skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're a practicing Christian, I don't know many, can you indulge my curiosity? Do you believe in the literal truth of the bible, creationism, the big bang? I am a scientist and I doubt I'd ever be convinced to follow a religion whose followers believe in some stories and myths that are essentially anti-scientific. I don't mean to be harsh or barbed, I'm just saying I'd view the book as a mythological artifact from 2000 years ago, and not set of morals for viewing the world, especially when that set of morals includes stoning adulterers or not wearing a diverse set of fabrics in my clothes. Maybe it's possible to pick and choose things like be kind to others, golden rule, don't focus on possessions and wealth, focus on making good. But how is that exclusive to the Christian faith? To me, I find those moral goods very easy to employ with absolutely no faith in the less credible activities going on in the bible.

I hope this a not mean response, I just view the Bible as an inherently different document than most Christians, I think, and I want to establish dialogue outside of my little bubble.
My point is that abstracting practical human evil to an "ism" removes responsibility from the actors who commit the evil.
Polanyi as a thinker isn't frankly particularly imaginative or interesting: for someone who read British economic history, it appears he missed Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments, political liberalism, and the rise of a parliamentary labour movement in England (as opposed to a revolutionary party).

If Polanyi had considered the above he wouldn't have come to the conclusion that the two possibilities are either socialism or fascism.

The prescriptions - social welfare, etc - at the end of the article are known. The question is why they haven't been implemented in the US (they have in most other Western counties to various degrees).

I address other points in another comment below.
Siri, Alexa, Cortana and the Command of Women's Voices
This is akin to the argument that communism didn't kill millions because it wasn't really communism. The commingling of government and business is how capitalism plays out in practice, it is an inevitable result of ostensibly "laissez-faire" economics.
Ryan Holiday on Conspiracy, Gawker, and the Hulk Hogan Trial
> A government that is not large enough to upset an even playing field will also not be large enough to

...effectively enforce the system of property rights which is the foundation of capitalism, since the latter is an example of the former.
nice but irrelevant, this is not reddit. flagged
Of course we could have sped up the rate of innovation with more investment but would have been economically viable. I’m specifically referring to investment by venture capital and the positive returns that will be generated over the next decade.
Agreed; it seems likely that the axiom system of the typical pro-life defender[0] is closer to "It's always wrong to end an innocent life"; this requires the inclusion of a set of axioms defining innocence (and thus probably invoking some combination of free will, and an absolute moral axis. A convenient framework for this includes a soul). This way you preserve the ability to defend yourself, to take the life of an enemy soldier, etc, while still being able to justify a pro-life position. It also allows for the death sentence for murderers.

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0. there are, of course, different sets of axioms that arrive at superficially similar conclusions. For example, the category of pacifist that believes that any loss of life is not justifiable; this kind of person will reject both abortion and ownership of weapons, war, etc.
I assume you were downvoted thinking you are "marketing" your app "without context", like SPAM

Don't be discouraged. I checked out your site (and github)
Looks nice.
I'll use the tool next time I need remote collaboration

Keep up the good work.
Made some good points.
I don't know if the need to have the entire program written out is most important.

The best candidates I've hired show aptitude to ask the right questions and, in return, ask probing questions about what led to our decisions, have we thought of [x], this is how [x] might work, what about [y] competitor or space within our industry, etc...

The most memorable interviews I've come out of / been a part of are the ones in which the candidate leaves me thinking or scratching my head about why we're doing what we're doing and whether they'd be a great fit to help us achieve our goals.

This is all from a product management perspective so might not be the same across the board.
"Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" G. I. Gurdjieff

This is not an easy book. It's not really a book in the traditional sense. It was written: "To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world."

If you try it and it doesn't speak to you, put it aside.

(Look for older editions, the new ones have begun to be edited.)
Uses this: https://usesthis.com
is a cool site to check out other people's setups and see their workflows, not necessarily WFH but provides cool perspective.
It's great to work on your own, but not from your house. The ideal setup is to have a small office 10 minutes walk from home. When you're at the office, you only do work. If you find yourself being unproductive for 15 minutes, leave the office and go for a walk, or back home. That way you train your brain to associate one environment with working, and it becomes easier to avoid distractions.
You need buy in, understanding and ground rules with family members. When I'm working from home and my office door is shut, they aren't allowed to come in or bug me. It's your best way to communicate with family, no interruptions allowed mode is turned on. Being physically present but unable to engage with you is really hard for kids to understand. With some practise they will start to get it.

I've worked in a basement office before and I highly suggest you don't unless it's a full walk out with lots of large windows. The mood between being in a basement office (underground) and ground/above ground floor is very different and takes a toll long term. I personally found I would never do basement again.
In San Francisco, my anecdotal observation was that they’re ridden on sidewalks at least as often as bike lanes or roads. That said, in my limited time there, I didn’t see anyone behaving particularly dangerously around pedestrians though I’m sure it happens.
The one that comes to mind above all else for me is the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" written by the great Persian mathematician, philosopher, polymath Khayyam in the 11'th century. His perspectives on life and death ever so eloquently painted in words are amazing!! Just wish I could read the original Persian version as I'm sure much is lost in translation.
Why would they need a specially designed screen? I would guess that they're looking at what's on offer from various vendors and comparing them to see what works, right?
They have a bit of speculation, but if you seek to introspect and challenge your convictions, they're excellent books. 'Sapiens' specially.
Really cool project idea. The post submission title seems kind of click-baity though.
Because it's mostly self advertising, not an attempt to really solve someone's problem?
When Teens Cyberbully Themselves
I second this - on both books.
That's a really interesting project. Are there any plans to incorporate more human readable addresses? I can see how this could be misused by forking a financial institution website and imperceptibly change one letter.
Mea culpa, it indeed is SAG. We typically refer it as Alliance Gateway Server during investigations.
Not clicking it doesn't stop them from using cookies/tracking you. The box is simply to inform you that they ARE doing it, whether you like it or not.
Nothing. Why are you asking this here?
I agree with the comment on zero overlap currently. However, I look at it more like google and android. Perhaps fb feels that it is better to have some voice in the crypto/blockchain ecosystem than none.
Commodore: The Final Years
Finally we can all get locked-in into vendors with the illusion of being able to freely trade these tokens on exchanges for enourmous fees! So much better than any government-issued fiat currency that is only accepted everywhere.

Get payed in Facebook tokens, exchange for Walmart tokens, exchange for Ford tokens, exchange for AT&T tokens - just to be free from the FED! So easy and decentralized.
Thank you man!
> Nobody needs a social network anymore

Nobody needs another Facebook or Twitter.

The future of humans communicating, however, is wide open. Anything that succeeds on Blockstack will not be a clone of something that already exists, but rather something novel, even something that could only exist on the platform.

I've said it before, but the closest thing to the future of social networking that I've seen is Slack: Right now, outside of its marketed purpose, it's mostly used as an extension of existing online communities or as a way for people to stay in touch after departing a company, but the way it's it's centered around distributed groups is powerful, much more so than the way groups were grafted onto the core topology of Facebook.

A successful decentralized social network will not look like Slack, either. Just as Slack drew from IRC and Facebook drew from MySpace, a new network will have to draw on all of these and more, synthesizing a new experience that offers genuine value.
It's ok if the bus lanes are mostly travel lanes (ok, not great, there's a pretty strong speed mismatch between bus speed and casual cyclist), but it falls down when it's an area with lots of stops. It can be wall to wall busses in some places in Dublin (quays) where many bus lines meet and there are literally continuous stops for several blocks.
I don't mean to sound dismissive, but that's a knowledge problem. Many people have no idea how to procure capital, nor what capital procurement even entails. There are few viable routes to becoming an entrepreneur, and most people would agree that the most viable route is learning from other entrepreneurs.

For me, learning how to operate a business required a lot of reading, failure, and bad decisions. For someone who has easy access to the knowledge that I had to work hard to attain, becoming successful has a much shorter path. For someone who doesn't even have a map (many people in poor or socially disadvantaged communities), it requires a level of tenacity and drive that is very rare.

So while I agree with you that most people are excluded from maximizing their potential, I think the root cause is not a lack of capital, but a lack of knowledge about how to interact with capital.
I was told anecdotally that the name "knallert" translates roughly to "putt-putt" and is in reference to the sound of the small two-stroke moped engine.
Ahh, the electric scooter. These do look like a lot of fun, but as someone who's ridden several of the non-electric variety I'd have to say I prefer the stability of a skateboard over one of these 2 wheelers.

Why can't I buy a nice electric skateboard with a brake and a handheld controller for a price similar to what these scooters are going for? Seems like electric skateboards are more of a niche/enthusiast market, and they're being priced accordingly.
I still hope that we might be able to convince the Lua authors to add continue one day. It would be very convenient.

I think the real reason why it hasn't been added to the language yet is that it has a weird interaction with the way Lua scopes its repeat-until loops. The justification about having a single control-flow structure is more of an excuse.
Good works man!
I recently read and enjoyed the essay version. Would you recommend the book? Specifically, did you feel that the amount of depth in the book necessitated that format as opposed to an essay?

I'm frequently disappointed by really good ideas that could be presented in a dozen pages being stretched to occupy 200 (e.g. Deep Work)
Why would a regular web developer need to know anything about network masks? Those come up in administration, but generally not in development.
Show HN: Reader for Chrome. Bookmarking made simple
I had the same problem. I've been doing 100% audiobooks for several years now and I'll never go back. I can work through a regular length book in a week w/ retention on par with regular book reading.
Indeed, which is why modern democracies, or at least Western ones, don't describe themselves as democracies (except only as shorthand), but republican liberal*
democracies.

* liberal here meaning political liberal (JS Mill liberalism), and not what is understood by "liberal" in US politics.
I think the question needs to be "how universal is the suburban space"? I've lived in multiple suburban areas, and the kid fun spaces were always the wild spaces at the edges of the suburban areas. If the houses are interspersed with somewhat-wild spaces, it works okay. If it's 100% homes, that's the curse.
ya, i did the same, took a few tries - i actually ended up reading the pale king first, might be worth trying that. it's shorter (around 500 pages) and i think written in a more digestible/measured manner - still a DFW work, the plots are barely discernible until pretty late in the work but there's less gymnastics to the writing, i like to think because he was more mature at that point but maybe the editor played more of a role since it was posthumous, who knows!
Agreed, but it is US only. Bank's in Middle East and in South East Asia are in pretty bad shape because of lax regulators.
Jj's useful and ugly pages
I am a literature major working as a software engineer, and I agree! Humanity has a very long history of story-telling. Often stories can tell us more than rational argument, since they hook-up with our intuition (rather than logic). This isn't to say there aren't laws in the Universe, but that the way we understand things is often emotional and intuitive. A good story can say so much about the human experience.
Is MySpace going to make a comeback here or what?
There is also a Ruby Warrior project if someone want to do this in Ruby.

https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior
Agreed. Part of my desire to work from home is to reclaim an hour to an hour and a half of my life back every day.
I wish. I have much better things to do with $20k :)

To go into a little more detail:

Regarding noise-canceling headphones:
- I find them uncomfortable to wear for really long stretches
- They don't fit well when I'm wearing glasses (contact lenses aren't an option for me).
- I can't solve the problem by just wearing them sometimes, because I can't guess when distracting, transient sounds will occur.
- They don't filter out low-frequency sounds enough to solve the problem.

Regarding sound-dampening materials in the floor above my office:
- Likely to help, but not sufficient. Also, we're not ready to put carpeting on that floor yet because of dust issues. (We can solve those eventually, but not quite yet.)

Regarding less extensive soundproofing in my office:
- There are just too many pathways for sound to get in currently.
- From the research I've done, it looks even a single pathway is enough to let in more sound than is acceptable.

Also worth mentioning that I've got a nasty case of A.D.D., so I probably take longer to recover from minor distractions than many others do.
Bonjour paresse: Why hard work doesn't pay in the corporate world
Corporations are creatures of government; big corporate power is big government.
Yeah that was my thought as well. Cool history, but quite the fire hazard.

I suppose that they could be fitted with fire detection and suppression systems, and operated safely.
These algorithms can easily be trapped in local minimas and maximas because it lacks full vision. What's most frustrating is that while it can predict or find interesting cases overlooked by humans, it also tends to do things that humans find stupidly obvious as wrong.

This is why it'll just create something like a bud light, because it sells so well.
Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
I don't know of any nice rankings on these things but I also can't see why it should be the case. If you have the monopoly of violence you can tell a company to do X and if they don't you can punish them.

Of course it depends on the size of your population/market, if you are small, a company can just leave the country rather then comply. However that is equally true for a small country with powerful government.
This helped me out a lot as a base guidline for writing good C code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
One could also argue it was the anarchists that undermined the revolution. Yes, it is a complex war, but the Republic bled as much internally as against the fascists.
A family friend built himself a treehouse office in the back yard. The mandatory ladder climb seems to keep visitors away.
If we're talking about innovation in guitar making, I think that the more relevant classical luthiers are Matthias Dammann and Greg Smallman.
Linguistically Dating and Locating Manuscript MS408 (Voynich Manuscript)
I almost forgot the best part of it: I don't receive any mass mailings. Couple that with opting out of unsolicited mailings and calling all my banks and opting out of their "special offers", I get almost no unwanted mail.
The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code
Looks really fun, but is there any way I can play online without having to set up a whole environment for this?
>Linux usability has stayed abhorrent

Linux usability is only abhorrent if you use Gnome (3). It's fine with KDE, Xfce, and others. I started using Xfce recently at work and it's great: usability is just what I expect (i.e. it doesn't do any weird UI experiments like Gnome3, Windows, etc.), it's stable and reliable, and discoverable since it was designed back when they thought discoverability was a good thing. KDE5 is pretty good too.

Stop using UIs that have been taken over by people trying to "revolutionize" UIs and you won't have the problems you're seeing. Linux has plenty of such UIs, but for some odd reason they're not the default setting of the mainstream distros.
I have much the same story/experience. Do you use something else in place of firejail?
Maybe their tool got confused with the forks made around that time to fix the copyright issues? Basically the tool counted the codebase 3 times due to forks? It seems weird that an error like that would make it to publication though.
Why just two companies? The article describes one company with a chokehold in one spot of the vertical and many other companies producing commodity complements.

But there are lots of verticals near each other, so there can be many people at one level working with commodities at another level, who likewise believe that the people above/below them are also generating a commodity complement.

What we end up with instead is a global economy of people generating value and building things that make lives better, which I think is awesome! Generating value is the most legitimate reason to have people pay you - you don't have to extract rent from a monopoly position to be a viable business.
so how many of you who is opppsing this has paid for or sold something in cash amount larger than 10k? Other than buying a used
vehicle I dont think regular people engage in large cash transactions. While tons of untaxed money changes hands between rich crooks to buy and sell valuable items bypassing any taxation or tracing. Before you start advocating for rich crooks, think again what is in it for you that you want to fight for it so bad
Typically yes. You'll need to build a lot of the components of a social network.

With Blockstack most of the heavy-lifting is done for you by the underlying platform (identity, auth, storage -- all three decentralized).

We've seen people build functioning chat apps and alternative to Google docs within few months. See stealthy.im and graphitedocs.com
T-Mobile offers it as a free option with two levels: labeling the call as Scam Likely and blocking it outright. The latter is quite effective - I was getting 5+ calls per day and it’s now 1-2 per week.
There are relatively few programming jobs that actually require bit manipulation at that level. I've been deep into bit manipulation twice in my career (well more than 10 years now): network programming for a real time system and game development.

For the machine learning and infrastructure work I've done the last 5 years or so I haven't had to do even a single bitmask, shift, etc. directly. Of course we use these things liberally (e.g. hash functions) but it's hardly necessary to write the code itself very often, even in very sophisticated applications.
My concern with a company like Facebook entering this space is that it would be in their best interest to lobby against other cryptocurrencies with the argument that theirs is compliant, allows government surveillance, etc. If they can help convince lawmakers to make "unmanaged" currencies illegal they can lock up the space via regulatory capture and in the process become almost like a central bank.

It's also an utterly insane privacy invasion to have Facebook getting into the banking business in any way whatsoever. Just call it PanopticonCoin?
It's gonna be like telegram. A lot of hoorah and it will fizzle out.
Agreed, I don't think people really debate emotionally charged issues from first principles. I think it's an error to think of this as a matter of logical axioms. That's not how people (usually) debate.
> For some reason I am repulsive towards 'self-help' books.

I wouldn't classify 12 Rules of life as a typical 'self-help' book because Peterson is not a self-proclaimed self-help guru without any substance.

If you check his career section on Wikipedia you'll find out that "Peterson's areas of study and research are in the fields of psychopharmacology, abnormal, neuro, clinical, personality, social, industrial and organizational, religious, ideological, political, and creativity psychology.
Peterson has authored or co-authored more than a hundred academic papers. Peterson has over 20 years of clinical practice, seeing 20 people a week, but in 2017, he decided to put the practice on hold because of new projects."

And he doesn't try to sell you the idea that life is beautiful and amazing, he actually agrees that life is tragic and brutal.

> I always have a feeling that you just cannot sum up all the things to be "happy" or "content" or whatever in one book

I agree to that. You cannot sum up all the things which make you happy or more content, but you can follow principles which increase the probability of success in what you want to do, such as "be a bit better tomorrow in some minor way"[1]

> I am interested to know, how often when you face a situation, you stop and think, oh I read this and that in a book, I should act this way instead of my natural intuition to do the other way.

Not every time, but more often than before reading that book. For example, I've read Feeling Good: The new mood therapy(another great book with a self-helpish title) and after reading that book I really started to put in practice some exercises in that book which by now they became almost automatic. For so much time I was a victim of cognitive distortions and now I finally found a way to beat them. And not only me. [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2tYGt0_As

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/0380...

[3] https://blog.ncase.me/nicky-reads-feeling-good/
Don't Write that Subclass
They do that to help their stock after mass selloff regarding Cambridge scandal. And its working charms as their stock is back where it was before it well off the cliff.

Kodak mentioned "blockchain" in news and same thing happened. Don't hope for un-centralized Facebook anytime soon :)