skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thought is that the friction should be inherently enjoyable. Another person gives the example of an extension that adds 10 seconds to the load time of Youtube videos. This would be a great time to take a breath, clear the mind, think of priorities, and decide if the youtube video is worth watching.

If that 10 second moment of mental space and clarity becomes enjoyable, then you will not want to reverse the friction. The author's point here is that people often add /too much/ friction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330900

I propose that the right amount of friction requires an amount of self control that is enjoyable and refreshing - ie, only a /very small/ amount of self control can ever be sustainable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330900
This reads like content farm content.

- Hard to read

- Low information density

- Bad visual design

On the topic of the article, there are much better ways to do this. Getting things done is simply breaking dysfunctional habits/triggers/emotions around working and building better ones.
The guide lists four different GUI frameworks and the comments (so far!) have listed two more.* None of them really have claim to being the good "default" (except maaaaaaaaybe tkinter) and all of the "GUI-knowledge" is fragmented across them. I like Python but whenever I have to make a GUI, I shy away.

* Between starting and finishing this comment, someone brought up a third. Now we're up to seven!
OP here. I guess rather than "smarter" I meant to convey: less gullible, less vulnerable to being influenced by silly signals like someone's mannerisms and confidence, less reliant on unexplainable gut feels.

I guess when I think of professional investors picking some of these dogs, my mind imagines that scene in Moneyball[1] where the old timers are trying to pick baseball players by who "looks good," "has a good jaw," "how the ball sounds when it pops off his bat, and "what the player's girlfriend looks like."

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWgyy_rlmag
> there are still folks who don't want to lean into that

Honestly why would you cater to people who want to write worse code? Should Python have a mode with implicit type coercion too because some people can't be bothered to type `int()`?

> Class construction should be faster.

It's Python. You accepted your code would be extremely slow going in. Fiddling with the syntax isn't going to make it fast.
I've never touched mainframe stuff, what does Z/OS normally use as a shell?
> This is very similar in thought to the messy knock on effects of adjusting the federal minimum

maybe "sounds like" increasing minimum wages goes directly into consumer pockets. Increased costs due to interest rates do no go directly into consumers pockets. For example you look at the avg farmer, mortgage on the fields, loans on the equipment, and often lines of credit from suppliers for seeds, fertiliser and pesticides. All of a sudden the cost of all of those have increased directly related to interest, even if they raise the sale price of their crop or livestock, they won't make more income. And that money isn't going back into the system like wage increases.

And this compounds up the chain, the company moving the grain from the fields has loans on their trucks, so they raise costs. The middle men are marking it up by a percentage, so that compounds the costs. Than the distributors, and processors, also likely running on lines of credit, now with increased cost directly due to interest, but also marking up by a percentage, that's compounding. Every step that interest rates compounds with every markup and causes an increase all the way to the shelves.

Food and housing, are the two largest drivers of inflation, and also the cost is most directly effected by increasing interest rates. Building now costs more, and builders are also building less supply, because they build with lines of credit.

Everything is much more dependant on debt than ever before.
It didn't quite register as a "display" font variant usually does for me either -- the only feature is the width (it's a nonfancy sans-serif, what do you expect) so it somehow just feels like it's been squished. Intellectually I know it's definitely not a simple scale-transformation and must have involved some curve work to make it look less off, but I just can't shake the feeling of having seen text getting run over by a truck.
a program (as written) is either concurrent or not, a program (as executed) is either parallel or not

a program which is not written as concurrent can never be executed as parallel

a program which is written as concurrent can be executed as parallel, or not

> The situation you describe (when there's a single processor core) isn't parallel or concurrent.

a program running on a single core can never be parallel, but it can be concurrent

concurrent is a logical property, parallel is a physical property
Sometimes I wish there was a law that said if you knowingly say something that isn't true with intention to deceive then you can get sued for it.
Ask HN: How to get good at leetcode based coding interviews?
Just graduated from a T5 CS school but I find myself lacking confidence in leetcode-based interviews. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to my DSA course videos, are there any other resources that could help me? While I understand that putting in the effort to practice leetcode questions is crucial, I struggle to maintain focus during the process.
Do you know if a single account can invite people all the time or there's some limited number of generated invite codes?
Sadly very true. Most threads are very comparable to ChatGPT 3.5. I think one could recreate Reddit mostly with a LLM.
Very true. Whistleblowers' friends come and go, but their enemies accumulate.

(I repurposed that from an aphorism about being in politics.)
I agree, though the other issue for smaller places is that they are more susceptible to review-bombing by one disgruntled party (do we really need 6 reviews from 6 different people about how the same table had to wait an hour to get the check one time?) or "5 stars for 30% off" incentives (which I have unfortunately seen a number of, especially at small businesses trying to distinguish themselves).

Google Maps I still don't understand where they get a lot of reviews from in the first place. While some look like normal reviews, there's a lot that have no comments at all or comments completely unrelated to the place ostensibly being reviewed (or just cryptic things like "not good" or "good"). It's not a bad comparison to use alongside Yelp, but it's definitely led to more clunkers, especially for places with n<20 reviews.
Just because you didn't know about the concept doesn't mean the distinction is nonsense. I think they are similar but not the same, exactly for the reasons laid out in the comment you are replying too. Just because you hate the languages that support concurrent programming doesn't mean concurrent programming is meaningless. Any language using async/await (basically all of them these days) support concurrent programming, including languages such as Swift and C# which are nothing like Python or JavaScript.
Thanks for articulating what I meant by the social contract, Simon. I feel the same way, which is why I wrote the post.

General reply to other comments: y'all are right, the post is short and doesn't flesh out all the arguments necessary. But I think I captured the spirit of something about how we, the creators on the Internet, feel about the bargain we strike when we invest in sites like Reddit or Twitter or indeed, Hacker News here.
The Google monopole must be split up. Giving Google even more products is going in the completely wrong direction.
I know it seems like it wouldn't scale merely because we haven't seen it happen, but I don't think it's economically impossible or even economically difficult. I don't think there's any reason to believe that your costs go up more quickly than your income from donations/ads. Instead, I think what happens is you just don't get many users in the first place because all their attention ends up acquired by people willing to operate non-sustainable businesses with the aim of extracting value in the future.

If by some crazy fluke there weren't any highly motivated money-brains in the social media space, I'm absolutely certain a sustainable non-profit open source solution would exist in place of reddit and facebook, and it would eventually accumulate nearly as many users as those sites have. Maybe not as quickly, and maybe while throwing up donations banners at the same rate as Wikipedia, but it would happen. But you need to get impossibly lucky for the entrepreneurs to ignore "the space" when you have 100k users, and by 1 million users the scent of "alpha" has drawn so many of the biggest, meanest, smartest of the bunch that you need to be an absolute juggernaut of momentum and name recognition (like craigslist and Wikipedia) to have any hope of competeing.
Typically your new firm will cover your missed bonus.
This is total speculation, but maybe there is some kind of deal with the French government on the table.
It's simple: The people in charge only care about satisfying investors or having fun at a retreat.
If you click on "Official Rules" on this page[0] (located in the application form), it takes you to a google doc that says this.

> RIGHTS IN ENTRY MATERIALS. As between Entrant, on the one hand, and Sponsor and Partners, on the
other hand, Entrant retains all ownership of the Entry Materials. However by submitting an Entry, Entrant grants
Sponsor and Partners and their agents and representatives a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free,
sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify (solely for the purposes of transmission), distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and transmit all or a portion of the Entry Materials in
connection with the Contest, for promotional purposes and otherwise, including on and through third-party
distribution channels selected by, but not affiliated with, Sponsor or Partner.

[0] https://vercel.com/ai-accelerator
So where are the employees going to go for their in-office experiences?
We aren't taking equity in the participants. It's for individuals (not just startups) as well.
Yes this is great but the way non-competes are enforced for many in the industry this won't have a huge impact because of the way deferred compensation is structured. Most people when they leave are bound to two separate forms of non-competes.

The first is what is being invalidated here, which is a contractual non-compete. The second is a non-compete clause that is a function of your deferred compensation. Here the firm pays a portion of your bonus into the fund that vests over time. Often times a condition of the vesting is that you can leave, but if you do anything competitive for a 1-2 year period following the end of employment with the firm, that deferred comp will be clawed back. For most people this is the most important. It is common for a new fund to offer the employee a make-whole agreement where they will transfer your marked to market deferred comp into the new fund knowing that your prior employer will zero out your deferred comp. This will now in theory allow employees to switch employers that are competitive and start immediately with zero downside as long as the new employer makes the employee's deferred comp whole.

Where this is the worst is for new entrepreneurs leaving these funds that want to start on their own. Even if their contractual NC is no longer valid, there is not a new employer to make their deferred comp whole. Also even in CA where NC's are in theory non-enforceable, I know multiple people whose new employers did not want to test the water with very litigious firms and had people sit out the full NC. Also what this does not address is non-association clauses which are just as restrictive and non-competitive.

Lastly NC structures in this industry change every year and vary significantly across firms so you can't paint with too broad of a brunsh. But all in all I love this change. There is a lot of passion and talent that is forced to sit idle because of NC's.
Does this apply retroactively? If I am already in a non-compete in NYC is it null and void?
Ballmer being CEO of Microsoft for 14 years (and making himself $100B in the process) should be part of business school case studies for corporate mismanagement. He had no ability for the job, no technological understanding or vision, really no reason to be at the company at all other than being friends with Bill Gates in college. Microsoft as a company (along with its stock price) was stagnant throughout his tenure, and has grown 15x since Nadella took over.
Testing the battery life of Framework Laptop 13 (13th Gen Intel Core)
I don't use Yelp to determine if a place is good or not.

I use yelp for personal entertainment, because the outraged, bombastic reviews are often hilarious in how just beneath the surface are classist, racist, xenophobic and jingoistic undertones. These are among the few reviews I believe 100% are actually real people!
If your phone receives a message with certain data fields properly set, the message will be discarded without becoming visible to the user, or the user visible indication may not be obvious (sending a SMS to indicate there are / are not voicemails). If the sender had requested a delivery report and the carrier (and all intermediaries) forwards the message with the delivery report request intact, and the device sends a delivery report in response, and the carrier forwards the delivery report back to the original sender, the sender may be able to infer something from when they receive the delivery report.
> People understand that a T-Mobile customer can send a text to an AT&T customer. They understand that a Samsung owner can call an iPhone owner.

That was a hard-won victory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment

A hundred years later, we've got the same story, except today's Big Tech had wised up.
Zebra, a Rust implementation of Zcash, releases 1.0.0
> I look at the Vite feature list and lot of it reads to me as "Vite does this thing because Webpack did".

That's the thing - I don't believe this is true. I can honestly say that I've used most Vite features at some point. I love playing around with silly and over-complicated ideas, and with Vite there is pretty much always a feature that allows me to implement exactly what I want, or if there isn't, there is a plugin! This wasn't the case for me with Webpack. Let me show you a simple example: glob imports[1] are probably not something you think should be part of a "next generation" bundler, but when I tried implementing a feature based on the same requirement with Webpack, I simply couldn't! With Vite it just works out of the box, in all situations, without me having to manually implement it. It allowed me to implement a code browser that contains its own source code through glob imports in roughly 20 minutes (5 for trying it out, and 15 for implementing a web worker to keep performance up). Because Vite also makes web workers and everything else extremely simple.

And this goes for most features of Vite - they are features that would be a nightmare to pull together with plugins and the like, which I can simply enable in a wonderful config file.

> Meanwhile, esbuild is unequivocally a different thing than Webpack. (If it is a different thing than Parcel or Rollup, other than implementation language and speed, is a different conversation, of course.)

That's kind of my point, esbuild doesn't do anything really new. It just does what it does extremely well, same as Vite.

[1] https://vitejs.dev/guide/features.html#glob-import
> I just can't see Lemmy, Kbin, or Mastadon gaining much traction.

Me neither, but it’s worth a shot. I have set up a public Lemmy instance. Registration is open currently. Would be nice to see a handful of people join my instance.
> Pre-requisites

> In order to install the emulator you will need the following:

> An existing kubernetes cluster with sufficient space for ~200 pods.

https://github.com/21st-century-emulation/space-invaders-kub...
Many of the Python GUIs here are GPLv3, which unfortunately makes them a nonstarter in a lot of projects.
"Why would free API access be an implication of using reddit's service?"

Because they offered free API access for 17 years.

Same way Heroku breached a social contract when they got rid of their free tier: if you offer something like that for more than a decade, people will reasonably expect it to continue and will be angry with you if you pull the rug on them.
> that Copilot does not work on oss (vscode mit)

Wow, shame on me for not being as anti-corporate as my soul wants to be. I was really hoping they'd keep a clean Chromium model, even maybe with some closed extensions, but that is pretty awful.

Like, bad enough I might actually start casting side-eye on VSCode (rather than Codium) use. That just smells like they want all coding+copiloting done in an environment where they can watch every keystroke, "borrowing" your code from the second it leaves your fingers, through the editor, through GitHub, through Actions and Deployment. If it weren't for Copilot, I'm not sure I'd care but. Ew.

Thanks for continuing to talk about it, and sorry if you have hard feelings about the whole thing :(.
Good explanation! And in the case of "I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours" it wasn't just 100 times, it was 10,000 :-)
From the linked article

> those with COVID-19 had greater microglial reactivity than those in the control group, in a pattern that matched what was found in the mice.

This is evidence that brain fog isn't just "a culturally-conditioned response." Rather, we can physically measure an impact of covid on the brain.
Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
> Hacker News is the most intelligent bunch on the web. What can we do to help the Reddit mods to keep the steering wheel in their hands?

-- Citation needed.

But in all seriousness, I think that we can stress that continuing the strike for longer will help their goals. Secondly we can (as users) avoid using the reddit client.
huh, I guess seeing reddit like this makes some sense. kinda like Ankh-Morpork on the disk world: not free in any real sense, but free enough in practice for people to get done what they want done.

Not the bright future we had hoped for, but the one we built...
I think you're confusing the term "social contract" with "oral contract." An oral contract will usually be superseded by a written contract, but saying a written contract supersedes a social contract seems like a category error. One determines your legal standing, the other determines your social standing, neither really supersedes the other.
"In mice"
Trace quantities of fentanyl might be dangerous concentrations.
I tried to use GTK for a little project at work and I couldn't figure out how to make it look decent.

I ended up making a flask app and launching a browser. It seemed to be 100x easier.

I would prefer to make native GUI apps but it's just so much more difficult.
> What does Microsoft really get? Maybe in the beginning, telemetry was the real answer, from whichever developers didn’t opt out.

This is beside the main point of the article, but: as a developer, it's true telemetry is critical for building a good product. Knowing which parts of your app are underutilized or need improvement is extremely important - without hard data, you're basing your project on a hunch. However, telemetry is worth zero in and of itself.

If the article author thinks Microsoft is magically turning their VSCode latency data and error stacktraces into metric tons of cash money, they're probably mistaken.
I agree with you. /r/legaladvice is the peak example of this; as someone who enjoys reading threads there and generally avoids commenting as I'm no lawyer nor legal expert they've become practically unbearable as more and more ignorant people comment freely and without restraint.
Fully distributed PostgreSQL, optimized for the network edge
> "Due to the way cellular networks are designed, it is difficult to prevent Delivery Reports from being returned to the originator making it challenging to thwart this covert attack without making fundamental changes to the network architecture..."

As a high volume SMS sender in a previous job, I can say this is pretty untrue. Plenty of carriers or intermediaries would block or spoof delivery reports.

I found that requesting delivery reports tended to increase actual delivery, but receiving a delivery report didn't provide any meaningful indication of receipt and lack of receiving a delivery report similarly didn't provide meaningful information.
Do you have more info on a policy change at Stack Overflow? The latest dump on their own post is from March 2023. In the past dumps have mostly been monthly but it's not entirely consistent. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/224873/all-stack-ex...
There’s still a social contract that is supra the ToS: treat me and my contributions well and we will stick around. Stop, and we won’t.

Yes, Reddit can (try, at least) get away with anything they claim in the ToS — but community members have every right to step away and render Reddit valueless because they have been told that they are not valued.

Pretending that a legal contract supersedes a social contract is wishful thinking. They are orthogonal.
I told him not to turn on Windows Update.
Discussed at the time:

I may be the only evil bit user on the internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10632856 - Nov 2015 (36 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so and links to past threads are just to satisfy extra curious readers!)
Obviously it's higher than zero, else the market for accounts wouldn't exist.
HTTP GET is an API. All you have to do is not block well-behaved scrapers.
Also, due to ethics rules, you aren’t allowed to open a computer to probe it with your broken multimeter unless it has already died. With a lot of paperwork, you may be allowed to probe an abacus and extrapolate the results to a computer.
I keep seeing people swear by the NY Times' Wirecutter and they do have a much more upfront set of standards for reviewing products, but I've actually been pretty underwhelmed by the recommended buys from them. Still, I respect that they're trying. Wish that Consumer Reports was more easily available now too.
if programming language were human, what would dumb-smart and lazy-energetic be?

my take:

dumb languages would be ones that have few concepts, can be made smarter thru evolutionary iteration (committee adding new concepts)

energetic languages would be ones that require much typing (assume efforts = typing), can be made 'lazy' internally by macro (code that writes code) and externally by code generation (ai, ide etc)
Far-right domain host Epik cleaved off its debt-riddled assets in sale
Not the increase in scale or removal of accountability?
That is my question, do the WFH or will they be fired ?

Another question, shouldn't this cause Twitter's bond rating to fall ? That would mean they will see an interest rate raise, thus costing Musk more.
You sure can and nobody can blame you.
It's exciting to see all these AI funds and credits, does anyone has a list or website of active funds available? We recently got granted 15k on OpenAI, but would love to get more ;)
Well I haven't seen anyone mention Flet, which is pleasant (if maybe not all that complete) if you have Dart/Flutter experience, so increment your counter at least one. :-)

https://flet.dev/
Could be individual salespeople doing it, and probably without Yelp truly "knowing". I worked at a nationwide gym once upon a time, and it was common for salespeople to trick people into signing long term contracts.
> NextJS increasingly looks like just a way to sell serverless with goin all-in on RSC

Serverless because it can't work in a serverfull setting?

"Looking at the next.js repository, there are a lot of memory leak issues, often without resolution / response": https://community.fly.io/t/high-memory-usage-in-deployed-nex...