skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on your launch! It seems well designed and well thought though from a UX perspective. The landing page is also very simple and easy to wrap my head around.

I'd be tempted to use this for a small side project, but I'm not sure it has a huge draw when getting to the paid tiers. There are plenty of competitors out there and this doesn't seem to have a niche that this serves any better than them. Open source is great but I'm not sure it's a strong differentiator in this case.

I'd probably compare this to something like Plausible Analytics. They lean heavily into privacy-friendly, and easy GDPR/CCPA/PECR compliance. It being open source is what gives you confidence to use it, knowing that if the small business did disappear you can continue using the product on your own infra for as long as you want. OpenStatus seems to be trying to lean on the fact it's open source, but if their SaaS business failed it would be trivial to move to a competitor without much consideration. It's not delivering anything different, and it's not baking itself into my app or infrastructure, so moving is the case of setting up with a competitor and moving a subdomain.

I really hope you're able to make it work and get profitable though. Having high quality open source options is really fantastic, I just think it's going to take more to cement a place in the market.
Yeah, whatever.

They're a pirate media app, like Plex. But the MOMENT you say that a thing doesn't work and they ask for examples, you're booted if you say it was this or that show.

Face it, this isn't for home movies. This is for bulk piracy loaded in from the Arrs suite. The more they are truthful with themselves with that, the better they'll succeed.
I'm sorry but I find your position and expressed attitudes to be patronizing. They are words I would expect from someone who's assumption is that they know better than the other people they talk to in life.

I've no idea what you meant by your reference to college grad / swe1 but it certainly didn't lessen the above-described impression.
This paper is discussed in part of Tom Scott's 2019 video "There Is No Algorithm for the Truth": <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&33m36s>, which is also an excellent portrayal of the concept and brings the conversation to more recent media landscapes.
> If the candidate is perfect because of the skills, work ethic, etc. then they by definition have merit, so that's not the type we're talking about.

I mean like that "nobody got fired for choosing IBM"-type perfect fit.
I had ideas for exactly such an app.

Very interested in the unexpected correlations it can find, especially with respect to health.

The main trouble is how to deal with keeping it secure/private/anonymized, while also making the data open for others to run queries on.
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I don't think it was that, it was how amazing their announcement video was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99qJGrPNLs

I still watch that thing sometimes because it was so good. I think people reacted to the potential of the ideas put forth in that trailer.

in hindsight, I'm pretty sure that video was used to gauge interest before they started building the game, but for many of us it was a sign of what could be. And I think a large part of the response to Cyberpunk's release was what it wasn't.
You CAN'T do any of these things in Unicode in general, in all of its encodings.

There's no random access in Unicode. It's a stateful system that requires linear scan.
A more charitable interpretation would be that the author is being tactical in addressing a discipline where the dominant fashion has been to critique or dismiss scientific methods. By packaging “let’s be more scientific” in an argument that sounds like “let’s not be narrowly prescriptive about epistemologies”, they may have a better chance at getting through to the most relevant target audience.
Why not? There are people out there that manufacture their own ammunition. This wouldn’t surprise me at all.
> - A tendency for managers to gear up more heavily with negative rather than positive feedback prior to reviews to reinforce their evaluations

> - A tendency of some reportees to play the performance review game, focusing on keywords and using selected past experiences to justify high performance behavior

Creating a system that defines pay will result in employees optimizing around that system.

> - High expectaions of raises/promotions every performance review, i.e. twice a year

> - Anxiety and frustration related to recurrence and size of pay raises and promotions

All of life is more expensive than last year and the year before; company profits still quite high.

> - Subpar experience for the team. I would like for them to have a more fufilling and impactful performance review experience.

They're there for the pay. Unless the performance review results in more money and/or a better life, you're not going to get a "fulfilling and impactful performance review experience". This is coupled by new hires generally getting comp offers at or above current staff comp rates. If you want people to feel good about their role, you have to pay them at or above what they'd make leaving for somewhere else.

> Are you having a mostly positive or negative performance review experience?

I've never really seen a process that wasn't toxic and anti-employee. Performance review biases towards managerial traits and away from individual contributor traits, IME, such that individual contributors that aren't interested in management score lower than aspiring managers, even if their actual job is unrelated to management. Similarly, performance is measured against The Next Role as opposed to the current job. As in, you're compared to the role above yours, suggesting you'd want it, rather than your actual role. You could look like a great employee if you only cared about your current job, but performance reviews are generally (kind of uselessly) focused on promotion. Coupled with the aforementioned managers' track, it's usually a pretty shitty experience.
If I buy an Apple phone, tablet, and computer, that will be 100% of my computing infra, which is all that matters to me.
Whoops I missed this reply!

I think it's absolutely an opinion piece - defining specific items as principles by definition means expressing opinionated ideas about the relative priority of those items over others. Also, imperative mood contains value judgment, which is inherently opinion-based (e.g. "Never expose PII"). Making arguments for why you should or should not do things requires expressing opinions about relative importance, weight etc.

If this were instead an article describing what feature flags are, or one performing a survey of various approaches to building/scaling them, I think the lack of voice is just fine - that's dealing in statement of fact. But this article mandates and implores and exhorts - the value judgments inherent in that pathos are empty without genuine authorship.

Also I'm not saying the lack of voice is bad even for conveying meaning or teaching - more that it is jarring and uncanny to read imperative claims in an empty robotic voice devoid of ethos.

Finally, I also might be biased by my first documentation love, the zeromq guide, which is an extremely-strongly-opinionated piece of docs that does its job exceptionally well. I think when writing about how or why, a strong writer's voice is more compelling. This article stretches past just the what into those other question words, so its seeming lack of authorial authority falls flat to me.

Thanks for giving me an excuse to blabble lol.
I love my CD collection, also been collecting since 1989/90, a new one arrived in the mail today and I buy used on eBay frequently. It's a musical guide to my life since then. I also went through the MP3/streaming route but it's not the same experience at all. I like the ceremony.
So common and fruitful of a source of interesting stories that Isaac Asimov made a career on writing stories about how 3 simple rules can go all sorts of wrong in the right circumstances.

If people thought AI was going to be perfect because of sci fi, they weren’t actually paying attention.
I do. The royalty system for music, TV, and movies are all actually quite mature - artists receive a few pennies per play. It adds up quick and can easily make a living on royalties.

And why would that be the ceiling? AI only expands their existing markets and revenue streams
This is roughly what we have now. Twice a month we organise a company wide update/demo session on Friday afternoon with drinks and food afterwards. Most work in the office that day and use the day for larger in-person meetings.

Some people come in a few days a week in other weeks as well. Some really only come in those two days. A small number of people nearly never come in (always dial in). It doesn't seam related to travel time, more to personal preference for being out of the house / in an office.
I did, thank you! I recently got into reading again after a long time, and tried a few different websites before I found Hardcover through Reddit. Really happy I didn't settle. The amount of feedback you all take is really incredible and exactly what me and my friend were looking for - a great team alongside a great website that we want to support. I really didn't want to support Amazon. Excited to see what comes next!
In the AppleTV series Foundation, there is a scene where a “mentalist” says that feeling the suffering of the food they are eating/about to eat, makes them more thankful and more careful/thoughtful about the things they consume

I don’t think we are going to stop eating plants anytime soon, but maybe seeing them (as well as animals) as conscious beings, could help us respect nature more and change our relationship with the world we inhabit in a positive way
It's not an OS, it's a client-server application.

Ignoring physical appearances, it presents large libraries nicely and allows you to use your phone or remote instead of needing to fiddle with a laptop.

A few other nice features: can stream different content to multiple devices, users can be given access to specific libraries, and content can be age gated.
What about a 17th century dueling pistol?
An API for Song Lyrics
Really depends on the gun to some degree. There’s collectibles that are worth more left alone, especially old stuff pre modern ammunition. But lots of old but not that old stuff its more or less expected you’ll fire it to test it works on receipt.
My underlying assumption here is that public schools fail to educate kids primarily because they never feel the consequences of failure. If a private school fails, its attendance dwindles, funding drops, heads roll, and it closes if the problem isn't fixed. Not so for public schools -- the money just keeps on rolling in.
> > And how many people were much more productive because other people didn't keep popping over their cubicle walls and interrupting them?

> My intuition is that the trade-off is worth it.

Then my intuition is that you were one of the people popping over walls.

(You weren't? Well, your intuition is worth about as much as mine.)

(You were? Well, then you've got a vested interest in believing that that was better.)
"unhosted web apps" is a series of articles that explore some avenues to this: https://unhosted.org/
I love Python, but I also love the ability to tell what is what.

I kickstarted a project in Python a decade ago that was wild on dynamic typing. As it passed a critical threshold of ~10k LoC, it became nearly ummaintainable.

What's that `response` passed here? A verbatim response object from `requests`? A proxy mapping? Bytes? A JSON string? If so, a list or a dict? And what fields are inside?

Multiply it by tens or hundreds of methods and classes, and it's easy to see why projects based on purely dynamic patterns fail to scale.

By now I have almost completely rewritten that project to use type hints everywhere I could. And guess what? In 95% of the cases I knew exactly what was being passed - or the choice was about 2-3 types at most, so a Union sufficed.

Yes, there's a 5% of cases where Python's dynamic typing features are a blessing. The power of meta programming in Python is often underestimated. Reflection is amazingly intuitive compared to the patchwork mess of Java, Kotlin and friends. Everything can be mocked without hassle and boilerplate. And duck typing can really be useful sometimes.

But, again, in an average project I wouldn't expect code that benefits from these features to make up more than 5-10% of the codebase.

For everything else, just do yourself, your future self and anyone who will work on your code a favour, and use type hints.
Very glad to see the change to Apache license, and super happy the code is even source available. I was more referring to the perverse incentives that every company built around open source faces with regards to documentation. It may be less so the case here, but there probably is some incentive to make the docs subpar, or not a strong incentive to make them fantastic - it’s a difficult thing to balance.

Side note: I’ve been loving the Postgres.FM episodes, thanks so much for doing them!
Only if they are claiming it still works and are asking for more money due to that. And still, only if you care enough to verify it works as they claim.
It does if you fat finger it and accidentally click the Facebook link that's one line above on the mobile layout.
Would be great if more stuff like this come out. With modern almost nanotech level electronics everyone still make tablet size phones. A little bit thinner would be great, like 1st iphone or even ipod nano 7
Not sure about code quality (what I’ve seen of Jellyfin seems fine-ish?) but I can attest that I tried probably a half-dozen times over a span of years (from when it was still XBMC, up to about 3-4 years ago) to use Kodi, and I don’t think my watching:screwing-with-the-system ratio ever got much better than 1:1, and nobody else around would use it, after perhaps a tentative and disastrous initial attempt.

I’ve been using Jellyfin for about three years. Spouse, kids, and friends use it without difficulty. My watching:working ratio is probably like 50:1 (mine personally, not combined for all users) or better, and I don’t do it all on easy mode (I’m including time learning and administrating ZFS pools, for instance)
Another issue with luxury watch crowd is that they have truly skewed definition of what is meant by “works”. The primary function of a watch is to keep time with reasonable precision, not to be an overengineered piece of mechanical complexity.
They don't follow orders very well because they don't follow orders at all. Even if they could recognize trickery they wouldn't "know" that they're supposed to reject it. If the model predicts that the "evil" response is more likely than the "good" one, that is what it will produce.

These are sequence predictors. The fact that they sort of talk like people doesn't mean they work anything like people.
I was frustrated about the allow-list for the longest time but someone on Reddit showed me how you can do allow-list on Plex. I forget the terminology (and you have to be careful because there are both tags and labels, I had been trying the wrong one) but you basically create a label and set the children accounts to only see content tagged with that label.
I bought a Citizen Eco watch in 2003 for around £120. I still wear it and it still performs all functions correctly. One part of the wristband sports a bit of paperclip for a joint - "jury rigged" by me. The back of the watch has four quadrant shaped solar panels and the have charged the cell for 20 years so far.

I run quite a few ntp time sources at sub milli-second and generally better accuracy (at work). My watch is quite decent for drift. It is far better than I actually need for a wrist watch.

Now, $17,000 for a thing on your wrist for time telling? Apple wankery involved ... please tell me it ain't so!

Quality does not always involve a sodding huge price tag and in this particular case Apple's S&M dept took their eye off the ball and went for a trot around noddy land waving their hands and looking a bit silly.
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The deal with representative governance (everywhere that is practiced) is that our representatives are supposed to protect us from "two wolves and a sheep" situation where the majority seek to impose unreasonable measures upon everyone.

This said, the imposition of required masking was most certainly at least top-down. Bottom-up social movements rely on shame and social exclusion. We saw that, of course. Top-down social control relies on the force of the state. We saw that too.

There's nothing wrong with my neighbors requiring masks for their pool party. I can voluntarily wear the mask, or not attend. It's my choice: nothing has been forced on me and nothing has been denied me without my consent.

There is plenty wrong with the state requiring me to wear a mask in public, or to shelter in my house except for time-, activity-, and location-boxed exercise, or to avoid peaceful assembly for certain purposes at threat of having the justice system turn it's eye (and the long arm of the law) my way. I don't care if a supermajority think oppressing people on behalf of the safety of everyone is the right way to handle pandemic disease, because it isn't ethical or even allowable under most of the forms of government we've built. It's telling that the majority (maybe all, I don't have a counterexample) of mask mandates were instituted with executive powers.

If such thing were to be desirable, it should be required to pass through the halls of lawmakers, be enacted into law, and stand the scrutiny all other laws should be expected to face. That that process takes time, may not result in the initially desired (or any) outcome, and that any resulting law may be struck down by the courts are all features or the system that help keep the public safe from tyranny. In the interim, the bottom-up pressure that should be driving the lawmakers should also drive the public. If it doesn't, it's probably lobbying, not a bottom-up movement.
>> acquiring customers is not free

No it is not and you are right. In the fossil days of startups (1985 - 1995) you bootstrapped or literally built the first solution for a customer who is desperate for the solution. Oracle was launched like that. Larry was a contractor who built software for the CIA. One day Larry writes an RDBMS as defined by Stonebreaker. CIA wants information not software systems. Larry asks "can I go sell this to others, I know you paid for it all". They are like - for sure! Go for it!

After that it's pure conjecture. I think he secretly teamed up with Chuck Norris to form a late 80's Japanese Aesthetics and Cultural Appreciation group. After that he pipped Oprah to the post by giving away cars to people but I think for entireley the wrong reasons.

WebTV was launched on a $5000 cheque from a colleague. Sold 18 months later or something silly for $400m to Microsoft. Oh I will never forget the smile on Steve Perlman's face that day, lol.

But before I get lost in a Raymond Reddington anecdote -> Reframe the low revenue as "We could have had ten times that number of customer if you had funded the inefficiency in the market place and let us own it." It's kind of what Elon Musk did when ALL of his investors wanted to bury him and what they saw as a fast rising embrassment of what was Tesla. At that meeting he pretty much said "fuck it, I'l fund it and take all the upside myself." Next thing you know...no one wants to be that investor who said no.
It's a last gen CPU and will soon be two gens out of date. Makes no sense to pay list price for it.
That would depend.

As a buyer, you would need to decide for yourself whether you want a guaranteed working firearm or not.

And in many cases, the owner will test fire the firearm before putting it on auction anyway.

Old Martini Henri rifles, dueling pistols, even muskets in some cases.
Can you quantity that?
> Top 3 games by units sold are american

Counting Minecraft and Tetris as American games? I suppose Microsoft bought Minecraft and EA licensed Tetris, but that seems to speak more to the business sense of American publishers than quality of American software development.

Eleven out of the twenty best-selling games are Japanese, and 28 out of the top 50.
Faith in Jesus is the primary one. There's many given in the next two chapters of Matthew which come after that quote, and I'd say they all hinge upon belief in Jesus and his teachings (i.e., faith).
I wasn’t going to namedrop in my original comment but oh my the horrors this format brings back.
No I don’t agree. That is outrageous.
What makes Sapling SCM different & an improvement over git; from a little googling it seems to be a skin over the top?
They are sequential, where they are in a sequence where one is clearly before or after another.

They're not monotonic.
It depends, but the general rule is that the older it is, the less people want to see it in active use. At some point it's about preservation over anything, but there's also the safety concern! A firearm is a very dangerous thing in failure mode, so at some point a firearm is both too historically valuable, and too damned dangerous to fire.

Source: Forgotten Weapons and Royal Armory youtube channels
As if one Dev would make that money. I'm definitely making below market rate at this gig. if I were interested in fleecing public money I'd have taken the defence contractor's offers.
As someone who actually works with a lot of basic computer users, you are incorrect.

Nobody has ever struggled to understand files or folders. My 80 year old aunt has a preference for the names of her email folders. My 11 year old nephew has a sorting system for his little game mods.

No the main issue is exclusively "crap". To quote my mom on a recent call: "How do I make this thing go away?" (It was a notification about some new cloud service).

Breaking user patterns is a close second - especially anything to do with file management.