skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Repugnant Conclusion may be of interest:

“For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must be some much larger imaginable population whose existence, if other things are equal, would be better even though its members have lives that are barely worth living” (Parfit 1984)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/
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> But they also provide access to Wikipedia [etc]

But let's be honest, most smartphone users spend their time confined in a limited number of domains: social media, games, shopping etc. In that sense, we can be called a bit zombie in the head.
smath.info is much more advanced
As far as biodiversity goes, those "forests" are already pretty much dead.
Quote "There is not enough room in the memory of the main line computers for all the programs of ascent, descent, and payload programs in flight, so the memory is loaded about four time from tapes, by the astronauts."

Woah. Did they do this right until 2011, or were their systems upgraded?
The sentence I quoted refers just to the technique of using 32-bit loads. That applies equally to your compiler suggestion and the C code you wrote. So I think it's a perfectly fine sentence to quote when pointing out a flaw of the C code, which is while unaligned accesses are fine in a vacuum, doing them with a wrong-typed pointer is unsafe.
Are you collecting CVs or really haven't found a freelancer yet?
My understanding is that it's a settled question and that the evidence of extremely high homicide rates in hunter gatherer societies is overwhelming. If you have any links suggesting otherwise, I'd be interested in seeing them.

As for relatedness, that's relative (no pun intended). If everyone within 200 square kilometres is at a genetic distance of a second or third cousin, then a second cousin is the base for a non-relative. In any case, regardless of why precisely it is that violent death is so common pre-modern and especially pre-state societies, it's abundantly clear that it is.

Regarding low population densities, you'll notice that Australian Aborigine tribes are represented in that chart and exhibit murder rates that are far higher than those in modern societies. They do however have the lowest homicide rates among hunter gatherer tribes. The highest homicide rates are found in the Amazon rainforest, where population densities would be highest. So it appears that the two factors that contribute to high homicide rates are pre-state/agricultural society and high population density, and that in the case of the tribes living in the most sparsely populated regions, the inhibiting effect of extremely low population densities on homicide rates does not make up for aggravating effect of living in pre-state societies.
This most certainly looks like "bot-nonsense".
The author of this is my friend, I told him as most of his projects has no licenses. He's going to add them soon, my hunch says it will be MIT, meanwhile feel free to open issue in the repo to tell him.
Perhaps I simply didn't understand the argument, but doesn't this simply move reading and writing to a different abstraction? Perhaps someone can reword the author's point, I feel like I'm missing something here.
How much amnesia are we talking about? Google's core feature of being the best web search engine fits into your "advertise a bit and rebuild the customer base" criterion imo.
I don't mind them having a production issue every now and then. I do expect them to correct those issues free of charge.
Yep just deactivated my FB account and they tried to guilt trip me with "people who will miss me" (mainly kids) and whatnot. Also it asks why you are deactivating and shows a response for each reason.
I'm shocked there has been no mention of The Economic Laws of Scientific Research. Terence Kealey makes a compelling argument that government funding more than crowds out private funding for Science.

I.e., we are worse off in terms of absolute contributions to Science because 'everyone' expects government to fund it - especially basic research surely has no profit motive so only public funding can possibly work. Completely wrong historically.
But you can also argue that that polarisation is just a step away from homogeneity.
Hey, thanks for the question! 1) In our FAQ we explain that we have sourced the resumes from people in our network (this means colleagues we've worked with and students I went to B-school with for example). 2) We went through each of those resumes of candidates that were successful, and picked strong lines that were used in each. These lines all generally follow the same framework which we described in the Learn More page. 3) We absolutely got permission to post lines from the original resume writers behind a paywall, as long as no confidential elements were left in. This is why company names and project specifics were omitted. For confidentiality reasons, it is also why we have not included the company the resume line worked at next to each line. Thanks again for the question.
Speaking of the fake news, Internet and the social media are at the same time THE BEST way to verify information.

How would one go to independently verify some news article in 80s? There was no quick way to do it, and consequently nobody did it, people just expected it's true if it's in the newspapers (and often it wasn't).

Now you just need to google a little or google search the image and the problem solved - or even better, surround yourself with others paranoid enough to do the googling on every piece of info. There was no a single fake news in my feeds (and it's not just US news but our local, even more untrustworthy, ones), that within a few hours someone didn't reply with "fake" and a link to prove it. You just need to follow and friend with intelligent people from the both sides of political spectrum and let them filter out the noise for you. And also you need to discipline yourself not to over-emotionally jump to the conclusions - arguably this is the hardest part and also the main reason social networks are considered harmful: you can respond immediately, so responses are much more emotionally driven, people never bother thinking of all the angles.
Just to be clear: everything in nature also has a ROI of sorts. I would say people who live in nature are also constrained by their environment and have to be very economical. They depend on their tribe, on the cycle of seasons and the weather, have to be prepared for chance meetings with predators, can't fully prepare for other things like trauma, infection and natural disaster etc.

The closest you can currently get to "doing as you feel", involves moving to Europe and becoming dependent on the socialist state. You can live for free in a flat forever, never have to work, get free health care for every booboo, just hang out all day surrounded by people who do the same thing. I would say this is currently the state of the art in living an unnatural life. And as a result, you might end up being miserable.

But I do sort of understand what you mean; our brains were built for living in natural environments. These impose fairly random and complex constraints, with stress coming in big but short-lived peaks and real family being constantly around.

Living in a concrete jungle and having constant low level stress, doing and eating the exact same things every day, taking pills for every little ill is a recipe for alienation and early death.
Whatever you think you're doing, just stop it. You're poking at semantics, when the intent is not at all hard to figure out.

Look at the article's title, where it says "not ok". Whatever that "ok" means for small companies to crowdfund, echan00 is saying that big companies have the same "ok". Call it whatever you want.
> A mathematical model was made to calculate erosion. This was a model based not on physical understanding but on empirical curve fitting.

Very interesting point. A lot of today's "science" works like this, and it is a deeply flawed approach.
What you describe as not liking is not living in the present. It's intellectualizing the present.
The free database on the main site is pretty small so not many lines will show up. The pro database has tons more technical lines (as well as others). We'll be adding to both over the coming weeks - we've got a backlog of resumes so we have enough content for now. Thanks!
Thanks again! I've actually updated the main headline to 'effective' :)
No. Technology, period. It's whole point is to make easier things that are difficult, and make possible things that are otherwise not.

Consumerist technology is just crap version of actual technology; the former being designed primarily to make money off consumers.
Ishmael also deals with other issues. Important issues.

Right now I don't think any truly civilized society would actually generate any garbage. When we solve that issue, we will look at the past (our present) in shame.
As someone who had quite a few websites which I had foolishly signed up with Facebook for, I began the pattern of reactivating and then deactivating Facebook in order to log in.

I must say that emotional blackmail lost whatever power it had rather quickly.
The ironic thing about Muji is everything I come across there costs 50-100% more than branded products I see elsewhere. Single serving packets of curry for 800 yen? Basic shirts for 3000 yen? No thanks.
Most of the products you see in this book are specifically manufactured to be sold in shops where foreign tourists are taken. Tourists have virtually no access to the shops ordinary Koreans would go, and the opposite is also true: ordinary Koreans in most cases would simply not be allowed entry to the shop for foreigners, and they would have no Western currency to use in those stores anyways. So the English on all labels is easy to explain: people making that book mostly had access to a specially prepared versions of any product.
Am I the only one who thinks running scripts on a site directly from npm is a bad idea? What happens when an incompatible change in any of the dependencies is pushed. What if a package owner had transferred his ownership und the new owner pushes whatever he wants.
thanks, your PR gonna be merged soon.
Does anybody know if there is a similar blog for their Software Architecture? Particularly, how they have modelled the points system and the badges? Does it all exist in their models?
Usually there's some type of incentive for customer to take this risk: you either get it cheaper or you get some extras or something. It's a gamble, but companies wouldn't be doing it if there was no customers interested in it, so obviously customers don't mind taking this risk.
Awesome idea!!

It might be OH but is there a software which can let me simulate and experiment with various configuration to maximize solar energy capture. I have some tiny pieces of land which I want to use for harvesting renewable energy. What I don't want to do is to buy equipment and then write it off as sunk cost.

Software simulation seems to be the cheapest option but I don't really know what is out there I can build upon.
Great - I've just changed it to effective for now, and will think about what I can update it to going forward. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you for that absolutely enlightening link.

People like to assume all parts of our gov are absolutely worthless. USPS does a good job.
The CIELAB color space was an attempt to make an invertible and fast-to-compute (for simple hardware devices in the 1960s) approximation to the Munsell color space (a lookup table carefully constructed by studies and expert adjustments done by the Optical Society of America in the early 1940s).
That's not what he's saying

Insurance and mattresses salesman did not get to that position by signing up to some online "course" where they were promised "unlimited returns"

Walking up to your local mattress shop and handing your CV has a much higher chance of you getting an actual job doing that
Thank you for the response.
a) not true for reasons already given here b) they are(have) open sourcing a lot of developer stuff; I didn't check but would not surprise me if this ends up on github too if it didn't already with a good OSS license
QuantitySystem, framework for scientific calculations
Existing owners would be in an interesting pickle.

(At least Pebble decoupled the continued running of their watches from their servers, as their last update.)
online demo: http://quantitysystem.org/
Joseph Weizenbaum's book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation (https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Power-Human-Reason-Calculati...) is worth a read. Weizenbaum had written ELIZA, the original "chatbot", a decade earlier (in 1966), and was worried by how much people imputed "thought" to its simple programming.

The book addresses this same topic: to what extent is computer "thought" like human "thought", and what are the dangers of equating these concepts? Like any book about AI written in the 70's, there are some things that are obviously out of date or wrong, but overall it holds up quite well. There's also a section on "compulsive programmers" that may cause some self-reflection among this crowd: https://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/Business/ComputerScience/P...
Anyone else getting this page trying to load an app on iOS. Completely unreadable as it bumps me off the page. I wonder if there is some dodgy ad served on there.
The point is, smartphones are not magically holding people back, who would otherwise be creative and do cool stuff. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite, as even the constant stream of shit Internet content eventually exposes you to e.g. DIY tutorials in precisely your favourite area. Nevertheless, some people have less of intellectual lives than others, and (as GP argues and I agree with) whatever the reason, it's unlikely technology is to blame for that.
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Oh shit, they are too
Wow, that's incredibly informative. Thank you.

I don't understand the part where you mention the carrier directly placing mail without it being processed.

Why does that happen? How does that work? The carrier gives that to all mailboxes?
Different for spam is how much less it costs. A penny (or tenth of one) is a bargain compared to postal prices, but would cut off most junk email.
I don’t think it’s fair to criticize Albers in this context, and this particular critique seems mostly like pedantic nitpicking at a fairly concise non-technical book; he wasn’t trying to establish a detailed technical model, but rather to teach artists to think. (“The book does not begin with optics and physiology of visual perception, nor with any presentation of the physics of light and wave length…. What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing.”)

His book and teaching method are all about learning to work with colors through direct experience. To that end, he made students do numerous small projects with colored paper, etc.

(Have you read Albers’s book? I would definitely recommend it, with the proviso that you actually try to do Albers’s recommended exercises, which are really the important part of the book, instead of worrying too much about the text. Reading Albers’s book straight through is like reading a math textbook straight through without doing the problems.)

If you want to call Itten out for nonsensical babble though, go right ahead.

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Edit: here’s Dorothea Jameson’s response to Alan Lee http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.470...
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Thanks for that comment. Specifically on your last line, I totally agree. The site is meant to help people better word their resumes and even get ideas to describe a boring work experience in a more effective way.
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If we're going to be totally honest, then first, let's call social media primarily talking to your friends and family. Which is one of the most deeply and fundamentally human things you can do. And it is also critical to doing anything together with other people. The Internet has lifted constraints of time and geography from communication - which is why you see people on IM in situations where, without the phone, the time would be wasted. They're making more efficient use of their time.

As for shopping, I don't see anything wrong with acquiring resources needed for various things in your life.
$ grep facebook /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 facebook.com
That's your guide to better typography for OSX users. Then we also have folks using Windows and Linux that doesn't ship with Helvetica. Worth knowing!
> I can think of no messageboard on the ‘net for which Lisp-related stuff is more topical.

I acknowledge that in my OP. Do you think it is possible that there is a site more focussed on Lisp stuff than HN that you are simply unaware of?
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. It is acceptable and in fact completely recommended to include side projects and small startups on your resume. Based on my review of 500+ successful resumes, I've found that many candidates use their side projects and part time consulting gigs to showcase skillsets outside their full time job.
> I don't know if it's the case in other countries, but in France, most supermarket chains have their own "budget" brand which are generally quite explicit/generic in term of packaging.

Very common in the United States as stores don't license the brand names and so have to come up with a non-trademarked name.
If this is true Then it also presents a unique opportunity. I.e. There should be a very real and observable productivity boost from being able to ignore your phone and working on career building/family-relationship projects.

If you can tear yourself from your phone for 3 Hours a day and work on career building projects, you should be able to get far ahead of others in your social circles who can't break the addiction.

You no longer have to wake up early to beat the world, just wake up and not Touch the phone!
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I find articles like this ridiculous. Plenty of things in the modern world is bad for your mental health. Social sites like Facebook, hacker news and so on are constant reminders that you're missing out. You didn't go to a social event last night and you still haven't picked up JavaScript, etc. On top of that research show that people now read comments rather than articles...

It may just be me, but reading comments in general isn't a positive thing in my life. I mean, I enjoy the discussions on HN and often I walk away informed, but the time it takes could've been spent better. I've been here 30 minutes today. That's about how long it takes me to read a scientific article on a subject I'm interested in, and when I do that I typically walk away both informed, inspired and with a few ideas of my own.

Which is the point I want to get to. Not everyone in the west is suffering. There are people who apply their focus to meaningful subjects and have interesting people to discuss them with. There are people who spend their Saturday walking in the forest. There are people who have enough wealth to live healthy lives with large degrees of individual freedom, and lastly there are people who combine all those things and lead truely impactful lives.

I think those people are a lot more happy than hunter gatherers ever were, while also enjoying the fruits of modern technology enabling them to live beyond 35, not seeing half their children die, having easy access to a wealth of knowledge and in generally enjoying unsurpassed freedom.
Hey thanks for the feedback! Glad you found some ideas in the free section. I think a complete resume review is a natural next step for the product - we have people in our network who are willing to do complete resume reviews.
A fucking lot. Probably as much as on the computer - and I'm in front of the computer for 10-12h / day.

Most of my mobile searches are related to a) things I'm learning right now, or b) things I've just read about and I don't know what they are.
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> "It's important to associate with people that are better than yourself."

We hear this repeated often, but how does it really work? It's impossible to do if everyone tries to follow this advice, because if you associate with people who are better than yourself, then they themselves being with you associate themselves with people worse than themselves.

It only works if we consider "better" in multiple dimensions; I associate with people who are better than me in a given dimension, while I'm better than them in some other dimension.

But then isn't it simply trivial / obvious that everyone is better at something and worse at something else?
Does someone know a reliable source of the windows telemetry story today. Googling gives a huge bunch of articles which are out of date, or filled with random assertions from random people. I would be very gratefull for:
* Exact, technical-level details of what each windows version (7-8-10) is monitoring ('Basic Health and Quality' says nothing).
* How to disable it. So it stays off
* And some kind of technical proof (Like a wireshark trace or something)
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If you looked a bit closer on their screens (easy to do in public transit), you'd see that they're mostly a) reading stuff, b) talking with friends, c) sending cool stuff to their friends. All standard ways of spending time with other people, except with the constraints of time and space lifted.
Tarsnap was a good example of a service selling to technically apt customer base. Guys who have years of IT training would love to read about deduplication and picodollars.

Keybase isn’t charging money to begin with, so “sales pitches” are not their primary concern.

Also, they are marketing to “the masses” with the idea that more people should have secure e2e encrypted communication and collaboration solutions where identity is cryptographically proven.

But if their welcome page started showing diagrams of encryption pathways and key derivation algorithm names with server client relationship diagrams, I guarantee no one besides people in tech will download it.

I still think they need to do better selling the idea to the masses, I in no way think their current front page is sufficient, but I understand that right now they aren’t concentrating on sales pitches.
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Thanks for the feedback! The pricing is something a lot of people have asked about so I will review it in the coming month.
Terrible short-form BBC reporting: here’s a guy who risks death treats to help scam victims! Sorry, were going to quote experts & give generic avoidance advice instead of sharing the threats or an example of how a victim was helped.
That is irrelevant here and you are arguing out onto a tangent for no meaningful reason.
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Ok, so he had weird views on that topic, but how does that have anything to do with his views on food?
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A statically compiled application will run for just about forever on linux. glibc has extensive backwards compatibility too. If you pack your application with its libraries, there's very little to worry about.

Kernel modules need constant recompilation but that's a very separate issue from programs.
Great! Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for that.

Is Keybase Git all hype then? Because the alternatives seem a lot better.

To be honest, I'm not even sure I understand what Keybase _is_.
Nope, you aren't doing anything wrong. The search results should update after every letter you type. I'll look into why it isn't working on Firefox/Edge. Thanks for the feedback!
Hey! I emailed you to follow up on the points above. Thank you so much!
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