skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the commenter you’re replying to, but you maybe be mixing figures.

I read $100m and $1B as enterprise value, not ARR.

While the long term ARR multiple to EV is ~5.5x for SaaS, I could see niches where that approaches 10x.

So 5 customers, being billed 2m / year each at a 10x multiple, gives you a $100m valuation.
See also the fallacy "its just technology the real problem is humans and how they use it".

When used as an excuse this is disingenuous - the problem is tech - without it, humans were better off in whichever way it caused harm. We're just dumb hairless monkeys without our tools, barely harmful at all.

Tech can have some benefits, but it also usually has some serious issues. If it didn't, we'd never need to update our tech to be safer, or pass legislation surrounding it. These issues exist regardless if there are humans driving or not - the only solution for some hypothetically superior race of beings is to not use it, at least in that iteration/form.
> If we're talking about Loli-type stuff

Yeah, IIRC, there is precedent for this being prosecuted. Reprehensible as it is, it worries me deeply that consuming fiction can cross a line into illegality. Pedophilia is such a rightfully hated thing that it's a powerful motivator in politics and social action; people will throw away their lives just to spite child abusers sometimes. I think we need to be extra careful about our response to the issue because of that, especially as it pertains to essential rights.
There is also handy ripgrep-all, which wraps ripgrep and works with things like sqlite, docx, etc
Yeah wait till you learn how much goes to taxes.
The author mentions using pip freeze or pip-tools pip-compile as a solution to the indirect dependencies which are reliant on the Python environment, i.e. the platform and Python version.

But from what I understand pip cross-environment usage needs the requirements.txt file to be generated on the environment it is going to be run on. The solution of copying in the same requirements text for installing the packages locally might not work in the container.
> Many indigenous wanted their kids to go to these schools

For a bit more background, see my other reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256850

But I wanted to address this idea that somehow it's alright because the parents were ok with it.

My grandparents sent their children to this school partly because they couldn't afford to feed them and partly because my grandfather (a white man) wanted them there. My mother used to tell me stories of my grandmother going out into the woods and picking berries and hunting just to feed them.

Don't mistake a family sending their children to these schools for responsibility for what happened there or condoning it.
I mean, kind of follows from the premises, no? Pessimistic thinking is logically linked with lower cognitive abilities too. Balanced thinking is that which makes the best predictions.
Setting it up properly probably takes a day or so.

Which HDDs should you put in the synology (or are there SSDs that make more sense; need to check $/GB…)? Which VPN service makes the most sense? Which RSS thingy is as good as Prime, Netflix, HBO, etc, etc, combined?
Bro who is pirating Netflix trash shows
Yes, distribution is a service, and providing good service adds value that people are willing to pay for.
I had Prime Video, and when searching for content I would get told to subscribe to some channel within Prime. Now Crave (in Canada) does the same thing. Netflix doesn't bother integrating with Apple TV's search or aggregation features to try and drive you into the app.

The end result is searching for legitimate content is a terrible experience. If it's a result from Prime, I just pass. If it's from Crave, I pass. If it's on Netflix, I don't see anything at all.

At least a decade ago streaming boxes had one search box and it would return results from all the sources, and if it appeared you knew you could watch it.

What the streamers provide today is a significantly worse experience than piracy, and I don't know how they haven't realized this.
Same. This is more someone made it big enough to build his childhood dream house than not what I would associate with the word McMansion.
Now, if this is mostly architectural crap over standard American construction, that’s just terrifying, but even if so, the look, location, and price do put it in a different category imo.
I think a more accurate statement of the need is that people want their lives back, and the smartphone is a clear symbol of the ever-connected world, where not noticing a message for 15 minutes can turn into disaster, where you are expected to Always. Be. Available. That’s what people want out of, in my observations.

We talk about habituated phone users - people who sit there refreshing their social feed for 14 hours a day - and while these are troubling cases, I don’t think they represent the majority of people who say they want to give up their smartphone.
Sounds like the case where a picture is worth a thousand words
Another word for the corruption you speak of is friendship.

The key stakeholders and their vendors are friends. They know each other, they get along, they get the product, and like you said, they've built their clout on the know-how of people and product. To choose another vendor, is to disrupt that friendship, and its ancillary benefits, e.g., a ring of trust and a status quo.

I wrote this comment because I've been on the inside. It doesn't feel like corruption when you're in it. It feels like you're getting work done with people you like, just ignoring silly process and distractions that make you think too hard and feel weird. Seeing things differently requires an outside power to intervene, or for the few key insiders to have an ethic that forces them to question their good time and each other.

Most groups of people, not just businesses, punish ethics in pursuit of collective self-interest. That is indeed corruption but it exists so systemically and so personally that I would first call it human nature.

[1] If you read this far, check out ChuckMcM's view on layoffs at Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38384254
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The GNU preprocessor fixed all these issues decades ago. It provided variadic macros in an elegant way, with a solution for the comma problem.

ISO C and C++ standardization went its own way, inventing grotesque nonsense like __VA_ARGS__ and later __VA_OPT__.
He was also a consulting writer for season 2 of Treme on HBO. Presumably for the story threads centered on Kim Dicken’s chef character.
ID was going to develop on a Cray 6400 series supercomputer, and they got cray to sell them one for $500k if they'd put cray computers into the game. SGI bought Cray, and the deal fell through.

https://rome.ro/news/2015/12/13/gametales-cray-ymp
> That problem doesn't exist. Your smart lightbulbs fallback to being regular lightbulbs in the absence of an internet connection, even for the most popular centralized service ones today (Hue).

What about my robo vacuum cleaner?

Also, you keep mentioning Hue as if this is what people buy. People with lots of disposable income buy Hue. Everyone else buys some cheap $noname Tuya crap (or get it installed by the contractors), and whether or not it works offline, they find out during their next Internet outage.
This triggers my "learn some self-discipline" instinct.

It's such a learned helplessness statement "oh no, I can't possibly not open the reddit app 30 times a day. Save me from myself."

Like, I get it, it's not easy but it's also a pretty basic part of being an adult. Like brushing your teeth, eating healthily or doing exercise (which is to say: if you think "I have problems with those too" then the problem really isn't your smartphone).
This ignores the fact that many of the apps people use are designed and A/B tested to maximize time spent/wasted. The fact that it happens to not work on you does not mean it works for everyone.

Sometimes an addiction really is because something is designed to be incredibly addictive, not because of some underlying psychological issue with the user.
the title is clickbait by the press department

the advertised article has the boring title

Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672231209400

this was very specifically measuring the development of the family household finances vs actual development, quoted below.

it escapes me how this leads to the generalization that optimism is a sign of stupidity (translation from academesian to plain English by me).

as a reality check, innovation is driven by optimism. this whole site here is thriving because of optimism. smart, intelligent optimism.

the original article has a much more nuance

Financial expectations were measured via responses to the following question asked in all 12 Waves of USoc:

“Looking ahead, how do you think you will be financially a year from now, will you be. . .
1. Better off
2. Worse off than you are now
3. or about the same?”
Some itches that I had scratched in the past - might give you ideas on your own ones to work out:

Text Formatter - paste in copied text with hard returns broken paragraphs, bad characters, etc, clean up text, reform to correct sentences, paragraphs...

Data Parser, take useful but unwieldy raw data and parse it into a readable text, HTML table, PDF pages, etc.

simple event list/tracker input events (name, date/time) and let it be a clock reminder of whats coming up. For next level do global events (event, date, time, country or timezone) and adjust for viewing realtime in local timezone.

One I have thought of but haven't started would be recreate a Commodore C/G telnet BBS in python, where C64s can connect and see it as a Commodore C/G BBS but no limitations of it running on Commodore 8-bit hardware.

Text Adventure Enhancer - that prompts AI creators with descriptions to create enhanced room descriptions and images to enhance an old text adventure...or do a choose your own adventure one where you begin with player adding their picture to use as an image prompt along with the description prompts.

Just try to use something you understand and/or that would be fun for you. so you can concentrate on just figuring out the code instead of having to figure out the subject matter also.
"Fear begins when you realize you can die. Fear ends when you accept that you will die."

Something else I ponder, which helps, is that since life is not well-defined, then neither is death. We perceive a difference, but it is fuzzy. We're constantly dying, but also can never really die; as walking, talking sacks of chemicals there is a sense in which we were never really alive in the first place.

We sink back into the chaos that birthed us, not as finite isolated beings, but as waves that rise above the ocean for a moment before returning their water for the next wave.
The article says that pessimism is not linked to lower cognitive abilities; only optimism.
Emacs kids these days switched to using smartparens and now Parinfer
Sure but I have a machine with 18 inches of my person basically 24/7.

My phone won't tell you crap.
"The world is currently in the process of reevaluating its past rejection of nuclear power and is increasingly starting to view it as a reliable source of power that allows for greater energy security."

This thing only gets written on sharply pro-nuclear sources. Yes incumbent nuclear has a role in grid balancing. Sure, lets keep the lights on for say another decade.

But nuclear is just being eviscerated by wind/solar and storage in LCOE, aka the metric you use to plan whether to get new power sources or keep existing ones. And there is basically no way to drop the costs in the future with current commercial designs to close the gap.

Even if you started nuclear power construction, the 10 year delay is 10 years of solar/wind dropping in price (they have a LOT of runway between simple economies of scale, and solar still has the perovskite evolution to come), so nuclear projects can't even target a price to compete with (with a straight face, that is).

And as usual the pro-nuclear article whines about regulations, environmental activists, and the like. Of course the rise of ACTUAL environmental sources like wind solar destroying by a huge margin the economic basis of nuclear power just raises the zealotry. They are doing the nuclear industry no good spouting all this propaganda.

I want you to keep in mind that I am a LFTR/Orion nuthead, and nuclear power is really really COOL.

It is my opinion that solid rod nuclear plants will go the way of the dodo, that once wind/solar have reached some degree of price stability there may be complete rethink nuclear power designs that might compete. It might take a generation of people with memories of Chernobyl, Three Mile, and TEPCO dying so the regulatory framework gets a bit more sound.

Or maybe China will get a good Thorium reactor going and we have to do it out of competition (which is why there are suddenly Thorium projects cropping up again in research labs).

Anyway, yeah, keep the existing plants going while we work on swapping out coal with alternative energy. But solar/wind/storage will probably come for the nuclear plants in the "soon" sense of a decade or two.
I also switched to Niagara Launcher, and it's great especially with the new icons update (everything looks so consistent)! It decreased my usage as well but I still find myself going back to old habits whenever stress mounts, despite having Niagara Pro, enabling Morning mode, and Notification summaries. Any tips you could share that have helped you further decrease your usage?
Today, we call such tricks "life hacks". For when the defaults don't work well enough, even if they probably should. This is indeed a cool life hack. But it kind of feels like something that should've been built into the goddamn fridge.
If we're looking at the storage cost, I'd say the 10x decrease in flash price is doing a lot more than the maybe-2x decrease in file size.
> The only issue is my smartphone is now my GPS, my payment method, my home lighting controller, my car/house key, and my health tracker.

If you use GPS only for navigation in a car, get a Garmin or something similar.

Payment: Is it that hard to use a CC like most people do...? I only recently used my phone for payments (lost card and was waiting for replacement), and did not find it any more convenient than using a card.

Lighting: Do you need to do this only at home or away from home? If the former, buy a Google Home (albeit that has its own issues...)

Car/house key: Sorry, no experience with this. I'd be terrified of using my phone that way.

Health tracker: No experience with this, so I don't know how you use it and what the alternatives are.

> Half a decade ago I eliminated all my social media. Then about a year ago I started by removing work email and messaging from my phone.The next step will be having a designated spot for it to stay while I'm home.

Good steps. I never allowed work stuff on my phone. And if I take it out at home, I'll leave it wherever I took it out. I have a PC so I don't need the phone (and yes, it's great that the PC is not mobile). I use my VoIP line as my main phone, so I have those all around the house. People know I may not answer my cell phone at home due to me not hearing it ring.

> thick wallet

How thick is thick? 1-2 credit cards, 1-2 debit cards. Not that thick.
Yeah isn’t that the small vendor life? When you are the big fish everyone gets the f-off response but when you are small you have to help even if it’s not your fault or problem
His "TOP OF PAGE" button is just a link to the page ...

also, bonus Minecraft bottle: https://www.kleinbottle.com/images/Minecraft%20Klein%20Bottl...
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I don't see a paywall using ublock origin
I used to be like you.

Then we moved into an apartment across the street from Oracle Park, where the SF giants play.

Early in the season they have a sale where you can pick up $5 tickets. My wife and I try to buy tickets for one game out of each home series.

A day with my wife sitting outside in the beautiful northern California weather, with beautiful views of the bay and city, drinking cold beer and eating pizza. At first I was like "why do people do this", now I'm like "why didn't I do this sooner".

It's nice to sit in the park, eat a hot dog or pizza slice, drink a beer and watch some sport. Take away all the advertising and hype BS and just enjoy it for what it is at its core. Play.
Base open door alarm is just an annoying beeper that goes on some 30-45 seconds into the door being opened.
I don’t think their fear is a fear of death, it’s a fear of aging, of getting old. The physical frailty, mental lapses, mobility issues, etc.
No Javascript:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4709904447255990&w=tqV20BM...

Even better:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959478/
Exactly. Where can I get a device that I can use away from home, fits in my pocket, and does not receive calls/texts? I value the camera, the GPS, and occasionally the data (not OP).
It's important to note that this article is talking about excessive optimism, i.e. taking a higher proportion of risks because you have a generally higher expectation of reward.

In effect, it's saying that being reckless is a sign of lower cognitive abilities. Which makes sense, as most people with sufficient cognitive ability would try not to be as reckless.
> As someone who has driven before, during, and after I think it's silly to think Covid didn't change how people drive.

Unless you're arguing that Covid had ramifications for everyone's brain, there's no reason to think that's anything but superstition.
D'oh. Of course!

All too easy to get bit by the curse of overcomplicating things.
This article is very well written but makes me very sad.

A) Talking about “of low cognitive ability” in such a tone is valid jargon, I’m sure, but I think it’s othering and arrogant considering how little we know about the various faculties of the brain[1] and how IQ tests correlate very strongly with childhood stability and opportunity. This article’s language strongly implies that your intelligence is somewhat set and universal, which seems beyond unfair to those who think they have “low IQ” and take this as a reason to give up.

B) The science seems strong, at least from the two studies cited! I’m guessing this has to do with the necessity of Tangible Hope for the (self-identified) poor, but I don’t know… A very interesting finding.

C) I certainly think the leap to financial markets is some fun flair for a very non-HN audience, so in that lense it’s very enjoyable. Unless I’m missing something though that’s all pretty meaningless - “what do ‘dumb’ people think their future will be like” isn’t a very helpful question for investment planning.
It's a shame Nokia/HMD Global seem to have dropped KaiOS for their latest feature phones. I'm struggling to find a viable VoLTE-compatible alternative to my 8110 4G.
It's even stupider than that. Streaming does not always use standard interfaces. It doesn't always work on every device. (See Roku, Apple TV, Android TV boxes, Smart TVs themselves, etc). There's always some jackass service that decides "we're not partners so I'm not supporting your devices" - leaving customers out of the loop since the people paying the monthly fee don't actually matter to them lol.

There's all the petty "ecosystem" bullshit. Stuff like how Apple used to only let siri control Apple Music instead of spotify or tidal or whatever.

And platform updates. And then the software stops supporting your device because it was made more than 3 years ago or whatever. Or they blocked taking screenshots (hello Crunchyroll, fuck you for making it harder to share random meme moments with my discord buddies!).
I haven’t disagreed with a comment this much in a while.
Would be a game changer for actual SA victims if they could just take their glasses off at any time and be transported to safety...
> I understand logical fallacies, and my point is that your original argument as stated way up the thread is materially different from the one you put into logical form.

I mean it's literally not, I state the same thing but shortened further up.

>So you don't get to accuse me of a logical fallacy when you're referring to an argument that you haven't articulated yet.

Ok first off, no one is "accusing" anyone of anything, I'm pointing out a literal fallacy you made. If you're wearing a blue shirt and I point out you're wearing a blue shirt, I'm not accusing you of wearing a blue shirt. And I've articulated my argument many times, including in it's literal formal argument form.

>I'm not sure if you have specific legal experience in this area but all of these claims are questionable to me; my understanding is that most of these things have little if any legal precedent and are a grey area at best. I'd be interested to see sources for these claims, since as I said, I don't know too much about this.

Yeah I'm not going to go trolling through the internet to find examples of this (if there are any, I would wager there aren't since I don't think people would be dumb enough to perform the situation you tried to use as an example) for someone who clearly is just getting angry and not even arguing in good faith.

You're going on about how I'm accusing you and how my argument isn't the same, and you've said I committed a fallacy (which you never even articulated btw), so I don't think there's any point in furthering this conversation. Seems like a waste of time.
Alcohol is a bad comparison, due to the medium/carrier problem. Its both the medium and the carrier.

But to stretch the analogy, drinks are still an issue "because its the people hawking them have the wrong incentives". It could be sugary drinks, alcoholic ones, etc, they are all bad (even water). However this doesn't say much about why these drinks are all bad, which has nothing to do with incentives.

Its a similar argument for TV/social media. Sure bad people exist, uninteresting argument. That ignrores the real question of why they are bad.
Cool didn’t k is these existed
DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
Uninstalling the apps is a good first step.
My diagnosis allowed me to finally realize why neurotypicals seem to lack "theory of mind," why they act so inconsistently, seem so superstitiously, and be so prone to believing they have unprovable "mental powers."

We autistics are actually the James Randy in this realm of self-believed nonsense! No one has collected our million dollars yet but there are so many "believers" that it's very disconcerting!

https://www.skepdic.com/randi.html
Why would you recommend Niagara?
Hmm, I see. I think those problems of fraily often accrue from causes other than age, so it's not how I would have framed it, but it's possible you're right. Thanks for the extra perspective compared to my assumptions.
Also for me it's far more customisable. Want to watch a video at 2x speed, want to add audio normalizer, want to tweak the gamma, etc. Yes vlc does all that and more. Their crummy app won't even play the video with proper scrubbing.

It's like the app vs browser thing for videos too, where you are restricted by the app's player vs using players like vlc that are just awesome!