skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this in myself as well, especially with changes in context.

When I lived in my hometown (until I was 16), memories were always vibrant -- I suppose kept alive by constant association.

After I moved away to college, I gradually started forgetting things from my hometown, even things as recent as my high school years.

After graduating from college, I moved to the countryside in Japan. I found that I started forgetting things about my college years -- even people I hung out with fairly regularly. As for things from my high school or junior high years? Forget about it.

Six years ago I moved to Tokyo; the context change has apparently been enough that I'm forgetting a lot of things about my time in the countryside.

I've always attributed it to a combination of a lack of importance (that is, I consciously or subconsciously decide certain people just aren't important enough to commit to memory) and a lack of associative cueing. Out of all the people I knew in college, I only talk to two -- and them rarely. I don't talk to anyone from high school or before then at all.
Nice. I second the other comment. You are a good quality human.
>You must enter your passcode or password for additional security validation:

- after you restart your iPhone, iPad, or Mac;

- when more than 48 hours have passed from the last time you unlocked your device;

to add or delete a fingerprint to use with Touch ID;

- to change the iPhone or iPad passcode or Mac system password, and for other security settings like FileVault on your Mac;

- when there have been more than five unrecognized Touch ID authorization attempts in a row;

- after you log out of your Mac.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204587

Face ID has the same document:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108
Wow, that's like My Summer Car [1] but with a goal.

[1] http://www.amistech.com/msc/
Good job on creating a lightweight client. Apollo can be overkill for smaller projects.

You should be careful with the name though because it's named the same as the official reference implementation of the backend: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js.
I remember Bump from their early days 2009 / 2010, they were demo-ing at either SFBeta or SFNewTech (don't remember which, I used to work with the organizers of both events back then).

It was pitched as a Business Card / Contact info exchange app back then and I do remember getting a demo of it where 2 guys bumped their phones to exchange professional contact info. I thought it was funny, didn't think I'd use it.

Interesting how their story played out. Looks like the Google acquisition was more of an acqui-hire and less for IP...

EDIT 1: Found a demo video from 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOpFuOP6_k

EDIT 2: Another video from the founder in 2010. https://youtu.be/2Ir2bg253ag?t=7
yeah, because we can sum up the entirety of interaction design with googly eyes.
Words of wisdom grasshopper.
That's so awesome and I am glad it worked out for you.
I have decided just to do just that, see how I can distinguish myself from the crowd.
Cheers
On top of the earnings to Western arms companies, every billion that doesn't flow to Russia for arms sales is a double win for the US. It's hard to squeeze their economy when you're leaking money to them on arms.

Supporting Russia's arms industry can hurt you far more directly. Income flows to research, competing with your arms everywhere and endangering your own soldiers.

That doesn't mean you can't influence SA. You can limit (or offer) access to certain weapons systems, refuse access to some investments in the West, ask for a token sacrifice to appease the press, etc.
Here's one that's not so old, about 2005, but it showed me how people can get riled up over anything. This site was created as part of a contest to see who could get the most page hits starting from 0. I don't know how well it did but it was one of the top sites in the contest. People thought it was real and voiced their displeasure.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050204224059/http://www.saveto...

You'll need flash.
Hey, I chuckled. You just dropped that in here. Nicely done.
The good thing about extinction is that it indeed defuses the population bomb.

Rich liberal societies consistently reproduce at less than replacement. This is obviously unsustainable; a population that doesn’t reproduce fast enough to replace itself will go extinct. Obviously unsustainable growth isn’t a great thing either, but as long as the rate of growth is low enough for technology to keep up, the earth can actually sustain a surprisingly high population in comfortable conditions. The limiting factor turns out to be energy.
Not sure how "intoxicated" is different from intoxicated but this was a great TED talk, thnx.
Have you ever tried? I find the article's description a bit too advanced for a first try. I have personally had success finding walls or large furniture after only a couple minutes of very slowly walking around a room and clicking my tongue (higher pitched) with my eyes closed. True, I probably won't ever be able to ride a bike, but it's sufficient to quickly test out basic echolocation. I have done many trials with friends and everyone is able to hear at least a subtle difference when standing directly in front of a wall as opposed to a few feet away.
> wait what? making one phone call (5-10 min) is hardly an ordeal

It's a pretty good sized ordeal when your card gets declined due to fraud and you look like a schmuck in front of your date/boss/client/etc.

> and is better than the cash alternative - losing a couple hundred dollars

There is no cash alternative to credit card fraud. You can't steal the cash in someone's pocket or make it unspendable by cracking a third party website or taking a customer service job and skimming cards.

The closest alternative is physical theft, but that's much less common in most areas, and credit cards can be stolen too as an independent threat. Even then it's easier to replace $100 in cash than spend time ordering and waiting for all new credit cards with different card numbers and then update that info in multiple places etc.

> this is a non-issue for me because I already have multiple bills I have to remember to pay, so adding a few credit cards to that routine is trivial

The problem is human fallibility. One month you're preoccupied with some family drama, or the bank's new website is hot garbage, or you just miss a typo, and you schedule a payment for November when it's due in October. That whole system is set up to stick it to you for minor honest mistakes.
> You'll mail the product in I'd imagine, and weeks later, maybe, you'll get one back?

I took my MacBook Pro 2017 in for a keyboard replacement. The AASP had to mail it in to Apple. It's now on it's second week in Apple's custody.

> Apple is pushing AppleCare+ to all laptops and phones, which means that accidental damage like this would be covered for a low, flat fee no matter what happened to your device

The low, flat fee only applies to cracked screens. I have a cracked camera lens on my iPhone X (a $7 part), and Apple wants $500 for a whole device replacement.
Managing Pregnancy in Nazi Concentration Camps: The Role of 2 Jewish Doctors
Ordinary Yemenis don't attend cocktail parties at Davos.

http://www.nrttv.com/EN/News.aspx?id=5863&MapID=3
To me, biggest issue with cash is that it prohibits central banks making sound monetary policy (i.e. negative interest rates) in certain situations where that would be needed.
Samsung DeX on the Galaxy Note 9 Review – It Just Works
not OP but this is what i thought of instantly:

http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/microwave/

and this page in particular:

http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/microwave/mladen_story.ht...
It drives me nuts. To be fair, usually it's a non-technical hiring manager who just doesn't know current/recent tech history, and they probably assume they can get higher quality by requiring more experience.
For me as the potential candidate, it usually turns me off enough that I don't even bother contacting them.
Too bad he didn't do this when Saudi military started blowing up Yemeni civilians with US-made munitions. But oh, hey, 1 journalist has been killed/missing, better disassociate ASAP.
That's what it reads like, yeah.
> They ran an experiment. None of their lives have been ruined.” He knew they’d get good jobs, even if it meant the life of a project manager at Yahoo. “And none of their investors’ lives have been ruined either. When they close up shop, their investors will say, ‘That’s one more off the books. I don’t need to help them anymore. I get my time back.’”

[...] “Let me tell you what the worst thing would be. The worst thing is that these guys get their funding tomorrow and are stuck doing this for another year. So far, they only lost one.”

[...] All the while, Martino’s ultimate warning—that they might someday regret actually getting the money they wanted—would still hang over these two young men, inherent to a system designed to turn strivers into subcontractors. Instead of what you want to build—the consumer-facing, world-remaking thing—almost invariably you are pushed to build a small piece of technology that somebody with a lot of money wants built cheaply. As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent “the field offices of a large distributed workforce assembled by venture capitalists and their associate institutions,” doing low-overhead, low-risk R&D for five corporate giants. In such a system, the real disillusionment isn’t the discovery that you’re unlikely to become a billionaire; it’s the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy, and that the vast majority of you have been set up to fail by design.

No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush by Gideon Lewis-Kraus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7643902
Object-Oriented Design Heuristics
> Recently, Pandey et al. [15] gave a new implementation of machine-word select, which we call
PTSelect.

It's worth noting Jukka Suomela had this PDEP idea late 2014, and I've used the trick a few times from that source.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/27453505/1763356
But "handheld/miniaturised ladders" are not a thing, so even if the mechanism is the same, the application is different and that's probably enough for a patent.
Aren't these all vanity metrics? [1] Features are swell, and registered users are nice, in that it indicates somebody was at least curious. But how many of those 1,627,557 registered users are, say, active at least once a week for the last 3 months? What's the NPS of Mastodon users after 7, 30, and 90 days?

I'd love to see them succeed. But I think it's dangerous for programmers to focus on building a thing rather than serving their users.

[1] This isn't a slam; it's a technical term from Eric Ries: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/12/why-vanity-metr...
LuaJIT also supports C-functions. It's FFI [0] will allow you to declare any C-compatible function or data structure, and then use it in normal Lua code.

[0] https://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe:

> Between about 10 and 17 million years the universe's average temperature was suitable for liquid water (273 – 373K) and there has been speculation whether rocky planets or indeed life could have arisen briefly, since statistically a tiny part of the universe could have had different conditions from the rest, and gained warmth from the universe as a whole.
Nope, apparently they were not enough.
I use the self service checkouts at supermarkets to get rid of a lot of coins. Not only does the save counting coins, but you get 100% of the value unlike coinstar etc.

ATMs allow $1000AUD per card in Australia, so with multiple cards you are sweet. Anything more than a couple of 1000 I'd prefer to use bank transfers anyway.
Not every place seeks the jack-of-all-trades types of people. It isn't necessarily because of any dehumanizing train of thought, but more likely because of a more pragmatic one: they might not have the company structure to support people with those profiles and give them room to grow, to contribute in ways that are both nourishing for the company's and the employee's goals.

I find myself often drained by the type of situation you mention encountering (although I seem tot lack the self-confidence you are pushing there), but a recent experience has allowed me to see that some structures might theoretically want my profile but practically not be ready to embrace it. In a way, the interviews you encountered might be at places that are more realistic with their own skills and needs.

I do wish you the best in trying to find the right fit.
I believe it's because YC is more looking for startups in the vein of traditional silicon valley VCs and the like: high-risk high reward ventures. With general VC math, they're operating on the power law where essentially the biggest winner is going to return more than the rest of the fund combined and the high failure rate necessitates the huge winners. I definitely agree with your point and the value prop of TinySeed - those types of companies are great but it misses out on such a huge swath of companies that are important for a healthy ecosystem; I hope we see more support for the companies currently left out of the current ecosystem moving forward.
I wonder how this stacks against Cutelyst in terms of performance.
The analogy of an inflating balloon is a useful one because, as in the universe, an observer at any given position on the surface of the balloon sees all other points receding from them. This leads to the illusion that any observer's position is the 'center' of the expansion, but there is actually no center on the surface of the balloon, just as there is no unique origin point for the expansion of space in the universe.

The analogy isn't perfect though. I don't think it's quite right that cosmologists believe we are living on the surface of an expanding hypersphere; that would imply that the expansion of the universe had a real spatial center somewhere in a large extra dimension, just as the inflating surface of a balloon has a real spatial center in the balloon's three dimensional interior, inaccessible to observers that can only probe the surface.

That the universe has a real, albeit extra-dimensional spatial center isn't a mainstream idea, but there are theorists exploring the possibility that the universe exists on the surface of a brane in a higher dimensional 'bulk', and that the big bang resulted from a collision between branes in that higher dimensional space [1].

There might be some utility in thinking of the universe as an inflating hypersphere whose radius corresponds to time, rather than to an additional spatial dimension. In that analogy, the center of the hypersphere (or balloon) would represent a point in time, rather than a point in higher-dimensional space. The surface of the hypersphere (corresponding to the space of our universe) would appear to expand the further an observer was from the temporal 'center', which would be equivalent to the big bang. There is a consensus among cosmologists that the big bang appears to be a special point in time, if not in space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology
I am polyamorous, and I happen to know a lot of polyamorous people. “Reproducing above replacement level” is not, in my experience, a good description of the polyamorous community.

While you’re right in that nuclear families aren’t ideal, the more fertile subcultures are those where extended families are valued. And these cultures are, by and large, religious and culturally conservative. The only issue there is the tendency for the children of those cultures to assimilate into the progressive mainstream; after all, that’s what happened to us.
That belies the previous assertion that they're concerned with the "how" of scaling. What you're desribing is merely the investor (usually VC, which has been discussed here before) behavior of demanding that founders have a confident answer to potential challenges, even if it's bluster.

That's a situation fairly far removed from a VC refusing to invest because the company isn't imitating a FAANG's architecture.
Spill trays, albeit without the gutter, used to be a common feature, but they were a casualty of the thinness wars. A super-thin spill try can't hold much liquid, so what's the point? I like this solution from Lenovo.

Being able to pull a laptop's battery as soon as liquid was spilled on it was another great feature for survivability. Water doesn't directly damage electronics in and of itself. The damage is usually done by the short-circuits liquids facilitate. Disconnecting the battery before the liquid spreads through the device can prevent a lot of damage. I suppose the thinness wars probably killed this feature too.
One - you would not knowingly trade with someone who has fundamentally more information than you, so there would be ver y little demand for equities that can be traded by insiders.

Two - there would be absolutely no way to prove in most cases, one way or the other if the 'insiders activity' was damaging or not for the company. For example, a bunch of insiders discover something disastrous and start selling cheap, sending a panic into the value of the stock. Is this 'bad for the company'? Or not? Then the 'problem' turns out to be not such a big deal, and they buy back on the cheap. Was this damaging to investors? Even if the insiders were acting legitimately, i.e. selling when something was wrong, buying when it was not ... it would 100% not be in the best interests of other investors - you see from this example that the very nature of 'insider information' makes 100% of trades by insiders 'not in the interests of other investors'.

"as evidenced by the size of other markets that lack insider trading laws, like real estate, commodities or cryptocurrency

This is wrong.

Real estate can generally be independently valued. That's why it's required by law in many countries to have 'independent' assessments of a home's value. Same can be done with commercial.

In commodities and currency there are no 'insiders'. There's nothing built into the price but the inherent value of the commodity itself. Corn is corn is corn. Insider trading would definitely apply to a big agri-business, but for corn futures, or USD or even Bitcoin - there literally are no 'insiders'.There are 'insiders' in companies, but a market does not have insiders. Just intelligent people researching, analyzing, with their fingers on the pulse.

Demand for stocks would dwindle to nothing without insider trading laws, that's why they exist in every developed market.
On bans, there are frequent waves of new users who migrate away from Twitter to mastodon because they're told that mastodon has instances that are more suited to their personal (typically) political inclinations, and that the other side isn't permitted here and that discussion is more reasoned.

It's not really true. What really happens is that people are told that mastodon is the land of milk and honey, and people of all stripes migrate over, and continue to clash. Mastodon brings better tools to deal with it, but the same people import the same negative behaviours but end up on instances that typically reinforce their beliefs.

I really hoped that mastodon would be better, but it's really the same noise as twitter but worse - people end up on hyper-polarised instances where war is waged with blocks, bans, and federation filters. At least on twitter you have to share a home with people you don't agree with, here you can build all the walls you want to isolate yourself from anyone who doesn't completely agree with you.
I don't get upset/disappointed when somebody doesn't remember me, mostly because I forget way too many people too.

I'm getting happy when somebody remembers me.

Focusing on the positive things in people is a great way to enjoy social interactions.
This was quite the read.

Stalin's quote seems to originate from the 18th century quote which seems to apply as much today as it did then:

One Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero. — Princes were privileg’d
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. - 1759, Beilby Porteus, England
How the hell is this study seen in a negative light? Genes, how fast your brain processes information, CANNOT be changed. That's just biology. Money, education, knowledge - these CAN be changed.
it just moves the question up one on the stack

the original question remains
Unfortunately same applies in Nordic countries too, where all education is free and all students get 500€ monthly no-questions-asked free money and housing.
This just pushes the problem of abiogenesis one step back.
Meanwhile SJWs applaud Saudi over their first woman pilot, whilst she has to take a taxi to work because she is not allowed drive. Quicker oil runs out and we can isolate these backwater fuckers the better.<whatever>phobia,damn right, toxic ideologies should be feared.
Even though Mastodon is decentralized, the interface has a federated timeline that shows toots from all instances that the server federates with. I have found this to feel similar to a centralized, real-time stream of posts like Twitter.

The user can still follow hashtags/keywords from most of the users out there. Many of the more popular instances do not federate with a few of the more toxic, anything-goes servers, so the federated timeline won't be completely universal. While that might be true much of the stuff posted on those instances being censored wouldn't be tolerated on a platform like Twitter anyway.
I'm not sure what you mean with the first bullet point. All banks which do payment processing do lending. It's inherent in the nature of the service, that's what the above article is about.
Sadly, the reason that discipline is such a vaunted virtue is because it's hard. Even the most well meaning and diligent C developers still make mistakes.

Tools should be ergonomic, they should reduce the need for diligence, care, discipline, and intelligence.

I'm not saying that the above aren't all important to programming, or that we should abandon anything that's not easy, but we're humans and make human mistakes and tools that are unforgiving when we do are ripe to be replaced by those that nudge us back on track.
There is something that should be said about nginx's third party modules. There are many and they add quite a bit of functionality, especially when they're upstream modules.

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/modules/

It's great because you don't even need a web framework, really. If you're comfortable and confident in nginx you can get quite a bit of performance out of the server while adding your application logic to it. I'm not sure why more people don't and just use it as a reverse proxy.
Typically the person who is deciding to bring in the outside consultants is getting a kickback, or might even have a direct stake in the consulting firm.

If they aren't, and they're just willingly spending company money on something they believe will work, then they're just another out of touch spreadsheet manager.
Most freedom is risky.
No, the data is not up for sale. As the article you linked clearly states the data is anonymized and cannot be tied to individuals.

It's simply not a thing. It would violate PCI-DSS.
Sounds interesting! Is there something that you can share that might be insightful to others about this acurence? What did you learn?
This is not a minor correction simply because they both contain the word "dark". It would have been slightly more correct to confuse the terms dark matter and dark chocolate. Dark energy is an entirely different kettle of fish.