skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently came across the tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory that consumerism has reached its endstate in that companies now intentionally design only good-enough-but-unsatisfying products because those make you more likely to continue shop around for something different-but-equally-unsatisfying, so just like planned obsolescence but more based on dissatisfaction.

I think there is some truth to this in that it's likely profitable to flood the market with mediocre products (especially if you do it through a white label network of "competing" brands) as long as you can avoid refunds (and on Amazon certain sellers make returns intentionally difficult by providing Chinese addresses without a prepaid label, making you pay more for the return shipping than you likely paid for the product to begin with). This also drives down the overall expectation of quality and reduces market pressures for quality while also completely swamping any competitor trying to sell a genuinely high quality product by making reviews completely unreliable.

I don't think this is a coordinated strategy as with whitelabel dropshipping being sold as a get-rich-quick-scheme for years there's no real need for it. Plus as you mention in many cases this is simply a consequence of a race to the bottom earlier in the supply chain resulting in nearly identical mediocre products even when some parts differ.

Personally I've run into this when picking out interior doors for our new house: despite being in the mid-tier price range, various aspects ranging from the veneer to the locks are extremely underwhelming but apparently on par with other doors in that price range. There's literally no reason the locks should feel like cheap plastic toys but it's something that's not visible and can't usually be tested even in a show room so apparently that's where they decide to cut corners. And because even standard sizes are considered custom, there's no way to return them, let alone once installed.
I used to have Amazon Prime Video but canceled it a couple years back and instead just use their free tv options occasionally.

It has ads and what stuns me is how un-targeted they are. You know what I've bought and browsed recently, why are you showing me HIV meds!?*

* No, I don't have HIV and don't think I've ever searched anything remotely related to it.
I love how y'all keep trying to make nuclear happen. Then it turns out to cost too many billions and too many decades with too many shitty failure modes and we enter another quiet cycle of aggressive forgetting.
If your selling point is consolidating apps, you absolutely have to get the data model right, else you don't solve the problem. Just because you don't go in and sell it that way, doesn't mean it's not important as hell. The very reason it's hard to get apps to interoperate is that each one has it's own data model. If they used one giant data model... it wouldn't be a problem.
> It should be negligence

Are you gonna be the one to operate all the websites which monitor for the deaths of all those creators? Did we learn NOTHING from Abe Vigoda???
I also use Python professionally and still have by far the worst luck with getting anything Python on github to work out of any language.

Written in Go/Rust is definitely a feature for something like this.
I go through this every time I have to ask for a refund and tell a business I just want a refund so we can part ways instead of filing complaints with the Better Business Bureau and with the FTC.
From memory, WordPad's other advantage in Windows 95 days was that it could handle files larger than 64 kilobytes. Notepad could not; it would prompt you to open files in WordPad instead if you tried.

I always liked WordPad better than Word back then. It was faster and did all of the things I needed it to do. AbiWord occupied a similar sweet spot for me for some time after I went to Linux in the early 2000s.
> Apple's documentations [sic] is famously dreadful.

The irony is that Apple's documentation used to be excellent, and if you look in the "Documentation Archive", it still contains a lot useful information, especially for Mac and Objective-C development. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/navigation/

I taught myself Mac development way back in the day using those very docs, which are now sadly "retired".

In my view, there are several reasons for the severe decline of Apple's docs. First, the yearly OS release schedule, which began in 2012 on the Mac, didn't leave enough time to write documentation. (And it doesn't leave enough time to fix bugs!) Second, the arrival of Swift in 2014 forced Apple to rewrite all of the documentation with dual tracks for Swift and Objective-C. Third, Tim Cook and Craig Federighi just don't give a crap about quality.

> Badly designed, legacy OOP APIs

That sounds like a n00b opinion.
Linus or Linux?
I see that lazygit is listed as inspiration for this project. As a lazygit user myself I'd be curious as to what was lacking from lazygit to warrant an entirely new project, as I've found it to be incredibly useful.
Oh, there's so many card manipulation tricks it's hilarious.

I can false shuffle a deck, I can seed a deck through shuffles. I can false cut. Tricks with my hands to 'do nothing's with a deck even though it looks like I'm shuffling or cutting the deck.

When we get to truly skilled magicians, they can perfect shuffle (IIRC, 8x rifle shuffles in a row with perfect precision returns the deck to it's original state). They can perfect cut (two cuts that return the deck to the original state). And they can therefore look like they're shuffling, when in fact they're just leaving the deck in the same state the whole time (or at least they have a plan to return the deck back to it's original state later on).

There's also hidden cuts and hidden shuffles. To change the deck even though it didn't look like anything happens.

So if I perfect cut a deck, say a silly story to you, then hidden perfect cut the deck back to it's original state, the audience probably doesn't realize their chosen cards remain on the top of the deck. (Even if they spot the second hidden cut, they likely don't realize the importance of it)

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I did this once or twice (try) to pass out like 4x Royal Flushes on Poker night to prove a point lol. Seed some royal flushes on the top, false shuffle the deck, etc etc. IIRC only two Royal Flushes survived but the point was made.

It's certainly fun. But it does make me wonder how people are supposed to trust the dealer when so many of these tricks exist and aren't even that hard to do or practice. (Perfect shuffles are really hard. But the other stuff is just pretending to be a klutz and undoing the shuffle by dropping the cards or other such planned clumsiness, and then confidently pretending that the deck was truly shuffled). These sorts of things are more believable before your friends realize you are ridiculously practiced with card tricks.

Still though, street con artists are on another level. I guess when it's your living you get much better at it.
There's a similar system in Denmark called MitID (my ID), it can even be used by businesses. I can pop into my local REMA 1000, scan my groceries —including alcohol—on my phone, and pay for them all in-app without any interaction with another human being. Because I'm logged in with MitID, there's no need for the additional age verification that more traditional self-scan checkouts require for purchasing alcohol.
Fewer skus seems like a massive simplifier to me. The SE and the mini seem to me like their “cheaper” line. I love my iPhone 13 mini for form factor.
I am not an expert at this, but if I had to guess I would agree with your answer. Helium, even neutron enriched radioactive helium -if there is such a thing-, will evaporate into the air instantly, it will also rise to highest location being lighter than essentially every other atmospheric gas. This make it easy collect, contain, or cleanse, if performed. It will also rise above the atmosphere and get blown away by the solar winds should it escape the building. Additionally, helium is inert so it will not form other chemical compounds that will stay around, or enter the human body. Also because it is inert your body will not generally absorb it, certainly not like it would tritium water. Also comparing to water, helium will not dissolve other chemicals, radioactive or not, into it like water does. One last thing is the cooling potential of liquid helium is immense, being able to absorb massive amounts of heat during evaporation. Assuming they want to use a helium refrigeration cycle.

Fingers crossed I got some of this right...
Ask HN: Would you pay for a clickbait-less YouTube?
Would you be willing to pay $2 a month for a clickbait-less YouTube? What I mean is a mobile app that is an alternative frontend for YT but where thumbnails are taken from the actual video (the most viewed part of the videos to be precise) and the title would be generated using AI (with some exceptions, eg music videos).

I already know a chrome and extension trying to do this but it's not that good mostly because the thumbnails are random not aiming for the most exemplary, and also Im more interested in apps rather than a chrome extension.
According to widespread chatter on HN and similar forums, nuclear will soon be irrelevant because renewables are becoming so cheap. I assume this is a much more thoughtful analysis; it would be nice to know, briefly, why this team does not expect this future, since nuclear has its own serious political problems.
Shame and pride are such strong motivators.

My wife was taken by a very elaborate and well-crafted scam in November. In retrospect, it all sounds ridiculous... but in the moment, with kids in tow, it was very convincing. It was so traumatizing that when it was over and she finally realized it was a scam, she was relieved! They had convinced her she was going to jail and that was terrifying. Losing the money was less bad than going to jail.

It was also EXTREMELY well scripted with a TON of psychology and clever moments that were well rehearsed. They also had a background track playing with 'police station like' audio and had spoofed the Orange County Sheriff's phone number.
One psychological trick that they employed was a very 'stepped' approach to the scam.

If you say it all out loud, it is obvious, but if you go step by step, each one was somewhat plausible. Lastly, by posing as law enforcement, they tugged on a natural tendency to follow orders and avoid being in trouble. My stomach drops when I think I am getting pulled over... being told you have an outstanding warrant was quite a gut punch for her.

Things to remember:

* ALWAYS hang up and call people on a phone number you enter yourself.

* If someone tells you to check the number by looking it up, they are very likely spoofing it. Hang up and call the police.

* The police don't call you if they are trying to serve a warrant, they show up.

* A judge's 'gag order' does not mean you can't talk to a family member or legal counsel.

* NEVER pull money out of an account for someone you don't know without talking to a friend or spouse.

* ANY change in the situation is a red flag
- bring the money to the courthouse.
- its getting late, we use an after hours processor
- you are running out of time, just wire it
> I have rights under the 1st Amendment to express myself freely

Not where I'm standing* you don't - this is an international forum discussing an international issue. Aside: I'm a foreigner so I personally have very little in the way of constitutional rights.

We all have almost no information about each other and text comments on emotionally tangled subjects are easily misread. The risk is that psych comments can easily do more harm than good: the potential for misunderstanding is high. Even without misunderstanding between commenters there is a risk of triggers in readers.

It is hard to say what this community thinks is correct but https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The next obvious step is past-life trauma analysis (yes, that's a real thing that real people do). I'm actually interested in any quantitative papers you can find on that topic.

Moderator about an adjacent topic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

* My jurisdiction has no first amendment
Fusion power research is research. It's not meant to produce electricity but knowledge.
Half of autistic children prescribed at least one psychotropic medication
Your initial claim:
>So it's obvious to me that increasing safety and througput at the same time is very plausible.

Your current claim:
>I'm not making any such assumptions

If you don't make any assumption how can you even say that something is 'very plausible'? Based on what exactly then? Gut feeling? If so then it's not 'plausible', it's just your gut feeling dressed in nice wording
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Trump supporters are probably one of the most common recent examples of individuals being conned at a grand scale.
Looks like the stdio example includes compilation and linking, fmt example only times compilation.
Powering a city of a million on a square mile 24/7 with no particulate or carbon emissions and 2+ years of fuel on site is just too darn enticing!
I'm surprised to learn nobody's done the old DNA dragnet yet.
Yeah musl enthusiasts strangely never acknowledge this enormous bugs that musl libc has, i wonder why.
Nah, C++ needs more than that. There's some ridiculous template heavy code out there where the majority of time is spent linking. You can't even do a debug build without optimizations on Windows with these programs because the coff file format can't handle it, even when compiling with "/bigobj".
I’ve been a daily lazygit user for years and tried this out a few months ago. Seems like a case of rewriting a near perfect tool in Rust just for the sake of doing it. From what I remember this project didn’t have any features that aren’t present in lazygit but was lacking some that are.
What civilization isn't subject to narcissism?
Have you ever compared the low-res dim IPS display of a €400+ SE to the much cheaper Samsung A34/A54 that ship with bright 1080p OLED high refresh displays with 128GB to boot? It's not even a competition.

And yes the display matters the most to most consumers as that's the primary interface the user has to the phone. A small dim 720p IPS display doesn't cut it anymore in 2024 especially at €400+ price point where Android competition eats it.

>Fewer skus seems like a massive simplifier to me

What use is fewer SKUs if nobody is buying them?

Nobody in my country(not USA where iPhone is king due to iMessage lock-in and high income) is buying the SE because at that price it's terrible value for money compared to the competition. Everyone is buying mid priced Androids and those with money buy the Pro iPhone but never the SE because it's just shit value.

Apple needs to replace the SE with something more modern with bigger OLED and then it will sell.
"The mountain in front of me" was a mountain, and I was a mountain.

I was a mountain.

I was a mountain.

I was a mountain.

I was a mountain.
Rust != ships as one statically linked binary though. For project in Go, that's a pretty safe assumption (although not always true), but for Rust stuff I've probably had 1/4 of things not be statically linked. For many Rust-based projects I find myself having to build it myself, which fortunately isn't very difficult.
Huh, I’ve had so many problems running Wayland KDE on Arch with nvidia drivers. Maybe I should give gnome another try
But you can't satisfy anyone these days.

You can satisfy me very easily. Tell me what's going on with my phone and its battery, and (ideally) ask me what I want to do about it.
No. They would sue Adobe if Adobe put images that violate copyright into Photoshop and let users insert them from a dropdown menu. Your comparison is incorrect and bad.
I won’t merge any PRs to my open source projects without a corresponding documentation change. I think it’s a good rule that everyone should follow as it benefits both the user and the project’s other developers.
You think "Crime and Punishment" is non-political? Have you read it? Have you read the Wikipedia summary of it? Dostoyevsky is deeply political.

"These books were written long enough ago that their political arguments have been internalized in modern cultures and no longer seem controversial" does not make a work non-political. Nor does "this book only espouses views I agree with" or "I did not understand the political topics raised in this work".

From your entire list:

* Anna Karenina: Talks about rural and urban life, faith, and social change in the 19th century

* Of Mice and Men: Talks about black people being isolated and threats of lyching. The premise of the story centers around an incident involving whether people are mentally capable of being found guilty (and false accusations)

* The Idiot: Centers around society's treatment of those perceived as idiots and/or socially inept. That's still a relevant political topic today and, for its time, was at least as relevant as modern works focusing on marginalized groups such as LGBTQ, etc. It also deeply dives into religion and atheism (political hot topics then and now). It has a long monologue about capital punishment.

* Crime and Punishment: The entire novel is a critique of nihilism, very much a cultural and political part of Russian society at a time, with thoughts on utilitarianism and rationalism. It's a deep dive into the radicalization of people. It also criticizes Western ideas.

I'm not going to bother with the rest, as it's clear to me you're just naming books you don't understand.
There's no reason they can't have amazing documentation, but I imagine they don't because people are going to use the platform anyway. People are basically forced to use it because that's where so many of their customers are, so they can just treat their users like crap and get away with it. Why spend time on documentation when it will probably only cost them money to do so?

Such a sad state of affairs.
And the correct response to that is to show kindness, obviously. The alternative is to degrade to a low-trust society.
Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've done it repeatedly, not just in this thread and not just on this topic, and you've repeatedly broken HN's guidelines. (e.g. like you did with the swipe at the end of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38715161 - you went from making substantive points to a cheap putdown which was obvious flamebait.)

I'm sure you have substantive things to say, but when you toss in Molotov cocktails along the way, it becomes flamebait and you're breaking HN's rules—regardless of which position you're fighting for or against. You've been doing that repeatedly, it isn't cool, and it's also not in your interest because it makes your comments less persuasive. People will react to the provocations, lose your substantive points, and in the process the thread turns ugly. By doing this, you damage not only the thread but the community.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note these:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
I highly recommend the audiobook of Paradise Lost read by Anton Lesser.
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Intermittency and transmission at scale are likely to be exceedingly expensive and impacted by NIMBYism as wind and solar continue to scale towards world scale. Nuclear runs 24/7 and requires a lot fewer wires (since the plants are centralized) and so fits well into those downsides. Of course nuclear has downsides too, obviously, but there's plenty of reason to believe that, if nuclear people can start delivering projects on time and budget, that there's room for a massive expansion of carbon-free 24/7 nuclear power.
I remember that "I invented the microprocessor" patent claim. I'm glad he lost in the end. Gaming the system with patent continuations isn't the same as doing the technical work necessary to create practical CPUs-on-a-chip, and doesn't deserve to be rewarded.
chuckle well, I certainly would have refuted his evidence and arguments if he had given any!

Instead, he just rehearses a jumble of pessimistic conclusions from what he himself describes as coming from "diverse disciplinary directions" and that "the causal diagnoses differ somewhat."

I.e. the article just a grab-bag of quotes from talking heads who agree neither on the cause of the crisis, nor the nature of the crisis, nor what we should be doing to advert the crisis. The only thing they have in common is their marketing strategy: you can sell more books if you get people all riled up.

For example, Daniels cites Howe as predicting that we are due for a "turning", a "bone-jarring Crises" like there was in the 1760s, 1850s and 1920s". Um. Ok, that really narrows it down, eh? :-) Sounds suitably bombastic, but oh-so-conveniently ambiguous. No matter what happens, he can claim he predicted it, because surely it will have something in common with either 1760, or 1850, or 1920....And Howe's knock-down proof? Well, history follows "saeculum" of 80 years or so. A pseudo-scientific term for when one generation dies off and is replaced by another... great rhetoric, but there's no "there" there.

And the rest of the article just adds ambiguity to ambiguity.

I.e. Daniels doesn't lay out any coherent case. The only common theme of his citations is pessimism, and not even pessimism about the same things! I.e. what brings it all together isn't any rational reason. Daniels is a super-smart guy who is generally very rational, but when you are depressed, the whole world seems depressing. And being in a pessimistic mood makes pessimistic conclusions seem salient and cumulative, even if they really are not. Can't blame him, we've all been through a lot the past couple of years, but its important to be able to catch yourself when you are in one of these loops and not let it overwhelm you, especially when there's really no rational reason to do so.

Its a pretty extraordinary hypothesis that we are so inevitably doomed to crisis that just giving up (as he says in his title) is a rational response, I think we have the right to demand some pretty extraordinary evidence, don't you?
> It's a bit like if someone says "these cooks who are preparing omelettes are bad cooks...

No, it's like serving the food on the floor without dishes. It doesn't matter whether the food is fancy or simple.

We need not defend the poor practices induced by the corrupt incentives of academia (publish or perish). Ideally, scientific methods and products of research should be highly reproducible (which implies a certain level of quality, in practice).
But people build apps on top of it and deploy it to the cloud, too, right? Does it then compete with stuff like AWS RDS?
Yeah, I never do a big merge in magit. I just use the git CLI for those.
Have you ever setup an iscsi shared device in linux? It’s quite complex and a bit messy.

If systemd can make something similar (i still get a block device from another host in the network) in a simpler manner that would be just awesome, truly a huge win for everybody.
Ah I understand now. I have my eye on SourceGraph’s Cody AI, they’re working on an enterprise version, although it’s TBD how locked down it will be: https://sourcegraph.com/cody