skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly get them when I'm stressed or anxious and I put it down to my brain looking for ways out. Eg in a performance review I might be getting a glowing report but if I feel anxious about it (eg imposters syndrome) then I'll start fantasising about smacking my boss round the head with my coffee mug or such like. I think my brain is working a scenario where if I get sacked than I've proven I'm an imposter and thus have no need to feel anxious any more.

This is the mild end of the spectrum for some of the thoughts I get too (inc. ones about harming my children). Its horrible. I hate those thoughts but I literally cannot control them. The best I can do is distract myself from them rather than trying to dwell on them but that's sometimes hard to do when some of the more distressing thoughts randomly pop in.
This is really neat! Will it be possible to use mastodon clients to post to the blog? That would be really awesome.
> I did read somewhere that one of the founders said the aim was to integrate apps/companies into Whatsapp, but for me "No!".

Everyone on WeChat claims it's amazing, I hated it.
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Is there an easy way to write Latex (e.g. with MathJax or Katex)? That is for me the most wanted feature of Medium (my intuition is they won't be adding it any time soon).
The vendor history of network and transport protocols can be
seen as invisible to end user market warfare. Those who are able to push their network based ideas to better address the way they want to do things (and shape the market) win.

Way back this was IPX/SPX vs IP/(TCP|UDP). We know who won that and what happened to the loser.

There is another aspect to this: agnostic network and 'good enough' conceptions have been historically adopted by engineering organizations to remove vendor disposition from the end user landscape and protect the end user. On this forum a lot of these historical protections are seen as passe or unimportant for reasons best not scrutinized too closely.

IMO, the idea embodied in encapsulation of application protocol traffic in stateless transport to avoid a vendors technical issues with existing application stream orientation|transport in the non-vendor real world is one of the ugliest ideas I've yet encountered.

There are a lot of good ideas floating around in the comments here that avoid vendor lock in for applications
stream based transport that already exist.
That doesn't mean, however, that a supranational entity such as the EU necessarily is the right solution to each and every problem in the future.

Sure, perhaps a federal superstate isn't the answer - I certainly don't think it's a great answer for local gov, taxes or accountability, though given the world we live in surrounded by hostile autocracies I think having armed forces and trade at that level is advantageous, so that's why I'm for it, but further devolution of powers would be ideal in my view, if coupled with free movement of people and goods at a federal level. Given that I see no reason for Nations to exist.

Free movement of people at least within large federal states and later globally is a worthy ideal to strive towards - why should the place of your birth dictate the rights and opportunities accorded to you? Why should nation states claim the right to bestow and strip citizenship?
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'Securely' as in 'completely visible to Microsoft'. This is an unavoidable issue with data and operations on them being 'in the cloud'.
If an EU citizen steps foot in the sovereign territory of another country, the EU says that all their privacy laws apply.

That's not true. The GDPR doesn't apply to citizens of the EU, but to people in the EU or services performed there.
If an app is your boss, what, exactly, are you?
> Are you saying that no one on the left calls out particular racial groups and demonizes them?

Again, that is why I mentioned phraseology versus intent.

> Are you saying that no one on the left calls out particular racial groups and demonizes them?

And this is my point. I don't entirely agree with this statement. I believe the situation is more subtle as the Jeong case illustrates.

Instead, it would be fairer to say that the further left you go (in the US), there is animosity towards conservatism and racism and some on the left believe that this conservatism is mainly supported by a certain segment of whites.

I agree that sometimes an unfortunate phraseology is used by those that muddies the meaning.
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I would argue your fallacy is lumping people who work on software that matters (food, healthcare, government) with people who work at Facebook (which is arguably a cancer on society).

Good software engineers are needed to work on problems that matter. Quite the delta from where we are today.
"Reading is a way to consume people’s experiences, to learn something timeless and then apply it to your life.”

Any experiences on Farnam street learning community, cited in this article?
I had a long history of intrusive thoughts about bad experiences I've had. You know, poor decisions, arguments with other people, bad breaks. If I wasn't "self-medicating" with either alcohol or video games (to completely occupy my conscious thinking), I was ruminating on terrible things.

My solution was to write about them. It completely changed my life. I just worked through them as they came. It took many hours, and filled dozens of pages.

I almost never reflect on these things any more, and, if I do, it's usually in a "proper" way, to consider new lessons about them, and not get bogged down in hating myself about them.

As always, your milage may vary.
And also, is code highlighting supported with colours?
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Top bullet points that stood out to me:

• An insistent awareness that there are alternatives to the conventional solutions.

• Going directly toward the biggest challenges, early on.

• An understanding that engineering strength is more valuable than money.

• Willingness to weasel into industries with hard-to-open doors.
I've been reading this book. I'm about 50% of the way through now.

I learnt JavaScript a long time ago so I wanted something to get me up to speed with ES6 and above. The book succeeds admirably here. It is a little bit repetitive in places, but for free I'm not going to complain about that.

If you are reading this Flavio Copes - thank you :-)
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Monarchies, oligarchies, and other forms of authoritarian rule have been far more common modes of human governance.

I don't disagree with the point, but there's a blindness it.

It's kind of like saying paganism and heathenism have been far more common modes of spirituality than religion.

In reality, there have been a very large number of "modes of governance" that you (or they) can classify lots of different ways. The way the author chose to categorise them is "our sytem" and "bad systems."

To a Marxist, liberal democracy goes into the "Monarchies, oligarchies, and other forms of authoritarian rule" bucket.

A current Chinese cultural narrative is thousands of years of empire, until the ccp.
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That video at the bottom of the page made me understand that weird 6 wheels design. Cool :-D
if it makes you feel any better, just look at how many VC funded startups are basically doing the same thing in any given space
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That'd work, if not for selfish bargaining.

As soon as people realize they can blackmail me for my daughter's health, what wouldn't I pay?

I propose we as a society set a fair price, instead:

I vaccinate myself and my kids, and you vaccinate yourself and your kids.

If you want a vaccine with lower risk and inconvenience, you are entitled to ask the government to spend more on research, or you can donate your time and money to that research.
Just have to say. I've been writing and publishing on the web for more than 20 years now. I've had a couple of high-traffic posts, been slashdotted (once), and was once featured in a blog post on The Atlantic. I had a podcast for four years with a moderate number of subscribers. All of this was self-hosted. I have NEVER had to worry about bandwidth costs. The bandwidth included with the hosting/VPS plans I've used over the years has always been more than sufficient.
I'll bite. Google says this is cough medicine. How do you buy and take this?
For me people work unnervingly like neural networks, except for cases where stimuli have gone through slow sequential processing by the entirety of brain computational resources, we call consciousness.

Cached responses, for example. A question in a text form, which includes a clause pointing at a flaw in usual answer, gets the same usual answer.

Effectiveness of pointing and calling technique [0], which forces full conscious attention.

And other results in psychology, which can be explained by artificial neural network level dumbness of some behaviors. (If 7 workers can build 7 cars in 7 days, then how many days would it take 5 workers to build 5 cars? Is Winnie-the-Pooh a boar or a pig?)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
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I find it shocking how quick some people are to denounce government intervention these days. Are you seriously not concerned about Google’s market clout and the amount of data they have? Thank god the EU is there to temper their entitlement a bit.

Meanwhile you’re sitting here daydreaming about how your startup is going to be so big EU regulators are going to come after you. Well that would be an excellent problem to have, in actuality you are far more likely to be killed by Google sucking the oxygen out of your market.
You're absolutely right. Thank you.
I was in college at the University of Texas at the time, and my first exposure to Mosaic was in their new Student Microcomputer Facility. (Aka the SMF or 'Smurf lab.)

The SMF was a large and brand new ncomputer lab in the undergraduate library, equipped with something like 200 computers... 50 of them were Mac Quadras with 17 (!) inch monitors and the rest were Dell Dimension machines... 486DX2/66, local bus video, and 15 inch screens. These all had Mosaic installed with a UT page of some sort as the home. So, clicking on the icon brought up this hypertext display with this colorful 3-D rendered banner image at the top. It looked a lot like the hypertext help facility that Microsoft introduced with Windows 3.0, but better and network connected, and open, and accessible. Truly next generation stuff at the time, in particular in comparison to the purely character based internet that came immediately before. (Think telnet, archie, ftp, etc.)
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Is selective breeding because of external factors the same thing as “survival of the fittest”?
The studies I'm familiar with all indicate that any income above a fixed amount, typically around $70k, has no effect on happiness. In other words, once all basic needs are fullfilled, income has no measurable effect on happiness.
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In Mexico and Spain everyone uses Whatsapp.

iOS users don't use iMessage since SMS are expensive, and not using Whatsapp would be social ostracisation since Android has a bigger market share than in the US.

In Mexico a lot of businesses have support numbers via Whatsapp. Heck, you can even order food and other stuff like LPG gas.
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oddly enough most enterprises I know have servers "standards" for their own data centres and would dearly love to just fork cash to amazon to get them out of that hell
Yeah, well- so did Stigler. He kept flying and probably downed a few allied planes along the way.

What I find strange is that a man who would make such a noble gesture as taking care of a wounded enemy, would not simply refuse to take part in such a senseless, destructive war as WWII, in the first place.

But, people are complex animals with contradicting motives. And we can't see into the future.
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Sometimes I feel like throwing up when I hear more stories about advertising, advertising and more advertising. It's such a sad trend. Either people want to make money advertising things directly or our best engineers work for companies that provide advertising. There is so much potential lost with all the effort going into advertising instead of producing products that make the world better.
You only took one bit and responded with a "it's not that hard". Please explain in detail to all the things I mentioned, not just one.

Regarding your experience: it's unrelated. I mentioned loads of businesses didn't have to deal with this for decades. They're not known, didn't apply to be registered, don't know what to do, etc.
well there's one very obvious ommission: no mention of Brendan Eich?
Funny. I got the idea they were born on the most liberal country in Europe exactly because the peasants killed some kings there, until the kings agreed on a bill of rights.
No, it's not. It's a lightly veiled threat.
Alternatively, and specifically for PostgreSQL, if you can live with pgbouncer's constraints then you should be using it. It effectively self-manages an optimal shared connection pool for all of the application processes that connect to it.
I wonder if a machine-learning approach really would learn how to detect lies. There is already a huge corpus to train on: police interrogation videos. It would take significant effort to label deception that was later confirmed. But I’ll bet we could teach a computer to see through almost any lie if we decided it was an important thing to spend time on.
You know, I'm actually looking forward to the day that we can break existing cryptography. There's a lot of devices that are consumer unfriendly due to their security. Most famously, video game consoles. If we could break their security, it would open them wide to running custom code without tricky hacks that are inaccessible to the average end user. It would also allow enthusiast devs to release new games on disc and have them just boot on an unmodified console. This is something that happens already on older retro consoles like the NES where there security has already been broken.
For an interesting take on this, I'd recommend reading The Alchemy of Air.

It's not specifically about either of the world wars. It's about the work that led to the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process that makes it possible to produce ammonia by extracting nitrogen from the atmosphere.

This was a hugely valuable discovery - and the companies that formed as a result ended up having a significant impact on both wars.

The book talks about how the German chemical industry formed, how the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process affected the industry, how Fritz Haber helped lead Germany's chemical weapons development during WW1, and how the major chemical companies were eventually merged to form IG Farben, which was responsible for some pretty horrible things during WW2.
The XKCD comic strip makes for a useful and shallow zinger, amid casual banter, but the real world actually faces two or three new layers of complexity, which actually reassert the problem it attempts to dispose of.

1. The global reach of networked telecommunications permits a small quantity of sociopathic murderers to operate from beyond jurisdictions that can reach them, and also assists in destroying evidence of their interference.

2. Computational power enables force multiplication, such that even just one sociopathic murderer could exploit software flaws across millions of vehicles, simultaneously.

3. Some software exploits will work against self driving cars, which could never work against an ordinary person, and of course, vice versa, but not so much via remote control at a distance, when people are the operators, while we still lack electronic interfaces to our central nervous system.
Thanks for your direct viewpoint. I married into a large Orcadian family, and now have relatives scattered all over Scotland, and what I know is from them.

Personally, I'd like to see an Independent Scotland, but only if it is truly viable and the right thing for the country.
I would gladly pay a "pro" subscription to get rid of ads.

I've already tried to move friends and colleagues to Signal. It didn't work.
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It's probably just the way my brain works. After a SQL statement goes to more than ten lines or so I have to study it very hard to understand what's going on.

Maybe it's the way I was taught.
Ask HN: Is there a way to quantify opinions into a tangible tree/graph?
Take any given topic, say political for example.

Say the president does or says something.

Is there a way to quantify everyone's opinion about this into a tangible set of statements that you can agree or disagree with?
> Under the assumption that the tablet screen is just for media consumption

Why are you making this assumption?
Or you could use an async. db connection: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy/wiki/Fuse
> - Are there any native desktop clients supporting ActivityPub (micro)blogging? I've set up a Mastodon account, and the only way I interact with it is posting via a command-line tool. It's write-only for me because I can't be hassled to use the browser, and it would be nice to change that.

https://whalebird.org/en/desktop/contents

https://thedesk.top/en/

> - I don't want to host complicated platforms, all I need is a statically generated blog. ActivityPub could be the way to let people comment on my posts without forfeiting the staticness. Is there any static blog system that integrates with ActivityPub?

I'm 90% sure this doesn't exist right now in a usable form, closest is just something to ping Mastodon when you run your upload.

If you link a comment system in the way you suggest, someone would need to host it for you a la Disqus which is where you'd likely come full circle to "hosted blog platform".
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Error handling is best done with asserts which check for off-domain inputs and off-range outputs, and explode the running program if triggered.

I mean, security trumps convenience and uptime, right guys? Y'all do build your functions with domain and range in mind, right guys?
The editorial "we" I suppose :)

As for the code, yep I built everything myself (and wrote about it here [0]). But I've also had the help of people translating the app, giving feedback, and making suggestions along the way. Listening to people and filtering ideas through my own vision has really made the product what it is today.

Thanks, though! I'm just excited to keep pushing the AP ecosystem forward and making the platforms on it more usable.

[0] https://write.as/matt/how-i-built-a-multi-platform-app
You see this alot on FB, “tag 10 friends in this ad to enter a draw” kind of thing. It is one of the reasons that social media is poisonous to genuine human relationships.
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AFAIK ActivityPub uses a fan-out to other servers using the sharedInbox of the receivers [1], this makes the cost of distribution to be diluted by all instances of the fedverse that follow that account.

And what are you missing on the current aggregator features? do you have in mind anything more then the normal action of following other users?

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#shared-inbox-delivery
And yet we have already sacrificed those babies to Moloch, because if you don't somebody else will.
the way you said it, it looks like we can just model the system based on your understanding of what's right or wrong, or maybe you have some other infallible person in mind?
I highly doubt that Whatsapp was ever for user privacy. Have you tried installing it first time? It won't function without permission to intercept your SMS, it won't function without giving it complete contact list (as opposed to select few numbers) and so on. And of course that data is sold... er... how they say it now - "analyzed" or "exchanged".
Same here, though for me some thoughts haven't been easy to dismiss (especially when I'm lying in bed, trying to fall asleep).

However, what helped me immensely, was to start meditating regularly. This led me to being able to control and freely dismiss any thought whatsoever.

I encourage anybody having those problems, not being able to fix them, to try this.
I find it odd that it starts with ES6(arrow functions), ES2016, etc and then moved to basics like variables and functions.

I guess it works for people with enough experience, but still, I find it odd.

Anyway it is free so I can't complain too much, subscribed.
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Nearly everyone who witnessed WW2 is dead. It's harder to sell nationalism or strong men politicians when you have a segment of the population who understand the dangers. Learning about WW1 or WW2 through a book or a video doesn't cut it. Not like living it.
The Scotts are a family of people with the surname Scott. The Scots are the people of the country Scotland.

Since you know why the Scots voted Remain, I'm surprised you keep making that mistake.
There's a free template if you would like to host a minimal static blog https://pawelurbanek.com/jekyll-seo-template
To be fair to the computers, that’s about the speed we train image classifiers to run at, if not faster. It seems likely that if we were willing to tolerate a second or two of latency we might be able to devise architectures that are able to see through some of the images that confuse current architectures.
Yeah, I struggled to find the right word, but settled on using "swap" since I couldn't think of any better description at the moment.

That said, there is significant overlap between the two.
At first glance that just looks like markdown ..?
> There is so much potential lost with all the effort going into advertising instead of producing products that make the world better.

Devil's advocate / on the other hand: there's so much potential lost with all the effort going into producing products that make the world better, but which fall flat due to a lack of or poor advertising.
It's a fun idea, but even the premise points out the major fault: "whether someone thinks they are telling the truth".

Studies on memory show that human beings, as a whole, are terrible at remembering things. We edit, we re-write, we create. Almost certainly some event you remember clearly from more than 20 years ago either did not happen at all, happened to someone else and you heard about it, or happened in a completely different way than you remember. That's true for just about everyone[0].

What good is a device that can tell if you believe you're telling the truth when your beliefs and memories are so flaky anyways?

[0] Except my wife, whose near-eidetic memory is frightening.
> To a certain extent geography dictates policy, and Ireland being in Schengen is a bit silly given the lack of land borders with Schengenland.

Counterexample: Iceland is part of Schengen. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Current_members.
It would have been great as a normal homepage, the pdf format is a bit hard to read on the phone while on the buss :)
I did some profiling when I was working at one of the big online travel sites. We were running about 300 or so servers with a 50-connection pool each. After testing, we determined that at no time, ever, was more than one connection in simultaneous use across the server farm. We could have reduced it to a single shared connection per server and maintained the same QoS.
It’s kinda perverted how dishonest the internet has become thanks to advertising.

Children will go online looking for toy or game reviews not knowing even their friends have sold them out for a couple bucks.
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