skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we’re not stuck here

Seems like we are. We’re very far from generalized space travel, and very close to ruining this planet.

> technology will keep progressing

What evidence do you have for such an optimistic assertion?
I've struggled with the same thing. Here's the problem: How do you farm yourself out for this sort of work, when the kind of people who need it done are the kind of people who can't see the need, even after you've fixed it, shown it, and explained it?

That, and I don't have the temperament to deal with the politics of the business side. I tried it, decades ago, and found it tiresome.
The same to me
Self-taught rocket scientist blasts off into California sky
I live in SEA and Grab is way more cheaper than Uber. Uber is just so damn expensive with the same service of Grab.
Is there any NAS, that stores its backup through distributed function in similar NAS?

Like I buy 6TB NAS, 2TB will be for myself, the other 4TB is for everyone else, where every files to be spilt in many pieces, encrypted and stored multiple copies evenly in others NAS.
>Any thinker who can present Enlightenment values as simple and univocal is going to do a poor job understanding things as they are today. Deny the disagreements of the past, and you're sure to miss the substance of today's disagreements.

I think it would be reasonable to say that there were disagreements within the Enlightenment, but that they were generally smaller than the disagreements between Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment, for instance, Locke versus Rousseau would be a smaller disagreement than either versus Nietzsche.
haha - https://youtu.be/ML79u9zPZu4?t=2m47s
And yet i keep seeing FOSS projects that are doing just that over and over and over, with some flimsy excuse about user friendliness as their cover...
It's called Usenet.
The story for Equifax was the personal data breach, which has implications for individuals' financial outlook.

The story for Facebook is the interference with elections and the political process, which has implications for everything from taxing sodas to the potential for nuclear war.

The reactions are different because the events are not really directly comparable.
How can you not have fun running with a dog?

Mine can keep up with me on a bike so on foot I constantly throw sticks to him and make him swim while I run in the opposite direction.

Also, maybe try THC I hear it brings on the runners high immediately.
After having one course of zen meditation, it seems to me meditation is pretty much the complete opposite of falling asleep. You want to stop thinking about anything, but only to feel perfectly aware of the current time and place. And your mind becomes completely focused and concentrated on.. nothing.

In particular, the part in the OP where you "picture yourself being on lake, etc" looks to me as completely anti-meditation.
When I watch Mac newcomers try and use drag-and-drop app deployment, I just shake my head at how awful it is.
> Spreadsheets simply don't scale

You've never seen panic like a multi million dollar business discovering that excel doesn't allow more than some fixed number of rows (1m?).
Yes, it is practically useful advice, especially when you’re on a flight with no WiFi.
I'll second the recommendation of the History of English podcast. I'm roughly 20 episode in and adore it. However, I can't speak to its efficacy as a soporific.
But there's another important part: this only works if I've been away from screens for at least 30-60 minutes and if I haven't had any caffeine in the last 6 hours.

f.lux et al reduce the amount of time necessary to be away from the screen, but don't eliminate it. The only screen that's "safe" for me is a small black AMOLED screen (aka no backlight) with dim text.
On a different note, KDE3 still existing in the form of the Trinity DE.

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
Given that prices are now so low that the service is unprofitable, it does not seem all that irresponsible for the firms' owners to want prices raised?
> A generic strategy for most of "megafunds"

If two companies can make more together than apart, they're going to merge. Whether the shareholders are common or discrete doesn't change that incentive.

What does change is each side's tolerance for transaction costs. Mergers are expensive because both sides argue (a lot) over how to split the expected premium. If there is no argument, the transaction cost goes down. Merger costs going down means merger frequency goes up; consolidation occurs.

Stock swaps are a cheap way to "merge" without merging. Combining Uber and Grab would reduce consumer choice in both markets. The same occurs when they mutually dis-engage. In a traditional acquisition, the acquirer would have to agree on a price with the acquired. That doesn't need to happen, or at least as precisely, here.

All that said, these deals do look like Softbank trying to get around antitrust rules. If Uber and Lyft split the U.S. market across the Mississippi, lawmakers would likely frown [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
I’ve found a simple approach to falling asleep.

I close my eyes, and start trying to hear instruments. I start with the bass drum, add some hi-hats. It’s difficult at first, but as my mind drifts off, other instruments start appearing, and I hear a voice singing, a melody. Songs I’ve never heard before.

I do this every night now, and I drift off nearly right away. Sometimes I’m jolted by the complexity of the songs, and return to reality to check if I’m not just hearing music coming from my neighbour.
Regarding falling asleep - I've noticed an interesting phenomenon in myself. Usually it takes me around 30 minutes to fall asleep, during which period I seem to gradually mellow, my internal narrative becomes weaker until I finally fall asleep. During the final stages of that process, I sometimes imagine beautiful and quite complex music or art that I like a lot (unfortunately, I'm nowhere skilled enough to try to create actual pieces based on this). This does not happen to me in any other state - it's as if there's a temporary imbalance between my mental functions (perhaps the logical brain shuts off first) that generates this unsolicited creativity.
I'm curious what the differentiation is between some of these projects. "Written in Rust" or "Written in Go" don't really tell me anything as a user.

This is a really cool idea. I never really understood what "the social web" was really about in the mid-aughts. The Internet was always a social tool before Facebook and Flickr and all that happened. It's nice to see it come back around to being distributed again. I hope protocols take over again.
Same for me. Comfortable fantasy world replaces worries, then sleep is easy. Figured it out in middle school. I explained it to a teacher once and they called it meditation...
I always thought of this bit of code as a great example of applied numerical methods techniques, rather than “Black Magic” The magic constant is derivable from standard methods and one can even choose to optimize other measures of error.

http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf
If self-driving cars are the norm, this problem will disappear over time.. .
I can do this too! I was born with a superpower, one that ensures I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime - untreated obstructive sleep apnea!

With obstructive sleep apnea, you too can fall asleep in those stressful situations like driving, in the middle of a fire drill at your desk, and while attending an important work presentation!

(On the serious, I have an appointment to get a CPAP tomorrow and in the meantime I sleep sitting up with my feet elevated and avoid most of the ill effects, but it's only a short term solution because it must be weighted against the possibility of a DVT or other blood clot.)
> Of course, you can't do much DevOps on Void Linux..

Why not? runit is really great - it's an implementation of daemontools from djb - it's a powerful system - including socket activation, log handling, you can even run custom check scripts for your services. I'd even say it's more poweful than systemd and better for devops once you go beyond systemctl enable apache2
I once worked maintenance on a large C++ program used in production by a lot of customers. It was odd in several ways, but the feature that stands out in my mind was the numerous classes that were not defined anywhere in the source code or libraries.

If that sounds unlikely to you, it sounded unlikely to me, too. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out where they were defined. I couldn't ask the original author of the code; he had moved on.

Eventually, I found them, sort of. They were being defined by a sed script that ran during the build process. It read the sources before they got to the compiler, constructed class definitions on the fly, and injected them into the code before it was fed to the compiler. So the definitions were right there in the code that the compiler saw; they just weren't anywhere in the code that humans could see.

Why was it done that way? I have no idea.
Thanks, that is some great feedback.

Your nice comment really made my week.
is some person my psycho, violent ex?

Is some person a person I want to talk to?

Do you not know and are just hoping for the best without asking me?
I have landed on IceWM over the years.

Its Win9X/2k-ist behavior fits me just fine, as i try to ween myself off anything involving the big DEs.
Well, I remember working at a startup in 2006/7 on Facebook apps and having this exact conversation with my boss (specifically about the ability to de-anonymize users by joining across multiple different sites).
Yes, "Art of Manliness" website, please send me all of your push updates to my browser
I have two 'tricks' to falling asleep (but this article looks better).

The first is to play the 'unrelated words' game, where you think of a word as completely unrelated to the last word as possible.

The second is to count up and work out whether the current number is prime.

Both occupy the mind while minimizing stress, allowing the body to relax into sleep.

I'm definitely going to try the techniques in the article though.

This also made me think of Feynman's sleep experiments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/1p1107/richa...
Did.

Got distracted by choosing one.

Got distracted by choosing a template.

Got distracted by problems with Markdown (an8d Asciidoc).

Get distracted every time I want to write.

After I got my html "template" up and running I just copy that and write whatever I want to write.

Conclusion: for me, when writing, finding the correct tools prevented me from just writing.

(I have however spend some time on my developer tooling and feel I get a good return on investment there. Currently (for 5+ years) Netbeans and Maven, and later also VSCode + Yarn.)
I have done this for as long as I can remember, except I didn't do the physical relaxation.

I just close my eyes and think "sleep, sleep, etc". Slowly and methodically to take away other thoughts. It doesn't work 100% for me. Maybe I will try to add the physical relaxation.
That used to be the case, now high powered LED bike lights are so bright that the overexposed spot right in front of the bike is almost blinding the rider himself.

The solution are properly beam-shaped lights like the Axendo series from Spanninga, but they are a tough sell even in countries where beam shaping is mandatory.
Those who are keen on exploring more should look up various relaxation methods that fall under the umbrella of Yoga Nidra. The technique described here is generally a preparatory exercise for a following 61 point or 31 point relaxation method (usually done lying down on the back).

As one makes progress in their practice they will find that their body and mind will start experiencing deeper rest for the same or lesser amount of sleep.

Some of the relaxation methods can be done upon waking up too -- gets rid of grogginess.
For me, this exact state is also an ideal one to truly enjoy great music. The music can become surreal and surround me.

I've never used drugs, but this is how I imagine hallucinogens to be...
We can wear bullet proof vests every time we leave the house too.

Put a few app developers in jail for what they do and render their businesses bankrupt and maybe we don't need to treat our phones as hostile to their owners?
but the data collection is not on by default (though applications like Maps will prompt for it)

No and no. Not only is the data collection on by default, even if you turn it off some Google apps (e.g. Maps) just don't give a damn.

I recently updated Google Maps on my Android phone (a move I regret). A couple days later I went into town. I checked my phone after I was back home and it suggested I leave reviews for the stores I visited (it listed them). That creeped the heck out of me.
"Uber said it lost $1.1 billion in the last three months of 2017 on revenue of $11.05 billion — results that reflect a steady improvement in the company’s financial position, with revenues growing and losses narrowing. In the preceding quarter, Uber lost $1.46 billion on revenue of $9.7 billion.
Uber said it lost $1.1 billion in the last three months of 2017 on revenue of $11.05 billion — results that reflect a steady improvement in the company’s financial position, with revenues growing and losses narrowing. In the preceding quarter, Uber lost $1.46 billion on revenue of $9.7 billion.

...

Based on a financial earnings criteria excluding expenses like stock-based compensation — a significant portion of how Uber rewards its employees — the company said it lost $475 million in the fourth quarter compared with a loss of $607 million in the prior three-months period."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/business/uber-earnings-ip...
We also need to address people who drive with their high beams on at oncoming traffic.
> ...where even though there might be strong/reliable federated hosts, YOU fundamentally control your identity and it does NOT belong to a federated host.

Yeah, owning ones identity and also your followers/friends/etc connection to your account should automatically be updated if you choose to move instances. This is what I believe will allow federation to flourish.

When the shortlived Great Migration to Mastodon took place last year, it was terribly cumbersome if you wanted to move instances — you would lose all of your friends again, at which point you’re required to somehow alert every account which follows you and expect them to go through the steps to add your new account. This is just too messy and for people who have spent years building their perfect social net, this is a pretty severe roadblock when one is forced to choose between a new instance with better culture but losing years of work connecting with interesting people.
Another analogy that comes to mind would be 'going to gym'. Short-term, working out is exactly a heat loss (doing hard work with no useful results). But long-term, it makes you healthier and able to do more things.

Back to corporate IT, it's not that hard to stabilize a decent big ol' legacy revenue generating system, while avoiding making changes. But if the company has to compete against smaller and leaner startups, avoiding changes might become a major risk, as the cost of all changes tends to go up.

So, it would be reasonable to keep the system is a constant state of flux, so that it has no choice but to become fitter and learn to change quickly without breaking: stuff like reproducible builds, reproducible deployment, CI/CD don't matter a lot for monthly stable releases, but one would have a hard time doing nightly stable releases without them.
> It would be interesting to see a gallery of Unix classic/modern tools presented in a structured course. Is anyone aware of one?

Back when I used Gentoo, I discovered a lot of interesting software by simply browsing their portage repository and installing packages that sounded interesting. It's organized into sections like you describe. There were (probably still are) web sites to browse the package database too. FreeBSD's ports are organized in a similar manner.
runit is an implementation of djb daemontools - http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/daemontools/blabbyd.html - the latest release is from 2001 - so this must be around since the early/mid 90ies - it's also what systemd copied to a degree also solaris / launchd got some inspiration from daemontools.
A new pipe software that can X the wall
A new pipe software that can X the wall.

AES
QUIC
TCP

source code https://github.com/wave1234/stealpipe
I'll mention something related, just to see how widespread my experience is. Sometimes when I am just about to fall asleep, I suddenly become very aware of my receding consciousness. It's a strongly uncomfortable feeling accompanied by a rush of energy that wakes me up instantly.

It feels almost like my body thinks it's about to die, so it does a desperate hail mary to stay alive, or something. Very unsettling.

Does anyone know what this might be about?
Serpent is deprecated.
When I have to sleep I just start reading comments in a HN post, or start scrolling 9GAG Cute section with my eyes purposefully half-closed. I don’t remember when I fall asleep but most of the times I have only scrolled through less than a dozen posts/comments. Night mode with lowest backlight possible is what helps. This trick is useless in public where there’s a chance of losing the grip of your phone; I’ve been using this technique for several years now after a friend of mine in my Uni taught me.
Unlikely. Your per trip cost at peak commuting periods will 10x, so people will probably adopt more bike and other forms of commuting as long as they can use the roads.
BarOn, R. (1997). EQ-i Baron Emotional Quotient Inventory: A Measure of Emotional Intelligence : Technical Manual. Toronto, ON: MHS.
Can we please keep the reddit style hysterics on reddit? I pretty much left reddit to escape the fake political nonsense. And with all due respect, you are doing exactly what you claim cambridge analytica did. You are pushing extreme fear and agenda. But for what end?

> As I browse, my interests are accumulated into basic interest groups, demographic data, and maybe recently visited websites that use tracking.

You are forgetting installing cookies and fingerprinting ( amongst others ) to track across platforms. You are forgetting using that data to target customers with tailored fearmongering news articles to better clickbait.

> Through that, Republican campaigns also access my grandmother's account, with all of her photos, likes, and comments. They use that data to learn her deepest fears.

I hate to break this to you but everyone does this. Obama did this. The democrats did. Hillary's campaign did this.

I love how you excuse news websites when they cause hysteria and panic over nonsense like campus rape crisis and pay gap in male and female sports. Not to mention the hysteria over cambridge analytica. Seems like the news has done far more harm to you than facebook did to your grandmother, assuming your story is legit and not made up.

I recommend you go watch the 13th on netflix to see how news and media can be dangerous. The problem now is that news has access to tons of data about us ( just like facebook ). The biggest difference is that facebook was pretty much "neutral" whereas the news/media are highly biased. Facebook allowed both trump and hillary political ads.
I think this is really a main point and not discussed enough.

I absolutely do not think the average user has an idea about the implications of that.

I have to say Google has been mildly better in that way with their Oauth system but it really struck me one day when signing up for a passive service with my Google account — they for some reason requested unlimited access to read, write/send, and delete my emails from my account. Needless to say I backed away. I work in the field and know what this really means. I still get tripped up.

The average person doesn’t 1) give it the time to consider what it means, they just want it to work 2) even if they read the request they don’t understand what it’s actually saying they are doing(data harvesting) and 3) they have little idea of the scope of implications. “Oh it’s just a stupid farming game” but don’t realize the massive trade and profiling going on behind all of it.

The Facebook fiasco is the first time in recent memory where people have been reminded that their data is being taken and not only that — it’s being traded, bought, sold, compiled, refined and worse.

I watched an old 60 Minutes episode yesterday on Amazon circa 1999. Bezos was showing the reporter the recommendation engine. The reporter was clearly shook when it recommended a short list of books he’d actually bought recently outside of Amazon based on a couple of purchases on the platform. In 1999. They collected about a GB a day then.

I guess people got used to the idea of generally benign profiling, and the questioning stopped after a while.
I find this is mostly a problem with SUVs as their lights are naturally higher.

I nearly always get blinded through my rear mirror when an SUV drives behind me at night. I can't imagine I'm the only one with this problem and it's hard to believe that there are no regulations to fix the problem.
> What evidence do you have for such an optimistic assertion?

Wouldn't the burden of evidence here be on someone saying the opposite (that technological progress will stop)? Technology has continually progressed across human history, exponentially so in the very recent past. Do you think it will stop?
Uncle Sam Is Watching You (2004)
And yet they still build counterflow/bidirectional bike paths. Riding them at night is a permanent slap in the face.
Yes, especially statistics that include diesel vehicles.
Yes and no.

Market prices of securities these days are short term prices, especially with the amount of automated trading and day trading going on. The people with the funds to engage in arbitrage strategies are hoping to make a buck somewhere in the next second to next month.

A long term (as in, decades-long outlook) buy-and-hold investor can still get deals when a stock hits a local low. But the risk is different: in 20 years, will Facebook be more like Microsoft is now? Or more like Enron?

If you're confident it'll continue to grow steadily once the media cycle is over, buying while it's facing a short term scandal could be smart. Or the scandal could turn out to be more than a hiccup, and they could be out of business in a few years. Or they could just slowly fade to nothing over time.

I strongly agree that a diversified portfolio is a better long term strategy than picking stocks. However, if you're already doing that and have a bit of money left over that you're not afraid to lose, there's no harm in placing a few more-specific bets. You just have to remember to treat them like bets and have enough self control not to gamble with the rent money.
See my point I added today bait internet interview skills to @ccajas. It is a whole different skill set to learn and not necessarily taught through traditional schooling but worth the effort so that your skill set can be shown in the best light. Good luck!
I've had various forms of insomnia most of my life. If this could really be turned into a reliable technique or product for people to fall asleep, they would become rich. Recently, my bigger problem is I wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep easily.
Insomnia effects so many people and it increases to effect more people over time. I have found that reducing overall internet and computer usage has greatly increased my ability to fall asleep.
Honestly the way the page is styled reeks of "overcompensation".
I have a simple rule about adding "magic" like that- if you can't make it immediately obvious to the readers of the code just what it is the magic is going to do, don't do it. AOP Java lead me to that rule because of too many obscure annotations that did insane things to help one developer avoid some minor nuisance.