skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are posts by Sam Altman and Paul Graham upvoted unconditionally? I know, it's yc domain but is everything they write so good that it always require an upvote or is it because they are the bosses? Maybe I don't understand something about news.ycombinator.com, a.k.a. hacker news or I joined too late - was it originally posts only for yc funded startups and it eventually became general techie/science news and thus acquired a lot of people who are yc startups?
ISPs should be happy with their status as utilities providers.
ZFS has distribution via zfs send subcommand.
GitHub turns 10
I was kind of surprised. My impression was that there was usually at least one highly voted comment stating (essentially), "Any regulation will harm startups, so there should be no regulation."

Admittedly, there are other, pro viewpoints expressed, but my takeaway is that there's a sizable libertarian contingent which would rather absolutely have freedom in action than freedom in opportunity.

Which seems... short-sighted.
Apple says its global facilities are now powered by 100-percent clean energy
> Working for FB itself during this controversy won't tarnish your resume anyway

Depends on what you’re doing. I wouldn’t want a former Facebook employee near anything remotely customer data related, or anything with political or PR sensitivity.
I wouldn’t touch TS until I had an understanding of JS. The many libraries without typings will just make things confusing IMO.
"Oh dear how sad" hand back your licence then :-)
I suggest completely backing out the code in question and using a FreeBSD or an illumos based system like SmartOS. That's what I suggest. metadata are not files so they have no business going into lost+found.
So long as you acknowledge that's an intuitive opinion on your part, sure.

I'd be perfectly happy to see regulation around Facebook and Google's use of data they've ALREADY COLLECTED under agreement.

An ISP is looking to manipulate willy-nilly (that is, in whichever direction the financial outlook looks best from their perspective). This is more concerning to me for what should be obvious reason.

I don't have a Facebook, and don't use Google except for email and occasionally.

ISPs action impact all users. Facebook and Google mostly impacts the idiots that signed up with them.
One of rlogin's authentication methods is to have a list of hosts and usernames that are allowed to log in. If you're on the list, you're in. How does it know you're actually using that username? Well, it asks your host, which would definitely never lie.
Got it. I was responding specifically to "Why not just do things you enjoy, at a pace that you enjoy?"

I think a really good answer to that is in order to help other people as much as possible. Working on things that are hard or unpleasant or even don't necessarily line up with a specific long term goal in a way you can anticipate will often lead to happiness if it impacts other people positively.
> which they accepted

That's not great.
> The Church of Productivity strikes me as a very American kind of religion.

It's our protestant roots and the very Calvinist view of success, really. There's a reason they call it the Protestant Work Ethic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
Your Facebook data is only worth $5.20 on the dark web
SMS-based 2FA should be avoided as much as possible, since there are many ways to take over a phone number and get a hold of the code. Passwords, while being a huge hassle, is probably going to be the defacto authentication mechanism for sites and services (unfortunately). Maybe some sort of distributed PKI authentication + 2FA combo would be an interesting solution, but the problem would be adoption.
My wife and I got a Keetsa four years ago and it is phenomenal--we get amazing sleep at less than half cost of Sam's mattress: https://shop.keetsa.com/collections/mattresses/products/tea-...
> The United States spent $20 billion for air conditioning during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

What does that have to do with the discussion at hand? I am struggling to see the relevance.
So you mean a revolver or a shotgun that can be loaded only one bullet at a time?
And has a limited carrying capacity?

Relatively trivial to modify. Germans did exactly that to Mauser bolt action rifles during WW2 with very little hardware.
It's not like repair shops are doing this to cut corners and costs or cheap out. It's simply impossible to source the exact replacement chips for recent iPhones, Apple doesn't sell them, in fact they probably ask their chip manufacturers for exclusivity - and at the scale of Apple orders, manufacturers are happy to do whatever.
I don't know, have they?

You're asking questions like you're writing headlines for a clickbait rag.
The thing is consultants are not "regular jobs". Developing with only consultants is very unusual, expensive, and consultants are the minority everywhere i have ever looked. Employers are not declaring employees to be consultants to safe money or to be able to fire them more easily. (At last on a large scale.)
It's just different article aimed at a different audience, it's not in any way 'blogspam'.
More propaganda for working long hours coming from a VC. Surprise!

"""
You have to both pick the right problem and do the work. There aren’t many shortcuts. If you’re going to do something really important, you are very likely going to work both smart and hard. The biggest prizes are heavily competed for. This isn’t true in every field (there are great mathematicians who never spend that many hours a week working) but it is in most.
"""

"Work both hard and smart" is pretty much always code for "I want to exploit your work". It's bullshit.

Real productivity comes from working towards goals, yes, but then it comes from avoiding unnecessary work, not from working hard (https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/). There's no virtue in inherent effort. "Work hard" is a scam from people who are playing the numbers on your startup, where they have 10 other investments and they don't care if you burn out.

Longer version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/09/18/when-startups-pay-le...
For some reason, those of us in the US measure productivity in terms of "value created for our employer" or "value created for the business". That doesn't make any sense. You need to measure productivity in terms of what matters to you, which includes time with your kids, spirituality, and such. The amount of value you create for your employer probably shouldn't get much weight.
The whole of the tech industry is an ethical concern.
The problem isn't decentralization. It's about concentration of power. In my opinion.
If it's a one time throwaway tool, then it doesn't need lost+found!
Please don't be flippant. You know the what we mean here: the perception that those who work at Facebook are lacking in ethics or moral fiber. This isn't about politics.
The problem here is that Apple leaves third parties in the dark. A reasonable, open, spec and stance on more complex repairs would shift the responsibility to the repair company.
I agree. Thanks for your help!
They also now are part of the CNI - so you play by the rules or you don't get to play at all.

Possibly google fb et all ought to start lobbying for LLU and for full competion in the local loop.
I like the premise, but at $3000/month it'd be hard to live in SF (which is a requirement). More importantly though, it appears the goal is to lock-in startups, then as they scale you make more money.

For Dark, this makes total sense and is a good business model, for a new startup - it seems like an unnecessary risk.
Sure, but 1.8 is oddly specific.
In addition to morning light (works great!) eliminating evening blue light has hugely improved my sleep.

I use these orange glasses
https://www.amazon.com/Uvex-Blocking-Computer-SCT-Orange-S19...

I don't wear them every evening, but whenever I need to sleep or am having sleep troubles, it solves the problem. Great for traveling too, because you can start moving your circadian clock during the flight. You can still use the phone/computer and not worry about avoiding light.

I also use flux, nightshift, and Philips hue lights (set to orange at night) so that I can set and forget it. The glasses are the place to start though. They block all blue light and are super cheap, portable, and simple to try.
How quickly a problem is understood and fixed has nothing whatsoever to do with open source. That is a fallacy.
It appears to be a combination of "The Coming of Tuor to Gondolin" found in "Unfinished Tales" and "The Fall of Gondolin" found in "The Book of Lost Tales 2" [1]. The first covers Tuor's journey from Dor-Lomin to Gondolin in detail but stops there (Christopher Tolkien called it "one of the saddest facts in the whole history of incompletion"). The second covers the fall of the city itself in great detail. I read the two in that order recently and enjoyed the account immensely; it's on the order of Lord of the Rings in terms of a compelling story, grandeur and beauty.

[1] https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/04/the-fall-of-gondolin-...
Because of the flooding the harvest was very consistent every year. And taxes and purchases were therefore very consistent. This provides a set of records based on the solar calendar, not subject to the whims of changing rulers.
I wonder if it could be done where the service acts essentially as a bank but does not use fractional reserve policies. So a user A adds $100 to their account. We keep a log and add that $100 to our "real" bank account. User A then pays User B $0.01. So we keep it in our ledger that $99.99 is for User A and $0.01 is for User B. But we don't make any actual bank transactions until a withdrawal request happens. There is probably some sort of regulation around this but maybe we do it like SecondLife with Lindens and then people can cash out their Lindens later.
Is LOTR universe known to be consistent? Are there glitches in chronologies, genealogies , geography, etc...? Is there a (graph) dB of LOTR facts?
My jaw opened he mentioned it so casually. At the same time I'm not surprised. The news is definitely that he said it not that he does it.
Emergency Alert Siren System Vulnerability
> Let me know when you route around your ISP.

Right now?

I can VPN to Switzerland. And I can use a TLS encrypted channel to most of the Internet.

Until ISPs start banning / slow laning encryption or mandating ISP-controlled computers, hostile network links are a solved problem.
Showing how much you can get away with relatively minor repercussions.
To me, sleeping pills sounds more controversial than a little bit of cannabis.
It's not even on the same planet.

In JS you have a very small number of types, keywords and a ridiculously small stdlib.

I'm not sure what to make of your comment.
Ha. I had the pleasure(?) of calling Dish Network customer support a week ago. They asked for a security code. I gave them the number I had recently used successfully. Nope, that's wrong. I admitted I had no idea, since that was the code I used when I had to call them last summer.

So the customer support rep gave it to me! Judging by the code he told me, my wife had to have changed it at least 10 years ago (it was the name of her dead horse) and she had no recollection of doing so.

IOW, Dish had at least two different security codes under my account and they had no problem simply giving one out to someone on the phone who claims to be me. At least it actually was, in this case.
Thank you Sam! I really enjoyed your essay, especially this theme you repeated:

> Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.

If anyone has pointers on how they found the right thing to work on, I’m sure that would help a lot of people.

I can add my anecdote, which is seeing patterns of repetitive, unfulfilling work being done, and inventing ways to simplify them for the goal of reducing suffering. Also, not going solo and exploring what/who inspires you. For instance, I find Bret Victor’s work very inspiring.
I disagree. SE most certainly does have ethical consequences. Ethics and character are everything and too many technology people believe it doesn't even matter at all!

It's the same consequences as when the FBI or CIA employees go rogue and undermine our nation. It may not hurt their careers, but somewhere down the line some angry peasants might just shoot them in the face.
That's not exactly my recollection from the book. I believe they thought closely about how the bomb was needed to end the war in Europe as quickly as possible.

What they failed to do was reevaluate the project after the Allies won the war in Europe. It was after Hiroshima they said, "oh, we fucked up." (to parapahrase)
After tax, $3000/month will get you a closet in a chinese restaurant in SF
> there are plenty of sociopaths

I think that's too strong of a word. It doesn't take a "sociopath" for a company to get to a bad place; merely the efforts of many engineers each doing something slightly immoral. Hopefully there are less of these now that they see what can happen to a company where such engineers work.
I'm claiming that it's not clear to me whether we can control it or not.

This is similar to having a very advanced bioengineering technology, where you could instantly change anything about your body. Would you make yourself smarter? Sure. Would you change who you are (e.g. turned off your instincts/desires)? Not so sure.
Presumably the 3k/month would supplement your already existing funding or make it easier to achieve ramen profitability. You wouldn't want to rely on the 3k alone.
What if someone's already downloaded email from that server, or forwarded it on to their friends? Seems absurd. Anyone can demand anything. You just tell them it can't be done.
I don't see why he doesn't use first-generation anti-histamines instead. They are not sleeping pills and not controversial, they just make you sleepy.
The optimal strategy for this seems to be staying airborne by staying roughly level using left and right arrow to adjust your pitch between jumps
This is something that I'm not sure how I feel about in general. I'm not really interested in learning any particular framework (because there seem to be about a billion and the landscape changes every day), but then again re-inventing the wheel over and over is never fun, even if learning something new. I'm hoping that something like React might be quite instructive to use and study in looking at its design choices and API structure - and also to learn _why_ someone might want to use it and what the problems are in JS/Front end development that it's there to solve...
The title should probably reflect the Hackernoon title and say "trading" instead of "arbitraging". According to the article, although the arbitrage was also profitable, most of the money came from buying particular CryptoKitties early in the craze as an investment.
Google "intermittent fasting studies" and you'll find plenty of information.

Of course, if you're an endurance athlete its probably bad to skip breakfast before a race or big training regimen.

I'm as skeptical of fad diets as anyone, but it seems like science is starting to back-up the notion that some fasting is good for weight loss (lower calories, kick-starts ketosis) and brain function.

And it seems to line up with common sense, considering our bodies evolved for thousands of years of food scarcity.
Apple Now Runs on 100% Green Energy, and Here’s How It Got There
What is the policy on working weeknights?
What if you could be more productive and happy at the same time?

I do think it's not good to have a culture where productivity is the end goal of everything. Yet I also think it's not good to have a culture where the first time the word "productivity" is mentioned, the reaction is repulsion (I appreciate at least your honesty in admitting you didn't read the article).

Just like the drive to work-death represents the worst part of the American stereotype, the repulsion against anything that produces work or economic value to me, represents the worse of the European stereotype (or perhaps in Thiel's terms, indefinite pessimism stereotype).

Can we admit that work isn't the end goal of society, while at the same time admitting that getting more work done in less time is a good thing?

Also, on a meta-front, shouldn't we discuss which of Sam's tips work, which don't, and which one produces a lot of unhappiness as a side effect? To me that would be more interesting.
I'm currently learning Japanese, and that is not a well defined goal IMHO. How do you "learn computers"?

Alternate ideas..

I want to be able to:

* Ask for directions in Japanese

* Tell a joke in Japanese

* Write a letter congratulating someone on their new job

* Order food in a Japanese restaurant

* Hold a conversation in Japanese about topic X - (My life, my hobbies, the weather, my recent vacation, etc)

* Watch a Japanese movie w/o subtitles

etc..

Having a specific real-world goal like that makes it WAY easier than dealing with word lists and grammar rules, and trying to 'synthesize an sentence based on rules in your head'. I found the structured book based approach to be very boring. We all learn differently of course, so you may have success doing it either way.
Does Sam Altman have kids and/or partner he lives with (that did not yet leave him due to lack of attention, spending time together) ? Just trying to find out whether the tips/lifestyle is in any way comparable to a typical situation of a 30+ yo.
There may be something you want to make that cannot be made that way. This is because understanding (and knowledge) decay over time, so if what you want to achieve requires a large amount of understanding, you have to work quickly. Additionally, if you want to do something very creative, then you have to fight against distraction and mistake (which I believe is absolutely necessary for real creativity).

Also, I've found that sometimes pushing yourself to a point of (mental) pain can actually be quite enlightening. It's admittedly rare (say, 1 in 10) but quite valuable for reasons of empathy but also understanding pain, which is a prerequisite for making a large class of really useful things.
Posix me harder [nsfw]
I can't wait until Sam "gets" meditation. It will be fun to watch how these tips and preferences change. It's a privilege for us to watch the thoughts of an individual destined for enlightenment as they do the work.
Found a good series the other day on youtube about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8tK1LpLS8&list=PLv0jwu7G_D...

The same channel also has some nice videos on CDs and VHS.
This already happens - it's called spear phishing. Instead of wasting time with multiple users, the attacker picks a high-value target. For example, if you can get one admin, it's game over.
Although I never got an explanation, their managers were probably selling their employees to multiple projects. I've heard that this happens from people working there.

Offshore developers from a body-shopping company who are shopped to multiple customers is common. I've seen it happen multiple times in different countries.

I have over a decade of experience trying to make off-shore development work with several off-shoring companies, one of which was a wholly owned subsidiary (to avoid the various overbilling strategies). I've never been convinced it is worth it overall. The semi-irrational insistence on off-shoring was actually one of the primary reasons I quit my last job.
OP here. Exactly, we're helping out, not funding you :) We're hoping there are some folks already in SF where we can help stretch their runway a little bit.
Sequoia: OpenPGP implemented in Rust
Can we get some more info on what exactly "Dark Lang" is? A Google search yields absolutely nothing.

Definitely sounds interesting though. I have a lot of ideas, and would jump at the chance to cut my salary in half in exchange for total freedom to pursue them.
I also used to work in defense, and thankfully not on weapons systems. I would like to point out some mild hilarity in your comment though:

Engineer used to (hundreds of years ago) literally mean someone who worked on designing weapons of war and/or defensive structures. How times have changed, hah.
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I have a lot of respect for someone who chooses to not work at a place because that place is doing bad things.

There are so many things that go into that decision, how "important" is it to be employed, how "bad" is the business behavior, how "costly" to a reputation is it to leave or to stay. It is the kind of question that puts a persons character and self image on trial, and in my experience few people emerge on the other side unchanged.

Faulkner said, "... the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat." I didn't really understand what he was talking about at the time. This was one of my High School English teacher's favorite quotes. But in the late 90's I met people who were being ripped apart by working at a dot.com company, knowing it was all smoke and mirrors, but staying to that they could vest their stock and sell it before the rest of the world figured it out. Being in a position where your personal wealth will benefit because you are participating in, although not directly responsible for, a fraud that is being perpetuated on the investors. How tainted is that silver?

A couple of years ago I was having lunch with an ex-Googler who was coming to grips with their loss of innocence. They had worked in AdWords and were part of a group that was increasing the average 'spend' of an AdWords customer with targeted messaging that was designed to appeal to their use of the system. This person had recognized that the goal of the program was to essentially "trick" the customer into spending more money when all the statistics said that doing so would not give them a commensurate growth in business or traffic. And as bad as they felt about participating, they continued to do so as the program manager stressed that nobody was "forcing" them to spend more money, just offering them a way to think about where they would "want" to spend more. This person was dealing with the realization that a younger version of themselves would be disgusted with the older version of themselves for "giving in."

It seems that people will talk about honor, character, and integrity in the abstract with one set of views and then find their real character (or lack thereof) when confronted with a test of their values.
Here are some reasons why science fiction set in the near future is terrifying
I was talking more about the idea of a lost+found directory. Brian suggested that we make it ‘.zfs/lost+found‘, which might be what we do. I am leaning toward extending scrub to add the function when a flag for an erratum check is passed. That implies that the tool would be a part of the driver so that it can be done online for minimal downtime.
Nitpick nitpick: margin of error can be either absolute or relative.
These coin/porfolio trackers are a privacy nightmare. You're basically telling some stranger your detailed crypto finances, and it's unknown how your data may be used.

One of the golden rules in crypto is to never disclose your holdings to anyone on the internet, yet people are using these apps without a second thought!
Anybody know of any other ways to get aws credits? I'm not willing to give up the benefits of an LLC, and I can deal with setting up my own bank account. But the aws credits and initial accounting help would be really nice.
Thanks, I spend all writing SQL. I have always found the prospect of setting up JavaScript development environment daunting. First and only time I tried to Node something went wrong in my setup and I spent days trying to figure out the issue. I didn't get far with both Node and JavaScript. I suppose my only issue is time.