skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But syslog already solved this problem (as others have said): you pipe all your output to syslog (even via TCP/UDP) and then syslog determines where the output should go via the entries in syslog.conf. And you can even write a simple utility that wraps an arbitrary executable and redirects its stdout/stderr to syslog as well, solving the problem for 90% of the applications that don't have builtin syslog support.
I know, I'm sitting at 2.2GB on mac with 4 open tabs.
Day of Event – MathCON
Eveything could be written under name "RING". Then you would not need TO/To/tO
It's not youtube. It's not facebook. It's not twitter. You can write this article about any company these days.

It's a deeper fundamental devil's cocktail of monetized attention + modern (intensely and immediately metrics driven) product development + our buggy brains. Any company who wants to make money from the attention of human beings will find the same extraordinarily rapid pull to extremism. That's what we click. Our brains love these extreme things. The companies are just molding themselves to our brains in real time.

So much of public discourse these last few years has been pulled towards these most base human bugs. Fear of the "other", violence, tragedy, banal comedy, sexual deviancy, cute shiny this or that, inspirational platitudes. Even worse, the content production itself is now being hooked up directly to the metrics creating a machine learning feedback loop spinning out of control.

Any company who wants to fight against this needs to sign up for public, immediate, and painful metrics hits. We saw this happen so directly with facebook last quarter. These problems are so fundamental that if one company tries to fight against it and turn back the dials, another won't and the company attempting integrity will flat out start to lose. Our best shot is to create completely different incentive structures. In the current overarching architecture of media and technology, this hell is the clear winner.
Response to Current Affairs on Against Murderism
Immune responses to bacteria colonizing unusual tissues doesn't seem like "autoimmune disease". That is, unless there's cross-recognition between bacterial and host epitopes. But there are known examples of such molecular mimicry.[0] Such as "Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharide (LOS) mimicry of human GM1 ganglioside and mimicry between the dietary antigen butyrophilin and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein". So maybe this is another example.

0) https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbio...
So it was 20 mins old, no need to be an ass about it.
Fun fact - this was Buckminster Fuller's argument for why petrol should be a million dollars a gallon, a long time before anybody knew anything about global warming.
Abadoned Kola Superdeep Borehole
RTS and flight sim games were the domain people who could afford PCs. The average American kid only had a game console.
That’s an excellent point about consumer versus utility behaviors.

The Tesla/SolarCity model, of basically renting out solar panel installation in exchange for a cut of the future energy value, is an interesting approach to incentivizing a different consumer behavior.

This article https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/05/20/teslas-powerwall-s... describes a similar program applied to home energy storage.
You forgot the

-> take 500 million years to make, burn it all in 300 years

step that seems to be missed by the solar isn't efficient enough club.
And the old media was a propaganda machine. And a total waste of cognitive frames. How I wish I could trade all the stupid ads I saw for a memory of a few seconds with my wife.

If people are being radicalized, it signals that maybe the system of incentives have been gamed. We live in the shadow of another housing bubble. We live in the shadow of a pension bubble. We live in the shadow of possible emergent dystopias, whether they be left-aligned or right-aligned. And we used to live in the shadow of a massive propaganda machine. This type of extremism is borne of the shock of hearing good actionable information over bad information forged with bad faith.

Imagine growing up and you find adults, actual people with actual responsibilities, act like children when it comes to politics. High school teachers making fun of George W Bush as if he was a total idiot. That was very bad information. He might have squandered blood and treasure on Iraq but he managed his image well, even coming off as "a simple down to the earth man" before his supporters. Down to his accent he adopted despite growing up in old WASP holdouts. Nope,instead grown adults preferred to amuse themselves with an image of a total idiot president. Which was both disarming and catastrophic to understanding how power works in this country.

Surely there is a "center" in this country but the "center" gave us unmanageable time bombs of massive liabilities bequeathed, "awarded" one might say, as burdens for future generations.

As far as Youtube goes, it's not proper to blame the failings of ordinary people. If anything, it's our useless public education apparatus that let bad information, bad faith, and bad habits become a triumvirate incarnated. So much cognition wasted so a class of bureaucrats, school administrators and clerical staff, could collect pensions that future generations will be paying very dearly for.

That's my two cents rant.
Playing with my son has gone from me beating him and feeling bad, to him beating me and feeling bad. Damn those teenage reflexes.
In other news, the use of sun block is at all time highs.
> inordinate amount of RAM and CPU and make the fans spin up

I almost always find that this is caused by a badly behaved website, not Chrome itself.

Some sites have horribly written JavaScript, or introduce ads that run their own CPU- and memory-intensive JavaScript.

Finding and closing those tabs, or disabling JavaScript, or using uBlock or uMatrix usually solves it for me.
The world’s longest and deepest sub-sea road tunnel [pdf]
This is a richly intriguing phenomenon, with interesting implications!

For those interested in reading more, this article (on stochastic resonance's potential importance in biological sensing) is edifying:
https://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo1/hanggi/Papers/282.p...
(Hänggi, Peter. "Stochastic resonance in biology: how noise can enhance detection of weak signals and help improve biological information processing." ChemPhysChem 3.3 (2002): 285-290.)

(Perhaps this is an example of how biological systems can value accurate sensation so highly that they invent ingenious sensing schemes to achieve high performance.)
I'd love to see gas go. But the reality is, at least for now, Cali is an outlier. Cars are cars everywhere. But weather and sunshine and wind are different everywhere.

Fusion will be the ultimate game changed. Some say we're closer than most realize.
I don't think I'd be any kind of "hacker" if it weren't for undiagnosed celiac disease. If I wasn't been too sick to go out and do my normal activities, I never would have sat at home learning to program.

It's incidence also, anecdotally, seems to be increasing.
Poked around on the google[0]:

def fib(n):
a, b = 0, 1
for _ in range(n):
a, b = b, a + b
return b

No itertools, not overly complex, no tail recursion.

If you were careful of the scoping rules something like foo(get_next(i) for i in whatever()) could be made to work without too much trouble (also without itertools) if you needed a sequence. Probably just throw a lambda in there instead of get_next and python would be happy, too lazy to work it out.

[0]http://www.koderdojo.com/blog/python-fibonacci-number-genera...

--edit--

Actually, I think this function gives the wrong result for 0 and maybe 1, just copypasta'd the code so blame them...
Solar is only clean if you forget about the waste from manufacturing and end-of-life panels. Nothing is perfect. Nuclear is pretty good.
I agree with you but if anything is going to be done about it we need to keep youtube, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc accountable.
Interesting, this has worked for me on occasion during times of suffering from depression and anxiety and I was wondering about it recently. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping and have noticed positive effects in my mood and energy level the next day after staying up all night.
I don't think that is fair, adventure games and RTS still has a purpose, an plot. Minecraft is more like lego, it doesn't have an end game. I think the closest we had was Simcity?

Not sure why you are making this a personal attack on you? I though this was an interesting read, and something I hadn't thought of before.
Thanks for the response. I see where you are coming from.

We don't really need to discuss it further, but, to clarify, I think the thing that caught my eye is when a reasonable discussion naturally starts to veer towards these more difficult, ideological topics.

Those topics aren't meaningless. It is just very hard to discuss them productively on a public internet forum, as you noted. However, it is also not unexpected for productive, intellectual discussions of other issues to meaningfully brush up against these "ideological tangents" on occasion.

The part that seems a little arbitrary to me is to say that the discussion can't proceed further purely based on content alone, as opposed to instead drawing the line based on content-neutral criteria such as civility, substantiveness, novelty, etc.

But I understand that this desire may be overly idealistic in a public internet forum, and certain pragmatic lines may need to be drawn. It sounds like might be the case on HN. Again, thanks for engaging with me on this.
Show HN: Cross-platform native personal Finance app/Quicken replacement
It came up for me when designing a custodial management system for cryptocurrencies, where you could design it in such a way that the different steps/sensitive data were divided among separate systems and communication channels. I wanted some way to divide up responsibilities for processing a transaction (initiation, audit, control, approval, transmission) and then prove that any single component could be 100% compromised without allowing further unauthorized transactions. Even introducing temporary transformations (encryption/hashing)
and re-routing keys specifically to prevent collisions of that data.

I noticed how similar the thought process was to GDPR work I've been involved in, where, for example, we can keep track of Last name and Phone Number in our company, but they could never be at rest unencrypted and unhashed in the same system. Or First Name + Job Title + Location but only 2 of those three can co-exist. It seemed like the kind of thing that would have a formal way of expressing. Our GDPR consultants were unhelpful in that.
I think the problem is one of breadth v depth. If you specialize too much, then its probable that you will fail to reuse knowledge from different fields. If you focus on breadth too much, then you will not have enough deep knowledge to build something of high quality.

I would characterize people who are described by your quote as people who prefer breadth of knowledge over depth. This is a good quality to have in order to avoid tunnel vision. The downside (as you mentioned) is that it takes more willpower to maintain prolonged focus on an objective.

I believe that I tend to fall in this category of people and its annoying when society demands to see immediate, obvious results. Small, incremental progress is less risky but it seems(to me) that the rewards are also minimized. Its difficult to judge whether the 'dreaming' one is doing will realize as concrete, positive changes.
There was an extension that did precisely this until Mozilla decided to discontinue 50% of the useful Firefox addons with Firefox 58.
I wish I could upvote your comment more, perfectly put.
You mean that a person involved in the start-up got involved in politics and now coincidentally they get an almost billion dollar contract?

We have a word for that: corruption.
These sites are designed to remove as much agency as possible, so that users are driven to behave in predictable, repeatable and easily monetizable patterns.

The question is, how much agency can they actually remove? If someone uploads "radical" material and it's popular with other "radicals," then is exploiting that any worse than doing so for mainstream content?
Senators Pressure Platforms for Private Censorship of Drug Information
I've been noticing a similar phenomena. No matter what news clip I click on, my recommended videos will always be filled with right wing videos. So if I click on a clip of fox news I will get recommended some clips from say Ben Shapiro (expected). But if I click on a clip from msnbc, cnn, the young turks, or even Democracy Now my recommendations are still filled up with right wing content (undesirable). And unlike the left wing videos that might be recommended to me on a left wing video, the right wing videos will follow me around the site no matter what content I watch.

I wonder if an over reliance on neural networks is what has been causing them so many problems recently.
Ugh. Carbs are fuel. Cutting out the specifics you mentioned are good, but generally cutting out carbs is not good for most people.
The problem is not videos being recommended to me, it's other people being radicalised by the videos they are suggested.
Automatic translation subtitles for Coursera courses
Workflowy: https://workflowy.com

Dynalist: https://dynalist.io

Either one works great for productivity.
> Is this a Minecraft PR Piece? Because the games of my childhood were not just action games of the NES.

You accuse this of being a paid plant because you can’t imagine that someone played different games than you as a child?!

> RTS made you build bases from scratch and react to impending waves of enemies until you finally could crush them. Flight simulators were all about "open world" since you could have missions and the like but let's face it, it was more fun to just fly around and test your plane where you went.

You’re thinking 10-15 years too late.
Yes, but that explanation is a lot less fun.
So only acceptable option here is to ban Plantir and Theil companies from govt contracts?
It's expensive, but the LA Times article is leaving out a critical piece of information. The costs they're talking about are in year of construction costs, not 2008 or even 2018 dollars.

For instance, if the expected completion date is 2028 and the cost is $70 billion in 2028 dollars, any delay will increase the absolute cost because of inflation, even if the cost in 2028 dollars stays the same.

While $80+ billion in costs by 2033 is a lot of money, it's not actually twice the initial estimate of $40 billion in 2008 dollars (something like $55-70 billion in 2023-2033 dollars, assuming ~3% inflation/year).
I3WM 4.15 released
> As far as Youtube goes, it's not proper to blame the failings of ordinary people.

They're making money by abusing our weaknesses. That's what happens when you optimize for attention and ad impressions.
this is supposed to be exaggerated but who the fuck uses a 32 core computer with hundreds for gigabytes of ram. Do you mean their data centers?
tmux, emacs/emacsclient, org-mode.
Fusion on the grid in 15 years? Excuse me if I don’t hold my breath.
Yes. Your political connections should not give you advantages in garnering government money.
Came here to say pomodoro technique. I use a physical kitcten timer at home but use this website when I am working out of a coffee shop.
The numbers might be slightly exaggerated. Nonetheless, they’re high-end machines.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and...
Frankly, I do not understand the fawning over Debian. It became the same kind of "try to be everything and do nothing well" distribution Slackware was.

Up until 8 it was still good for servers but 8 brought systemd, which maybe has a place on a Desktop, but is definitely not anything useful for servers. Ok, so lets pretend it is a desktop. Oh wait, it is a desktop that does not contain the lastest video drivers? It is a desktop that does not contain seamless switch between free nvidia and proprietary nvidia?
It has occurred to me, after meeting so many successful researchers in so many disciplines, that the ideal scientist is smart only to an intermediate degree: bright enough to see what can be done but not so bright as to become bored doing it.

And:

There is also an introversion in the innovator that keeps him from team sports and social events. He dislikes authority, or at least being told what to do. He is not a leader in high school or college, nor is he likely to be pledged by social clubs. From an early age he is a dreamer, not a doer. His attention wanders easily. He likes to probe, to collect, to tinker. He is prone to fantasize. He is not inclined to focus. He will not be voted by his classmates most likely to succeed.

This is not the type of person the elite universities are looking for. Whether it's Harvard, Stanford, Sorbonne, Beida, IITs, etc., they're looking for high-scoring, blindingly bright geniuses for undergraduate and many graduate programs, too. If they're confident extroverts, i.e., "natural leaders," even better.

Are they doing it all wrong?
Most large aluminum plants generate their own power.
For anyone who doesn't follow altcoins, Nano is a rebranding of Raiblocks to attempt to reset the pump phase now that everything tanked 40%.
I use Sunsama daily (https://sunsama.com) to navigate my time + tasks.
Disclaimer: I also work on making it.

I also built a really fast rig recently. It saves me a lot of time since I’m spending less time waiting for projects to build and can’t lose focus.
There should be more collaborative games rather than competitive games. One of my fondest memories is playing Quake 2 in COOP mode at a LAN Party back in the 90s getting stuck in a mineshaft with the group way past midnight. Extremely immersive and bonding experience. We still talk about this moment years later.
I played a lot of red alert as a kid, and flight simulators, but honestly, calling the first 'creative', and the second 'open world' is ridiculous. They were nice games - but if you play them today, you'll see how far games have come.

You can literally build a computer in Minecraft. I don't like the game, don't like that the developer ripped off the idea, and find the art obnoxious - but you have to admit, it's basically dwarf fortress for kids. That's an order of magnitude more creative than anything we had twenty years ago.
Is that true, and is that objectively more impressive?

To the former, I always assumed there were in flight adjustments after launch. Elon's roadster had inaccurate calculations, I heard they were off by like 2%. I assumed the moon landing was similar.
I have a 7-minute sand timer I picked up for a few dollars. Whenever there is a task I keep putting off, I'll commit to doing the task at least until the timer runs out. It probably sounds silly, but it really helps me get things done that I'd avoid otherwise.
I definitely feel games like Sims and Simcity changed my perception of resource safety as a child. I played Sims/Simcity2000~3000/Civs for hundreds of hours as a kid, and I loved the "realistic" feels and setups of these games. When I started to play I always had later stage trouble when I'm overspending on building fancy roads and bridges in SimCity or buying expensive items up front. I slowly learned the way of setting up a less impressive base first, and swapping out parts and do re-designs and expansions as more resources became available.

I later found out all games have a specific pattern you follow to win, many of these patterns are available in online communities/guides/cheat sections where I'd spend tons of time to read, try and experiment. Those were probably the peak happiness and best time I've enjoyed as a little nerdy kid. I never thought too much a big deal of these experiences but nonetheless I believe definitely contributed to a base reality of how resource management work, and how I manage my personal projects, finance, and career choices as I grew up.

I'd be super curious to see research / longitudinal study coming up from the past 2-3 decades of gaming on kids, and see if conservative gaming styles leads to conservative financial decisions etc etc.

I'm not a father yet but I thought it would be a really cool idea to understand my kid through game play like this, but I also don't want the kids to be limited by my personal value though these interactions - sort of like the "observer and supporter" role the author played.

Sidenote: I'm still playing the latest Civ6 and still enjoy a lot from the dynamics in the economy managements with A.I..
That and probably most people with autoimmune diseases have been surprised how little is known about these diseases. Just getting diagnosed with one often takes months if not years and multiple specialists all telling you that it's "all in your head".

Also hearing that there's nothing that can be done except watch your body deteriorate is a slap in the face to any one. What you're left with is trying the "unconventional".
I would say that it's a comment that's not good to give in polite company, but something that one close friend would say to another. Sometimes brutal truths or tendencies of society can be overlooked by some people or deliberately ignored by others, maybe with altruistic intentions, but that just means that those tendencies will be taken advantage of by people with fewer scruples. It's best to acknowledge and be publicly aware of these tendencies, rather than hide them away.
Well, I'm pretty well aware of how I spend my time. Agile serves no purpose for me in that regard. The point of agile is so that others can track how I spend my time. Whether that's reasonable and if/when that's a good idea is entirely about context; but much like quantum mechanics, observing behavior can change it (positively or negatively).
We can mean many things by lazy. One meaning is actively avoiding work, and another is not being disciplined.

I knew quite a few of my classmates at MIT who never learned to focus and direct their energies. Even advanced/AP/IB classes in high school didn't require them to focus for very long at a time. It's not that they disliked work, it was that they had never before practiced focusing for very long. Also, being obviously smart, teachers and administrators had always made exceptions for them.

My old room mate was a regional US chess champion and widely regarded as one of the smartest in our MIT peer group. He really enjoyed difficult problems, but lacked the ability to steer his intellect. When he was in high school in Atlanta, there was a school program where the government would pay the AP exam fees for any student who signed up, as long as they didn't sign up for two exams that were concurrently administered. There was no requirement that the student take the corresponding course. Partly to demonstrate the wastefulness of the program, my old room mate got a schedule, signed up for all of the exams corresponding to his classes, and also filled in his schedule with as many exams as possible. When the administration discovered his little demonstration, they called him in and told him that he would be actually taking all of the exams, and there would be stern consequences if he didn't pass all of them. I think the threat was to bill his parents for the exam fees for intentionally wasting school resources. They told his teachers what was going on and that he was to be excused from normal classroom activities in order to sit in the corner of the classroom and study from a textbook for a different subject. He passed a full slate of exams, most without benefit of instruction, and most with background distraction of an unrelated class going on in the background while he studied.

He wouldn't have been able to do this if he were merely adverse to work or unable to focus. However, the motivation to focus was externally applied. At least until his early 30s, he never gained the ability to will himself to focus, and he never got an undergraduate degree.