skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the sensation of deja vu on and off (particularly when tired) over the past 10 years. This began after experimenting with lsd in my early twenties and has sort of tapered off since. On one of the first occasions trying the drug I had a momentary (and vivid) recall of what felt like the hundreds of times in my lifetime I had the sensation of deja vu. Sort of like some circuit for deja vu related memories was activated. For many of the memories, I had remembered them previously as being about the sensation of deja vu (so in one sense I could at least validate some of them were correct when recalled agian). There were many others I couldn't be sure were actual fragments of my past that were being recalled for the first time. Fleeting.

The persistence of the sensation has broken over the years. Only when jetlagged or exhausted will the deja vu filter reappear.

Another thing I've noticed is that if I'm super tired - that type of tired when you can fall asleep in 10 seconds - is that one half of me will fall asleep faster than the other. If I'm woken in those few seconds I awaken with what feels like two sets of memories for those few seconds that goes with a strong sense of deja vu.

* I've been to doctor and discussed this. Had MRI & EEG (nothing unusual), and removed a lot of stress my life combined with a good diet and exercise. I've had little in the way of such strange experiences in a long while except a little deja vu every now and again.
Your comment is definitely true. While the argument that sports are cheaper than video games does have some merit I contend that the barrier to entry for video games is much much lower than sports. With video games their learning curves are typically very gentle, you can play video games by yourself if others aren't available to join you, you can play from home, etc.

That's not to say that anything is wrong with sports, because I definitely feel sports are awesome, but rather that I genuinely feel it's easier to jump into gaming than to organize a team sport like a game of basketball at the local park.
I hear the crackling of my PC speakers a few seconds before the call rings on my mobile; similarly on our landline the phone lights up and shows the caller ID a second or so before it rings.

Also if you ring a phone in the same room as you [we have kids!] you'll often find you get a ring tone long before the callee's phone rings.
Which one of these, out of curiosity? The post above references two books :)
I think we have done some complex systems well. Just not very many computer systems. It may be a consequence of computer systems being too pliable.

EDIT: Actually, before I forget, I heard a great aphorism the other day: When designing (distributed) computer systems, try designing it as if each "node" were an actual human. That'll usually ferret out most of the flaws in your reasoning. (No, it's obviously not foolproof, it's basically just a sanity check against assuming absolute reliability, etc. Kill cats. It's a rhetorical device meant to make you think. So think. Hey, do you own thinking. I can't think for all of you. Live your own lives!)
One way to look at it is if you're getting any wisdom from books or video games that you can apply to real life, potentially getting more value from the experience and offsetting cost of acquisition.
The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin. I was definitely in the right place to take in the topic, but it was, more or less, a book on how you can be "good" without much effort, but to be great or the best, it takes a lot of hard work and time. This book helped me learn that lesson.

On top of that, some of Tim Ferriss' stuff on accelerated learning. Learn how to learn first, then learn everything else.
I wish I'd read some good books on fitness and nutrition when I was younger. It could have saved me a whole host of health issues.
The manufacturer is subsidizing the interest. It's 1.5% + cash payment.
While I agree that gaming is very engaging, if you visit a library you'll be caught off guard how many people are there every single day. Now I will acknowledge that many of the people at my local library are kids playing games on the library computers, however there are also lots of people that genuinely enjoy reading and the other activities hosted at the library.
This. I learned to use Emacs' built-in org-mode at the same time, and they've helped me survive grad school.
> The userland can mostly remain unchanged as long as you expose the expected interfaces.

In principle yes, but Linux exposes a lot of interfaces, not all of which are that well documented in all their corners, and some of which are leaky in their abstractions in a way that makes it ugly to implement them on top of other systems. Stuff like: procfs, inotify, cgroups, Linux-specific syscalls like epoll, weird mechanisms like vDSOs, etc. The most heroic attempt I've seen to get all this working on top of another kernel is SmartOS's LX-branded zones, which are really quite impressive and implement most of what I just mentioned, although I believe even they are not 100% [1].

[1] These slides gave an overview of what worked and what didn't as of 2015. Not sure if there's a good updated ref, as I'd assume some things have progressed since then. http://us-east.manta.joyent.com/patrick.mooney/public/talks/...
So I think the cause of my confusion is that you're thinking of the technical question, I'm thinking of the socioeconomic cabaret that it would entail.

Microkernels on the nixy side of the industry have so far been crushed beneath the tank tracks of path dependency.
Yes, SeaGlass seems much more advanced of a technique than the commercial solution I discovered which also just consisted of a single board computer and an SDR. Certainly standalone IMSI Catcher detectors with hardcoded metrics would have a hard time keeping up with the rapidly evolving networks and new attacks without more data about what is going on to update them. I was considering the use of ML for more general detection beyond the hardcoded metrics.

I think I read that SnoopSnitch was gathering data but only for detection of known attacks not anomalies.
> why wouldn't you get a 0% finance deal over paying in full?

Less stress? You pay money, the car is yours, problem solved. One thing less to worry about.
I have never heard of Ferdinand von Schirach, but since the two other books of Feynman are really good, I would also like to know, why you recommend the third book. Could you tell more why his autobiography is worth reading?
Do reputable landlords rent to people who have broken leases recently? Do they even pass job background checks that include credit history?

I can peacefully exit my lease by paying an extra month's rent as a termination fee, but if I abandoned the apartment and couldn't come up with the termination fee, I'm pretty sure it would be the same, or a little worse, than being in default on any other debt.
Can a miner not distribute their effort and holdings?
Yes absolutely. Howard Zinn—rest in power—is one of the few historians who could 1) detail political arguments and rationales 2) without becoming obtuse in language or overly complex in reasoning and 3) without diminishing in any way the academic integrity of his work. Read this in 9th grade, and it truly did grant a focus to my life that I still carry.
You're right I don't really know exactly what the setting does.

But if a video cannot play with the black in the video being the darkest black my monitor is capable of, there is a problem there. Maybe it's some inherent problem with standards or formats or something. But if a video wants to show black, it should display on my monitor as dark as the monitor supports.
And that was kind of the whole point with GuixSD and Shepard.

Nix has limited "Nix-expressions" which resulted in a bunch of bash scripts to get around the limitations, and Systemd ends up requiring C services or bash scripts because it has a limited INI-like syntax. On the opposite end, GuixSD is entirely configured, packaged, and maintained with Guile.
Ethereum “Smart” contract leads to $15M in losses
I didn't downvote, but "expose them early and it's not a problem" isn't the advice, the advice is that early exposure reduces the chances of allergies.

In any case, it is a statistical assertion, not a guarantee.
Seems like they're might be something akin to spontaneous symmetry breaking when a sufficient quantity of books choose one convention over the other, by random chance. The rest of the publishers would just suddenly fall in line.
Mans Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, especially good if you're feeling down or disallusioned.
Disabled. I like having a little more time to answer my phone, and do not like incurring costs to the other party when I do not answer (voicemail counts as a connected call).
I'd wager that many people (such as me) think it feels "wrong" when the book is upside down. This is especially true if the spine has some sort of artwork.
The author pointed out on Reddit that a large proportion of the photos don't have faces in them.
The problem here is separating what made ios/android successful and what was merely incidental, or even harmful.

eg. Steve jobs was an asshole, but being an asshole doesn't make you Steve Jobs, and maybe being an asshole was not a major part of what he accomplished.
Honey badgers don't live in Australia, except maybe in zoos. They are native to Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and India.
So the icon for "fat" is a tape-measure, indicating that "fat" is the bad type of calories that makes you fat ... Was this made by designers, or by actual experts? Or is there malice involved here?
What about people in those countries who cant read?
How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie - a timeless classic for people skills, useful in almost all circumstances.
More likely IMO, is people just ignore / disable their voicemail in favor of text messages / email / etc in the short term.

Alternatively, carriers simply block voicemail for the first few seconds of a call which kills the perceived loophole. Because frankly this is an obvious feature that people will switch carriers for.
True - for all businesses in which there is only capital involved and no people [or animals, or environmental concerns, or ...]. Capital may be amoral, but the people using it certainly are not.
The premature quest for AI-powered facial recognition to simplify screening
"How to Prove It" by D. Velleman. Introduces logical reasoning, set theory, functions, relations, and proofs. It is the base for understanding any mathematical subject.
SpaceX sticks 11th rocket landing after launching first used Dragon capsule
Remember when we did this ugly interlacing thing, so that we could get a higher (50/60fps) framerate?

When did we decide that 24/25/30fps was good enough? Now we have a Blu-Ray standard that cannot handle greater than 30fps, and media corporations that are unwilling to release content via any other medium.

Put that together with ever-increasing resolutions, and the amount of pixels something moves across from one frame to the next becomes greater, and video looks more and more choppy.

Franky, this is a much bigger problem than NTSC ever was. Even with content (The Hobbit, Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk) being created at higher framerates, users have no way to get the content outside of a specialized theater because the Blu-Ray standard cannot handle it, and because people seem to honestly believe that higher framerates look bad.

I suppose we can only hope that creators take better advantage of digital mediums that do not have such moronic, and frankly harmful, arbitrary limitations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14281739
Nothing heretical about it. Many of Earth's greatest civilizations used icons and pictograms. They have all either long since moved away from them (Egypt), or sincerely regret ever having thought of them (China).

Icons are the easiest, most economical way to do internationalization. That's really the only reason we still use them at all. They were never about making life easy for the user. Some people initially thought they'd help in that respect, but they were wrong.
The bible
TL;DR: nihilist programmers should be fired as soon as possible.
And then there is being the nihilist because the company and project managers won't allow you to improve or fix anything anyway.
As far as I know, they just spoof the originating number. This makes reporting the numbers useless, as well as any kind of blacklisting. Imagine if you could send spam emails from any arbitrary IP address or domain you wanted to. Blacklisting would be meaningless in that case.
> So I think the cause of my confusion is that you're thinking of the technical question, I'm thinking of the socioeconomic cabaret that it would entail.

Ah ok.

> Microkernels on the nixy side of the industry have so far been crushed beneath the tank tracks of path dependency.

If you shut those down society would grind to an instant halt. They're super successful just not very visible.
As a German I would not understand "eiwitten" as "Eiweiß". However, the word "Protein" is also used in Germany as a regular alternative to "Eiweiß".
Misleading y-axis strikes again: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*MiF0VmKW19IC3OlVDI...
Technically there is a perl tool to make recommendations for mysql settings - although not with AI.
As a DBA, I would probably use this, but 80% of the performance improvements come from indexing, fixing bad data models and archiving - especially with RDS where the options for performance optimization are limited.
To restate my point, there is no intrinsic quality in dope that would boost creativity and sensibility, quite the opposite actually. Only once the effects start wearing down, a relative increase will be felt.

Most people are just expecting something out of doing it so they become convinced to have achieved something and that might actually be the case to some degree, but mostly it appears bigger in hindsight than it actually was because of clouded judgment.

Edit:

The consequence is that people get exited anyway and exhaust that because of numbing effects until much later after the fact.
Two thousand bucks is like one and a half ticket-tow combos in Manhattan. And it's ~impossible to avoid legal problems if you street park a car in the city.
Agreed, I probably was being a bit too generous, but I usually try to be as "diplomatic" as possible :).

I don't know much about the BSDs, but my impression was that jails don't really offer nearly enough to rival Zones. Zones is really "containers done right"[1].

Definitely agree on ZFS. I'm currently using ZoL on my Ubuntu servers, but I'm not going to try using it on anything else. (FWIW, it's working marvellously so far.)

Personally, my current best hope for a good Linux FS at the moment is Bcachefs[2]. It's based on the proven Bcache. It's mostly done by a single very talented programmer/designer who knows when he's out of his depth[3].

[1] Not "virtualization" per se, but as close to it as makes no difference, if that makes sense?

[2] https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs

[3] https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/Encryption/ (the initial paragraph; AFAIR there's a lot more out there about the process, but I didn't stash any links and that's all I could find in 30 seconds :).
Well if you're comparing for loop to reduce or map in JavaScript then for will always win as it is a built in language construct and reduce involves costly callbacks. Interesting that the difference is only 7% on my Chrome for Android [0].

[0]: https://jsperf.com/foreach-vs-reduce-vs-for-loop

For loops have also an advantage that they can be used with yield and await (generators and async functions) while you cannot place these keywords inside a callback function.
Ethiopia's Authorities Have Shut Down the Internet Without Giving Any Reasons
3 Strategies to Wow Your Customers with Omnichannel Experiences
Using Einstein Vision Within Golang
Man, I have owned a car in a medium-sized city for something like 20 years and I can count on both hands the number of tickets I've gotten.

I'm by no means "perfectly vigilant" but if you're getting them with any regularity then that's just carelessness. That is something fixable by you, personally, rather than suggesting the systemic changes that you seem to want to see.

Personal responsibility for the small stuff, systemic change for the big stuff.
Whenever issues like this come up, I like to refer to the WIPP report on how to identify waste containment plants for 10,000 years.

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%...

In the end, it was determined that there was no guarantee that a re-established civilization could grasp what we were trying to say, and that perhaps just an area earning a reputation as cursed, via attribution of visitors, would be the best deterrent.

Therefore, I would submit: "These are not foods of honor. No highly held nutritional facts are described here. Nothing valued is here."
"Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers" by Geoffrey A. Moore and also his recent "Zone to win". His books explain some of the "deeper structure" to tech business, and is one of the few business-related books I've read that has any depth. By "depth", I mean in the sense that I'm used to from research mathematics (I'm a number theorist by training), where you learn something about a problem that lets you think about problems in a more detailed way.
Well, listening to some of the examples in the article and trying my luck, the first thing that comes to my mind is that maybe they should complement the challenge- if not replace altogether- with a pronunciation bee. Opificer is read as "huh-pificer", but the common pronunciation, and the only one that makes sense to me, is "oh-pificer" (the stress varies freely as well in all the examples I found online). Hechsher (presumably with a hard "ch" sound) is pronounced heksher. The french word "Beurre" is happily pronounced "bur", without any attempt to a french sound. Don't know enough Spanish tell the correct pronunciation of Pejerrey but I'm pretty sure it's not "payray".
If this is how it works, it seems a double challenge: first guess which word they're actually trying to pronounce, then write it down correctly.
I bought 0% Apr from Toyota. It's not really 0% though, because (at least in my case if I would pay cash, I would get $1,000 off). So this is equivalent of paying $1,000 of interest up front, just masked to look like there is no interest.
As I pointed out elsewhere, that's what user preference settings are for, but I'm curious: why the seasonal difference? Snow routes?
Brake squeal is commonly caused by the lack of anti-squeal compound on the back sides of the brake pads. It might not be correlated with brake pad wear.
I am not sure I agree with this statement. I remember new PS1 games retailing for $39.99, I remember PS2 games retailing for $49.99. It wasn't until the ps3 generation were games $59.99.

My friends and I always joked about how each generation games went up $10.
I bootstrapped a QnX compatible kernel (with GNU userland) in about 2 years that was then used to power a bunch of special purpose routers. Yes, that's the easy part. As Jacques_Chester already remarked elsewhere in this thread the community part (herding cats) and getting the required buy-in is the hard part.

The first can be done, I'm 100% sure of that, the second I'm not so sure.

I'm kind of surprised that on HN of all places something like a kernel would be considered somehow beyond re-creation or requiring special god-like powers.
The media playback icons were supposedly inspired by Wassily Kandinsky.
I read the optimist view as more idealistic – "not rock forever on a sea of changing assumptions", "the thing out rightly be defined", "shouldn't contain compromise".
anyone think it's strange they don't include sugar as one of the base 5 nutrients alongside carbs, proteins, etc? I for one would like to know how much sugar my meal has.
I wonder if there are any large, successful open source projects that are leaderless and function well without a social hierarchy?

If non-hierarchical social structures are really more effective, such examples should be easy to find, no?

On the other hand, maybe their absence only indicates that online communities simply tend to mirror the social structures of offline communities, or that they're just mostly made up of people who prefer hierarchies.
Both of them are really good :)
Sorry, don't understand your point. I'm up over $100K in what Apple has paid me the last 5 years over what I've paid them. Not counting contracting gigs and job paychecks, or it would be 3x that.
Flow
https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-...

Antifragile
https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince...

High Output Management
https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/d...

The Master Switch
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...

Thinking Fast and Slow
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...
As it turns out, there are at least 2 ways you can create value to society here:

1) Reduce spreads.

2) Stabilise prices.

Now, whether it makes any sense to put to work all those bright minds for these purposes, is a question the society should have asked some time ago...
> education

Tempting, but no; we've tried raising primates like human children, and teaching them sign language. Childrearing went fine until age... 3 or 5, I forget, and then they hit a wall and stopped getting smarter. ASL went alright but still falls short of human levels.
That's the dangerous pattern. A single event in isolation you can cope with but if things hit hard in succession it can really strip you of resilience, a mental form of being punch drunk.
Literally "Egg White"
The # is extensible reader syntax. You can install your own readers for characters following the #. #\ is for the character reader, #: for keywords, etc.

Guix uses #~ for G-expressions, for example.
Hmm, both Biohazard and Radiation symbols were chosen because they look (at least somewhat) ugly and dangerous even to the unfamiliar.
Why do you consider a hotel tax to be a priori fair?
Are you keeping an eye on your mileage? Some people don't, and get stuck with large bills when handing the car back.
This is very true. I am usually not the best reader but I recently picked up an excellent fantasy novel and couldn't put it down and ended up reading like 4 or 5 hours straight. On the flip side when I read nonfiction or textbooks it's hard to push myself to keep learning.
Unfortunately with the interest rates close to 0%, bonds are not going to be a good investment at the moment, especially in retirement and when the avg life expectancy is growing past 80 years, the only "hope" is to save enough money or work until death... That's why I am advocating that everybody spent the time and test different investment strategies, so we don't have to "hope", but make decisions based on data and analysis...
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I'm 30 now. I wish I had read this when I was 20. It would've made dating in my 20s so much easier. I came across it last year and it's probably the single most important book I'll ever read in my entire life, for the sole reason that understanding women will allow me to have a successful marriage one day. I cannot recommend this enough.

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