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by 1_player 5y ago
A dislike button is too simplistic, but having no way to dislike something is extremely bad user experience. How do you train a recommendation engine without a negative signal? Sometimes I dislike something and I don't want it around a
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by 1_player 5y ago
> The political posts on here are amazing though I haven't said they're bad. I just personally don't enjoy politics with my hacker news. Agreed on the downvotes, I could do without them.
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by 1_player 5y ago
Paid by whom? There are companies and employees on HN posting, commenting and promoting their business and services, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Is someone paying to get upvoted? Almost certainly, but I doubt it&#x2
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by 1_player 5y ago
Doesn't seem to be open source, only has a macOS binary, you need to request "early access" by joining their Discord... what's their target audience here? Certainly not web developers.
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by 1_player 5y ago
It helps to get 80% of the way there, on a logarithmic scale. The remaining 20% is evanw saying no to adding any kind of option, feature and the kitchen sink to this project, which is one of the reason Webpack/Babel & co. are some
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by 1_player 5y ago
It is interesting how one's behaviour is dictated by the social network they're participating in. I've recently deleted my ten years old Reddit account because I was getting into fights with everybody, and to this day I can&#
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by 1_player 5y ago
It's easier for politicians to write laws forbidding stuff and pat themselves in the back than radically changing the economy to foster innovation and investments for EU-based tech companies.
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by 1_player 5y ago
To be fair, we haven't had many democracies compared to autocracies in the history of the world. One of the richest countries in the world is a warmongering democracy. The idea that democracies are peaceful is a red herring and cherry-
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by 1_player 5y ago
I meant biological imperative, not personal choice. The common thread between us and an amoeba. Reproduction is one of the primary characteristics of living organisms. But this is too OT and I'm sure someone will find a way to argue on
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by 1_player 5y ago
> The number of people solving a problem scales with the number of people available to solve it. The climate crisis and carbon in the atmosphere scales with the number of people available to solve it, as well.
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by 1_player 5y ago
It's not a matter of "belief". If a new person on the planet is born and goes their whole life without contributing to the cause and carrying on the current status quo of resource exploitation and fossil fuel usage, they will
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by 1_player 5y ago
Reproducing is our biological imperative, but I am still surprised how blasphemous is to people to mention having fewer children. It's a taboo and people hate you for it just for mentioning it. There's much better ways of solving
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by 1_player 5y ago
Having a child doesn't mean they'll eventually go on working to solve climate change. If they don't, they'll actually make it (infinitesimally) worse by increasing resource consumption and carbon in the atmosphere. For a
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by 1_player 5y ago
> US military a force for good The US military has never been a force for good, nor a force for evil either. The US military, like all other militaries, is a force for its own country's purposes and goals only. The rest is propagand
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by 1_player 5y ago
I so wish this could become an operating system a dedicated hacker could use full-time. I think the biggest hurdle is fleshing out their web browser, which is probably the hardest thing to build and maintain in this day and age. But my secr
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by 1_player 5y ago
Smells fishy. The reason is present the software as open-source while in reality it's closed source with unimportant data files being published on GitHub.
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by 1_player 5y ago
Why would the pandemic send more users to HN?
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by 1_player 5y ago
The intellectual curiosity rule was fine when most people in here were hackers. Now hacker news has become the exception.
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by 1_player 5y ago
Lately 60% of HN's front page is indistinguishable from Ars Technica. Just common denominator techy or popsci news. I'd rather see a post about yet another JS framework honestly.
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by 1_player 5y ago
No, it's an over complicated way of using client-side technology to do server-side computation so that it loads as fast as a static page. Groundbreaking.
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XY Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 1_player 5y ago
Here in UK, like everywhere else, Vitamin D dosage is measured in IU. You probably never noticed it, or your pills have low-strength dosages (400 IU), which are quite common to find in pharmacies, and personally I don't even bother wit
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by 1_player 5y ago
Well, the world is a bit bigger than the US. Everywhere, apart from the US and a few other (East Asian?) countries, WhatsApp usage is widespread.
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by 1_player 5y ago
In my experience, any service dashboard is useless unless the problem has been going on for so long (i.e. hours) that it is obvious something's wrong.
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by 1_player 5y ago
On the internet you can be whoever you want to be, including a total jerkwad. It's much harder to do in person, as the punishment is quite high unless you enjoy getting your ass kicked by a stranger. Like someone else previously said,
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by 1_player 5y ago
"Calorie restriction for obesity treatment results in weight loss—initially—giving patients the impression they have conscious control over their body weight. But predictable biological responses oppose weight loss, including decreased
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by 1_player 5y ago
No one is talking about it, the rest of the comments are unrelated war stories about IPv6 deployment with have nothing to do with TFA.
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by 1_player 5y ago
One Twitter message of theirs reads "WOW THIS IS SO EMPOWERING", and a quote from Steve Jobs about changing the world. I am 34 years old and I have a hard time finding a use for that word as it is, I can't really imagine 11 y
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The science of tea’s mood-altering magic (2019)(nature.com)
2 points by 1_player 5y ago|0 comments
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by 1_player 5y ago
What? If the independent developer didn't want his technology to be used, he would have patented it or made it closed source. This is not what EEE is about.

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