skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same reason why Wikipedia contributors do not want to be paid, and why cryptocurrency-based wikis failed.

Money is not always the best incentive. It is leaking in every part of our society, sometimes in a destructive way. It's great for innovation and infrastructure, but not for our social life and human rights.
I'd say it even magnifies it to borderline cartoonish extremes. Twitter in particular is the loneliest place on Earth.
> An ugly problem with an attention economy is that you are rewarded for seeming useful and interesting, but once the attention has been given, there is no incentive to actually deliver

> To be fair, most web users are happy with the arrangement - they get an endless feed of free tiny doses of dopamine while they avoid the real responsibilities of life.

I'd argue it's mostly the latter. Most creators produce content to make money, catering to demand.

Ancient Aliens BS, TikTok reaction videos, blatant staged animal rescues, celebrity drama... this is what the general populace regards as interesting and useful. These are all genuinely popular and sought-after content.

It is a dopamine trap. People want to feel good knowing something special, feel a shared emotional bond, feel the world has good, or that they are almost a socialite... and they'll fight tooth and nail if that perception is challenged.
Its very easy to look at your own time, and the particular details of your time, and see something unique and special, but it's rarely true. The quick-talking-stream-of-connsciousness bullshitter aptly describes snake oil salesman and evangelists also. It's the bread-and-butter of classic carnival barkers, and the heart of the con.

SBF is the same classic huckster, but wrapped up in a hoodie.
Although it might be true that the existing vendors don't provide a good experience, I'm still a little miffed that the OP does not even mention the existence of the existing vendors.
That Mercedes-Benz system is a glorified adaptive cruise control and has several limitations that Tesla autopilot does not have.

> There must be a vehicle in front of your car, reasonable road conditions with readable markings and lines, and clear weather and light conditions. Drive Pilot can’t be used at night or in the rain, and the headlights and wipers must be set to auto for it to work.

> It’s also only available on freeways that have been mapped by Mercedes, with GPS positioning that is precise to the centimeter and even accounts for continental drift. Drive Pilot can’t be used in construction zones.
I'm not even sure I like this framing with "exceptionalism" (positive or negative) applied to these folks.

It's totally possible for someone who is exceptional in one way (e.g. rich and famous) to be quite pedestrian, boring and mundane otherwise.
That’s super interesting. I would like to learn more about this divergence as what I have said is something that felt common sensical to me. Can you recommend some resources?

Also if the what you are describing is true then we prolly need more divergence than what we currently have.

I am also curious (this is specifically about USA) how effective these limiting of ownership expressions might be if bribery was not legally permitted (lobbying). Like for example imagine the policies and the quality of life of parents if there was a “National Association of Parents” that advocated for the masses. Think powerful like NRA but for parents and children. Call me an immigrant but it baffles me that people of this country don’t have something like this.
Although it remains technically possible to issue hereditary peerages (and indeed because Parliament is sovereign even if it was no longer possible they can just change the rules) there haven't been any issued to non-Royals in my lifetime and it's unlikely that under any foreseeable circumstances more would be created.

Forth years ago maybe if you married into royalty somebody (well, Liz) would green light a hereditary peerage for that, but today that's frowned upon. I'd guess the other plausible route might be to do something so incredibly famous and heroic that a George Cross is seen as inadequate. Maybe a mad terrorist with a dirty bomb threatens to detonate it inside a central London orphanage, live on TV and you single handedly defeat them despite being unarmed? I dunno though, I think a week later people would be like, "The medal is fine, and he can go on a celebrity cooking show or something, we don't need a new peerage".
You win the internet for today.

human connection doesn't scale

Before they tried to figure out why certain schools were always failing (curriculum, etc), they honed in on another very simple cause. Overcrowded classrooms. Soon as you go from 18 kids per room, to 28, you’re in trouble.

The internet didn’t become any more or less of anything. It just scaled the base initial value of numofHumansInvolved to 8 billion. But’s the only thing that scaled, that number.

It’s like scaling water pipes out throughout the city without scaling filtering system also. You are still basically circulating dirty water.
I hate to give indie rock recos, but you may really like the album "Perfect from now on" by the band Built to Spill.

Here's lyrically one of my favourites from the album: https://genius.com/Built-to-spill-randy-described-eternity-l...
Fully agree with you there! As I said, I'm merely interested in getting a rough picture of the demographics (INB4: selection bias etc.). I find the statement you mention just as problematic as if you were to switch out the ethnic identity with _any_ form (self-identified) identity. That being said, I don't see anything problematic about looking at population demographics and then asking _why_ some identities are over- or under-represented. This poll should not be used for that, though :-)
Why do you need Netflix and Disney and YT at the same time? How much free time do you have in a month?
A database is essentially a server synchronizing access to the filesystem.

Except in the case of sqlite, which is serverless and relying on the filesystem itself for synchronization.

In theory it's going to be worse, though if there is low contention you might have some latency advantages due to not having the server hop.
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> while other content creators get a click automatically.

A number of times now Youtube has shown me a video recommendation that I ignored for days. The thumbnail with that stupid "gobsmacked" expression of the creator (:-O) with some dumb headline in big block letters ("IS GRAVITY A LIE?"). You know what I'm talking about.

Then I finally get around to looking at it closer, and it turns out it's one of my favorite channels with an awesome video! They went with the stupid title and thumbnail because "the algorithm demands it". The actual video itself is great.

These creators get an automatic click from me as well, except when I'm mislead by the thumnail and title into not even realizing it's one of them. Then it takes time for me to discover it. There's been a couple of times where the video I'm mentally spam-filtering appears on the HN front page, and it turns out to be a great video. But had I not seen it here, I would never have clicked on it.
What's surprising to me is that they always hype these pilots as being the most high-trained and smartest people in the planet.... and more often than not it sounds like they don't know what parallax is?
Quality software deserves your hard-earned cash
I'll add, it's kind of baffling to hear that things are stable, there are just ton of issues you can't get to.

I'd posit that Next has a ton of users, and a ton of issues, because it prematurely marks features as stable, and then markets them aggressively. Instead of working through these issues in beta with a manageable number of early adopters with aligned expectations, Next gets more than they can handle, frustrated that features sold as production ready are not. This, to me, is a questionable business strategy, not a sound technical one.
Why? Are you going to make your own mayonnaise for 2 tablespoons?
Mine arrives tomorrow since the MyQ API is borked. Good riddance.
shit in every swimming location is not a factor???
I use pseudonymization in the sense of having persistent identifiers for users/machines/etc that cannot be reversed on the server side.

Basically: just like the usernames on hn are pseudonyms it’s important they are persistent so you can follow who wrote what despite not being able to attribute posts to physical persons. That is: hn is a pseudonymous forum rather than anonymous.

The hash(localSalt + PII) is provably not PII. But it’s still making the data possible to correlate. The telemetry event I send on Monday can be attributed to the same source as the event I send on Tuesday.
I had the same positive experience with Software Foundations.

There is another book somewhat derived from it (if I understand correctly) using Agda instead of Coq: https://plfa.github.io/

I haven't had the chance to go through it yet, but it's on my list - I think Agda (and as mentioned by another commenter, Idris) is likely to feel more like a programming language than Coq.
Beyond the incredible quality and quantity of his work starting from early in his life, what makes Terence Tao memorable to me, is his approachability and willingness to write advice for mathematicians and math students in a blog: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/

He also has an active Mastodon, which further makes him more approachable: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao

It's rare to see a professional at the top of an academic field remain so encouraging to other people in the field, and work to make their work accessible to colleagues across different levels of mathematical maturity.
IIRCC it's not recommend to have swap on a zvol. So you would need a non-zfs managed partition/device for swap.

Not sure about current status?

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/7734

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/342

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSForSwapM...
It was clear when IG made this cutover ~5 years back. It was a fun platform for photographers to share work and make connections with random people throughout the world I'd never know. I even met a few IG friends IRL while traveling oversees.

Slowly with the algorithmic feed and influencers, it became fairly hard to "reach" the people who had organically followed me, or to see the photos of the people I organically followed. Became less of an outlet for my hobby and more of a chore.

Was interesting seeing my "follower" numbers double or triple while my "engagement" numbers went down 90%. Eventually was just family/friends I knew pre-IG, plus random bots.

Seems like the curve of all social media platforms as they monetize & popularize.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

Cunningham's Law: Post something wrong online so you can get a correct answer.

Half the ChatGPT answers on here seem to be wrong in obvious ways or, worse, subtle but critical ways. When people post them they get downvoted, and other people chime in with "Why are you trusting a fabulist like ChatGPT instead of going to actual resources with definitions and explanations that aren't garbage? Here's what it actually is..."
Thanks! The results were what I expected and depressing, but at least now I know.
Olive oil is a natural laxative. If you're gaining weight on olive oil, I'd be impressed, beyond how one would keep it down due to taste and texture.

People aren't gaining weight on olive oil because people aren't consuming it in mass quantities required to gain weight, if one could even do so after having your intestines coated by oil. But many are consuming highly processed foods which is shown to lead to less optimal health outcomes.

> clearly

Clearly a post on HN doesn't make for a scientific study!
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> the bread-and-butter of classic carnival barkers

Who were widespread in the industrial era. Less so before. (In part because peasants didn't have the disposable income to scam.)
Now someone needs to organize an edition with a large, stainless steel pan. I'm sure they can source the rock locally.

Alternatively, they could bring a shovel and work harder.

Extra bonus points if they eventually also bring a stainless steel thimble.
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I don't know, but also this is not a question that interests me. I'm not looking for tech for the sake of tech. I'm looking to solve my problems, and this solves my problems - that's all I care about.
> the same category that "the little guy" has to be the good guy.

Definitely present in Moneyball where the A's are the good guys - they play a similar role as Burry, exploiting inefficiencies in the market created by the big, bad guys (e.g. the Yankees, or housing lenders), for profit.
One of your replies got some of it but I think it misses some other factors so I'll take a swing:

Costco requires a yearly membership to shop there, which along with the shopping (if you go for the more expensive membership anyway) also gives you yearly cash back on all your purchases, which if you go there for the essentials you can, really does add up quite a bit. My wife and I get basically everything we can from there and usually end up with about $250 of essentially free money per year, and despite being Costco cash, if you go there and don't spend it all, you just get cash in return. Clearly they want you to use it there, but it is required.

Additionally there's an element of curation, though this is more subjective. Walmart will sell anything they can get their hands on, and Costco by comparison has a reputation for selling not exactly the top end bespoke stuff, but at least good stuff. I can recall maybe 2 times in the entire time I've shopped there for the last 6 years or so that I've gotten something I was disappointed in the quality of.

In addition you have the other things like the free samples everywhere, there's much less impulse buying on offer, it just feels... I don't know, you just feel like they actually give a shit? Maybe not a huge shit but a shit and finding businesses that give even a microscopic shit is pretty hard these days. And along with that, they pay their employees extremely well (in the context of retail anyway).

And also like, it's a bit classist for sure, but I do enjoy that there are no "people of Walmart" there, for the same reason I go to Target instead of Walmart for whatever I can't get at Costco. It seems at times Target's entire business model is knowing people who can will pay about 11% more for everything so they can not go to Walmart, I certainly do and will continue to.
Can you expand more on the hardware used? Specifically, which 4 way switches you used?

I have a bunch of unused M.2 drives from decommissioned servers that I'd love to use as additional storage.
DependencyTrack catalogs SBOMs and this is a perfect use case for them. Per parent comment, make sure your SBOM contains transitive dependencies!
Not just tech, business media, too.

FTX founder gets by on 4 hours' sleep and multitasks on 6 screens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580668

In 2021, FTX had a funding round of $420.69M
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530674

Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How the Crypto Market Works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075024
If you don't use it that much you can just build up a backlog, then get 1 month of ad-free viewing and binge it. Though if you don't use it that much you probably won't be bothered that much by the ads anyway.
I can understand private cars in some circumstances, usually in the middle of nowhere or farms. But definitely not where kids are riding their bikes to school or city centers. We don't have to get rid of them, just stop letting them ruin everything.
Maybe 'assumption' would have been the better choice. Given that HN is (for me!) broadly about playfully engaging with technology and society at large, I would expect that this _should_ attract a relatively diverse audience.
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I had to try literally multiple services just to buy expensive gift card

So instead of contacting your bank or Amazon, you did the most money-laundering-looking thing you could do. Heckuva job there!
> irregardless is not a word.

Lots of dictionaries disagree. But not me! I'll join you on this hill, regardless of what those dumb dictionaries say.

The misuse of "literally" and the common use of "irregardless" are the red pills that have turned me into a crotchety old ... prescriptivist.
It's because the law of marginal utility, which states that the satisfaction derived from each additional unit of a good decreases as one consumes more, often doesn't apply to collecting because collectors derive pleasure from uniqueness and completeness.
I’ve used sqlx and SQLite for a lot of projects and sqlx’s macros have prevented me from inserting the wrong types in columns, but I agree that it’s not a viabile long term solution, especially if you don’t use sqlx macros in the first place which is not something you can always do.

On the contrary, I think that everything should be fine with Diesel since that leverages the rust ecosystem to manage types and migrations of the sqlite database.
What I know about Gen-Z, They are suffering
What are your insights on Gen-Z?
They've A/B tested Meta's goals of increasing user time on site and ad views, not user goals like discovering how to change the setting for something that annoyed them.

A/B testing isn't immune to being as broken as the UX in some of the gnarlier bits too. Perhaps some of the links that simply don't work on the Facebook mobile app are busy signalling that they get way more clicks than the one that successfully loaded the content...
Right, but I think it means this won’t be available for that kind of setup until a service provider adds a SQLite feature.

For Deno Deploy, they went in a different direction using FoundationDB, even though they use SQLite for Deno itself.

(It’s also true that some data centers have machines with no local storage. They use network storage for everything.)
Dumb question: how do people skip years like this in college. Like suppose you do know the material well already, does that just get recognized by the faculty at some point (you are noticed pre-college and get a faculty member interested in you? In college?) or would he have needed to specifically apply for that in some way?

I ask in jealousy, I felt like my college put as many administrative barriers as possible to ensure they got at least 4 years of tuition out of me. I’ve always wondered how people somehow managed to speedrun to the top like this, rather than just being bored by their classes (esp gen-ed classes ugh) until they reach top rank the normal way.
You're frothing in favor of telemetry
Eh, not breaking APIs other teams or customers depend on is very very important. I think broad test coverage is justified there.

Of course there are always exceptions, and testing philosophy should bend to the goals of the organization, not the other way round.

And if a five line bash script is a more suitable test than a unit test in the same language as the application, then that's what you should do. Assuming you have a good way to automate it as part of an automated build and deploy process, of course.
As a recipient of such a letter, I can tell you that the amount you torrent isn't really the problem, it's about the specific content. It works like this: copyright lawyer company monitors torrent trackers, then goes to a copyright-friendly court/judge with a list of IP-addresses that were up/downloading the copyrighted content of the media company they represent, they get some kind of court order from the judge to pressure ISPs to give up information about users behind the IP-addresses.

The letter I got was from Universal's lawyers and amongst the various movies I downloaded, all they cared about was the new "Dune". The letter was detailed with lots of lecturing, legalese, timestamps, info hash of the content and at the end they ask for 400€ or else they might escalate in court. I didn't want to pay or risk it, so there is another lawyer who specializes in these letters who you can pay 200€ to take care of things.

I saw the whole thing as a lesson learned that yes, I am being surveilled and no, my ISP is not my friend, but an adversary who keeps logs and doesn't care much about protecting my privacy. From now on I do most of my browsing and all torrenting via Mullvad VPN, paid for with Monero.
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread with various explanations for the obesity pandemic [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/mold_time/status/1412827749828513800?s=2...
Robots are held to a higher standard than us dumb humans
Didn't they just legalize unleaded avgas very recently? After a multi-decade regulatory review process?
Seems odd that they were so hesitant to legalize it and now that they did, it becomes the only option!
I've always enjoyed this author's work, but there's something almost pathological about the way he assumes that the risks of this act are well-quantified enough to make a rational mathematical decision about it, or that those risks are even well-quantifiable at all; there are ten thousand paths to medical complication here that aren't captured in "this is the percentage of healthy kidney donors who died during the operation or died of kidney disease later".

Honestly, I would have respected "I wanted to do it, I became obsessed with doing it, I knew it was likely dangerous and I can't quantify how dangerous, but it did it anyway because I thought it was important" more than this many-page attempt to mathematize the un-mathematizable.

Which I guess raises a larger point about how the rationalist and EA and other similar communities have a tendency to try to reduce fiendishly complex multivariable human issues to equations and statistics without realizing that some problems are not math problems and will defy any attempt to be quantified, statistitized, or calculated.
tip regarding google play, each account can have an independent region, create a new google account and set it to your new location, keep the original where it was, it has 0 impact on how you use the apps after installation, if the app uses google auth you can login with either accounts
Beauty is useful, but it needs to be the last step. When something like nice people also assume the contents have been polished and so since a lot of work went into thinking about it already it isn't worth the time to question if it is right. You can question if you understand it, but the diagram itself is right and so the problem is you.

Most diagrams have not had that must thought put into them. They should look a little ugly because that implies it might not be right so look for errors.
I'd argue HN is also one of the more eager markets to buy too. It's different to trying to sell to a Fortune 500. I'd say something like X but onboards in half an hour instead of 2 days is enough of a selling point.
Every non-dependent typing relation is also a dependently typed relation so I think things are already the way you want, unless you have a certain example in mind.
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I think this case could be a bit different. You can easily go to another restaurant if you have a grudge against McDonald's. It's not so simple if you already own an expensive Tesla that you need serviced and repaired.
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