jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regular LessWrong reader, infrequent LW contributor here.

I think the problem with akrasia is it's a lot like "being sick" - if you call your physician on the phone and say, "I'm sick" he won't be able to really help you without further diagnosis.

Seems like akrasia could be any one of a couple dozen things (fear of failure, fear of success, habit, chemical addiction, many more things). We're not at a point in anti-akrasia/rationality/motivation/etc to be able to accurately diagnose and treat all of the causes of it.

I think we'll get there, though. Someday. Quite a ways off. But progress is being made. In the meantime, I'll second Ryan's recommendation for the book. It's good.
It's hard to tell how the VMware purchase has affected GemStone since they don't seem to be very vocal but work on Maglev (a Ruby implementation) appears to have continued well. I also know Redis has come on leaps and bounds and Salvatore seems to have been given a lot of autonomy by them.

Perhaps I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but I just have a feeling in my bones that VMware might be opening the can on a new chapter of not only dominating the virtualization tools market but by getting heavily into commercializing open source technologies too (as Red Hat and Sun did). There's only so much money in selling products, after all. Their acquisition of SpringSource last year also gives this indication.
Spread the politics of freedom and capitalism. What is happening in North Korea is the logical outcome of the theories of Socialism.
Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/cloudinarymarketing/imagecon-2019...

Background: JPEG XL is a combination of Cloudinary's FUIF [1] (successor of FLIF [2]) and Google's Pik [3].

Committee Draft (Aug 2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03565

Technical Details: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of...

Features / Goals:

- high quality compression (> 60% over JPEG-1)

- royalty-free with open source implementations available from the start

- versatile: supports alpha transparency, high bit depth (16-bit), lossless compression, animations

- progressive decoding / "responsive by design"

- legacy-friendly: reversible transcoding of JPEGs with 22% size reduction (demo available [4])

Comparisons:

- JPEG 2000, JPEG XR: only marginal compression improvements

- WebP: limited (8-bit, 4:2:0), no progressive decoding

- BPG/HEIF (HEVC): patent-encumbered (not royalty-free), no progressive decoding, complex

- AVIF (AV1): no progressive decoding, complex, slow?

[1] https://cloudinary.com/blog/introducing_fuif_responsive_imag...

[2] http://flif.info/

[3] https://github.com/google/pik

[4] https://google.github.io/brunsli/
That’s hilarious … I worked for a company (several, really) that bragged about being AI but where really just conventional business logic.

The products worked great so nobody cared. Nor should they.

To be clear, the companies started as AI. They just pivoted until they found a market and product that matched.
> he has been ruthless in pursuing what works to continue the endless revenue climb

This seems like an accurate assessment. Fortunately much of it has resulted in great products like the Apple Watch and M1 Macs, but service marketing leaking into the UI leaves a bad taste.

As a shareholder I'd be happy with the revenue and dividends, but as a customer I want the focus to be on building great new products and improving reliability and usability rather than trying to convince me to buy more service subscriptions.

We've already seen what happens to mobile games when they prioritize monetization over gameplay: they turn into slot machines. Sadly Apple Arcade is a sort of response to a problem that Apple grew in its own walled garden.
I'm curious too actually ... my response wasn't criticizing your question.
You can have the service test the link for redirects (using HEAD requests), and have a max depth to be safe. Then if a URL occurs twice, or the max depth is reached, mark as invalid.
Add to this list:

Food, when it was eaten inrelation to tiredness, light/medium or hard exercise(what type of exercise)

I certainly know my focus and "sharpness" does drop, yet it never drops at the same time(at least not obviously ie i have not measured it)
Is it sufficiently secure if the WiFi is setup with WPA2 TKIP and the SSID and passphrase are set to the same value? By sufficiently secure, I mean one node on the WiFi cannot snoop in on other nodes even for HTTP traffic. What if we all open WiFi SSIDs are set to "Open*" and the passphrase is easily guessable (could be same as the SSID, could be the zipcode, could be just OpenOpenOpen)?

The goal is not to prevent someone some getting on the network but rather to keep all clients separated. Is that possible using existing devices/protocols?
Erm, forgive me for possibly missing this, but where did it say machine "learning"? Machine "translation" was the subject of the post, which... well, "how we use google translate" might very well be applicable to. ;)
Are you sure that won't be removed by the email client?
Should be "Lead Bitcoin Developer Invited into CIA Headquarters"
Yeah, but the data can be used for many purposes other than advertising.
> I really wonder why :)

No big mystery there.

> iMessage has a privacy statement now, and it's much shorter than whatsapp's

Or there.

I wonder how effective these things really will be. Most people aren't going to scroll through these so the average person is going to ignore the everything below the fold. It's like the required disclaimers on medicines which people ignore. Once you get past the first few, nobody pays attention.
Same people here complaining why federal help was rejected would be complaining why federal help was sent if it was a BLM riot.
>USDT is only liquid BECAUSE there is no redemption mechanism (or at least not one that has ever been demonstrated).

For the bystanders here, I've made a reply to a comment similar to this in sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686965
I might see why they think that way, but I'll have a harder time sympathizing when the parent's use case starts being more prominent: what happens when your app grows in usage, gets out of the "niche curiosity" category for the mass public, and people start wanting to use it for "serious" matters?

Not being able to back some conversations up is not an option. It would be very ironic if the answer to this was "well, then don't use Signal, because we don't care", and people who cared about the WhatsApp stuff ended up being pushed into Telegram (which seems to be the only other popular alternative, by a wide margin).
> I hopefully don't need to further elucidate why that polarization is a very bad thing

This isn't polarization, it's radicalization.
Try Unclack? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644828
> If you have weak company leadership, legal will start to drive policy more than it should.

That's a really interesting dynamic I have never experienced or heard of. Explains a lot! Do you know other examples?

(ed. clarify which part I wanted examples for)
Yeah, and that's the major issue with Signal/Telegram. They also have to pay the operational costs at the end of the day.

Apple's services can be ad free because they hide the cost in the cost of phone but that is extremely anti competitive.

A user on an iPhone will have a hard time rationalizing for Signal which says $3 per month when he looks at iMessage and that is free
What unintended consequences could possibly be worse than the intended consequences of having a system that depends on exponential growth?
I'm usually not bothered by stuff like this, but let's play some role-reversal.

"Dating services know what men want (who doesn’t) and seed the network with photos of Latin American models with eclectic interests (not that the latter matters)."

In to...

"Dating services know what women want (who doesn't) and seed the network with wealthy-looking men with genuine personalities (not that the latter matters)."
The only programs I know that pin themselves are Chrome and Firefox(?!). IMO all apps should have a pin to taskbar at the end of installation. I like them to be there, same as OSX.
One thing I could look at is Moz’s approximation for page authority and look at inbound links. But I don’t care that much about it right now.
Sometimes ideas are necessary intermediates to the next-big-thing. SimpleGeo comes to mind: The original plan of CrashCorp was to create mobile games using augmented reality, but the young company soon learned that the hardest part was developing the back-end geolocation infrastructure that would support their applications. Thus was born SimpleGeo. [1]

[1] - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/most_promising_company_...
This was a surprisingly hostile response overall. GP says that faces are a distraction, and you start calling them names.

> Newsflash, mimics and gestures exist for a biological reason and are an essential part in communication.

Blind people seem to do pretty well in both understanding and being understood. So I would argue that 'essential' could be replaced with 'helpful' for person-to-person interactions.

On a personal note: having a conversation with a constant 150-500s lag makes video distinctly unhelpful to my brain - in fact, it is extremely destructive to my ability to focus on the conversation at hand. And I can assure you I'm a human with emotions, [hopefully] not a 'shitty dev', and am neither a meat robot nor a disconnected techy.
Yep, I have the update sitting on my Moto X for a week or so. Was tempting,.. good thing I didn't go for it.
1) The factory owner should have been happy with the bill, given that it was what six minutes of downtime cost him.

2) "I have found the problem, the fix will cost $10,000. Should I proceed?"
Overall I like the concept, but my main gripe is that if you don't have an iPhone the web-based service is useless.

I can't add any friends even if I know their url - I can only hope they add me. I'd have thought letting people add friends by visiting their url on the website would be a reasonable feature of even the most basic MVP iteration.

As it stands the web site is useless to non-iPhone users and so I don't see why they bothered to launch that aspect.
The Forrst community? Is that relevant and I'm missing something or you wrote this there and then copied it to HN?
Dear god did I seriously just spend 45 minutes typing the same thing?
Explaining NP-complete to even a technically-educated audience is always tricky. Sometimes a somewhat misleading explanation is still going to get them closer to the important bits than a precise technical definition would.

I'd probably write: NP-complete refers to a special class of notoriously difficult problems. A solution to even one of them would lead to a solution to all of them, a development which could have radical real-world implications. (Insert good example here.)
Channel 4 in the UK recently showed a documentary by Martin Durkin (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-trillion-pound-h...) which highlighted the economic effects of lowering taxes.

Hong Kong was his example of a booming entrepreneurial economy stimulated by light-handed governance. Britain was the counter-example: a vast burden of taxes imposed on the working population, and a corresponding stagnation of economy (and society).

I hope this is relevant to your question!
In some ways it's an extension of the old MySpace cliche of the original top 8. I'm sure lots of teens have had arguments caused by the addition or removal of people from someone's top 8.
If you read the NYT article, selling filters and selling you to advertisers are business models being considered right now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15photo.html?pa...
wow! i didn't know this status overview was keeping history aswell!

amazing to see how internet --the one network for us all-- can end up meaning something entirely different within the borders of some countries.
This looks awesome! I hope it works as well on mobile devices as it does in the browser.
First - let's ban a perfectly legitimate product because it's smuggled to prisoners. Second - let's try to stop the sale of a product we don't like by abusing IP laws.

Every time I read something like this I become more of an anarcho-capitalist.
I mentor a child for a volunteer program. One day his mother started asking me about which bank I like and which was the safest. I tried to explain FDIC insurance and how some banks offer ATM reimbursements and free checking. The mother was probably never exposed to banking services and may be suspicious of things like free checking. Just the fact that the mother was primarily concerned about safety is telling. I remember my father taking me to open up my first checking account at a young age. Some people never get that.

I also remember reading a profile some time ago about pay-day lenders (can't find the link but I think I saw it on HN). The profile actually brought up how the employees working at the pay-day lenders often times have a very personal relationship with customers. It makes sense since a lot of the same people are going back weekly. The terms are often very misleading if you're unfamiliar with concepts like APR and the market price for these types of services.

I am always interested when I see the ATM receipts left from those sketchy ATMs. More often that not, I see a $2-3 fee for a $20-$40 withdraw. I imagine people the people paying these fees think of it like a fixed fee and don't put it in context of percentage. Same holds true for pay-day lenders.

Interesting article about someone who, although economically disadvantaged, is able to be financially savvy.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/15/130595403/living-a...
Offtopic: Who else is tired of companies putting LY at the end of their name?
I know what the full term means, but never heard of the acronym before today... So glad I ran across that.
That is some well needed news! Just hope that Europe will speed up its vaccine distribution now.
I can vouch for Yandex's reverse image search. It blows Google's out of the water. I think regular image search is typically better too, depending on what your needs are (Google seems to prefer stock imagery which can be frustrating).
Hmm... Sure you can?

Non-land domestic wealth is still a significant share and his arguments for accelerated depreciation ring true to me.
Indeed.. :)
Slack also has webhooks/bots that interact with other services for notifications... pingdom, github, etc... which can be done with bots, but it gets more complicated. Not to mention search archives, file upload preservation and other display niceties.
Not to detract from the excellent answers, but I suggest you step up a level and think about how to minimize (and ideally eliminate) the amount of remote editing you need to do.

In particular, the Twelve Factor App (http://12factor.net/) (by the founder of Heroku) had a big impact in my thinking of how to remotely deploy and administer. In particular "1. One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys" and "X. Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible". Note that these approaches are applicable to any hosting provider and technology.

Now, there are times (especially when you're debugging a breakdown in dev/prod parity) where it is enormously helpful to ssh into a remote machine. But I would endeavor to minimize those occurrences.
I read that series of posts a while ago and it is fantastic. Props to the author(s).
My email is running through a VPS and as most people I know do not use encryption, I wanted a way to add additional security to the stored messages on the server without increasing complexity/end user burden too much. Here I've used openssl s/mime but gpg would work too. The downsides are the same as any encrypted messaging system - forgetting key pw and security of the key. While it may not be "NSA proof", its a step up from leaving imap/pop messages in the clear on a server I do not physically control. Hope its a useful starting point for those who might be looking for something similar.
Yes, as an adversarial system they are to make the best case. However, it still must be truthful.

The trooper didn't care about the truth. He lied in court... twice. We mentioned a third party witness at the scene - they never questioned them. There was no statutory definition of a term. The dictionaries had only one open ended definition for the term. We wrote to the state agency that is the authority in that area to see what guidance they have on the activity - they said it's legal (even if they didn't, the rule of strict construction requires ambiguity to be favorable to the defense). The people in the system didn't care. The trooper also knew that the other party committed a crime, but declined to charge them. What a one sided system... again, truth doesn't matter when they treat you as guilty until proven innocent.
Same with most medical devices
I've been on a Smalltalk kick the last couple of weeks (studied/used it in college, remembered many of the ideas but had never done a proper deep dive before). This was one of the papers I read and found particularly interesting, not just for its talk about Smalltalk itself but also about teaching programming (both to kids and adults).

There have been several past discussions. Ones with more than 1 comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25012425 - Nov 7, 2020 (28 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913668 - Sept 4, 2018 (69 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907556 - July 18, 2015 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588316 - May 22, 2015 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7926141 - June 21, 2014 (10 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311282 - May 1, 2010 (17 comments)
I mean, I'm no fan of Microsoft, but these are incredibly successful products. You can't really cite them as commercial arguments against delivering all the features!
Emotional state and self knowledge, logic, aesthetics, qualia, common sense - most of what you know is outside of science.
The 42k AUD a year is equivalent to many professional jobs in the EU
I did totally misread you, and yes it did sound a bit crazy, but now the joke's on me. I'll leave it up so that the shame forces me to not jump to conclusions next time.
Last I checked, their actual colocation service (very much paid) had no 2FA.
This is a bit naive -- agreements don't require written documentation to be binding, and there are lots of indicators that an agreement existed (listing him on the website for example.)

The real problem is that this relationship (and it's unresolved status) would need to be disclosed to future investors.

The best solution is to come to a reasonable agreement with the person about exiting them with some compensation for their work that is reasonable.

Walking away entirely is definitely possible, but it exposes the company to future liability, so it's worth cleaning up properly.
I mean I think the ship has pretty much sailed on this one but I think they've got a case when companies just started using "can receive a text at a given number" as a security verification which suddenly made it the telco's problem to make sure such a thing was secure when before it was a more informal system.
GitLab product person here - Thanks for the suggestion! I think this issue (scheduled for our 12.6 release coming out next month) should help. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/27630
Often you can get dramatic results for small amounts of money,or a small investment can pay off dramatically.

It consistently bothers me that people don't talk about low hanging fruit; easy simple ways to make the world better, and the educational ones that often pay for themselves in increased tax revenues and/or reductions in crime. Simple medical interventions often pay for themselves in reduced care costs.

The article suggests that because there is no constituency to support these changes, they don't get pushed. If that's true that's a shame.

Other examples:

HeadStart pays for itself 9 times over. http://www.nhsa.org/files/static_page_files/399E0881-1D09-35...

Persistently lower arrests and crime rates if you give students a 6 week minimum wage job during the summer. http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2014/12/04/do_j...

A simple checklist significantly reduced death and serious complications in surgery. http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1871759,0...

A simpl stove that can be made of local materials in africa dramatically increases fuel efficiency, and reduces uncontrolled fires and smoke blindness http://www.aidafrica.net/stoves/

A one liter bottle and water can provide light for the poor without electricity.
http://aliteroflight.org/index.php
If you restore data from backup you're fine. Configuration should be re-applied. Unfortunately you need to check every file with an executable bit that comes out of your backups - review shell scripts, recompile executables.

It's rare that attackers tamper with data, usually they just leak it. Source code may be targeted though.
why not Assembly? it's faster... :)
My personal opinion is that JavaScript is the most fun and the most versatile. For example if he is into making games, creating HTML5 games with JavaScript works very well.

Not sure what is best for generating money.

But for learning, starting with a personal project (like a game) tends to work well.
I noticed trueskill is pretty effective at matching people together, but the stickiness of rankings makes it frustrating if it’s user facing. People want to see the number next to their name change after 4 consecutive wins.
I didn't expect to see this post on HN, I am also a big fan of his work. It's a sad day.
Every since I discovered him in high school, I've been trying to play even a little bit like him. RIP.
I just love how the author use a few paragraphs to explain the weakness of this model and why it need more research.

Most pop science articles just dont have it
You will find that many of us gun rights supporters don't care what data comes out. I don't support 2a because fewer than n people die per year from guns.
The interesting side effect to me here is using butter one might keep the cooking temperatures a little bit lower. Butter burns at a lower temp than many plant oils.
I'm not sure what you mean by "advertising" here, but the way you state the goal of advertising is too close to the general goal of communication to make a blanket ban on advertising quite totalitarian.

And I say this as someone with an instinctual dislike for advertising and practically any sort of opportunistic promotion/marketing.
If it's easier to take your data drive from one laptop to the next, it's no longer a end user problem when the laptop needs to be thrown away at the end of each season.

Yes, it's a shame you can't charge a 10x markup on the storage the end user takes with them, but you can still charge a 10x markup on the built in storage that's non-removable and whose failure still blocks booting (necessitating replacement of the whole thing, naturally)
"The Engineer - unauthorized biography of Elon Musk" looks much better for the title of HN submission.
Further reading, for the curious. Thanks, Nadim!
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/crypto-cat-encrypti...