skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit I was fearing a long drawn out answer. This was nice and short.

I think I agree with the point, too. Reading of failures is typically clearer, because you can sometimes get good answers there. Not always, of course. But many successes include the hidden, "also, we did not get very unlucky."
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> Moonlight is around 4100K. So it is even more "natural" than 3000K. Should we blot out the moon next?

I was on a hike in July during a full moon and those who were sleeping in open air (no tent or bivy bag) struggled to sleep through the night due to the moonlight.

This was in the North West of Australia, so daytime maximums were around 35C. It was too warm at night to zip your tent or bivy closed, so where possible you would try to position yourself so that you could shield yourself from the moonlight during the night.

There were quite a few afternoon nappers in the group until the moon waned a little by the second week.
The squatter's business model is to buy a lot of domain very cheaply, in the hopes that one sale will cover a lot of bad purchases. Paying $99/domain and having to register each manually (the API is readonly) goes completely against that MO.
Self-skepticism is particularly hard.
I think we could easily have self-driving trains if they were considered important. The cost savings (and safety improvement) of self-driving trains probably just isn't high enough for it to be treated with the same urgency as self-driving cars.
That looks like a branch of Deboísmo.
Friends don't let friends program in C++ :) I'm holding out for Rust. Every now and then I think I should go native, then I try it and my productivity goes out of the window :/
> Rolling through a stop sign is a serious offense for us, and outright dangerous, and can only happen out of negligence.

I regularly get frustrated on my (.4 mile) bike commute home when 1-5 cars in a row don't pay attention to 2 of my 3 stop signs. Likely, all in an effort to save 30 seconds on their 50 minute 1 way commute.

So, it seems that negligence is common and it's not so serious of an offense. We can agree on it being dangerous though.

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Some of the flagged comment in the discussion were very sexist. The rest of the flagged comments were people a bit aggressively calling them out. I guess all the up and down voting triggered a flame war detector.

Which is really sad, I really hoped we can all agree that your sex does not determine whether you are a good engineer.
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The average is weighted by GDP (another reason it is important to examine the rankings).
Haha, Three Body is a great fiction story
(2015)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837442 (1 year ago, 39 comments)
Calorie in = calorie out is for weight loss, not general health.
That is a good heuristic, I think most Europeans would agree.

However having your family name on your building seems less common in the US and Europe nowadays. In American business culture having a generic name such as Google, Microsoft seems to be viewed as being more elite. Would Americans say that is accurate?

This causes me to suspect that Trump and Andreessen Horowitz are exceptions that view themselves as outsiders to the corporate club in some way, which is interesting.

It might have something to do with the difference between new and old money or different subclasses butting up against each other.

I myself would be proud to put the family crest blazoned on the helm of our battlebots at the factory, Game of Thrones has evidently influenced my education. Much better than something like 'Active Defense Ltd' or 'Pro-Tech.org'.
> Yuppie millennial parents are hands down the worst

Did you read the article? If I have to choose between "get arrested and have my kids taken from me" or "have angry old man yell about me on the internet" the choice is clear.
This really needs more attention/consideration. Self-driving anything seems like a ripe target, as the perceived "harm" is to a corporation not a human driver/operator. That is, theives will not have to hurt anyone to get the goods.
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Sounds indeed implausible but it has been done before: https://youtu.be/8_4G_8gEjng
thanks for answering my question about his use of the word propaganda

i'm glad i asked the question instead of just ascribing my assumptions about its use as fact and then criticising it

> your post is almost as unreadable as Joyce's prose

but this sally is as vapid and condescending as wells was in his letter
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> In my case at least, I absolutely believe the ability to "get over" bad social experiences can turn someone into an introvert or extrovert over their lifetimes.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. One shouldn't mix introversion, shyness and social anxiety. It might be easier to develop social anxiety if your're an introverted or shy person, but you can't overcome your introversion like you can overcome your social anxiety, they're just completely different things.
What are you talking about? They have one of the biggest influences both politically and militarily in the region right now. They are backing and involved with the Houthis in Yemen, the Hezzbollah in Lebanon, and the Quds Force in Iraq.

And also those three proxies I mention above, none of them are about resources but regional dominance. What would the resource even be? Iran has its own oil. In fact what's going on in Yemen is basically a proxy war between Saudia Arabia and Iran.
IDK, but this could simply be an effect of bigger roads getting more frequent upgrades, and/or bigger roads tolerating a larger cost per light since the total cost per meter of road is already higher.
"The answer became clearer, you can work hard, persevere, get degrees, etc. and still FAIL."

Sure. Does that mean you should not work hard, persevere, get degrees, etc. ?

Because what you learn from biographies is not a 1:1 plan to succeed doesn't mean you can't learn ways to systematically improve your odds of success (regardless of the way you define that).
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I'm laughing out loud with these MLooper conversations. Made my day :D

PS: Nice project btw
I can not provide links right now, but reading up on "stereotype threat" will probably explain why this still matters.

I a few words: the same person performing the same task will perform lower if they are aware of a stereotype that says that their group performs worse at the given task. It is reproduced for white and black, male and female, etc.
It's funny that the guy that wrote the definitive catalog of refactoring techniques prefers to work in a dynamic language.

http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/rubyAtThoughtWorks.html
No one carried a bandanna that they could use as an eye mask? I've done that even when the night time low was 35C.
This article is complete nonsense.

I expect Amazon to recommend me products that it itself is selling or it itself has in its own warehouse, the sellers are secondary, if I wanted to buy from another seller I would use eBay.

The fact that there is even an option to then price compare with other sellers and purchase direct from the seller while on the Amazon website is a pretty cool bonus, not Amazon trying to scam me.

It's not a price comparison site searching for the best price and giving it to me (if I wanted that I would use a price comparison website) and it's not eBay or a marketplace, it's Amazon, a direct retailer with an added bonus of allowing you to search a separate marketplace but it's main business is selling directly!

The marketplace is mainly clever marketing by Amazon, people use Amazon because they don't need to look else where because it has everything, since even direct order companies sell on there, hence once some people discover this they just use Amazon for everything (I know lots of people that do this)
I wasn't suggestion ignorance. In fact, you're reading sarcasm where there is none - I think it's a cool name.
You can already get some (actually really nice) LEDs for your house that change color to lower temperature (more orange/red) as they dim, mimicking the effect of dimming incandescents. It does make for a nice cozy atmosphere. As you say, they're not cheap, but I'd consider them strongly if I were redecorating.

Edit: it's confusing that a cool blue light is a high temperature, and a warm orange light is a low temperature.
Somewhat related, I've always wondered why outdoor solid shutters or blinds are a given in some countries/regions but nowhere to be seen in others, even though some residential areas are extremely polluted by artificial light at night.
Another benefit of Lua/Python is that it is considerably easier to write testing and debugging versus C. They support introspection and similar techniques. A very typical example is something I did a while back.

I wrote the processing in Python first. The core was 10 lines of code and took about 5 minutes to run on a unit of data. It took about an hour to write, and was correct.

It then took two days to rewrite in C and was 400 lines of code, executing in a second or so. Much of the time was finding and fixing minor bugs. But having the "correct" Python code made it very easy to feed the same test data to both implementations and verify the output. Writing test code in C would have taken even longer than just the algorithm!
Between countries like Vietnam(where US lost) and Afghanistan(USSR lost), I would take Vietnam any day. Even latest victory of Iraq isn't any better.
Because of supply and demand and competition.

If companies could squeeze more money out of customers why wouldn't they just do so right now by raising prices?
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This is probably the wrong forum, but I have a question or two that I see as related.

I have setup a VPS, disabled passwords, and setup a key with a passphrase to gain access. At this point my greatest worry is losing this private key, as that means I can't access the server.

What is a reasonable way to backup my private key?

Encode it as something similar to a QR-code, print it, and store it in a hole in the wall? Copy it to an USB-stick and hide that somewhere safe?

Alternatively, I have access to more than one computer, so I could also authorize a couple of other keys to access the server. So I would transfer the public key to the authorized machine, and add them to the authorizedkeys from there?

How to deal with the possibility of death? Do I trust someone with my keys and passphrases?
FYI, the definition of sexism I'm using is the dictionary one, not "things I disagree with". I called your opinion sexist because it is sexist. Here's the definition:

1. prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially discrimination against women.
2. behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex.

If you want to argue, instead of going all ad hominem and somehow trying to make it be about my supported ignorance or inability to handle disagreement, let's actually stick to the issues.
The times when a script was enough are long gone. You wouldn't even get a good ccTLD with a script anymore. You also require direct access to the registry which usually only domain registrars have. However, you might be able to catch one of those new generic TLDs with a script.
Isn't it the opposite? Rather than buying from the squatters, it encourages people to "wait out" the squatters using Park.io. To me, it seems that damages the squatting business model.
I would also submit that Kelvin is not an appropriate reference for the colour of LED lights. Kelvin only makes sense when discussing blackbody emissions, it is essentially a description of temperature. LEDs do not create light via simple heating. Their spectrum is not the smooth blackbody curve that the kelvin scale suggests. It is in fact a combination of several strong emissions at narrow wavelengths that combine to fool our senses into perceiving white light.

Proper discussion of harmful emissions from LEDs should instead speak of intensities at a particular wavelength and perhaps ratios between wavelengths rather than an outdated reference designed for blackbodies.
I don't understand how this can survive in the long run - what's stopping someone else from setting up an identical service at lower prices? There is literally no lock in because users can sign up for multiple services and potentially pay a lower price (depends on which one snags the domain).

Or is the technology behind that unique?
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Seems like a dupe of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12227507
according to Feynman autobiography the talk he gave was inspired by the feelings that he had reading the textbook while in the californian commission for it. At the time of the introduction of «Mahtématiques fondamentales» a french revolutionary (lol) methodology for learning maths.

He expressed a concern that this kind of math did look savant, but was wrong in helping having intuition. Arithmetics vs geometry.

Stuff for which he may be right since Bourbaki actually designed their math teaching on formalism over intuition/geometry after a feud with Poincaré who dismissed the influence of «french school» in his work...a very horrible crime of lèse majesté.

The Ignorance of Bourbaki: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~ardm/bourbaki.pdf
> more readable

Well, you have very detailed trees, anyway. But the forest is often quite obscured: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39672359/make-all-identif...

Yeah, I know I'm complaining about one of the worst offenders, rather than TypeScript, but "Welcome to My Nightmare", as it were.
They why wouldn't companies just do that right now? If companies can make more money, they would already be doing that by raising prices!
Maybe it's just me, but Twilight never felt as pleasant as f.lux and redshift do on my PCs. Instead of changing the screen color, it seems to add a red layer over the content.

EDIT: It's not just me: https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/2591/exactly-why-do-you-...
>sales cold calls, though... you know people are going to do it. It is their job.

Sales cold calls are illegal in my country and happen to me once every few years. My email address isn't so lucky.

>Sure, junk mail is annoying and most of it gets thrown out.

And more importantly: I can put a simple "no advertisements" sign on my real mailbox and cut down junk to almost zero. I wish I could do that to my virtual inbox.

Email junk is far worse than any real-live equivalent in my culture.

A better metaphor is having my business and private conversations while walking over a Middle-Eastern market where random people try to sell me stuff.
I don't understand some of the negative comments here. This guy built a million dollar business in a year providing a service that people want to pay for. He did it all on his own with no other co-founders or employees. I say "Congrats!"
Yes? I mean software engineers don't typically know, as well as everyone that abstractly dismisses the finance profession because "those guys have no souls and destroy the economy"

But there's allot of interesting nuances there and knowledge is power
In situations like that I use any random piece of clothes as an eye mask, so yeah, I don't see a problem either.
Genetic fallacy, yo.

Even if you're not fond of attachment parenting, that doesn't imply that everything attachment parents like is a bad idea, or even that things that attachment parents like are primarily only popular with that subculture.
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Presumptuous is a great choice of word there and I also agree.

Unfortunately due to extrovert (and pretend-extrovert) majority in the world there's always an undertone of "this is the right way and everyone else is weird" lingering in the society.

If the majority were introvert we would land up with people bragging on their resume about their thoughtful quiet nature rather than "oh so outgoing and BUBBLY!!".

As Tycho said, yes if I don't speak to you don't be so arrogant as to attribute that to my shyness maybe I just don't give a fuck about you. Not saying that that's always the case, but hey leave some room for that possibility.

How about this, what if every time an extroverted talked loudly and excitedly to me I just turn around and tell everyone "Oh don't mind him he's just really desperate and lonely and just wants some attention.".

See? Instead of assuming that that's your nature I can assume that is your flaw and you are unable to shut up.

That's exactly what extroverts do to introverts when they attribute being quiet to being shy or having social anxiety or being "socially awkward" and all these labels.
You think cars come before trucks? Trucks seem easier to me. Driving 500 miles on a very standardized highway seems like an easier problem than negotiating city streets and picking up hard to identify passengers from a curb.
Because they have far greater leverage over labor markets than they do over the market for their product. You don't have to raise prices in a fickle consumer market when you can just make your profits off the much less elastic labor market instead.

They only have to keep prices the same or negligibly lower in order to profit from this proposal.
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Viruses can spread copies of themselves and infect other programs, and can leave trails on the disk. They can also infect the mbr. Then there's ransomware which encryptes files on disk. These are all examples of malware that could be detected by diffing the disk. Of course, if it doesn't touch the disk, then you're left with network traces.
So because a password manager is one-stop shopping (something that I'm subconsciously uneasy about, to be sure), it's pointless to use different passphrases, one of the major selling points of password managers.

So to protect against that, don't use a password manager. Which means that you're more likely to re-use passphrases, because lots of them are hard to remember and keep straight. So breaking one gets access to many others.

My head spins.
Faking it isn't about maintaining mental concentration. If someone is paying attention to you, then it's probably going to be obvious that you're faking it.

Thing is... most people either (a) don't know you well enough to say that you're being flakey or (b) aren't paying that much attention... the free flowing alcohol of adult-aged parties and meetings really helps with this respect.

How do you fake it without putting in concentration? Pay attention to what other people do in similar circumstances: platitudes, sounds of agreement, sticking to unspectacular and unnovel topics like weather/books/sports. I know personally, I don't even like certain sports, but after hearing 3-4 conversations about a particular team, I can regurgitate the mosaic of other peoples opinions about the team.
It's actually pretty comforting to see that a lot of other people here feel the same way!
Sort of. It is possible to buy yourself a title.

Many Europeans are descended from people that potentially give them the right to nobility. Few invoke that in everyday life though.

So you could become an aristocrat if you really wanted to be, by blue blood or by financial assistance. In the old days somebody successful in business would often transition to aristocracy by taking on a name and the associated trappings. It is something of a controversial area! In Japan it is still common for an unrelated successful young man to be adopted into the family tree of a business dynasty.

I suspect the upper class alternates between being meritocratic and being hereditary, while claiming 'it ever twas'.
I was in the shower on the second floor of a house in Orange County during the second quake. That was a wild ride.
I got the impression during my deep dive that it was elegantly designed and written code that solved problems that were a good two levels above my current experience. I don't think it's the place to go if you want to understand how Lua works or how JITs work. If you have a good working knowledge of those (I'm getting there) then you will be able to appreciate the codebase more.
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As far as religions go it doesn't seem too bad at first glance.

I like it.

My current favorite quote about religion is from the pianist Seymour Bernstein (in the latest Documentary about him, from Ethan Hawke, titled "Seymour: An Introduction):

"I don't call it god, I call it a spiritual reservoir. Most people don't tap that resource of the god within. What upsets me about religion is that the answers always seem to be apart from us, in the form of a deity and we depend on the deity for salvation, but I firmly believe it is within us."

The externality, taking someone's individuality and telling them that it's something apart from them, that they don't control it, is also my largest concern with religion and the thing that needs to innovated on. I think your conciousness.io fits that bill ... Would be curious to hear if my assessment is incorrect though.
in the business world yes...

But besides that it's nice, many alternative/left people.
If I recall correctly, * means it was done that day and + that it was done at a later date.
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"I like sporting events, but not clubs, because all the noise at the sporting event is focused on the action on the field/court/ice but the noise at the club is an unrelated tangled mess of conversations and music."

This was quite interesting thanks.
I'm cool with a cookie and an [X] or a Close button on warnings / notifications / advertisements / popups / music controllers so you know that I have seen it, and do not want it displayed to me again.
If it was done later, how did it enter that file?
Good point, I hadn't thought about that.
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Jealousy and cognitive dissonance. This guy is more successful than them, so clearly he's done something bad.

Welcome to HN: home of the insecure narcissists who like to argue over programming languages, humblebrag about their gifted childhoods, and prove that they're superior to anyone more successful than them.
The transition won't be good for people who currently drive semi-trucks or who aspire to. However, there are some reasons that this may actually take a bit longer to fully play out than it appears. To start, there is the transition time from existing capital stock of trucks (those things are hundreds of thousands of dollars); there are also many activities that drivers do that aren't just driving- delivery drivers are often responsible for stocking and displaying the goods they bring; there are various paperwork issues that drivers deal with; there is the care and feeding of these large complex machines in often austere circumstances.

I imagine you'll see a lot of hybridization of activities before (or if) you see the elimination of the human- such as a human riding "shotgun" and dealing with any issues or activities that arise when the truck is stopped, or where you see more humans employed in servicing and response roles.

That being said, hauling shipping containers around the port of long beach is probably on its way out. I feel for those drivers.
I don't understand your reply - could you please tell me what connection there is with what I wrote? Seems like random rambling to me.
"The prices Amazon shows are ranked correctly for those who pay $99 per year for Amazon’s Prime shipping service "

This may not refute the main point of the article, but if you are a prime customer it seems Amazon is still doing the right thing for you. (Unless I missed something).