skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seriously can't read books anymore, sometimes can't watch a film for comprehension, due to profound and frequent dissociation. I now find myself upscrolling, rewinding, going back 10 pages like, "I registered none of this..."

It's ok in a movie theater, because undistracted me is still experiencing the film, but if I need to study a book, my eyes are glazing over 90% of the time, and that's counterproductive.
You didn’t spot the relationship with the “no doesn’t mean no” stuff because as you said in the next sentence, you skipped it. Nice one.
Why do they look like they have 15deg fov?
ACE of 1, but I grew up in a poor gang infested neighborhood and experienced many of the things in this list from other children in the neighborhood and school rather than family, and it definitely affected me.
Robustness looks like waste if you're obsessed with efficiency over all else.
And if Zenni is too expensive, Goggles4u.
No one is going to be happy about what I'm about to point out, but reap what you sow HN. This is directly and fully as a result of 1. the current (terrible) set of rules and 2. Dang being a moderator (and this communities unending fawning over his moderation)

Fix both of these, and HN would have far fewer issues related to what you are describing.

All other explanations of this phenomenon which don't talk about the above two are not even close to on point.
I think they're supremely uncomfortable cars from a climate control perspective. The AC is underpowered and the miniscule windows offer very little airflow. The car acts like a greenhouse very effectively.

My father picked one up from the widow of a collector back in the early 2000's. I've had occasion to drive it a couple of times. It's a fun car to drive for the comments you receive and little else. It sounds like this EV conversion would help with the underpowered performance, but I don't see how they could fix the terrible environmentals.
I have no idea what Jensen's inequality means.

Goes to wikipedia

"In mathematics, Jensen's inequality, named after the Danish mathematician Johan Jensen, relates the value of a convex function of an integral to the integral of the convex function. It was proved by Jensen in 1906,[1] building on an earlier proof of the same inequality for doubly-differentiable functions by Otto Hölder in 1889.[2] Given its generality, the inequality appears in many forms depending on the context, some of which are presented below. In its simplest form the inequality states that the convex transformation of a mean is less than or equal to the mean applied after convex transformation; it is a simple corollary that the opposite is true of concave transformations"

I still have no idea what it means.
Why does it require a variant? Why can't the necessary ICE vehicles be one of the countless existing options?
I know there was a Taco Bell in the Sydney CBD decades ago - I ate at it.
Anything you would have done differently in the past? You're describing me but two decades younger hahaha
Lots of people pay for Youtube Premium :)
TFA and GP are CSS minimizers - nothing to do with styles per se.
Ask HN: Why does Firefox treat 3rd party cookies from Google differently?
I run Firefox with "strict" selected in the "enhanced tracking protection" section of the Firefox settings. To my knowledge, this section is meant to prevent known tracking domains from setting cross-site tracking cookies(among other things). This catches well known 3rd party tracking cookies mostly every time when visiting various websites(e.g. websites with Stripe payment integration, adtech cookies, etc).

However, whenever I do a Google search and click on the link I want, 3rd party cookies from Google are default-allowed through my Firefox enhanced tracking protection, despite being the de-facto tracking cookie on the internet. I was wondering if anyone knew the reason for this?
I mean, all equations are true if all terms are set to equal zero, so the term itself must have some sort of ontological distinction.
This is an excellent resource. The animations really help to understand Git concepts. I successfully used it for an internal Git course.
agreed. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0 generated a lot of controversy and he ended up being right. Hence the criticism. It's almost like the Monty Hall problem for Marilyn vos savant where even people with PhDs derided her for being wrong when in fact they were all wrong themselves.
And yet, my Windows machine somehow applies a simple heuristic to figure out my active times and always does the updates when I'm not typically using it. Of course, it means the machine has to be on during those times, but I've never had the update in the middle of the day problem you've described. At least not as long as Windows 10 has been around.
The old USPS trucks have a 150 mile range. That is not a difficult range for electric.
Watching Gallagher’s Sledge-O-Matic and mourning the once brilliant minds of humanity

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nxls1KnKCA4
This is just a broken link that leads to a post creation form. Can’t create posts unless you’re logged on.
> built-in ads, constant nagging about Edge, and forced OneDrive backups

I must be using it wrong because I don't have any of those things.
What a stupid meme. "The last men" is most closely seen in that movie Wall-E, with the humans who are on that spaceship.

HNs userbase builds far too much for that. Nietzsche was so garbage, he was just buttmad that Philipp Mainlander and Schopenhauer were 1. much more correct and 2. more famous than he ever was in their own eras.

It's also telling that Nietzsche is the foundation behind all of the garbage from the french post-modern neomarxist/critical theorist/situational international folks. You are the thing you hate.
Here's a list of sites. The Rust community has also (by extension) adopted the snowclone (e.g. arewegameyet.rs)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
Maybe this 4.5% is just the technical crowd?

Now that windows UX is getting shittier, if there's a linux distro usuable without ever pulling up a terminal, maybe linux has some chance with non technical people.
Comparison is the thief of joy.

-Theo
Charts That Will Change the Way You See Dating [video]
>Users who wish to retain access to their DRM-protected content should consider re-downloading media from licensed sources or converting their media libraries to formats that do not enforce digital rights management.

Huh? Doesn't the DMCA make removing DRM protection illegal? Is Microsoft asking me to break the law?
It's an examination of human psychology. That's why people are interested. How far are people willing to go for it? Who makes mistakes? How did the person who won beat everyone else?

I would say since it's about reality it's less junk then something like Shakespeare which is completely made up.
A reward does not need to come from “someone”, and usually doesn’t.

You should expect reward from dedication because you’ll get it. Not from some god on high or some random person called Tyler Smith. It’s from yourself or the fruits of your labor.
That answers nothing the commenter asked.
Thanks. Also makes it easy to browse between releases to check dev notes and in general 'What's new'.
> 10 minutes

I guess I have never seen Windows update take 10 minutes. Did you add the restart time into that? Because the restart after an update usually takes half of that alone.

10 minutes is around the login time for new user at my work computers. (That is, after it is fully booted and loaded, just the time for the user to log in.)

But yeah, the Mac updates aren't even remotely as bad as Windows.
I wonder if it would be possible to create a clone of HN without a pervasive reactionary tendency, and what you'd need to tweak to make that work.
> Pretty much any popular content here just has a flood of social signaling content all about how morally wrong, bad, evil, etc the content is.

I've noticed a similar general trend for some kinds of posts. (the more technical ones tend to escape this) The fix is that when you see posts with that kind of social signaling, downvote and flag them.

The downvote is because these posts are always extremely uninteresting, low-effort, and detrimental to HN as a whole.

The flag is because these posts almost always break the HN guidelines in multiple ways, e.g. "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.", "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.", "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread."

This is one of the few ways that we can continue to avoid HN from turning into Reddit - by self-moderating. Dang seems to take a light touch to moderation and does almost zero curation, so it's up to the users to help keep HN about intellectual curiosity and avoid degenerating into Reddit.
Unfortunate to see these issues open for over a year, especially as previous versions did not do this. Thanks for the heads up
When will the Bitcoin nightmare end?
N-gate died FAR too soon.
Check your local auto parts store https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor
Yep, it would be a huge mess. This is what lead me to switch to Fastmail. If it's _essential_, it's probably worth paying for to ensure you have real support.

It just so happens that Fastmail is also puts out an excellent product.
Was it done because Mozilla thought that Chrome's increasing version numbers would make ordinary people think that Chrome was ahead of Firefox ?
Stanford has had an electric DeLorean conversion running since 2015.[1] With computer-controlled drifting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIDcT0Zdj4
That 3.1% -> 4.5% -> 5% would be a very large acceleration from the previous trend.
Could you elaborate on the takeaways that challenge existing priors ?

The points in the OP boil down to:

* Focus on your product

* Hire well

* Be extra diligent towards bottlenecks

* State your metrics clearly

* Communicate often and immediately

________

These are standard guidelines for running businesses. HN commenters are unimpressed because there are no novel generalizable takeaways from his document.

For a few years, Adam Sandler was producing low-brow schlock that made 100s of millions in the box office. It was effective. It's not clear if there was a takeaway

________

There is 1 takeaway from Mr. Beast that appears generalizable.

Sometimes, for a short duration, you hit gold. During that time, obsessively extract all value you can. Merch, videos, exploitation, what have you. For a solid minute, you're Midas. So touch as many things as you can. Be shameless beyond recognition.

Too often, businesses see their hockey-stick moment as a sign of long term sustainable growth. That's a lie (in expectation). A moment is all it is. Wring out your business for every dollar you can extract, liquidate as much as you can, and bail before you're past the crest of the wave.

I'm confident that Mr. Beast's Youtube stardom will die in a few years. But, he will leave behind a legacy of obsessive extraction that is unlikely to be matched for quite some time.
BlueSky is excellent. I just miss some international commentators. I'd love to have a tool to notify when they enter BlueSky.
Agreed, YouTube is the PBS of the internet. It's free and fast.
>This does nothing to stop anything intentionally circumventing your DNS settings.

It makes it substantially more difficult. My firewall statistics are proof of that. On a production network you'd have everything blocked.
It's definitely a common thought but there are other considerations too regardless if that's really true or not e.g. browsers needed constant security updates anyways, no reason to not also regularly deliver features that were sitting ready to be used with that update infrastructure.
In the DPRK, it already is the year of the Linux Desktop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
Both of the examples in the quote give you the answer: talk to someone that’s actually done it.

It’s always amazing to me how often the person 3 desks over has already solved the same problem, but is never asked how by the next person. Instead, too many people act like they’re the first person to ever attempt whatever they’re working on.
Another alternative is to use Brave Browser
If you think this is some genius business advice, find the nearest 20 year old marketing major on stimulants and your mind will be blown.

Props to this guy for producing popular content and piecing together some management concepts, but this is so far from anything corporate leaders “need” to read.
I would be genuinely curious to hear: in your mind, could any system be interesting to you, no matter its ethical basis? Or is there a line, and if so, what is the line to you?
I’d appreciate hearing how others have used the various plain text accounting tools for their own use. Are you legitimately using it to inform yourself of your spending habits and taking corrective action? Is it simply for tracking your expenses, revenues, net worth, etc? Or is it simply about the process? I can certainly see the appeal of such an orderly, structured process.

Every time I’m reminded of plain text accounting, I have either an irresistible urge to immerse myself fully into the process, or feelings of guilt for not staying committed to my previous attempts. Right now, it’s mainly guilt, since I’ve not updated my personal ledger in a month and a half.
Ultimately, I think I’m unsure about why I’m using it, and eventually feel like I’m logging transactions just for the sake of it.
I imagine the moronic mass-bricking a few months back also forced people to move away from that eco-system.
Many people expect ""rewards"" in the form of making a living, having a stable salary, maybe supporting a family.
Why would someone reward a personal choice in dedication? Usually because it's useful to them, economically.
Can’t upgrade the AC as well?
It's not you. The entire comment is a disorganized mess of poorly thought out and non-cohesive grammar.

In the section quoted below for example, he starts off by writing about critiques, in which he appears to have immediately grasped for words that aren't suited for the purpose, such as how the nonsensical "personalized to" should have been "focused on". He add the completely unnecessary pseudointellectual "to one extent or another", to make it seem like he is intensely judging ideas. He then says the "social purpose" is "universal" which I'm not following the meaning of at all. I doubt many others are either, but it just seems like another pseudointellectual throwaway. He then follows that with "which is that I felt uncomfortable that reading this might mean I have to re-evaluate my worldview", which is perhaps the most atrociously nonsensical and poorly laid out sentence fragment I've read in a long time. In the part following that, he needed a period before "actually" for it to make sense as he likely intended.

Honestly, it seems like he's just trying to write words as they come to him as if in a heated and rash spoken conversation, in which he has a elevated personal impression of erudition, compared to the people he believes he communicating down to.

"The actual critiques are personalized to the content and, to one extent or another, valid, but the social purpose of the critiques is universal which is that I felt uncomfortable that reading this might mean I have to re-evaluate my worldview and I'm going to dive into the comment section and upvote all the people telling me actually, I don't have to do that."
On my phone it has some extreme borders and in many lines it can only fit one single word.
no; marketing, and because social media's whole point is to connect large numbers of people, therefore marketing is product quality
>on a site you don't pay for (YouTube)

But MrBeast does pay. He pays for it with every video, because YouTube keeps 45% of the ad revenue for it. If he receives ~$300,000 for a video, YouTube has kept another ~$300,000.
Knowing the bias is not knowing exactly how often each results come out... it is still probabilistic...
> He's making low value content/the culture of the company is horrible/he's a fraud/it's more luck than skill.

Does this guy know his business? Oh, hell, yes. He clearly knows his business cold. Success always has a significant chunk of luck, but skill is a part of luck, and he clearly demonstrates that skill.

However, just because someone really knows their business and does well at it does not mean we simply give them a complete pass. For example, payday lenders know their business very well yet we still consider them to be exploitative and parasitic.

This guy is super-specializing in explicitly targeting pretty much mostly teenaged males with purely dopamine hit content with very little benefit (if any and possibly a negative effect) to the audience. He is pushing the video equivalent of junk food to an audience with weak, underdeveloped impulse control.

This is going to get pushback, and it absolutely deserves that pushback.

> excuses for why it's not necessary in this instance to re-examine your priors.

Which priors should I reexamine? The fact that he is effectively targeting adolescent males? The fact that YouTube is all consumed with feeding the ad machine and should be forced out of Google? The fact that social media has turned out to be a pox upon our society?
Hard is relative. I scored a 3. My childhood would better be described as one of neglect rather than one of direct abuse. I don’t feel accomplished. I feel like I’ve been moving from one lucky break to another. But at the same time I’m able to see what I can contribute to roles I have versus my peers and have to conclude my calibration for what is successful or accomplished is very biased. It’s difficult to properly judge yourself when we have plain examples of the top 0.1% all over the internet. This sets up incredibly unrealistic expectations. If you’re able to iterate without constant guidance and able to pivot when you run into firm roadblocks you’re ahead of 90% of your peers. I’m constantly dealing with the dissonance of trying to reconcile that I’m nothing special with me being the only one capable of pushing certain projects forward.

It feels like so many people hit the first stumbling block and throw up their hands stating they don’t know how to do it. That’s where things finally get interesting for me. It doesn’t work. How can I make it work? What have I tried and what other people have solved a similar problem? 95% of the time I just find what someone before me did, copy it and move on. Why is that so difficult for many of my peers? A good portion of my career could be summed up as copying and pasting things I’ve found on Google. It objectively works. Why are others struggling?

I’ll never be a Carmack or an Asahi or any other super hacker that frequently drops incredible work in novel areas that extremely few other individuals could ever deliver. But I can follow their work. Learn from them. Apply their solutions to problems in other domains and iterate on it. But this all feels easy and natural to me so I have trouble understanding why my peers struggle with it so much.
I see! Thanks for referring to your sibling post, that definitely made clearer what you're talking about.

And yeah if you package stuff against, e.g., the Python libs included in the distro (or EPEL), you essentially need to maintain a repo as a downstream repo of the distro, then rebuild the whole repo with whatever subsequent release as a new upstream when it's time to upgrade. That kind of thing is doable but it's substantial integration work, and if it's aomething you do once a decade nobody is ever going to be fluent in it when it's time to be done.

I think I'd rather just maintain two repos— one against the latest stable release and one against the upstream rolling release (Fedora Rawhide, Debian Unstable, openSUSE Factory or Tumbleweed, etc.)— and upgrade every 6 months or whatever than leap the wider chasms between LTS releases.

And yeah the Python and Python libs shipped in a distro are generally there for the distro's integration purposes, which may involve different goals and constraints than app developers usually have. Building against whatever a distro ships with is not always the best way, as your painful migrations demonstrated.
Wdym? It’s also a chromium browser i.e. it’ll lose uBlock as well eventually
Give me decent multi-profile support in firefox and I won't need a chromium browser anymore
Wait. You’re answering why this site is flooded with morale outrage with us vs them moral outrage?
Are there any good solutions for reliably rolling out an pre-review/unreviewed Chrome extension to a team (other than controlling all their users' Chrome profiles with an enterprise deployment)?

I found https://docs.plasmo.com/itero but haven't used it - it seems to provide a downloadable installer that installs and maintains an extension on testers' systems via policies. Unsure how well it works though, or if anyone's deployed it.

There are so many things wrong with the state of affairs with the MV3 rollout that it's hard to know where to begin. If there's a silver lining here, perhaps it's that there will be renewed attention towards finding workarounds to the walled garden.
> You didn’t spot the relationship with the “no doesn’t mean no” stuff because as you said in the next sentence, you skipped it.

No, it was because I had not read the news about MrBeast having a sexual predator on his team. My interpretation of the earlier comment here was that this should have been a flag that the heading “no doesn’t mean no” should have been called out.

Without that knowledge of the current predator scandal, I don’t think I was wrong to skip that section when writing up my summary. I read that section and it didn’t make my “highlights” list for when I wrote about the document.

I’m being defensive here because it sounds like you are calling me out for something, but I’m not sure what that something is.
There's also: https://fedihost.co/
At one time I believed some aspects of coding were attempts at copy protection: coding drivers to ignore some class of error condition at "layer 2" so that an incorrect image could be seen by the reader and the byte stream passed up.

But now, with a hanlons razor in my hand, I now think these may just be unbelievably badly encoded disks, with things like the article notes: overruns of data into audio frames, checksum errors put in by the master.
One distressing trend I've noticed becoming ubiquitous on HN
is that any writing that is confronting to a consensus worldview
becomes flooded with highly upvoted comments that are, in essence,
excuses for why it's not necessary in this instance to re-examine
your priors.

I genuinely do not know what you're trying to say here. For funsies, I tossed this into Claude 3.5 Sonnet with the prompt "Translate this into 7th grade English" (which is roughly Mr Beast's core audience?). Here was its response:

I've seen something happening more and more on HN that bothers me.
When someone writes something that goes against what most people
think, the comments section gets filled with popular replies.
These replies are basically just reasons why you don't need to
think about changing your mind on this topic.

Assuming this is a reasonable analog to your original point, I would say that this definitionally what a mainstream response to contrarianism looks like.
I resonate with this, unfortunately. I wish things in our field were better.
Most people don't have cancer, so the average lifespan reduction of everyone is going to be quite a bit lower than the average lifespan reduction of people diagnosed with cancer.
I grew up gaming on PCs. I still game regularly, and haven't used Windows for around ten years.

Anybody that wants to explore alternatives to Microsoft has every reason to do so, the software works about as well or better than running natively on Windows.