and org mode was a big take away for me.
I'd argue that the goals of manned space flight and meeting those goals are what put the USA on the path to be #1, so it seems to be to have something to do with manned flights.
Yup. This is a web app (so, hosting is required), and it was built in a few days by a newbie and is hosted on a few machines by some randos.

But, isn't that ... interesting? That something like this could be built and deployed and -- theoretically scale globally?

Just think of what could be done with a bit of planning and a (tiny) revenue model?
Sure, if you arbitrarily decide every comment is a meme.

It's amazing how everything is applicable to everything if you freely redefine the terms used.

edit: Sorry, that was a bit snarky. I think there's reasons why this applies to quick, punchy memes but not to longform comments: memes are antithetical to nuance.
As per the below poll, some people do care, but yes not the overwhelming majority.

https://morningconsult.com/2021/02/25/space-force-travel-exp...
I mostly liked this, except for the fact that the send message example doesn’t use an actual button for the “skip” button. It absolutely should be a button and not just text. Otherwise it’s a dark pattern trying to force the user into pressing the one that looks like a button. That is, in my opinion, not just a bad design choice but an unethical one. They can be colored differently because one’s the default, but they should both appear to be buttons.
Google Pay sharing payment details despite sharing options being disabled
Then what is: 1 << 33
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
This is shifting the goal posts away from anything I was arguing. Do better
Great results!

Side note: I'd recommend avoiding 'magic' branding in AI technology because it's going to be outdated in a week
To be named a winner, normally you have to win. But this is not always true
I don't know. It seems the plot has been lost and all the good intentions are just sound and fury, signifying nothing.

And maybe it's just that: billions of apes, mindlessly imitating each other.