skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are not yet omniscient, I agree. But lately there's this wonderful new tool called the Internet which allows people to become omniscient as far as product discovery is concerned.

If you have a product that solves problem X, make a website, blog posts, send samples to journalists for reviews, etc about how your product solves problem X, and let search engines & organic growth do the rest.

> You're just arguing against progress there

I'm not arguing against progress. I'm arguing against the (potential) progress of your wallet, which is not at all correlated with progress of humanity as a whole. Again, if a product was truly progress then organic growth would be more than enough. As far as your wallet is concerned, you can make it progress through other, less annoying means, and actually create value in the process.
Best case scenario, you'll need a nuclear power station and a few dozen data centers full of ASICs. Oh, and an internet's worth of extra bandwidth.
Ok, I was writing a reply and I got to talking about how we do not have perfect markets, we do not have infinite suppliers that would drive the profit to zero. That actually got me asking an interesting question, do we have "infinite supply"? Do we have the means to produce medicine for everyone?

This might put a finger on a weird feeling I have about the economy right now. We have a trillion dollar company that is producing easily copied electronics (their operating system is harder to replicate), we have very drugs that can be easily ripped off into generics, we have media that commands hundred plus dollar a month subscriptions that can be readily shared online. I guess the feeling that I can finally put to words is that all of this stuff is horribly mispriced.

Would there be a single initial investment? No, probably not. There would still be profit opportunity though. Innovation would be spread between more parties. Rather than one company doing huge amounts of R&D it would be many individuals making incremental improvements, to address their own needs or to address profit opportunities. It is the same with software ideas, I could tell you my most brilliant idea (give up my monopoly) but the chances that you would go and implement it are low. Not everyone is going to be producing generics, not everyone can, not everyone wants to. The profit does not go to zero, hopefully it would just go to affordable.
That looks pale in comparison to the Chinese employee tracking app Dingding. And it's becoming crazy popular.

Your employer's mistake was working in the call center business, they should've sold your system instead.
Even worse, the banks preventing users from straightforwardly accessing their own data is exactly what is pushing users right into the arms of these "fintech" surveillance companies.

The technology (OFX direct connect) and software (Quicken, now Moneydance) for users to privately track their finances has been around for quite some time. But the protocol appears to be getting deprecated in favor of this "web download" rigmarole as banks attempt to decommodify.

I had thought about futzing with Plaid for my own monitoring purposes, figuring since they were B2B they wouldn't be directly surveilling (leaving that up to customers instead). Apparently I was wrong. Surveillance capitalism, indeed!
The stolen or the oppressing government are not good arguments. It doesn't allow either party to buy or sell.

We had the case of an ex student who opened a company selling electronics and mechanical parts. Some shipments were stopped at the border by the local equivalent of the NSA and the company received a visit shortly afterwards. Turns out that some stuff can be used to manufacture military equipment.

That day, we learned that they take it pretty seriously and the onus is on you to prove that it's legit and going to a legitimate party.
is this gonna be like rats eating the wiring in my car while I'm on vacation because they made the sheathing from soy?
Yes, I know that. But email was just the analogy ;) For Mastodon, that would be running your own instance, I guess.
Just wait until you find out about the The California Land Conservation Act, commonly known as the Williamson Act.

A Who's Who of Apple executives exploit this to build mansions on nearby "ranches":

https://www.sccassessor.org/index.php/tax-savings/tax-reduct...
Học Cao đẳng Dược Hà Nội chưa bao giờ là quyết định sai lầm
If someone is taking the position that the sky is blue, arguing against the position that the sky is orange, does that make them less trustworthy? How about arguing against genocide? How about arguing that torture is morally indefensible? How about arguing that war is wrong and best avoided unless absolutely necessary? How about arguing that drug prohibition is an abhorrent policy that is rooted in racism and greed?

Any one of these positions makes a presenter more credible, not less. These are all accurate, true positions; there is no trust deficit inherent in pointing that out.
Right. There really ought to be key-based authentication.
Aren't they all self-designed?
I did this in our University laboratory for OHS, we called it window shopping. By giving the inspector a few easily visible, but not dangerous issues out in the open, he was satisfied we were up to scratch safety wise but could also tick all his little boxes. An out of date MSDS for chemicals we no longer had, a not tested and tagged electrical cable used prominently, a drink bottle left next to the lab computer by a student.
I'm the same way! I have to train myself not to think when people give a casual "hey, how are you?".

The book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts" has an interesting message about how introverts struggle to fit into an image of society where one must be a quick-witted extrovert in order to be successful and powerful. I think it's the same for fast vs slow thinkers. It's important to know your a slow thinker, and accept it as a strength.
You don’t need confidence, just contribution
I recently started reading Usenet again using the free https://news.solani.org/ service.

Once I'd caught up on a.s.r, I couldn't really find any other groups other than alt.comp.lang.* that were worth reading.

Any HN suggestions?
We are trying to build one for the global Harley-Davidson community:

https://porky.co

It’s just in live MVP right now, but launching in September down in the Southern Hemisphere market by market, then hopefully up north for 2019 Spring if we can scale down here.
Some interesting discussion here:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177

It seems possible!
"Order of the British Empire" - it's awarded by the Queen her self, directly.
No. They're UK based.
There was this Australian company that had this fly-by-night looking empty office near South Park, San Francisco... I'm serious, and not exaggerating, when I say it was a few bare metal folding chairs/tables bare walls, and way too much open space for the 1/2 dozen people working there...

In any case, the startup I worked for previous was split up and sold/aqui-hired out to two different companies, and myself and the technology I'd created, and the million+ email addresses we'd collected went to this one.

I went along with it because they were one of the few companies I knew of with access to the twitter fire hose feed, which interested me, and they had dept. of defense contacts - which ( in my mind ) legitimized their presence in the U.S.A. at the time.

Out of the many shady-feeling project, the one that made my skin crawl the most was an automated fuzzy matching system I was ordered to create, that tried its best to match users on Twitter to users on Facebook, using nothing beyond the normal publicly available meta data ( name, age, icon, the regular profile stuff ) and the followers/people followed on the twitter side, and friends and likes on the Facebook side.

It was surprisingly easy to match people, and felt more than a little wrong to me when I really thought about it... but the tech/challenge was just too fun to work on to routinely give it more than a perfunctory thought.
I think many highly productive mathematicians are very good at organizing formulas and facts in such a way that they can be retrieved easily from memory based on context. Maybe something analogous to a hash function from computer science.

Some mathematicians seem to index facts based on geometric images, others seem to be more inclined to symbolic or algebraic statements. Whatever the representation, when confronted with a new mathematical situation they then scan quickly for matches to various aspects of the problem at hand.

Maybe to some degree my observation here is obvious. But I thought a lot about it while I was in grad school studying a book called Geometric Measure Theory by Herbert Federer. That book is enormous, and full of highly intricate technical proofs that require pulling together a large number of detailed technical facts.

The book is also very highly structured, and that led me to conclude that the text likely mirrored how Federer organized this information in his head. It reads like code for a complex but cleanly architected software system, and that's a big part of what led me from math to software development.
When should you build your own ecommerce site? (Never)
Where do you draw the line? My grandma was once contacted by a scammer who offered to "optimize" her laptop, and she ended up paying roughly the same as the price of a new laptop.
i'm meticulous about checklists, mostly due to programming.

I have extensive records, self-kept for a few hours a week, regarding any and all finances, home maintenance, car maintenance, etc.

It mostly serves as a form of self-flagellation in the form of financial guilt associated with over-spending, but it's a useful trait to have once-in-a-while.

I was a prodigious note-taker in school, too. I think that may be related.
>Your first reaction is usually outdated.

Interesting way to think about it. Exposure to new information elicits a response that’s based on past data and experience, leading to hesitation in reacting quickly.
Developer Perception to Microsoft’s Acquisition of GitHub
If you want to be outdoors more, there's the following communities (with forums, maps, and apps):

Mountain Project (a Climbing Resource) https://www.mountainproject.com/

Hiking Project https://www.hikingproject.com/

Trail Run Project https://www.trailrunproject.com/

Powder Project (Backcountry Ski Maps) https://www.powderproject.com/

MTB Project (Mountain Biking) https://www.mtbproject.com/
I would think the main problem is centralized services can have benefits that make them superior even when done unethically ( or perhaps quasi-ethitically ).
It's easier to see it as 'if I attack you, you attack me'. Because if not now, eventually.
I don't really get how this relates to my point? All I was saying is that buying on the "dark web" is not always synonymous with bad intentions. I did not say it legally (I assume that's what you meant) allowed parties to trade, although I will say that it does physically allow parties to trade, as "dark" markets have been thriving for years now.
I wonder if an email from the copyright owners of Mapsforge or Twitter4J to the CEO would be more effective than from a consumer...
I really struggled on college engineering exams and in general got lower scores than classmates that I had to tutor. Part of this was due to drastically over thinking and over-analyzing test questions. Some are extremely straightforward, but others can be interpreted several ways, although the normal person always chooses one method and it is obvious to them.

I can make quick decisions on the fly in a leadership role that I would say are very good, but technical matters (Ex: Solving an engineering textbook problem) can take awhile as I explore how things work.
For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010)
ماهي الاستضافة ؟ وكيف تقوم بإختيار استضافة جيدة لموقعك ؟ – تسوق
A game I used to play as a teenager: Quakeworld Teamfortress. There are a few discord channels for the various countries where people still play (US: https://discord.gg/FStt9pw, Brazil: https://discord.gg/Ew3NY2Z, Australia: https://discord.gg/amed6v) with organised games happening on particular days each week. What's great is that development/new maps are still being made.
Not better or worse in terms of value as human beings
Nice job, we know it's you.
> I'm the same way! I have to train myself not to think when people give a casual "hey, how are you?".

I know, right?
I knew I couldn't be the only person around that gets annoyed when other ask this of me and I have to divert resources the answer the annoyingly irrelevant question.

even more so when after careful considering and answering, the answer is essentially ignored. every. time.
That’s just the magic of using old php forum software. This is just phpBB running behind nginx on a cheap digitalocean droplet. It’s just not using a bunch of heavy JavaScript or anything like most modern software, so even though it’s not a SPA it is still very speedy.
I certainly don't want to take anything away from what you have shared.

I've been reading Steven Pinker's book, Enlightenment Now, and there are some sections on violence and using crime as an indicator of progress.

Which leads me to wonder, what the phycology of average people were like through history. Presumably everyone in the middle ages had some experience of violence, and would have witnessed awful acts (in the name of good too).

Was everyone suffering inside?
I'm not sure exactly why buybacks get so much more hate than dividends. If these stock buybacks didn't happen the profits would have been returned to investors in the form of dividends. This would not have increased worker wages either. Any argument against buybacks can also be made of dividends.
FWIW, Nondimensionalization for dummies[1] has a nicely-motivated introductory example (from ecology).

[1] http://wp.auburn.edu/radich/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Nondi...
Online-go.com is, for anyone that played go online before its inception, a breath of fresh air. There’s really no way to overstate how it’s changed the experience of online play.
Whenever I'm trying to look for something in a (mostly) sorted list, I always do a binary search. I can't recall the exact circumstances this has come up in real life but it has.
I'd fully expect the business to fire him for unethical or immoral behavior...
Ad networks - people can just disconnect or look away if they like.

Drug trials have benefit to society.

I would argue that creating a system to fire people in an automated fashion when they take too many bathroom breaks like this is morally worse than both of those systems you mentioned.
Anti-Vaxxer arguments don't relate at all to his critique and your suggestion is a red herring unfortunately.

I think the challenge when it comes to having discussions about philosophy of science with people who aren't rigorous or academic about philosophy, is that it can easily be interpreted as anti-science.

Feyerabend specifically was unnecessarily harsh with his critique, and somewhat of an outsider, so he attracted more vitriol than was likely warranted.

His point about the lack of universal methodological rules across the disciplines of science is a fair critique, which is a statement about scientism at large and the dogmas that form inside of it being insidious. It was decidedly NOT a critique of any particular method or function of science. To the contrary, his point was that Science is too important to try and enforce one methodology where it is incompatible - and would be corrupting.
Do you have to settle for just one?

I have catch-alls set up across several domains I own, they all go into one inbox and replies etc. are sent from the same email the original was addressed to, automatically.

I usually use one domain for casual use (like games, Twitch, anonymous services), one for semi-professional stuff (with my real name), and one for actual business.
UKFast is a UK-based web host whose CEO has received an MBE.

Probably not that many other web host CEOs with an award from the Queen.
Recent Chinese optical satellites are thought to have 10cm resolution. All these are low earth orbit. Depends on cloud cover, atmospheric turbulence and look angle.

Still impractical to get sound vibrations from that. But a drone with a laser would work for windows. Think listening in on a conversation in a car.
I’m curious to know why... Looks like typical mixin pattern, no?
I plot my routes in the car based on the total score of a route composed of points for left turn, right turns, lights, etc. Avoiding left turns at a light is a big goal. I know others do this too (notably UPS’s supposed optimization of only making right turns).
Yes. Debates are a mechanism by which existing knowledge is diffused around society and culture. But creating something new and interesting is a slow, messy and iterative process.
How is the hot summer in Europe indicative of a long-term climate change more than Donald Trump saying "see, it's snowing outside! I told you there's no climate change!"
C++17 x86/x64 Hooking Library
Is “epileptic” a bin?

Separately: is life better or worse for epileptics since the creation of the concept of epilepsy-as-neurological-disorder?

Consider what reifing this concept has allowed medical science to do, that it was not so empowered to do under previous explanations for the same behavioural phenomena.

When you cleave concept-space the right way, you create a node in your schema that corresponds to something you can actually affect, through e.g. therapeutic or pharmacological interventions.

A “bin” that stays such—just something to label people with, is a wrong cut. It is a concept that does not expose something “raw” and concrete enough to actually touch.
Hey - thanks! That's what HN is great for. And I like the nuance of the report (or the abstract) - of course reality is never simple.
Don't have much to say about how to do things, but I'd say try to reduce the number of things to do, so the little you still have to do won't be a big deal.

For example, I only communicate with companies/suppliers via email/phone (and change suppliers if they can't accommodate that). This means any physical mail that arrives must be spam, and goes in the trash without even being opened - anything I care about would instead come through phone or email. This means I haven't needed to fiddle with papers for ages, while my flatmate still wastes a good 10 minutes almost every day reading incoming mail (and then putting it into a huge pile she'll eventually have to sort out - akin to technical debt).

Bills are paid out automatically (via "Direct Debit") so I don't have to worry about that either.

Shopping is taken care by Amazon subscriptions, which means new stuff arrives soon before the old boxes run out. Haven't been grocery shopping in ages.

Food is handled by Deliveroo/Uber Eats, so no cooking necessary. I use throwaway forks & plates so no dish washing necessary either.

Cleaning/housekeeping is handled by a company that does it every week in the flat while I'm away, so no worries about that either.

Not all of this is possible for everyone (things might be different depending on your location, whether you have a family, your financial situation) but personally it works great for now and I have plenty of time when I get home. Basically for anything that you're doing, try to see if there's a way to not do it at all or to outsource it to someone else (who might be an expert at it and thus do it more efficiently than you can).
Can’t wait for his book (“Hell Yeah or No”) to be released
The Woman Who Created a Monster
Damnit.

This was one technology that just kills me never acheived any market success. I had bought an OLPC through the buy/give program and sent the OLPC to my neice (after I poked around at the device—I was VERY curious about the device).

The part that was truly flooring to me was the screen. It was much faster than e-ink and, for the time, quite high resolution in its grayscale mode.

As I read through this article, it’s like a graveyard of dreams past. Mirasol is another I’d forgotten about that I remember thinking would be ubiquitous.
Such claims are very major and significant, but rarely have strong evidence behind them, and as such I would recommend that they are not made, and that the OP continues to do whatever it is that they find efficient.
A literal one that I probably picked up from another comment section here:

Treat your closet as an LRU cache—always put clothes away on one side, and start looking for items from the same side. As an added benefit when you run out of capacity, anything that has ended up on the far side is a likely candidate to be evicted to a higher latency storage layer (bins in the attic), or simply deleted and recomputed if ever needed again (just drop it off at Goodwill, you can always buy another).
Everything you see here fits on a 40MB hard drive
You would be surprised how often people don't even notice if you respond to "hey, how are you", with "hi".

But, really, the script you're meant to follow goes like this:

Hey how are you?
Hey, good, how about you?
Pretty good

Then, if the conversation is meant to continue, which it most often is not, one of you says "So ... what's up in your life?" or "So ... how's that thing you're working on going?" or some other more specific question.

Edit: let’s also not forget that “howdy” is a shortened version of “how do you do”
Apple at $1T: The Missing Theory
> Psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience all inform one another.

I totally agree. I'm not making any claims about the validity or worth of psychology, I just think the distinction OP was referring to is worth pointing out.

I think ideally we would understand everything from a physiological perspective, but until that time comes there are plenty of cases where we can benefit from acting on imperfect information. An imperfect example: I don't believe the mechanism that SSRI medicines work on is well understood, but for a lot of people they are obviously beneficial.
Regular Expressions – Enough to Be Dangerous
is that a joke? sorry I don't see how that would help... where could I get more info?
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