skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death makes a good case about how long-form written exposition is uniquely superior to all those modern mediums.

There's too much that's either unsaid or can't be said in those other mediums. The mediums themselves even preclude any kind of depth due to their very nature, constraints, whether they be financial constraints, distribution, time-slot scarcity (as in a T.V. series), etc. Many seemingly educational works become vapid infotainment (TED Talks, History/Discovery networks, videogames can maybe be narrative, but the essence of it is always the gameplay).

I think his thesis was directed more at the importance of non-fiction expositions, but I feel it's just as applicable to works of fiction, which are oftentimes even better at expounding important ideas, philosophies, etc. than non-fiction works.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how provocative someone is being or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
> "we explicitly aim to be the framework with the best vibes."

I quite love this.
> you need landlords of some form if you have anything denser than a duplex

Why? What value do they provide, other than having a bunch of money upfront? I’d argue there are many, many ways to fund building construction other than for-profit ownership
I use Zenit Launcher. It sorts all apps alphabetically. Makes Android easier to use than iOS.
So basically use MFC if you care about longevity otherwise good luck.
I made the same thing in a Ruby/Sinatra web-app 6 years ago: https://github.com/captn3m0/opml-gen

I got tired of importing regularly to Minuflux though, I just use the GitHub UI these days.
Count–Min Sketch requires each input to pass through multiple independent hash functions, which is computationally expensive. The workaround is to use a single hash function but use part of its output to split values into one of many buckets hence, simulating a situation in which we had m different hash functions. This costs nothing in terms of accuracy but saves computing many independent hash functions. This procedure is called stochastic averaging and has a predictable bias towards larger estimates. Durand-Flajolet corrected this bias using an algorithm called LogLog. HLL uses a different type of averaging. Instead of the geometric mean used in LogLog, Flajolet et al. proposed using the harmonic mean.
https://engineering.fb.com/2018/12/13/data-infrastructure/hy...
Here’s what it looks like from India:

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240210_BiDcTM_7TZ/

That’s definitely an Akamai IP. I’d be quite surprised if they were leading address space to a direct competitor.
> Another way to think about it: they’re selling at a premium well over they bought it for.

It's not a premium. It's what housing costs. If they take their "premium" and buy the next house, their tax bill is unchanged (more or less). They have to actually go find a house that is much cheaper so they can afford the tax bill.

More often than not, it causes them to move out of an area that has seen growth to an area that has not seen as much. This might be moving from Houston to a suburb of Houston, or moving from a suburb of Houston, to a small town 100 miles outside Houston.

The correct "Other way to think about it" is like telling someone this;

You bought this property when the neighborhood was worth nothing. You lived here for years when it was nothing. That might mean it was rural or crime ridden or whatever; but it was cheap and you could afford it. Good job sticking it out all those years and then letting "us" build it up around you. However, now that we've done that, we feel you are still a nothing if you can't afford the tax bill, so go find another rural/crime ridden area to live in. That's where you belong.
If you despise that thinking, then we need to regulate the housing market to discourage seeing housing as an investment as we see it today. Everyone expects, more or less, for real estate to climb in value but nobody wants to square that with these other emotional ideas attached to housing.

It either is an asset or it’s a commodity as far as the market goes. If you want generational housing and for housing to be generally affordable something has to give. Kill it as an asset class and you get what you’re looking for.

10 years is a long time in the housing market. Assets sitting for 10 years under utilized is another way to think about it.

These two ideas - that housing is an investment and that people shouldn’t be incurring tax burdens on them like this - do not square
Bud-E: a new LAION initiative to build open-source voice assistants
"When I worked for a huge engineering multinational years ago"

I never was in a huge company, but in a small company, I found they can be nice and on the human side.
If I pay a landlord rent every month, I make them money. I don’t need to take on any debt for that.
> The problem is that this is antithetical to higher density, because you need landlords of some form if you have anything denser than a duplex.

Most of Europe somehow manages to live in individually-owned private apartments. Even if you rent, the landlord will rarely own the entire building.
> The depth of a book is vastly different than the 10min youtube video summarizing said book.

Yep, it appears that the deepest format we have today is long-form hypertext. Often containing a few 10min videos itself.

Some people do equate those with books, but it's far from unanimous.
Except taxes.
The activity in this context isn’t just that you are reading, it’s that you have to interpret what is written into scenes in your imagination. This is also required when listening to books or podcasts. This is partly why they show much of the same benefits from reading are also gained from listening to books and kids being read to by their parents.
Soon they won't even let us use our smartphones!
Unfortunately, I don't share your optimism. Judging by the fiasco that systemd is and how it managed to completely win over init scripts, even the opensource world is not immune to fashion / politics / ...
If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve.

Human contact, even with strangers, has a profound impact on health, mental state and quality of life. This has been researched and proven over and over. We are simply wired to function in social groups. Our current state of individualism is rather exceptional, and a cause for many issues with (mental) health.

So, yes, you scrolling HN has an effect on my health, because the reverse is unfortunately true too: loneliness (and isolation etc) have a negative effect on humans
Something we can all agree on.
How many popular products have you named and launched? Naming products is hard to meet both usability and marketing objectives. This has never been as big of a problem for me, as GCPs APIs for example. Those are the true evil. Product names I care little for.
What, I'm fine with the parachutist. This is totally consensus bias.
I think Plato's argument is best illustrated by the TV show How TV Ruined Your Life by Charlie Brooker (the creator of Black Mirror). Each episode covers different topics like technology, love, etc. which television has completely warped.

It's not even about glorifying some of the worst aspects of humanity, it's about all of our expectations. My favorite concrete example is child birth: it's always portrayed as a quick procedure in the vast majority of TV shows, less than a few minutes from water breaking to the baby popping out. Nothing could be further from the truth and a lot of women get a nasty surprise when they get pregnant and an OBGYN explains what to expect.
> The next most naive suggestion is to stop downranking memes, dumb jokes, etc., often throw in with a comment like "doesn't anyone here have a sense of humor?".

The fact that forums that don't aggressively moderate for picspam (so-called "memes") become dominated by picspam is exactly why any moderated forum needs to aggressively moderate such content if it wants to be a platform for intelligent discussion. On large social media where you're effectively doing the moderation yourself (think Twitter), that's why you have to mute or unfollow users who regularly post picspam.

To make an online community usable, you have to moderate it to systematically exclude low IQ users or the entire community becomes low IQ and completely unusable. Stupid content gets enormous amounts of engagement. This wasn't as big of an issue in the past when the internet was less mainstream because stupid people weren't on it in significant numbers.

A badly moderated community moderates for a particular set of opinions that the mods agree with rather than for IQ. That means it becomes filled with stupidity that people on that side agree with. Most moderated communities go that route because it's easier to filter for opinion rather than intelligence but it makes them worthless for any kind of serious discussion.

Moderating for civility is one filter that works somewhat well because many stupid people resort to ad hominem attacks (think stupid nicknames for political opponents) as if they were arguments. But intelligent people are sometimes uncivil especially if they run out of patience arguing with an idiot. Things can also get heated between people who are friendly and intelligent if they have an irreconcilable disagreement on a topic both feel strongly about. Such debates often get wrongly confused for flame wars by mods so you do have to be careful about applying civility rules.

Of course, any social media platform that wants a large mainstream audience is not going to follow this approach to moderation because you'd be systematically excluding at least the bottom 85% or so of the population to maintain a platform that's usable for high IQ people. If you assume 2 standard deviations above average as the minimum to be capable of intelligent thought, you're looking at excluding 98% or so of the population.

In short, I disagree with the author's opinion that most people don't want a social media completely dominated by stupid "jokes" and picspam. I think that's exactly what most people want which is why platforms that value user growth and engagement over quality of discussion tend to converge on being dominated by stupid comments, pictures and videos. The next step after that is to remove or shadowban stuff the advertisers don't like which results in moderation based on viewpoint. Reddit is Reddit because that's what is most profitable for Reddit. The only way out of that vicious cycle is for a community to not rely on ad revenue and care about maximizing intelligent conversation not engagement.
flag this source every time, it's all clickbait
Hearsay != statement of fact
"Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms"

This is still my favorite statistics book. MacKay is a staunch Bayesian, but his writing is relaxed and witty.

http://www.inference.org.uk/itila/book.html
I write everything with a fountain pen in school from 8-18, and a bit in college. I enjoyed them and ended up with a couple of nice ones when my parents realized that I both enjoyed them and had to write essay after essay so having a good pen was worth it.

But since leaving school I seldom write anything on paper. The occasional address on an envelope or signing forms for the kids for school is about it. Not enough to keep the ink flowing in a fountain pen.

Where are people here writing so much that a fountain pen is useful? Genuine question, I’d enjoy writing again, I just don’t really need to enough to make it worthwhile. Every once in a while I’ll refill a pen and then they dry out and crust up.
> If you believe that landlords should control the world

This seems like such an emotional response. The landlords are also controlled by mortgages if they are small, or by boards of directors - and shareholders if they are large.

The landlords can control the rent for their units, that's it.

As to investment properties vs affordable ones, there can be some issue there, for example if you buy a house just to park the money somewhere, but you don't rent it out, you keep it empty. That kind of behavior can be really damaging. These are the only kind regulations I would introduce: 1. don't allow properties to sit empty - tax them heavily. And 2. also don't allow airbnb's in highly troubled cities. Unless you're literally sleeping in the same house with the guests, airbnb's shouldn't be allowed for individual housing units.

> I don’t think housing should be an investment

Let's run a thought experiment: Let's assume you're a retired small business owner that has 5 million dollars in the bank. You can A. built a house in your city and rent it out or B. put the money on the stock exchange.

Everything else staying equal, which of the options would create more housing units in your city?
Model View Presenter: An Improvement over MVC
That's pretty much how the private rental market worked in the UK, for a two or three decades at least. The game was to buy a house with a small deposit, break even on the running and loan costs, and benefit from the huge leverage in your investment as house prices rose.

Recently, the current government decided this game was unfair, and tightened taxes and housing regulations to the point where it only really makes sense now for large corporate landlords. Unsurprisingly this led to landlords exiting the market, and now there are too few rentals, leading to insane rents.
That's true, but there's an interesting parallel with GitHub's corporate parent, Microsoft, and Microsoft's other platform company LinkedIn[1]. LinkedIn sued scrapers for retrieving data from the site.

LinkedIn isn't a content company either, nor do they really own any content posted there (they don't right?), but a large part of their business moat comes from the network of people posting content there. Scrapers and bots undermine this, something the AI boom facilitates.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
Eh, this is poll data, is it not? So it's more like 46% admits they did not.

You got to adjust for shame and such. I'd bet it's up to twice as much in practice, that is 92% did not actually open a book. I'll give you that 46% do not own one, that sounds reasonable.
Definitely an illustration of how different persons want different workplace experiences.
Dont worry, that calculus is changing day by day regardless. In the second chapter people will be complaining that robots put them out of work.
Which makes little sense anyway as in practice the real problems you have are from region/connectivity issues, not AZ failures.
You work on yourself first, then date. That's for her to figure out. No one owes miserable people a chance. I'm not sure why you're suggesting lying is acceptable just so she can date. Weird opinion.
California has the California Tax Postponement Program which predates Prop 13 and specifically protects poor old grandma.

Prop 13 wasn't passed as a law to help the unfortunate. It was anti tax hatred of the government. Jarvis wanted a "tax revolt" which is why all property in the state, even oil fields and golf courses, gets the tax break.
> The web matters

nuff said
listen to what you just said.

It's not a problem if a single death happens, only if lots of deaths happen.

The woman spoke out about a single death because her values are obviously different from yours.
You might be playing AAA games or what I call "film-games" in that case .. Good games for me are extremely player driven, the player has total volition and is free to plot, plan, use their imagination, come up with their own original plan of action and implement it. Good examples of that are Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program.

Player driven games like that are actually making the best use the medium and it's special quality of interactivity. Film-games really want to be films and are trying to awkwardly cram elements of the medium of drama into the medium of games which is really gonna hurt the end result, even if they do stellar work, they are starting from a huge disadvantage by working against their chosen medium.
Interesting, so I could put this in a cup below each post.

But I hope we never have to try this.
Same.

Can't say I miss it, either.

Reading a book at this stage in my life (busy with kids) feels self-indulgent and selfish.
Technology Is Progress?
Forgot ATL
Despite their shitty rug-pull <https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/53345>, I do really like Sourcegraph and one doesn't (currently?!) need to be logged in to use it: https://sourcegraph.com/search and they have a handy rewrite pattern such that one can just plug the repo path into the URL for quick searching e.g. https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/JetBrains/intellij-commun...
Texas is definitely NOT densely populated. Apparently, despite the large cities (Dallas-FtWorth and Houston mostly), we still only rank 30th in the US.

Texas ranks 2nd in terms of population (29M; only CA has more) and also area (261,000 square miles; Alaska is more than 2x as large), so our overall density is nothing of note. Texans are VERY unevenly distributed -- a simple majority of us live in the metro areas of either Dallas-Ft Worth or Houston. It's like 70% if you include San Antonio and Austin.

And there's a LOT of big empty space west of all those cities.
Dno. The roads here are way better than other places with lower taxes, it’s beautiful, the air and water are clean, and so on.

Everywhere has plenty of things to complain about. I’d like to spend less in taxes, always.

But at least it does feel, objectively, like we live in a mostly lovely place that actually does protect employees, have access to great healthcare, great roads, great charging infrastructure (relative to the rest of the US) and so on.
Is this even an issue? Presumably without a steer by wire system a human would not be able to turn the wheel this fast. Also the delay looks longer than it actually is because of the slow-mo. Say this is playing at 25% speed and it is delayed by 1/2 a second, that means at regular speed the delay is only 125ms.
Read the article, they say in it that they won't actually try to enforce it
>Furthermore, once a front loader starts, it locks the door to prevent water spillage, but this prevents you from throwing in extra items that you found

Usually you have a few minutes before that happens, and there are designs (from Samsung I think) where you have a small door in the door to add more.

I like front loading washing machines because you can still put things on top of them, they waste less space.
Ask HN: Do you use a feature flag system? What does it look like?
I‘m in the process of setting up feature flags and curious of existing experiences.

Which systems worked, which didn’t, and how would you set one up if you were to do so today? Any software you can recommend?
> Even if I wanted to move out I would keep renting so that I could let family use it or something

Example of why price controls on goods always seem to produce shortages of that good. Solving issues on the supply side is generally a better idea than fiddling with market prices.
Exploring Brain Scan Hesitancy
What about for people who don't have an imagination? Is there no difference between watching a movie and listening to an audiobook for them?
That's pretty much all tech companies besides some young startups.
>"I'm not finding any other sources reporting on it"

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Magda+Malinowska%22+amazo...

it happened in Poland which is probably why you can't find many English news sources

that's my good faith assumption of your claim at least
I'd take second hand smoke over an unsociable society of human-zombies scrolling around in public.
https://archive.is/dZm2q
Now I know why I dislike Svelte so much, I don't believe in its principles. Which is perfectly fine, a framework can't please everyone.

HTML is not the mother language - It's actually pretty terrible for describing dynamic user interfaces. This is why JS solutions are so appealing. If HTML is so magical why do they need a fancy template language?

Magical, not magic - I really don't want it to feel magical either. I like explicit behavior and I think that is my problem with the whole wrap everything in observables approach. It's too magical.

No one cares - The countless blogs, posts, and communication around frameworks implies that yes, developers do indeed care. Details are important. You can't waive away concepts like memoization because they need to be used in the right context. There's no one size fits all solution to caching.
Quote: "All that was left was that pesky dxil.dll - what sort of magic might Microsoft be employing in that library to “sign shaders”? How can they prevent unsigned shaders from running on Windows machines that aren’t in developer mode? How are they able to distribute that binary on Linux, too?
I won’t comment on any of those questions, but will say that you’ll find dxil.dll is NOT a dependency of mach-dxcompiler in any form. You can compile an HLSL shader on a macOS machine using mach-dxcompiler, without the proprietary dxil.dll blob - and end up with a DXIL bytecode file that is byte-for-byte equal to one which runs it on a standard Windows box. Enjoy!"

That above is the real magic. Since he won't comment on the how, I guess he took a swing at poping the hood underneath, and did exactly what Wine developers did 2 decades ago. Any old timers here remembering that scandal? Smart kid to not comment on the how, this way Microsoft won't have any legal leg and since times have changed with all that "Microsoft loves Linux" shit they yell at all corners (not that I believe that for a single second), then it will be swept all under the rug and FOSS wins. For now.
I would love to read a book, but between working and kids there’s just very little time for reading. When I was younger, I would read while exercising on stationary bike
But my eyes can’t really do that anymore. I do listen to several audiobooks a year, that I listen to while I do chores or drive.