jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Aaaaand it's blocked for those over seas. Great.
Wish you the best.

I have been struggling with bad sleep for most of my life -- seems to run in the family (now I suspect it might be a common chronotype). What finally improved my life and has now been working better and longer than anything before (and I implemented this after reading the book) is properly establishing my circadian rhythm/chronotype and adjusting to it. Now I sleep on a regular schedule and my total sleep time has actually decreased.

Unfortunately this is rather difficult and requires radical lifestyle changes if you are a night type trying to exist on a typical work schedule. I was desperate and in a position to introduce the changes, and fortunately it's worked for me. Hard to recommend to everybody though at this point -- that's why a societal change is needed and that's where this book does good.

From indirect experience, echoing the book, I would strongly advise against medication, in particular zolpidem. It is very highly addictive, may have terrible side-effects, especially mixed with other substances, and ultimately doesn't really work. Honestly it is so much worse than so many illegal substances that from my point of view the only explanation for its continued proliferation is profit.

Definitely respect the author for standing against that in the book.
By income level, ignoring race.
"So you are saying we have systematic misanthropy in the justice system?"

I can't tell if you're arguing in bad faith or if you think you're actually being profound here with these socratic challenges.

Men commit and are caught, charged, and imprisoned for many more crimes than women are.

Black men probably commit somewhat more crimes than white men— a fact which can largely be understood in context by examining structural inequalities like not having access to the same schools, community supports, family stability, plus adding in layers of racism and generational trauma, etc etc. But their representation in the corrections system is significantly out of proportion even to this ratio due to factors like racist policing and courts, and compounded by things like the bail system, which pressures the innocent to plead guilty.

These two situations are not really comparable.
That does not happen on the moon. It's cold. The rocks are just rocks.

In the desert, a cup of water is a treasure. In space, even rocks are very useful as radiation shielding.

And I'll say it again, it sounds like you're engaging in this ridiculous fantasy not because you genuinely think the moon is a treasure chest

Lots of people have studied and thought about this. In relation to the environment, it is a treasure chest. It has the right materials to build the bulk of solar power satellites, much more economically than importing those materials from Earth. Again, with enough energy, even dumb rocks become ore. There is a lot more energy available in space.

You know how you get dumb wars? That's how you get dumb wars.

Here's a challenge: Name a dumb war that wasn't at least peripherally about the control of resources, especially energy. The recent ones have been at least peripherally about oil.
That's not how economy of scale works.
Even many African countries like Ghana, Cameroon, and Tunisia have a lower murder rate than the US.
I feel one of Tesla's greatest "innovations" is their aesthetic design.

Prior to the Model 3, nearly all EVs were weird looking "futuristic" (usually in a bad tacky way) dwarf mutant hatchbacks that looked rather cheap - like a ICE car that cost half its MSRP.

The Model 3 introduced a (relatively) affordable EV that actually looks "normal", even desirable and premium.
The felons would be executed, while misdemeanors would often be punished by caning.
I have the new Blackberry Passport: http://ca.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-passport/ove.... It's easily the best smartphone I've ever owned and the best Blackberry has come out with.

You'll be seeing and hearing a lot more about Blackberry. I can assure you that.
The real insanity with make is that it has no interface to check whether a Makefile contains a given target.

Best you can do is to run make -n target to probe, but it's possible to write Makefiles that run code even though -n is used, which will defeat such probes at distribution scale. It quickly becomes an exercise in heuristics and output parsing.
If you don't believe literally in Adam and Eve, it implies not literally believing in Original Sin, the inheritance of the guilt and Jesus dying on a cross for it. The whole thing falls apart, doesn't it?
When I was a child in the 1960s and perhaps 1970s, there was a major PR push to get people in America to stop littering. The slogan was, "Keep America Beautiful" and it was complete with TV commercials and other vehicles of propaganda.

My impression is that it worked. Not completely, but awareness increased and a majority of people quit throwing their cola bottles our of the car and such.

The one thing that people didn't stop doing so much is throwing their cigarette butts onto the ground.

Chewing gum is still a problem as well. When I would coach baseball (for my then-young kids) I would come home from the field with gum in my shoe.

Just a few weeks ago at an airport I looked around for an outlet at a bar and noticed many wads of gum stuck under the bar.

Why people still do these things is a mystery to me.
And this is a real killer w.r.t. startups adopting microservices: if you're shipping your org chart, but your org chart needs to change frequently to adapt to different contexts as you pivot, arrange, create and eject use cases, microservices cause frequent friction because the relationship between the way you want to organize, and the way the boundaries are established in code, are so different.

I even see the reverse happening, org chart changes made based on service boundaries, due to this friction.
Anyone remember the black and white generics of the 80s? http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-ai...
Did you apply via https://cloud.google.com/startup?

I'm in a similar position and those credits would be lifechanging.
One of the big problems with this entire conversation is the definition of terms. The word “white” has been defined hundreds of ways within the “woke” literature and multicultural academics - some of them having no connection to skin color. The nuance and depth of thought that has gone into these academic discussions is elided and you end up with “be less white” which is clearly and obviously inflammatory to a whole host of people. That nobody ever defines terms clearly causes everyone to talk past each other and the conversation becomes immediately divisive and counterproductive. There is a real conversation to be had here - but we’re not having it.
I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal from the Borland booth at the West Coast Computer Fair in 1983 (or 4?). It was amazing product to use; it might be looking at so many years hence, but it still feel like no programming system ever could match the speed. While I do Swift today, I still remember how much fun it was to do Pascal almost instantly.
It wouldn't help much if they did, seeing as how that would be specific to YC. As such, it's not representative of the general experience.
The ApolloOS distribution of AROS that Apollo ship still has plenty of proprietary software on it. In the Discord they’ve discussed that the problem they had with CoffinOS/Amiga Coffin was the rights to Amiga OS.
I slept with my grandma, mother when I was a child <10. That's because our apartments were super tiny back then in China. It isn't much of a choice.

My son is sleep-trained to sleep alone in his room. At first, he would refuse and cry, and he woke up every once awhile, later he just got use to it and slept 12 hour straight. Not only he slept without any distraction (me), but also it is much easier on me as well.

Important metric I think is whether the baby sleep enough, rather than style of parenting. Sometimes it is just economic factor.
hyped pretty much means loved new thing, no ?
My spouse is a workforce analyst. She schedules work packages for a large government agency. She's responsible for the workloads of about 150 people. All have been working from home for a full year, and yes, they are quite capable of doing it. However, overall productivity is down 30%. Since they have good data, she can clearly see which people are close to their normal productivity even when working from home, and which ones are considerably worse. Most people are worse.
Oh no we might lose our billionaires? Good riddance.
I still need someone to ELI5 to me how space curvature model explains the attraction between two bodies that have a delta-v of 0.
Can you elaborate on what was so exhausting? This is a super interesting anecdote to hear!
I just message people regardless of if they're in a meeting or whatever. It's asynchronous communication -- they'll get to it when they can.
I hate Microsoft Exchange/Outlook's calendar system (integrates with Skype for Business/Teams) for that.

A person can be scheduled in for an hour's long meeting but it actually only takes 10 minutes, but you check the person's status after the 10 minutes and it still says 'In a meeting' (usually differentiates with 'In a call' if they're actually in a call, but it's quite unreliable and you don't know if maybe they're having technical problems and are just about to reconnect).
And I thought Emilie du Chatelet
I would assume Google uses this data to optimise its blocklist and determine impact. By Apple blocking this data they are reducing the effectiveness of the Safe Browsing list.

This is one item I would not block, we already have huge issues with this list providing false positives. Giving Google even less data to make adjustments make this worse.
The bottom 90% contains people that are too poor to invest in stocks.
> However, since Apple now proxies Google Safe Browsing traffic, it further safeguards users’ privacy while browsing using Safari.

It still shares the same amount of information, it's just being shared with Apple instead of Google. If it was a privacy problem before, it remains so.
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Would love that. Can you shoot me an email: ulrik.hansen@cord.tech
I do this for every website I visit

1. First go to cookies and reject all cookies except the strictly necessary ones

2. Then go to “Legitimate interest” and then simply click “Object all”.

At my primary browser level -

3. In Firefox settings, choose “Block all cookies” (Hasn’t messed with my browsing experience, yet)

4. Periodically keep on deleting your browser cache and cookies. Don’t delete browsing history and saved logins.

I am currently looking for ways to minimize JavaScript usage. If anyone has any ideas, kindly proffer.

Caveat :- I am fully conscious that despite the painstaking activity of rejecting all cookies and objecting to all legitimate interest, I cannot rest easy that all websites I visit are scrupulous, cognizant and conscientious of my choice.

Also, I don’t get to option to reject and object on all websites, in which case I first check if there’s an archived snapshot on the Wayback Machine[1], or I simply forego reading the article altogether. For ex - www.BBC.co.uk, and even Reuters as mentioned in the OP’s post.

Ref.

[1] www.archive.is
Isn't Power also fixed-length? Why isn't POWER9 killing it?

EDIT: To answer my first question, it was 32-bit fixed-length. The ISA for POWER10 additionally supports aligned prefixed 64-bit instructions. See section 1.6 in https://wiki.raptorcs.com/w/images/f/f5/PowerISA_public.v3.1...
One of the foundations of object-capability security is memory safety, so loading arbitrary native code does subvert that. You can get around this by, for example, requiring native code to be loaded in a separate process. As you say, a capability OS and/or CPU architecture [1] is able to confine native code.

> isn’t it a problem if a module’s permissions may increase without explicit input from the module’s user (transitive or otherwise)?

Exactly right.

[1]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
Lol, now Indian government will be all hunky dory with such news articles related to crypto in the country.
> I am well aware that X11 tunneling is an aged piece of technology that is in serious need of facelift, but the new alternative to X11 should match the functionality

But many of the performance problems of X11 is rooted directly in features most of the user-base no longer uses (X11 as a network protocol being the prime example) and the work on a new protocol is being made specifically by eliminating the tradeoffs introduced by those features.

I welcome a newer, more performant option, but I guess it won't have anything to offer for your concerns.
my $.02 ... listen to anyone who recommends Rippetoe's "Starting Strength." oh, and ignore everyone else.
They left out one possible solution: create a time machine to traveled back to a minute before 4.54 billion years ago.
Equipment needed: high-pressured suction vacuum machine preferably solar-powered with a dustbag hard enough to store around 1.08321 × 1012 km3 mass volume of solar's dust and gas left over.
Contrary to popular believe, it is actually easy to shop for a decent time-traveled machine: imdb.com
Feasibility: 1/10
Or if your script(s) end up on a blacklist (ala AdBlock)…
Can you explain that for me? I use Microsoft Azure a lot and there things like this just happen automatically. No configurations, alarms, etc.
String.prototype.charCodeAt and String.fromCharCode are never called in implicit type conversion. Type conversion is always done by calling primitive constructor functions. In the case of subtraction ("1" - 1), Number is called on any non-numeric operand. Also see:

> false - 1

> true - 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-low-sulfur_diesel#United_...

The US sulfur limit is 15 ppm. In the EU it is 10 ppm (apparently the available fuel is often lower than that).

I don't have any idea what the effective difference is between fuel with 15 ppm sulfur and 5 ppm sulfur, but I would guess it won't be enormous.
I know it's largely for show, but does anyone else think it's a bad look to publicly offer a $100k bet (a la Romney's $10k proposition to Rick Perry)? I think this might be the moment YC jumps the shark for me.
True, that is my understanding as well – still, though, requires that you have that SVG in your HTML in the first place. The CSS approach (in my link anyway, not necessarily OP's) can be incorporated without any updates to your existing markup – even without adding a single DIV.
I think a perfect explanation is that GM was incompetent and complacent.
Is it possible to pull request against a gist?
80s Tercel got 40MPG
2014 Rav4 gets 20MPG
Same gasoline, both 4 cylinder. The RAV4 is much more advanced.

It's emissions that have killed gas milage.
It is, but try to go to Safeway and buy a GF powerbar... :)

Jokes aside, we maintain the list mostly for ingredients. Many people, especially "novice", often ask the same questions -- or you may have doubts for strange/unfamiliar foods, for instance if you're traveling in a foreign country.
Proposition 3: The current YC Winter 2015 batch—currently worth
something that rounds down to $0—will be worth at least $3B on
Jan 1st, 2020.

This is a clever way of wording to the VCs: "You should invest in the whole batch of YC W15 companies because in 5 years your investments will own part of a $3 billion group of companies."
As the owner and user of an Android phone, great, just great.

Let's ask the so-far unasked question: Why? Both Google and Apple built in location-caching. Seems mighty suggestive of something, maybe something like the color printer Mysterious Yellow Ink dots (http://www.instructables.com/id/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Yo...).
I don't think anyones concerned that it tracks you with cached data (47 entries in github example, date spread would imply ~ 1 month) -- the concern w/r/t apple is that there seems to be no limit to the amount of logging retained.

I won't get into paranoia mode, or conspiracy theories, _but_ I am fine with either phone being aware of my location, and even my recent movements (subject to disclosure) -- I am NOT fine with that log being undisclosed and perpetual
Awesome story and congrats. I second pgbovine's point that maybe the diplomas that grant instant kinship to fellow alums is worth quite a bit. I wonder if we can hack the kinship part without the tuition part?

Another question. Paying down your debt at $6K/month is fantastic (implying you are above and beyond you and your spouse's living expenses and the interest on the debt). However, based on your last post that debt was $70K credit card and $30K IOU to co-founder.

Now that you are back on your feet, have you considered declaring bankruptcy or defaulting on the credit cards? It'll ruin your credit and stress you out, but saving $70K while building a $6K a month nest-egg seems worth considering.

I hate suggesting that people walk away from their debt, but 7 years of bad credit vs. $70K today is the trade. Bankruptcy / consumer credit laws exist to help the little guys; the ABS traders and investors who package and buy your debt price in a certain delinquency / default rate in all their credit card deals. That comes from my own experience working on a hedge fund ABS desk. You'll probably miss the $70K a lot more than the people who have an unsecured claim on it.

Edit: OP responded with a firm "NO" to defaulting on the debt. Congrats again, much respect!
Businesses don't have any choices - they cooperate or are shut down; they are even more vulnerable to state coercion than individuals are, both legal and sub-rosa actions.
I study visualization websites frequently, and found Chrome much faster than other browsers (among all stable releases). Example page (not sure how well written): http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/force.html
Because you have to put a limit somewhere before people start to exploit it.
Mentioning Go for `name: type` may not be inaccurate, but it is an odd choice (we're seeing more comparisons of Rust and Go than Rust and any language it is closely related to).
I believe the origin for Rust's choice is actually the ML family.
EDIT: I just checked more carefully and Go doesn't even have the colon ([this blog post](http://blog.golang.org/gos-declaration-syntax) used it in pseudocode).
The prune option is what you’re after there

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/prune.html
I like dark mode for simple practical reasons: I have a multimonitor setup and I hate it when a monitor shines bright light into my eyes from the side — this is of course purely subjective. I also work a lot with colors and I’d like to avoid bright colors on secondary displays for that reason as well.

There are studies linking the high blue light content of LEDs to health issues regarding eyesight and sleep. AFAIK the eyesight thing has only be tested with mice, but conduct your own research.

I use dark wallpapers for years now, and just yesterday when I wanted to try a brighter one for a change I instantly changed it back because the bright shine was so annoying.
If you understand me and I understand you, then we've both done a good job, "mission accomplished." Thanks for taking the time to explain yourself clearly and civilly.
But isn't that the point of S3? That it can't be overwhelmed?

I tried it out and it worked great, I only have 3 buckets though. As with the first version of anything, there are always kinks that need to be worked out. Great to finally see an official web based tool for managing S3 though!
Thanks for the insight. I didn't realize that ruby's (former?) continuation memory-leaks were the the reason for Seaside being in Smalltalk rather than Ruby.

In this case I wonder whether Smalltalk really is the right tool for the job. Smalltalk isn't a bad language but there aren't a lot of libraries available. I've played around with Seaside a bit and ended up having to rewrite some of the HTTP libraries to do what I needed. Unfortunately I can't think of another language outside of the LISP family that supports continuations well.
but to call politics "unimportant" just because it's impossible for an individual (in most cases) to make changes is short-sighted and wrong.

Politics is important in the sense that someone needs to take care of it, but due to the reason you outlined it's unimportant to me. Given that, I'm happy to save time ignoring political stories and issues but I still think it's important and if no-one else were willing to take care of those important issues, I'd need to step up to the plate. Thankfully, they are, so I'll let them get on with it ;-)
"This is the big hole in the "singularity" scenario -- there's no reason to think that brains are capable of building ever-smarter brains."

One thing that could be done with simulated brains is save a copy, tinker with it and see what happens. If it doesn't work out, just restart the simulation.

This is not so easy to do with biological human brains, but may be quite simple and straightforward with simulated human brains.

Of course, there are very serious ethical issues in doing that kind of tinkering and "rebooting" even of simulated brains. But the technological capability to do that will be there should someone decide to (and someone likely will).

"We don't even know, really, what that would mean. What would a smarter version of my brain look like?"

Does it have to be smarter? How about faster?

It may be possible to speed up a brain simulation to the point where it's thinking 10 times faster than humans. Or maybe 100 times faster. Who knows where the limits lie?

If you had 10 or 100 lifetimes to think about improving your brain, do you think you might come up with some promising ideas?
Any economists out there who can explain what this would mean? I imagine that China selling 2/3 of their USD reserves would devalue the dollar pretty significantly.
There can be no improvement without feedback.

E.g. If the management at a company is doing something that the employees don't like, "voting with your feet" without telling management why you are leaving guarantees that nothing will change. Other than maybe adding a 'Casual Tuesday' (or some other HR BS) in an attempt to raise morale.
I've upvoted the comment to express "agreement" -- but I am commenting because upvotes no longer show so no one would know that the comment was upvoted except mr_november.

TL; DR: Great idea!