skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm I've never heard of RAW, but I will check out his work based on this thread. From what I see here, if you like his ideas, you might also like the books of Nassim Taleb (Black Swan, etc.) He has a style that rubs some people the wrong way, but I believe his ideas are the kind that can "change your life".

I have been a bit obsessed with the idea that "the map is not the territory". I think it's because I grew up with some strong mental models that turned out not to be true.

I used Google and found that I mentioned it at least 3 times on HN, going back years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15866856 -- Programmers should learn a little philosophy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074831 -- With regard to Taleb, "I share Taleb's problem with models". I compare him to Nate Silver. I liked Silver's book very much at the time, and saw a lot of parallels in "learning about the world". (But I have since become disappointed with Silver.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913435 -- Static typing doesn't prevent the important bugs. Static types are a map; they're not the territory -- which is runtime behavior, interaction with the end user, interaction with the world.

I still have this rant a brewing: you cannot learn ANYTHING about the world if you don't actually run your program! Of course, most people who use static types do run their programs. But it's not a strawman; there's an extreme solipsistic school of "modeling with types" where programmers try not to run their programs and instead rely on the compiler. I suppose this may be effective for some very limited kinds of software with small interfaces to "the world" (which includes hardware), but IMO it's the wrong default. You can't learn anything about hardware without running your program, let alone end users!
I'm not an optics expert. I have used Flux and haven't used Redshift.

I much prefer the Rose screen to Flux. Flux changes the colors but, sorry I lack the English to articulate this properly, the screen makes all light less "harsh". This is most visible when looking at a white background. Even with Flux on the rose tinted is much "softer" and easier to look at than the same screen without.

FWIW, a neurologist recommended the screen to counteract excessive optical stimulation from computer use.

I've stopped using Flux in favor of this screen, even at night.
The only reason this is a problem is if you try to achieve the stated conditions independently. If you envision the complete solution (a stack of blocks) you build it immediately by placing C then B then A.

This seems similar to how people tend to focus on short term goals at the expense of longer term ones. Similarly, it's hacking vs architecture in software. You can fail by doing to much of either one.
Funnily enough the Retron5 is illegal. Not because it emulates games, but because the emulators it uses are stolen from open source projects that forbid commercial use.

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/appeal-to-game-journalist...
I need to read a 500 pages book to get started? I've had a few mindfulness mediatation sessions with a teacher, and he was able to convey the most important parts in 10 minutes.
Try Spotify in Firefox. Even simpler.
Most of my growth has been emotional.

When I moved out from my parents place, I was pretty emotionally stunted, equivalent to a 13 year old. I was repeating the cycle of violence that I had experienced at home, displaying anger in the same abusive ways that I had known. At the same time, I was on the receiving end of a physically abusive relationship; not liking it, but not thinking I could do anything. It was just a continuation. I had pretty awful views on women and minorities as well, despite thinking of myself as progressive.

I wish I could say that I realized this and worked on it. I didn't. It took my ex-boyfriend to stand up to me. It took us seeking couple's therapy together. Only then did I start to open my eyes, and pro-actively work on my own shit. I've seen multiple therapists since. I've recognized how past trauma lives in my everyday, and how to manage it. I've grown tremendously and past what my parents will ever be capable of.

So what influenced my personal growth the most? That boyfriend who said no, what you're doing is wrong, and I won't let you do it. And the many times he had to say it to make it stick.
Jasonette Agent: Micro-service architecture for the front-end mobile apps
Automatically Managing Personal and Work Git Configurations
Re your PS, there will still be an old and new consensus blockchain no matter how fast you calculate the replacement.

(that's why it is a "chain", the head depends on all previous values)
Skeuomorphic design: a beginner’s guide
The big problem I have with startup equity compensation these days is the time it takes to get to get to liquidity.

Going from founding to an IPO takes what, 8-10 years? Even assuming things go that well if your equity doesn’t have terms like early excercise or a long time to decide if you want to exercise it’s not a good deal.
It’s easy to get locked into working with below market compensation in scenarios like that.

Also very few companies allow for things like secondary markets.

It’s going to be interesting to see how or rather if this gets addressed in the coming years.
Since the Switch is similar to the 3DS and it uses a well documented chip (Nvidia Tegra) development should be faster.
Leadership training. I always thought "leadership" was a nebulous concept that you achieved solely through experience. I later learned that there is an entire curriculum of exercises and reflections one can do to improve their desire and ability to step up.
I've been fantasizing recently about using a Bluetooth keyboard (Twiddler3) connected to an eInk reader to do most of my work both locally and on remote machines/instances. The eInk reader would have just enough power to run spacemacs. I can currently do this on an Android smartphone, but the experience is lacking because of the screen-size.
One of things I feel which should be covered in colleges are interviewing skills. Lot of times I see people who have the right mindset but their answers doesn't reflect their abilities too well.
How good/hard to build an UI library (like bootstrap) on it? I'm already on F#/C# so I don't will have issues with building it (I imagine!)
"The Map is Not the Territory" is a phrase that reminds me of a Jorge Borges story, via Baurdrillard's Simulacra and Simulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation#Analo...
I agree, it's a good idea to clean as you go when cooking.

In my opinion it's not necessary to be too strict about it, aim to have your kitchen 80% clean before eating, then clean up right after dinner.

The reason it helps is that if you build up a big mess in the kitchen, it makes the task of cooking seem overwhelming.

While this 'clean as you go' habit seems to be about cleaning,it's really about nutrition.

If your kitchen is well stocked and clean, you will find it easier to cook your own meals, which will do wonders for your overall health.
> "In 1835, special taxes were imposed on Indian salt to facilitate its import. This paid huge dividends for the traders of the British East India Company.

The article isn't super clear to me. Was Indian salt that was sold in India taxed?
Ask HN: How much does Facebook/Google(the big 4)pay for a fresh CSgrad nowadays?
Undergraduate level.
History is full of examples where a developer/publisher decided to port or remaster a game from its back catalog only to realize they have lost the source code and need to rely on an emulator ROM. Sega, Nintendo, and Capcom I think are the most infamous examples.

Of course the hypocrisy is lost on these same companies who for decades have used piracy as the boogeyman to vilify archival work and fair use.
Or everyone just prefers a nice game of chess. :)
Much of the Switch's appeal for me was the interesting hardware configuration, I wonder if Nintendo focused less on obfuscating its inner workings compared to other current-gen consoles based on that?

Edit: urgh, was supposed to be a reply to another comment. I guess the point still stands though.
Bet they complain that it's so hard to hire people, and that there's a shortage of tech talent.
> If you sometimes run out of memory (or even get close), then you should have some swap. This seems fairly obvious to me. Relying on the OOM killer to "clean things up" is pretty dubious. But was there every any serious argument to do this? I've literally never heard of that before.

Why does that seem obvious to you? With swap, running low on memory is game over. Without swap, the OOM killer runs. You can call the OOM killer dubious, graceless, or any number of other things, but it gets the system responsive again without doing as much damage as the human intervention that's otherwise required.
The USN used training depth charges that apparently were unlikely to cause damage - though if you are in a submarine on the receiving end of that kind of treatment I can see why you might think otherwise.
Although most here probably know this already, I'll take this opportunity to point out that the Internet Archive has a great collection of games playable in your browser.

https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
Dammit! You beat me.
Belgium law is quite restrictive. Up until recently you were required to use the father's surname if known. You're now allowed to use either or both unless one parent is unknown, in which case you have to use the other.
I talk about WMDs / submarine communications with arms control people for fun sometimes.

Well the game theory gets weird with dead hands. Of course you want to deter, but you need to keep the deterrence partially shrouded because you do not want your adversary to know for certain that they've completely designed around you.
You want them to have known unknowns (ie, they know that they don't fully know how you're going to respond, but they know the outcome if you are successful).

I have an unorthodox opinion about nuclear weapons.

I think that we might see one or two be used in the not too distant future if things get super hot with weaponized robotics.

Most people assume that all countries are going to push for complete launch or not, but there are situations where I think they could be used. For example a large attack by India towards Pakistan could be met with a small nuclear response on a relatively unpopulated area.
>"electricity expended in Proof of X directly maps to amount of ledger security"

That is absolutely true, this subtlety seems to be lost amongst all the hype.

Try to manipulate the BTC ledger, it's technically possible but not really affordable/feasible.
Selling most of my startups. Time is too precious to spend on so many things.
I realized this year that I spend WAAAYY too much time creating ideas instead of focusing on just 1 of them. I am going to try an experiment this year and drastically cut everything I have worked on up to this point and pick just 1 thing.

Here are some of my startups for sale if anyone is interested. I do not have time to support them and the price reflects this fact so please keep that in mind (it's why I am approaching the Hacker News community since people here know how to code)

www.Bookcelerator.com $5,000 OBO
Have quite a few book summaries that could be released and used to setup the summary monthly service if you wanted.

www.StockBrokerGame.com: $5,000 OBO
Have over 19,500 subscribers and about 100 people a day playing the app.

www.Jobcompass.net: $5,000 OBO
Been featured in a lot of news outlets

www.PitchPodcasts.com: $5,000 OBO
End to end podcast marketing and podcast guest service.

www.Motigram.com: $5,000 OBO
Developed a text messaging service to help people stay motivated.

www.TextMessaging.io: $5,000 OBO
An end to end texting solution to allow businesses to add texting easily and manage text marketing as well.

www.AIResume.com: $7,500 OBO
Great tool to help people create 21st-century resumes. Includes designs for 9 professionally designed resumes which could be sold independently.

Please feel free to contact me at asmallsuccess@gmail.com
Personally, I am not a big fan of widescreen monitors, although I can work with them. I loved the 1280x1024 monitor I used to have on my previous PC.
You mean that planet Earth exists in many universes in parallel? (Rather than that there are many different planets, in different universes? but not "copies" of Earth)

Maybe there are also many parallel Earth like planets in this particular universe, with human like creatures. Some of which have, some have not.
"Cause non of them can stop the time"
By definition, your friends are likely to be concentrated in specific sub-groups (that’s how friend networks work). So if you know one Facebook millionaire, the likelihood is that you know a bunch of them.

By contrast, I don’t know any Facebook millionaires. Nor do lots & lots of other people, even within the Tech industry.

You can't generalise from your personal experience to the "average" experience - 'Facebook millionaires' are not randomly distributed, but clustered together: social graphs are not randomised.
They're uploading each POST payload to S3 at a rate of up to 1M uploads a minute? They're going to go broke from S3 operational fees. PUT fees are $0.005 per 1k, or $5/minute, or $7200/day

S3 is an absolutely terrible financial choice for systems that need to store a vast number of tiny files.
>Not the majority, but not an outlier either.

No, literally an outlier by definition. How many people do imagine are joining startups world wide? In your case it sounds like it's even worse than I had imagined: do you really just know a dozen early Facebook employees? I had assumed that you lived near a startup hub and knew a dozen people who happened to have made it.

>it would be impossible for me to know multiple people that are rich as a result.

Not if you e.g. go to a "lottery winners" cruise. But seriously, the company is the lottery ticket. If the company wins then, sure, plenty of other people in that company will win and it's possible for you to hang out with lots of them.

But what you're forgetting about is companies that were of similiar size that don't exist anymore. There have still been so few billion dollar startups that most people on this site can probably name them all.

>The odds aren’t good but it’s by no means a lottery, either.

Of course it is. How many startups are there, right now, world wide? How many startups make early employees rich per year? Now compare the odds of finding such a startup with just buying a lottery ticket and I suspect you'll find the lottery ticket a bargain.

>Startup equity is likely worth nothing, but there’s a small chance it’s worth an extraordinary amount. That’s not “worthless.”

But this is the falacy of the lottery ticket itself: I could just spend $20 and it might pay out $100 million. But if you apply the Kelly criterion you'll find that it's a bad EV play, every time.

And, as I mentioned, the lottery ticket is quite a deal compared to a startup: I'm just out $20 or so. With a startup I'm thowing away potentially years of better earnings for something with a ridiculously low probability of actually happening. And keep in mind that your future salary is generally related to your current one so discounting your value by 40-60% is something you'll very likely never entirely recover from. And this is ignoring any career growth opportunities that were also lost.

So "worthless" is the wrong term for startup equity. Strongly EV negative is much more accurate.
Emulators are not illegal. Sony even lost a lawsuit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!#Sony_lawsuit
> platforms that allow centralized trading

How are these platforms different from a cryptocurrency exchange?
absolute non sequitur. I'd just think burning the stuff was mad destructive.
Is Bitcoin Good for Freelancers?
I don't buy a new one every few months. I simply have a collection of keyboards, and I swap them out every few months. That's really the only point - you don't have to do this expensively.

Besides, keyboards are cheap... cheaper than therapy and drugs and all the other hassle. This really is the simplest, cheapest solution. And no, I don't buy the 'woo woo hand wavy' aspect you imply - I believe that having different geometry to deal with, keeps my hands from becoming accustomed to the repetition of previous keyboards, and thus it exercises my hands in a different way - and it is the difference that matters, above all else, to keeping RSI away ..
How Senegal can close its energy gap by 2030
To me the hardest part of moving into management from engineering came with the realization that "accomplishment" is a much squishier thing. Almost every action as a manager ends up as a compromise across several different very soft-skills variables.

Recognizing the core of what matters and not getting hung up on other distractions seems to be the difference between success and failure. I don't focus on my career at all and have found that it usually takes care of itself so long as I don't bypass any opportunities.

Here's my checklist I use to see if I'm doing a good job (by my own measure), and these are not in order of priority but must be balanced simultaneously:

- put your staff first, leadership is a service function

- ship, on time, and within budget -- exceed expectations
I have been putting even cheap plastic tupperware in the dishwasher on the top shelf with heat dry. Never had a problem. I think that was a problem decades ago that have been resolved with better plastics and controlled drying temps.
does anyone else think that articles like this are fueled self interested parties who don't have a stake in crypto?

if crypto is here to stay, wont more efficient mining hardware, potentially more efficient software, and things like recent advances in solar relax these fears in reality?
Wow, I didn't know that. I don't know much about the product other than it's pretty mainstream so I assumed they played by the rules.
They also don't pay as well and aren't any more respected by senior management, generally, than the most recently intern-to-fulltime hire.
Apparently it uses IR and is easily fooled. I think Android manufacturers have it right by putting the scanner on the back or side. We can keep our good capacitive fingerprint sensors and still get bezelless displays.

I wonder how far off a transparent digitizer is that can make out fingerprints?
Where is the company today?
Yes maybe there are lots of other Earth like planets in our galaxy? universe?, where human like intelligent species aren't wondering and talking about why-not any longer.
I think it depends on if you see a fee as buying mindfulness or supporting a teacher. I really don't have a problem with the latter.

I downloaded and have been using Oak for a few weeks now and so far, I think I like it. I haven't seen ads and the app is pretty basic. They have guided and unguided sessions and I find myself returning to the guided version even though I've pretty much memorized the instruction. The voices are nice and I actually find myself doing a better job of staying focused on my breath.

I don't know that it's been beneficial yet, but it is becoming a habit.

It also introduced me to Alan Watts and that can't be a bad thing.
Sqlg Is a Implementation of Apache TinkerPop on a RDBMS
Luck, privilege, talent[1], and hard work - all typically contribute to success. Any one alone is very unlikely (but not impossible) to lead to it.

Obviously you can only have direct impact on some of these, so it's worth concentrating effort there.

[1] "talent" here is somewhat hand-wavy mix of skill and experience
> It's eminently reasonable and fair that a job anyone can do will pay less than a job fewer people can do.

That’s strongly a matter of opinion. Almost anyone is physically capable of being a home health care aide for a dying child, and almost nobody is physically capable of being an NFL quarterback — but I don’t really find it “fair” that the latter is paid a thousand times the salary.
Do some useful work for someone and ask them to reward you with the book.
Ask HN: Shenzen tech tours?
Hi .. I'm a mid career tech professional. I'm very excited about how low-cost computational hardware is enabling the creation of new products and services. I know a bit about the Shenzen space from watching YouTube videos (probably 100s) and following the works of Bunny, Hax, etc. I've really mused applying for Hax - however, at this point, I don't have an idea that is compelling enough to devote myself to. Is there another way to engage with/educate myself wrt the Shenzen ecosystem? I recall someone was trying to arrange tours in the past .. like a week or two. How did that turn out? Any others in a similar boat?
Wow. That's a significant drop. Maybe 2 years ago I spent a few days combing through Craig's list and 90%+ were over $3000. Once and a while you could find a crappy in-law suit for $2900.

Edit: Just took a look at units in the Mission. Holy crap are there a lot of them (124 1-bedroom units). A few years back there were maybe ~20 max at any given time. Lots of new buildings and recently renovated. Even units in prime locations (close to Dolores Park) are sub-$3000 (although not many).
Doesn't have to be terrifying. Make it soft and squishy and use artificial muscles not gears and motors. It doesn't have to be able to lift my piano.
Does anyone have ideas on how these features can be made to work on mobile?

For example, at http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=1102 you can hover over the words to see meanings, or click on them to see in the dictionary. What is the analogue on phones, for “hover” versus “click”? What does the ctext project think about phones? (For context, I'm hoping to do something similar for Sanskrit someday…)
I worked as a chicken quality check in a large UK factory. The cheap chicken you see in supermarkets and (fast food) is complete trash. Freerange, Organic and normal do really differ in all kind of ways.

People would really look at chicken differently if they worked at a poultry processing factory for a week.
Maybe it was destroyed in another part of the multiverse and we're just the ones left to ponder this question.

hahahaha, no. That line of thinking can lead to the idea that every big decision can be made by flipping a quantum coin and the result will be right in some universe.
I already have enough frustration using an eink screen for reading books around the refresh rate of updating that page that I couldn't even imagine the pain of trying to use one interactively.
> In Belgium most people do not change their name upon marrying

That's presumably because the law says you can't [0]. Unless you go through the equivalent of deed poll.

[0] https://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/services/services_abroad/re...
That's an hour long video, can you summarize its arguments?
In order for survivor bias to apply here we need other worlds which were destroyed to compare ours to.
No - quote from article "Hardin simply ignored what actually happens in a real commons: self-regulation by the communities involved." it argues that Hardin, to make his point, ignored that of course there was a controller of the commons - the communities involved, as communities will, kept control and did not allow any single member of the community to abuse them.
Recent consoles are well abstracted from the hardware. The only case where this is usually not true is the GPU, and it's rare to have something completely custom there nowadays (the 3DS and its weird PICA chip is very much the exception). Most of the difficulty is in properly emulating the operating system, and this is not helped by having SoC datasheets.
Thanks for the advice. I love to take in new information, but try to make sure I'm thinking critically about what I'm learning.

I'm moving from a large organization to a smaller one, by an order of magnitude or more, so I'm looking forward to having the ability to know everyone on some level and be able to reach out directly when needed.
Aren’t open source licenses that forbid commercial use kind of rare? All of the big name ones I can think of have no such provisions.