skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucid dreaming is a skill. There's varying levels of experience and control that can be exerted via different methods. It comes naturally to some people, but is very much also a learnable skill (to varying degrees of difficulty for different people).

I spent about a month practicing methods to lucid dream before being able to achieve a few lucid dreams over a couple weeks. It became difficult for me to keep up some of the exercises in order to do so (such as waking up to write down my dreams in my dream journal in the middle of the night would interrupt my wife's sleep). It can be time-consuming for some people as well, as learners benefit from being able to get 7.5+ hours of sleep each night. I still attempt to lucid dream when convenient, but I don't practice every day like I used to.

Great resources to get started with learning lucid dreaming:

- Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. & Howard Rheingold

- https://www.dreamviews.com/
For the record I didn't downvote.

Your comment has raised some interesting questions for me, would true freedom of movement would seem to undermine the traditional nation state and the will of its people?

At the very least it would massively change what it means to belong to a nation, it could largely erase that belonging.

It would be such a different world to live in, national identity is already a tough thing to quantify and reason about.
>January 14

Thanks for not telling anyone sooner.
I'd be interested in experimenting with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies [1][2] as cues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

[2] http://obliquestrategies.ca
As a human, I am fine with being governed by human constructs like private property, the rule of law, nation states, etc.
A lot of sandwiches that I would want on a whim I do not have the groceries for. I almost always have the ingredients for a grilled cheese. Not only that, sandwiches you could buy from delis all over Palo Alto are substantially cheaper that sandwiches from the melt.
Remote positions tend to be more focused on track record, so it might be hard to impress if the applicant don't already have some project in their resume.

Other than that, being able to demonstrate specialized in the skill that you are applying for. If the job asks for Java for instance, make sure that your related expertise is demonstrated.

Non skill related, and really dear to me, is to think outside the box when looking for a job. Don't only apply for the obvious positions in large companies, search and go after less advertised positions that you can be competent in.
Google redirects European searchers to Google.com
I disagree. I'd say that attempts to let end users do their work without 'programming' have succeeded marvelously. We've handled the 50% case, and then the remaining 50%, and repeated this process several times.

When I was a kid, I had to type a valid line of source code to load and launch an application (often two separate lines). Today I can literally touch a picture of it with my finger to do the same thing.

There may always be tasks for which we need someone to write a process description in a Turing-complete language, but even as a programmer, almost all of the non-programming tasks I do today would have required programming 30 years ago.
The other side effect of added regulations is generally that the extraction gets more efficient too in order to maintain higher profits, so it helps stretch out the resource for longer too.
Simplification: When americans and europeans buy chinese products then china has dollars/euro and we have physical goods. Dollars/euros can only be used to invest into usa/european companies or to buy usa/european products.
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Yup. And if you look in the usenet archives back in the mid to late 90s on alt.dreams.lucid you'll find people were building eye movement monitoring glasses that would trigger flashing LEDs even then.
Absolutely agree.
The reason I use iTunes...have to use Itunes...is because:

* I love high quality audio books

* I use a classic iPod

* Audible is really the main game in town.

I think of ditching the iPod and using the Android App, but that makes me a bit sad.

What I'd really like is a Keyboard Kindle with 160GB of storage (I like knowing things are on the device) and some enhanced audiobook features. That's kind of my dream really. Which let's face it is unlikely to turn up soon.
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/current-account
I just want them to fix bugs that have been outstanding for the last year plus. The one that gets me the most is the box that says something about folllowing friends. There’s a close button that closes it but as soon as you go back to the page it shows up again.
Indeed, the original design goal of COBOL was to make professional programmers unnecessary. That rather spectacularly failed to work.
This is a good idea – but impossible.

Google and Facebook have tenthousands of developers. And not just any devs, some of the best in the industry. Google and Facebook have tons of userdata for training ML models.

How do you compete with that?

The only way your projects would ever be able to outcompete Google and Facebook on technology is if you’d somehow get a ton of engineers willing to work for a good cause.

But that doesn’t happen. There’s not enough engineers that would volunteer their time for this. In fact, most engineers either don’t care at all about this stuff, or they drank the kool aid and believe Google and Facebook are doing good.

As long as there’s so many developers that want to work at Facebook, as long as Google has more resources than you, you won’t be able to outcompete them on technology.
This used to be a bigger benefit. Now with Trump's new tax law, the standard deduction has been doubled to $24k, so to make it worthwhile to itemize your taxes, you need to pay at least that much in mortgage interest, which equates to a rather expensive house. The new tax law is a really good thing for renters, not so good for house-buyers.

I'm another one who was burned in the real estate collapse, and have been renting ever since. I was definitely not a trump voter, but I have to say his new tax plan looks like it's going to benefit me greatly.

Another thing I've noticed people haven't mentioned here is the freedom that comes with renting. As with many in the tech industry, I don't normally stay at a single job for 20 years, but instead I end up changing jobs every few years. If I buy a house convenient to work, and then end up having to get a new job that's across town, I either have a horrible commute or I rent out my place and go rent a new one. As a renter, I can just give notice and find a new place in a better location.
You think?
> False. Land isn't a depreciating asset, but according to

To make such a bold refutal will require another source besides what the U.S. tax law says, because US tax law classifications aren't the same thing as market classifications. There are other reasons at play why tax law considers an asset to be of a certain type/category.

I am glad you qualified. Like you said it depends. If you live in downward trending market in a city/town/state where jobs are leaving and aren't keeping your house updated, yes you have a depreciating asset. If you bought in early next to a brand new man-made lake on the outskirts of a major metropolis, you could build a shed and make out like a bandit once the market surges. Most cases fall somewhere in between, on average, keeps up with inflation (the article cites Yale research in this regard). By keeping up with inflation, that by definition makes it not depreciating.

Your point about deduction that is how our economy works. The government pushes you into home ownership. Our economy is based on incentivizing debt. Path of least resistance. Work with your economy, not against it. It isn't hard to see this.
Who likes iTunes?
The issue is that Google fails to vet those extensions. At all. Google has decided it is better to serve malware and blame the user than invest a modicum of expense on scrutinizing code that has the capability to capture all of a user's personal data.

It's reckless and it's irresponsible. And it's unique to Google.

EDIT: Also, re: desktop computers, if you check out my Reddit comments, you'll find I've been actively advocating for developers to support UWP sandboxing on Windows, and mostly telling off their excuses why their apps need full system access.
Would also need to distinguish between fake and parody too. For organizations like The Onion, will they create 'deep-fake' parody videos. Will they be allowed to?

Since they can create parody news and images, I'm inclined to believe yes.
Oh I didn’t realize those gains were leverage adjusted. But shouldn’t you compare to trading on margin to be apples to apples?
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Because there are very specific reasons to be suspicious of Fox or WSJ articles and if this anti-Google article had appeared in the NYT it would have been better and free of suspicion.

Anti-Tesla articles are another example of places to be suspicious of the source because a) day traders trying to short the stock have deliberately tried to spread damaging information and b) fossil fuel companies and regular car manufacturers have a vested interest.

That’s not to say all anti-Tesla articles are wrong, just one should be careful that you aren’t being a rube to propaganda.

Also, Facebook wasn’t dinged for collecting data, they were dinged for allowing a third party to scrape it.

The people using Facebook are quite aware of all of the stuff they’re telling FB interests, likes, groups they join, what they don’t want is third parties who shouldn’t know, to know.

I don’t care that Facebook knows what articles I liked. But I don’t want Cambridge Analytica to know in an individually identifiable manner.
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iTunes has the single worst UI of any app, of any kind, I have used in the last 20 years. The page flow makes no sense. I can never remember how to get to certain pages, or out of certain pages. There is no flow. Important functions are buried where I least expect. I can't use it without a search engine handy, and there is no excuse for this.

Worse, it is 100% guaranteed that if I use it across devices, then eventually my library will be destroyed on one of those devices, because they've made syncing about as intuitive as git.

The 'normies' in my family also cannot figure out how to use it effectively, at all, and for once I can't help them. Apple must have no incentive whatsoever to fix any of this.
It is true that most of my SQL goes through ORMs. However my most complicated SQL is always constructed by hand. Furthermore note the point about how often applications get rewritten against the same database. You should not assume that future code will use the same ORM that you are using now.
i find it interesting that no one points out how much data AT&T and Verizon have collected ... they know the location of your phone, which cell tower you are connected to, which stores you've been in and when, who you've called, who has called you, all of which can be cross referenced ... and there is no reason to think they don't where the IP they supplied you has been, to which websites you've visited, etc ... same with Comcast for broadband ... and the GOP last year repealed what privacy was in place on this ... if you combine that with the media properties they own, they also get a pretty good picture, across android, iOS and your desktop, of what a person does ... they also have payment data, a credit profile, possibly health info, possibly data on your kids, etc,

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-trump/trump-...
A lead's email address says a lot about their quality
Excel pivot table data leak leads to £120k fine for London council
Wine + Winamp. :D
Isn't this what sanic was supposed to be?

https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
I'm not sure why you discount charging during the day. Most EVs don't empty their battery by 6pm and require a full charge at 8am.
I think this is an incredibly valuable skill, but it's one that is sometimes looked down upon because many people have negative emotions around "being sold to". Good sales is really about learning to ask the right questions at the right time, which is something that engineers should in general learn to be good at anyway.
I use BitDefender, which also has various web privacy features and a VPN.

However it interacts annoyingly with RStudio despite being told repeatedly to trust it.
As cost goes down it becomes more accessible. Take a fake video of the president. People are likely to be willing to buy the explanation someone went through the trouble of hiring an actor and makeup specialist to make such a fake video. But a fake video of a school board member? Does anyone really have the resources to spend all the money needed to hire a look alike and make a video? Would people be more willing to think like that and assume the video is true? I think so.

Apps that can create realistic fake videos will get better and cheaper, meaning that increasing numbers of people will be able to create more convincing fake videos. At least for a while the technology will outpace the social awareness, and this gap is where we will see problems. Imagine a new form of cyber bullying that relied of using a fake app.
Well MacOS (an Windows) have built-in ones.
MacOS has XProtect between other things like app signing.

Also note that for Spectre and Meltdown 3rd party antivir had kernel patches delayed as they can become sort of an issue.
I do believe that the majority of coding will be replaced by AI or some automated process requiring some inputs and expected results to "code" an application. However, this article reads like an advertisement, and it fails to go deeper into the topic at hand, unfortunately.
Really? I have. In some circles (e.g., the IETF), i18n is an ancient acronym. People who've worked on operating systems (e.g., OS X, Solaris, RHEL, whatever) have to deal with L10N (localization). G11N (globalization) is I18N + L10N.

And then there's a11y: accessibility. This is all about making user interfaces accessible for people with low or no vision, low or no hearing, difficulty typing, and so on.

There are generally applicable laws requiring G11N and A11Y, and these fall heavily on OS vendors, which is why people who've worked on OSes tend to know these acronyms.

I18N -> dealing with Unicode in general, codeset conversions, font issues, ...

L10N -> dealing with translating system/application messages to the users' preferred languages (and how to even know they preferences) (think locales)

G11N -> I18N and L10N.

Localization is damned difficult. There's all sort of little bothersome things, like how to format numbers (which varies quite a lot) and dates (can't we all just use ISO-8601?!). And translating printf-like format strings is often non-trivial, especially when the coder doesn't stop to think about just how hard they might be to a translator as they write their code.
Alibaba Adds Embedded CPU Core Designer – EE Times
Shift-M podcast with James Bach (about testing and management)
Everyone?
Foobar for interface, beats[http://beets.io/] for library organization. It's the perfect combination for any tech-savvy Windows user.
ISPs present a tiny footprint compared to the global tech behemoths (they're regional), and they already actually are significantly regulated even with the loosening of various restrictions over the past year or so. Contrary to popular belief, ISPs can't sell your browsing history legally, whereas tech companies generally can.
As time passed I found myself using Apple apps less and less.

They just go so ridiculously bad: form over function, buggy software, worse UI and features compared to competitors.
>>> The GDPR is a directive- it doesn't need to be passed into national law.

>> Not true, it's not optional.

Actually, I was wrong. The GDPR is not a directive, it's a regulation (the R in the name is for "Regulation"). As such it requires no national legislation to be passed and is immediately applicable in all member states:

A regulation is a legal act of the European Union[1] that becomes immediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously.[2][3] Regulations can be distinguished from directives which, at least in principle, need to be transposed into national law. Regulations can be adopted by means of a variety of legislative procedures depending on their subject matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)

So it seems like the conspiracy theory is dead in the water. The local governments can't legislate as they wish and the local judges can't interpret as they want. I hope we're all happy now that justice won't be perverted?

>> I don't know, it's not my "conspiracy theory". I'm just talking about the inner workings of the EU and have said that not every EU country is pristine clean. But I suppose you could add some of the Baltic states, Romania, Hungary and maybe Poland (if they continue their way down with PiS). We will have to see what happens in Slovakia, for a while it looked really bad but now it seems like they're back on track. In the Czech Republic, the German/Austrian corporate owners wouldn't allow it.

OK, it's not your conspiracy theory- but all this is wild speculation and it is your wild speculation. There is absolutely no reason why you would expect the countries you list to do the kind of things you say they would. And these are not the "inner workings of the EU". It's all just fantasies.
Been on Spotify family plan for years. Never touch music files anymore. I see no point to iTunes anymore.
Even if people aren’t targeting Macs, if you comms with people using other OSes, it’s good citizenship to ensure your machine is not a host vector.
One of the main purposes of the GDPR is link rot.

For your old sins to be forgotten, just like we used to be able to before perfect computer memories came into being.
Soft skills are the way I found that stands out. Being an engineer there is still the belief that engineers are ass holes and treat others poorly. Being able to explain complex topics and doing so in a way that doesn't come off like a jerk has been the most helpful. Always be positive and provide stakeholders with options with your recommendation and the reasons why.
Having owned a 2500 sq ft home on 0.25 acres, honestly 12k is totally within the realm of reason. A roof may last for 30 years, but odds are the home you are in has a roof that needs replacing sooner than that, so you only have 5-10 years to save for its replacement.

Also don't forget that the previous tenant let his kids shoot BBs at the siding, so the water has been leaking in causing it to wear faster and faster, your wife doesn't like how it looks like grandma's house, and for some reason the toilet in the master bath takes 10 minutes to refill the tank and it drives you nuts just often enough that you seriously consider ripping out the requisite walls just to re-run the old copper piping.

Oh and when you bought this home, did you already happen to have a lawn mower, edger, fertilizer spreader, and such? Are you planning on utilizing that extra space to build a raised garden and then realize half-way through that if you don't install an automated drip system you'll have sunk all those costs into a garden that dies the moment you leave on a 7-day family vacation?

Oh yea and the last owner definitely was heavy handed with the salt on the driveway, and you don't need to replace it now, but better put $100 a month into a savings fund for the inevitable replacement 5 years from now.

Not to mention that the cement that was poured to make the back porch has re-leveled itself at a 4 degree angle and when you host guests they bump the picnic table such that it always wobbles and spills everyone's drinks. Fortunately you don't have to excavate it and re-pour because there now exist companies that use advanced machinery to just backfill in extra concrete to level the pads, but it still is going to put you out $2k.

/end rant

Needless to say, as I look at our next home, I am realizing there is this delightful sweet-spot between home ownership and renting an apartment: townhomes in master-planned communities. The HOA covers building _and_ yard maintenance, but you have full creative power over the inside. No need to store shovels and lawn mowers, and your weekends are free to walk the park that is literally across the street (I'm looking at you, Daybreak, in South Jordan UT). Oh and the single-car garage isn't a big deal because transit is built straight to the community, and you are within walking distance to convenience stores and the pub.

It's basically "a house" with all the negative parts taken care of by paying the HOA who can deal with the economies of scale, making the cost very worth it if you are an engineer with a little bit of cash to spare each month.
Have one but never needed it so far - or it didn't catch the virii ;)

I use bitdefender at least it's quite unobtrusive on mac (sick of the windows version!).
Sophos is free and afaik not too bad if you need one: https://home.sophos.com/free-mac-antivirus

Further I use:
- https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html
- https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html
- https://objective-see.com/products/blockblock.html

and Little Snitch
- https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

and Firefox with
- https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
- https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Hope that keeps the pest away ;)
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> 'if there's a sysadmin, the system is broken.'

Am sysadmin, is this best practice or just us being reciprocally lazy again?

> It may very well be the case that they are creating a new world that will be marginalized and outcompeted by incumbent systems and organizations, but that's how I understand what's 'actually going on'.

I keep telling people exactly this! Just because X makes sense or is the best doesn't mean the crowd will agree with it's application. See also all politics ever as an example. I feel like I can say it because I identify as one but, It's just another libertarian fantasy.
It's a brokerage firm with some banking features. Brokerage firms understand that investors have options on where to take their money, whereas banks like Wells Fargo often seem to forget that.
Exactly.

In the lean startup world, people talk about early products in "painkiller vs vitamin" terms. If you're going to build a new kind of business, you want a product that people are desperate to have. If it's a nice-to-have, it's much harder to find enough early adopters to build a sustainable business. (Not impossible, but it takes a lot more capital and is much riskier.)

Juicero was literally a vitamin play. Nobody needs it, but some people like it. Coffee, on the other hand contains an addictive stimulant that 60+% of Americans consume every day. People need their morning coffee, and will literally develop headaches if they don't have it often enough.

Juicero=Nespresso is one of those comparisons that only makes sense if you don't think about the details. Sure, it's got some surface plausibility, but only if you don't think much about the details.
I used to have an iPod too, but the hard-drive eventually gave out.

What I did was get a dedicated android device for audible/music. One of those that looks like a mobile but doesn't have a sim card. A lot of people comment on how I could simply be using my phone instead, but you get a surprising amount of battery life out of a device that doesn't have cellphone, wifi or bluetooth active. And as a bonus, unlike my iPod I can simply flip on the wifi temporarily to sync up instead of having to plug into my computer.
Yeah one flaw with the OP is that you can’t compare against average housing returns. Buying a house or condo in Silicon Valley or New York is going to out perform the average due to supply, demand, and geography.

The OP is essentially really saying buy a total stock market fund instead of REIT, which isn’t that controversial.