skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, answers like this always seem to over-simplify. Oh hey just take this vitamin and the soul sucking demon that's been riding on your shoulder for years, decades, will magically go away.

On the other, I spent nearly two decades of my life suffering from this horrendous illness, and nothing has helped as much as daily magnesium does.

I take a big Magnesium pill, a men's health multivitamin and I add D in the winter. Even my sleep apnea went away, and there's no damn reason that makes any sense.

Biology is stupid.
See, that's on my reading list. (3rd or 4th I think, so coming up soon)

Now I've had some of the surprise ruined just by reading a HN thread that didn't even appear to be related to the book in the first place. If I had just clicked the Wikipedia link and read the first puzzle, I'd have clipped it to my notes and marked it as something to read afterward. But because this was pushed up to top comment, it caught my eye first.
What a bizarre story! Of all the people in the org chart, the "Biggest Boss of All" should be most concerned with the company bottom line, and least with protecting individual developer egos from each other. The wretchedly slow performance of the CAD system could easily have cost that organization customers. Just, wow.
I had it explained to me as Parrot + Humans, the bird will 'talk human'. Parrot + Parrot, the bird will 'talk bird' i.e. screeches and calls, louder.
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Kinda late on this, but I found something similar recently, that was also inspired by the original RHex:

http://robotsquare.com/2013/07/17/zebro-light/

I can't recall where or how I found it (there's a good chance it was mentioned here on HN)...
> One

The number of baskets to put all your eggs into.
agreed that's what Americans tend to believe. Heck I mostly believe it. Of course the problem is they grant those businesses monopolies so then there is no competition
I had the goal of learning UX basics in as little time as possible.

I took a 2 hour General Assembly course and found it incredibly useful - it sounds crazy but I feel like I learned 50% of what I needed to know about UX in just those 2 hours.

I asked some UX peeps what books they recommended and I purchased 2 and never read a single page (they were The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and Sprint by Google Ventures).

For web app UX, I found this 30 minute video extremely useful (great to see how a non-design person might make something, then how that same non-design person can change the primitive app they made into something very nice!).

Design for Non-Designers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21byk2WWz3k
A good way to get people to come around to some idea is to sneak it in in such a way that they think it's actually their idea.
I think that the best part of this for me is that they managed to map pins 5-12 to match the screen SPI pins. I suppose that once you have a ground pin, the rest can be mapped in software (with the power being a high output), but it's still pretty cool to see.
I'm glad the cat examples are low resolution. That seemingly randomized deformity is disturbing.
No. It solved a problem that was vaguely analogous if you consider a binary sitting on some Unix server the equivalent of a “serverless function”. They are somewhat similar, in that both are relatively self-contained and stateless compared to the alternative, not requiring anything to be explicitly spun up or down (a daemon or a VM/container respectively). But an inetd binary runs on an existing server, and the client is expected to know the address of the server. A “serverless function” can be spun up on the fly on any number of provider-owned servers which nobody has seen before, so there needs to be a separate mechanism to (1) request a server to spin up if necessary and (2) locate that server. Right now, Amazon Lambda only provides this through high-level abstractions such as Amazon API Gateway; you can’t even listen on a port from a Lambda container, so you’re limited by the speed of those gateways.
I think part of it is that there's also not that many hackers actually using exploits. Sure, there are automated stuff like botnets, but there seems to be little manual hacking done. Chances are, if you have lousy security, you're still not going to get hacked (unless you're literally holding money, or have blueprints of military hardware). If this is correct, it means that security is usually a waste of time.

I really care about security, but I think it's mostly because the aesthetics of insecure code bothers me, and not because of a carefully considered cost-benefit analysis.
As the author of the article and creator of the website, I thank you for the feedback.

I am not sure why you expected a Deep Dive when the site is geared toward educating beginners?

The video posted is good, I personally didn't have over an hour to invest watching it, but obviously, Schwartz is next level.

I will have an article coming out in 2 weeks that examines the differences between Stellar and Ripple.
"$6 billion"- there seems to be a disconnect between what some VCs say and what the market says.
Sure?

I agree that free distribution and approximately infinite supply have been a problem for many content businesses that based their businesses on scarcity. But as far as I can tell the topic here is whether Instagram content is valuable. It is. Many valuable things can be hard to monetize. E.g., air.
I think it's useful, if you feel it's a burden to have to interoperate with a codebase using non-ASCII identifiers, to consider how literally every person in the world whose native language is non-ASCII must have felt being forced to use it for programming.

Let people who have to interoperate with multilingual colleagues settle on conventions for doing so. Let people who don't use their own language already.
Probably first heard from a parrot.
It's all rather nebulous and controversial, so it's hard to point to specific sources that would easily convince someone new to the topic. It would take a lot of effort and personal investment, which I've been motivated to make due to my own life challenges.

A couple of noteworthy authors/speakers on the topic are Dr. Gabor Maté and Dr. Bruce Lipton.

Dr. Maté is a mainstream physician who was born into a Jewish family in Hungary just as the Nazis were occupying. Through his career he has closely studied the role of early life trauma in long-term behavioural and physiological illness. Here's an article he wrote about autism [1]. He's written a bunch of books about links between trauma and long-term health outcomes [2].

Dr. Lipton was a pioneering stem cell biologist in the 70s and 80s, who became particularly interested in the role of experience/belief/trauma on behavioural and physiological outcomes. In his book, The Biology of Belief [3], he covers the statistical link between early life trauma and autism, and proposes a biological basis for it.

Lipton is a controversial figure who is easily ridiculed by mainstream medicine devotees as he gets handwavy about quantum physics and has become involved with the new age spirituality movement. But, having applied his ideas very successfully in my own life over the past few years, I can attest that what he's right about is more important than what he might be wrong about.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/autism-is-the-child-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Gabor-Mat%C3%A9/e/B001IO9TH2

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Biology-Belief-10th-Anniversary-Consc...
Hey, thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of the US involvement with the election of Yeltsin. That's especially interesting, as Yeltsin essentially dissolved the USSR.

There is a long history of foreign interventions in elections being catastrophic; I recently read Herman's "1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder" - and he claims that there is pretty solid evidence that Lenin was bankrolled by Germany in very impactful ways.
Log into your SmugMug account and open the Organizer. Browse to the gallery (or galleries) containing the videos you want to download, click the "Download" button in the toolbar (downward pointing arrow with a flat line underneath), and select "Download Gallery".

SmugMug will generate a zip file containing the original, unmodified images and videos in the gallery, and will email you a download link when it's ready.
I like this kit, but the price really jumps when you go "full kit" - but it's still cheaper than just about any other 6-legged robot kit.

That said, one of the nice things about whegs vs. legs is that you get almost all the benefits of legs, with a much simpler (and lower cost - in theory, if you don't go with Robotis servos, etc) design. Basically the whole "80% of the functionality for 20% of the cost" idea...

But the Vorpal is cuter...heh.
Okay, one last comment before I wear out my welcome: this is actually super fascinating. The reason for this difference has to do with genital homology[1].

Basically, apart from the vagina itself, almost every part of male and female genitalia is made of the same essential “stuff”, just smooshed around to suit different roles. Crucially, all the most important nerve endings are there— so if you rearrange stuff to be in more or less the right place, you get something that works more or less the way you’d expect.

The only issue is, if you got the deluxe variety pack at birth, you probably have a bunch of extra “vulva skin” that you don’t really need, and it’s hanging out in just the right place to make a neovagina out of. Neat!

But if you’re stuck with the original flavor, you’ve probably only got a tiny little bit of “penis muscle” to make do with, so you have to get much more creative.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology_(biology)
That's not clear at all to me. This system sounds extremely complex (which could be one of the causes of the problem!), so I don't see how we can assume that no bugs got introduced, nor that execution speed is the only metric that matters.

Perhaps the existing socket-based solution simply used a bad timeout, and instead of a weekend of work to completely change the architecture of the system, it could have been fixed by changing one number in a configuration file. That would have been much lower risk, and not affected any other functionality, test suites, debugging practices, support procedures, etc.

Software is still a young field that celebrates youth, and single combat warriors, like "Mel". It reminds me of Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff", about the U.S. space program back in the 1950's. One person could and did go do crazy heroic things that helped a single flight succeed. Eventually, space flight grew up, and NASA today barely even mentions the names of their contributors and collaborators. They'd never put up with cowboys like that any more. That's not how you achieve successful, repeatable results in complex systems.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.
The Most Important Software Innovations (2001-2017)
I don't understand why Apple is still considered an American company today
Unfortunately there is no mention in the article of cell-phones. See here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20714683

Note, that's an animal study, but definitely worth considering if you're worried about your T-levels.

Another thing to look at if you want to raise your T-levels: High intensity training [0]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317013787_Exercise_...
The good that that does is saving lives, even if it harms the companies reputation. It sounds like you're suggesting that a companies reputation is worth more than the potential death of unknowing, innocent people.
The author says somewhere in that rant explicitly that Esperanto is a Romance/Germanic/Slavic creole and there are already too many of those, which is a pretty clear restatement of what I referred to as the second theme.

Most of the rant itself is essentially a lot of nitpicking at the corners of the language. For example, the complaints about the passive voice structure or the gerunds in Esperanto, or the entire discussion of the difference between tense and aspect. This discussion can generally be simplified as "linguistics is more complex than is presented by its author." http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/b.html gives a more thorough elaboration on this topic in particular by going line-by-line through the Fundamento and pointing out some of the misconceptions of linguistics embedded in it (among other things).
> At what point does this kind of behavior warrant inprisonment of 100% of the executive staff?

Fixed that for you.
> They will be charged for the laptop

In what universe is that legal?? And how about liability for when they plug it into their personal equipment and damage that?
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the big deal is not knowing the platform and therefore reproducing it in wasm. a simple example is most games compling in libjpg, libpng, zlib when the browser already has that stuff built in.
> I believe past trauma is the root cause and I doubt people have depression if they haven't had some type of experience they would classify as trauma.

I had a great childhood. Amazing parents. A good upper middle class life. Good friends. No real trauma to speak of at all.

By 12, if I'd shared with a doctor what was going on in my head they'd have slapped me with the depression label. I wasn't healthy. There was no event or trauma. This shit is genetic- I can tell which relatives on my Mom's side have the demon riding on their shoulders. They, like me, were born with it. I'm sure they can see it on me too.

Trauma can indeed trigger it, but there are a lot of other ways. Don't presume that just because someone suffers from depression that they have been traumatized, nor that someone who hasn't been traumatized can't suffer from depression.
Because governments don’t want to be in the business of running electric utilities. Private electric utilities are the norm all over the US, and common in western europe as well. It works fine almost everywhere else. California’s problems are “because California” not because of the corporate structure.
Agreed. Of all the Agile practices, collective code ownership is possibly my favorite. It requires that one proceed thoughtfully, of course. And I think it requires other practices, like high test coverage. But I think people treating patches of code the same way dogs defending their yards is poisonous. It's hard enough to get good work done without every pull request hinging on politics.
I'm sorry you're there. Good luck.
PG&E is regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission, which can and does tell the company what to do, what prices to charge, etc.
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Yes, that's what I'm doing and it works. But the videos that I download are stripped out of the metadata :(

EDIT: I created a blog post[0] that tries to explain this in more detail

[0] https://blog.gingerlime.com/2018/smugmug-video-data-loss/
If the third party code is running in the same process than the security is managed by V8 (or whatever runtime). Does such a thing exist in other managed languages? Does anyone know if C# or Java(for example) have the concept of untrusted libraries?
It's a complicated topic and tough to do it justice in a brief post, but a couple brief thoughts anyway. I believe that I as an individual have a moral obligation to provide aid to the poor. I do not believe that government has that responsibility. Ultimately the government is funded via taxation backed by the threat of force. As such, taxing some citizens to provide aid to others is a form of legislating morality. I think the legislation of morality is warranted primarily in the negative, that is, to prohibit things such as murder, theft, assault, etc.

Secondly, I believe that aid to the poor is most effective and of greater benefit to both the giver and the recipient when it is done in a relational context (which is not to say that aid is given directly from the giver to the recipient, just that it's localized enough that the givers and recipients are in the same community). The giver can see the tangible effects of his generosity and the recipient can see the care shown by the giver. By its nature, government aid is impersonal and therefore less beneficial. The "givers" in that case, who are "giving" often only under compulsion, often feel exploited and resentful. Many recipients develop a sense of entitlement since there's no direct connection between the aid they receive and their fellow citizens who provided that aid.

I do agree with you that taking government out of the aid business would result in less uniform funding for aid, but I think that's a lesser problem than forcing it on everyone. I'm on the board of a local charity and I see the private donors who fund it, 95% of whom are are middle or upper-middle class, and I'm pretty amazed by their generosity. I wish awareness of those kinds of things were greater.
http://explosm.net/comics/2106/
'The Multiscale Law of Requisite Variety' may be my new favourite piece of science terminology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)#Law_of_R...

Would also make a good band name.

>in general, any system without structure above a certain scale is unable to withstand structure arising above that scale

The political implications of this are interesting, in this paper they look at anarchic systems ceding to structure, but it also helps illuminate some of the inherent difficulties in current events such as brexit.
I wonder if there are any news articles about what else might have been found in the cache, and where it was found?

Edit: Just hadn't read far enough...
As well as Fidelity's checking account, Cash Management Account, is FDIC insured.

This definitely feels like a case of Robinhood ignoring some advice.
Sorry, but you're guessing without having any data or knowledge of Esperanto. At the World Kongresso hundreds of people from around the world meet and only speak Esperanto all week. They have zero trouble communicating. There are several Esperanto video channels where people meet others who don't speak their tongue and they can communicate fluently. There are even some native Esperanto speakers believe it or not.
Was skeptical at $250, even more skeptical now at $360. It's priced like a technology company in a business that's anything but. I find the concept of them being an automotive Apple interesting, but think it's easier to sell an overpriced $1000 item than a $30,000+ one.

It's hard to comment on all the bizarre and sensational stuff but it certainly doesn't make it any better.

Disclaimer: I'm not into cars, know nothing about cars, and I'll profit from a drop in the stock price.
PG&E is much worse than a private company. It is the weird result of heavy government regulation on the wrong most ant-competitive ways + lots of lobbying. PG&E is not subject to any free markets. Cali for example has 3 of these companies each serving certain regions. When there was completion in the power market you had multiple companies inside cities all providing different kinds of service (AC, DC, varying volts/amps) in crazy ways that would result in most of our modern electronics getting baked. The standards were good. It is however also difficult to have free market power when your cities heavily regulate who can put up utility lines and where so poles don't get too ugly or loaded. There are a lit of reasons what we have is worse than private or completely public.
Even on the same machine using sockets is going to be much slower than function calls, or shared memory access. One of the criticisms of early X Windows system was its slow performance on local machines.

But the client-server design of X-Windows was quite deliberate. Makes me wonder if this CAD system had a similar pedigree? I think we’re only hearing half the story here.
How do we solve this problem of discovery w.r.t. smart suggestions based off degrees of separation from mutual friends or other data on either end algorithmically?

Anyone have any insight into a more thoughtful recommendation approach that can be represented algorithmically?

Also any social platform would be hurting user growth metrics if they made you jump through hoops for discovering if someone you know has a profile. This is super nuanced, thanks for the unique perspective.
This is actually surprisingly good. It could use some Einstein quotes, like the one about how you can't solve a problem from the same mindset that created it.

But there is also the issue that when we do, in fact, solve wicked problems, people essentially "forget" it ever happened.

From my blog, a thing I've said about a billion times and got tired or writing from scratch over and over:

Maybe you have heard of Y2K? No, maybe not. Maybe are you too young to remember it.

When computers first came out, they had very limited storage. It made a big difference if you used two digits or four to record the year. So they used two digits because the extra two were such a hardship.

As the turn of the century approached -- the year 2000 (abbreviated Y2K) -- people began predicting that our global banking system would melt down. Some people became what we now call Preppers. They had five years of flour in the basement and guns at the ready for a post apocalyptic world.

And then midnight came that New Year's Eve and the world did not melt down because old programmers who wrote old programming languages had quietly been fixing the problem for several years. Mostly, you could no longer program your VCR ahead of time to record stuff, which didn't matter that much because most people didn't know how to program their VCR anyway. They just pushed the "record" button when the show started if they wanted it recorded.

No one wakes up these days and says "Thank god! I'm not living in the Y2K Post Apocalypse! ATMs work and the global banking system still works and VCRs have long since been replaced."

Except maybe me and my sons. We occasionally say things like that. But no one else does.

Instead, there are people who mock the idea that this was ever a problem, like "Can you believe those idiots ever thought it would become a global banking meltdown! Ha!"

Similarly, when Iraq set fire to hundreds of oil wells on its way out of Kuwait, experts predicted it would burn for years and be a global environmental disaster. Then crack teams from around the world converged on Kuwait, invented new techniques on the spot and wrapped up the job in a mere six months.

There was no media storm celebrating this amazing victory on par with the dire warnings we heard about endlessly when this disaster was being predicted. This triumph became a minor footnote in more exciting news stories.

We don't run around today thanking our lucky stars that the Kuwaiti Oil Fires failed to become the global catastrophe it was expected to be.

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them." -- Einstein
This is nothing new. The loudest people in the software industry are the ones with the most time, which by definition is the ones who are least employed or most activist.

Back in the real world that reddis wants to charge a license fee would just mean an email to your boss and accounting with a short message saying "This is a better alternative since we can change the source code as needed for a pittance". Then it will go to the CEO and he will sign off with "Done" after reading the first 20 words of the report.
It is ambiguous – my first thought was that a record redshift had been measured.
Looks like this is not a new thing among parrots. YouTube shows quite a few results when I searched for "parrot alexa". Also, there are some interesting videos for "parrot siri".

In one case, the owner got the package delivered also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a43Ea_df0rw

Using Alexa to turn on lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQD4UdGY-A

Petra the Parrot tries to shop on Amazon w Alexa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoQ16SEamY

Parakeet using Siri to search for chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbPxpi05ruY

Not related to technology, but this birds reaction to the man destroying is cage is funny (loud): https://youtu.be/XM8aBESf8EI?t=61