skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days if you get in to NYT or Amazon top list, you are talking about windfall in range of $10M. For books like Fifty Shades of Grey this was at $100M for the author. So writing books these days is not poor author trying to getting by but a very very serious business. It's as serious as Series C startup with actual office, roadmap, business plan, marketing plan and even full time employees who would do research, citation collection, word smithing, editing etc for you. People like Tim Ferris and Malcolm Gladwell have made this to an art form and are some of the most successful founders for this type of business. The way they work is by taking couple of known data points in academia and expand it on to 400 page book dishing it out as fundamental insights that everyone is missing out on. Such books are rife with repetitions, personal stories, cherry picked anecdotes, raising underdogs and putting down others that evoke emotions but at the same time tuck away the other side of the story that would have made them more balanced and boring.

I wouldn't be surprised if Taleb has made more money from his books then his hedge fund career and accordingly he might be more aggressive to protect his image as dispenser of great counter-intuitive insights. His assertions in these sets of tweets are obviously overblown. IQ testing is known to be very faulty measure for intelligence but at the same time lot of rebellious personalities including Einstein, Bill Gates, Lady Gaga etc have had high (> 150) IQ. No one would call them people yearning to be obedient salaried drones.
kind of a long yakkety article and not much on tangibles. Yes there's a correlation between depression and inflammation, but there's a much bigger bucket of potential factors going on in this area: depression, sedentary lifestyle, sugar intake, obesity, inflammation, gut bacteria, visceral fat, and a whole lot more. As a clinical depression sufferer, if I change any one of those things, all the others change too. So yes keep looking into it but my own anecdotes and reading suggest there's a more complex ecosystem than just "inflamation == depression" going on.
how do you fully understand his point?

i find taleb to be frustratingly incomplete. he likes to play with words but doesn’t string enough material ones together to complete an idea.

yes, i can buy that dynamic and static inequality can be different (e.g., dynamic and static stability in mechanics is different) but he doesn’t really say what he means by that.

or maybe he’s so enamoured with words snd erudition that i get bored long before he finishes the explanation?
I run a casio waveceptor watch. It is accurate to within half a second of what the local tv uses for broadcast time and seeing as I am involved in a live broadcast then yes i do need that accuracy weekly.
You might want to check out this related work: http://casper.uwplse.org
You sure that’s the right link? The presentation slides link on that page didn’t seem related.

Edit: n/m, watching the video made more sense. That said, it wasn’t simply “adding the X Y coordinates”, the Christmas tree example didn’t use IPv6 or Ping, but I’m sure the process was likely similar.

tl;dr
They use a Microtik firewall which uses an rsyslog forwarder with an Arduino to control the Christmas lights.
Exactly, and even if nobody has ever built it or written a formal proof that it would work, you can still imagine how it would work and prove it to your own mind.

(This would work for a purely mechanical computer made out of rocks, too.)

Personally, with enough knowledge about how modern AI works, and a reasonable understanding of the neuroscience literature, I feel there is no fundamental mystery to consciousness, only awe at the level of complexity harnessed.
IMHO most of Netflix's catalogue is crap... Or their recommender system just doesn't get me. It seems to have overfit on anime, even though I just watched a couple a long time ago.
It is an AMP page, bad taste, why not the normal link ?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/14/18128848/hyperloop-arriv...
Yeah, in this case Patreon is clearly at fault for not notifying Scott about his account's status.
Sure, at the first, proximate level of causation.

The deeper questions concern the regulatory failure:

- Does NHBC possess the technical and budgetary wherewithal to adequately inspect?

- What enforcement powers does NHBC purportedly have?

- Why has it not exercised them against the bad actors?

- Have certain homebuilders captured the NHBC?

- Has NHBC captured legislators, or public employees?

- Why has there been no legal challenge to the NDAs?
SFTP, SCP and Rsync Direct to Backblaze B2
The "implicit firewall by IPv4 NAT" is functionally the same as:

Outbound allow
Deny all

In any stateful firewall implementation. The only difference from IPv4 is the ruleset doesn't have the NAT statement.
I'd personally opt for the over-the-top flaming myself, as well. Although it doesn't cultivate a professional image, I strongly prefer it over the "but before I kill you, Mr. Bond..." tone that this example gives off. I've worked with people who weren't afraid to pop off with some choice words over poor decisions having been made, and found the impassioned anger toward choices that threaten something they really give a shit about is a lot easier to get over than something like this mailing list post.

People get angry over things they care about, but they'll cool off, and you'll learn what matters to them. However, if you're playing by The Rules and break them, you'll carry that mark for years, regardless of whether or not who's enforcing got over the incident.
There doesn't need to be a new revision when you can accomplish all those goals by running your own stratum 1:

https://www.amazon.com/TimeMachines-TM1000A-maintains-broadc...
It's popular because math and stats are always right. Even if you've hacked your A/B test to the point of where you should have zero confidence in the results, you can still point to them and say "math says this is the best decision, so we should take it".
Human civilization is failing
4chan only has better discussion when you are absolutely new to a topic, since the userbase tends to be on the younger side and they are happy to reshare the information they just learned. The basics are constantly presented over and over again.

But people with real knowledge eventually grow tired of sharing that information with a userbase that is happy to discuss which programming language has the best Hello World, whether Good Eats or Food Wishes is better for someone that has grown tired of ramen noodles, how to get into starting strength, which JR pass to buy on a first trip to Japan, etc.

The discussions don't seem shallow when the topics are new but they hardly ever get in depth because of the fact that the posts are fleeting outside of information contained in the sticky. There is very little point in having anything besides shallow discussion because it is ultimately a waste of time to constantly rehash the actual relevant and deep information you just posted a couple days.

This is when the users are in more or less well behaved forums. You go into some of the more trolly boards and the conversation just degrades even further.

Reddit has its own issues with people posting stuff just for likes and refusing to disagree for fear of losing internet points, but the actual content on the site is far superior to 4chan at this point, even though they started off by basically stealing all the interesting meme content from 4chan. There is actual useful information all throughout Reddit, even though I don't particularly like the community as a whole.

I would really like to hear why you think either site comes close to the discussion on hackernews however. This is easily the most civil and well moderated large site I've been on in a long while.
Another important library not supporting 3.7 is celery (distributed task queuing). Otherwise I also favor 3.7 (for contextvars and dataclasses).
Picking a Name for Your Project
Since constants are the exception, and used to require an ASCII capital but now can start with ant capital, an identifiers starting with a Unicode character in a script that doesn't have upper/lower case distinction is a variable, not a constant.
I have migrated a binary file format to an SQLite-based ORM schema at one of my jobs. It worked out amazingly well, with (limited) forward and backward compatibility for nearly free.

A lot of hairy if-else code was made unnecessary.

SQLite is IMHO the best option for data serialization/persistence/interchange in many cases, especially when some data is a blob, or, say, a huge array of floating-point numbers that you need to store with full precision (which makes text-based formats clunky to deal with).
I once had a dodgy builder doing work at my place (I didn't realise he was dodgy until it was too late). He had MBA stickers all over his van. I took some photos of it and sent it to them saying he was fraudulently using their name when not a member. Their response was well we can send him an application. Never mind that he had loads of fines and on-going investigations by fair trading.
I did say they were very well connected ;)
Californians knew that experience clear back in the 1980s.

A popular bumper sticker read, "WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA. NOW, GO HOME."
Probably. Colorado has defenses. A large-scale ICBM attack would get through, but bombers or a small ICBM attack wouldn’t.
I never buy food at these stores but dollar tree is shit for random household stuff! Sponges, dish soap, batteries, baby wipes, light bulbs, you name it just a dollar. Don’t carry everything you need but if they do it’s usually about 1/2 the price at Walmart and 1/4 what it costs at Walgreens.
I got two ideas from that writing:
- Is not a good idea to take a single dimensional indicator for a multidimensional capability. I suppose that know about IQs can discuss about that.
- That having a high IQ is not a so great predictor on how well you will solve a real world problem. If we define "real world problems" the ones with feedback loops, plenty of noise, and known and unknown unknowns (his field of work) then he may have a point. But that is a subset of the real world problems, and anyway you may have to solve ideal world problems too.
While this article seems like it's trying to be profound, my main reaction to most of it's claims are "no kidding, Sherlock" rather than surprise.

For instance, when the article writes, "If tech’s moment of reckoning has taught us that Silicon Valley is the same old capitalism" I straight up just laughed. Who didn't think that technology companies weren't engaged in capitalism? In fact, I'd even say that they're the poster child of capitalism: a group of people invent new and or more efficient technologies, processes, or organizations and provide a desirable product or service at a competitive cost. That's what capitalism is all about.

I also think the author is also stretching things when trying to draw parallels between tech workers and low skilled labor. Unionization in low skilled labor functions by artificially reducing the supply of labor to drive up costs. Tech workers' are not engaging in this, since the demand for tech jobs is largely higher than the supply. Rather, tech workers are leveraging the high demand for their labor to get the things they want.
By destroying a civil service manned service permanently, they open the door for some shitty contractor to take over at 10x cost.

Rick Santorum was always down on the NWS providing weather data to the public... as his pals were the people who own Accuweather.
With all the Die Hard references, it almost certainly was.
Hello, Snapchat UI redesign.
Ps dollar tree offers way more value for your “dollar” (pun intended :) than dollar general where things seems to rarely cost a dollar.
If many millionaires have IQs around 100, & 58 y.o. back office clercs at Goldman Sachs or elsewhere an IQ of 155 (true example), clearly the measurement is less informative than claimed.

it is important to distinguish the macro from the micro point of view.

From the micro point of view, a talented individual has a greater a priori probability to reach a high level of success than a moderately gifted one.

On the other hand, from the macro point of view of the entire society, the probability to find
moderately gifted individuals at the top levels of success is greater than that of finding there
very talented ones, because moderately gifted people are much more numerous and, with the
help of luck, have - globally - a statistical advantage to reach a great success, in spite of their
lower individual a priori probability.
Phoenixing - ASIC was meant to be cracking down on that but I hear from ppl that work there they cant be bothered with small companies and mainly want to focus on banks etc.
Boise is a prime example of political refugees running to a place because they love the current policies. And then voting in people who enacted the types of policies that they ran away from. The district I live in went completely Democrat for the first time in its history.

It’s also making house unaffordable. My small 1100 sq ft house has appreciated almost 60% in 4 years. I couldn’t afford to move into something bigger even if I wanted to.

Oh and traffic that’s getting fun because our city planners are about 10 years behind on city planning.

But it’s still better then San Francisco or LA. And our crime rate is still super low...For now.
>Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, the three areas with a triple-digit daily exodus

Yet those cities showed continuous rise in housing costs over the same period. Example: LA housing costs rose roughly 7% in the period it lost roughly 100,000 residents

> Honolulu, San Jose, New York and Bridgeport, CT lost the highest shares of their residents to other parts of the country.

Yet San Jose housing costs have risen 16% in the last year.

And I note even Flint Michigan has had a 9% cost increase over the last year.

What could possibly explain this?
The Russians still equip their navy with shortwave. There’s a reason for that.

In any sort of conflict, GPS will be gone in hours.
Is that why they decided to end a deduction instead of just doing an across the board percentage hike (or even both)? Again, even if you don't think so the people affected have gotten the message.
Seconding this.

One thing though: last time I did that, I ended up writing my own ORM/serialization library (with templates and all), but I wish I didn't have to.

Is there anything freely available out there that would allow one to store object hierarchies with the ease of boost::serialization, but into an SQLite EAV scheme?
>>This project is nothing more than a scam to fetch investors money.

I'm unaware of Musk asking for any particular investment in a Hyperloop project. Most Hyperloop projects are independent parties working on the idea on their own volition. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
What you suggest sounds like security by obscurity.
>"As much as I love SQLite, and while it is open source, it is a single implementation that AFAIK has no published open specification. The only way to read an SQLite file is using SQLite, and in that respect, it is for many users just as closed as wrapping something in a word document."

That's an extreme position to take, particularly since the SQLite code is public domain. Furthermore it's one of the formats recommended by the Library of Congress for archival/data preservation:

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/data.html

https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html
No, because of the sendfile syscall, where the kernel pass all the file data without switching back to userspace.

Even if you can in theory save some time with small files with sqlite, you would be back to read/write IO and userspace/kernel byte buffer switching.

And it probably wouldn't be faster than something like a mmaped file anyway (unless the SQLite Db is also mmaped).
Yes when your buildings collapse you will find you have problems bigger than your political friends can help you with.

Meriton is competent enough to put up buildings that won’t fall down on their own.
And you can always go for the common man later. The same strategy Tesla is doing. It isn't too uncommon.
> Do mildly Christmas-themed movies such as Die Hard (it's not integral to the plot)

The plot of the movie would have to be changed substantially if it didn't take place at Christmas, so I think it is integral to the plot.
What if there is a crash ? In Hyperloop it means vacuum all around, and even on minor accidents you'll die horrible death :D
Not to mention we have a working real world implementation of Maglev running at 550 - 600Km/hr in Japan. Not as fast as the theoretical 1000Km/Hr in hyperloop, but one is still in R&D while the other is actually running.

That is until Elon can proof he can manufacture the Tube much cheaper than layering the Mag-Lev track.
Is it a ghost town if it's not deserted?
I wonder if anyone relevant at Patreon reads HN.
Are you sure they run there because they love the current policies? Do you know that they didn’t move there in spite of the current policies? The housing policy that is causing a lot of distortion in California was enacted decades ago. The people migrating to Boise aren’t old folks are they? People younger than 50 didn’t have much to do with the famous property tax proposition in California.
Still, better than a law that says foreign companies must hand over everything and local competitors don't have to pay any royalties.

We win, trade war over!
CA does this, but only for about $70 of property taxes a year for homeowners.
Jobs was right more often and despite everything, people still wanted to work with him. I guess the answer is “you can be an asshole if you’re a once-in-a-generation product developer with charisma”. Otherwise, stick to the tried and tested ways of using a team as a lever.

Perhaps in twenty years we will hear about “awful conditions at Tesla but I knew we were changing the world” or some such.
Yes! And more and more they have organic or no pesticides food. Aldi is the store I miss most since leaving the Midwest :/ such good fresh food for relatively little money
Oh neat! Id never heard of that before.
The scientific method was designed to study phenomenon and test observations empirically. There's an essential problem with using science to confirm or describe that in which phenomenon and confirmation is presented.

If you're talking about the neural correlates of consciousness, you're right that we're removing a lot of the mystery. But if you're talking about the mystery that is your own subjective being, then we may never solve that problem. As Susan Greenfield states, "we can't turn the water into wine"

Sam Harris does a great 5m summary on the hard problem of consciousness that's worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiaKm6PlpsQ
That's it, plus a model is an assignment of a truth value to every well-formed statement of logic language.
The "show the sword" metaphor is intriguing. Show it to whom? To anyone who would challenge a central party official?
It'd be useful to study the pairwise origin and destination of the domestic moves. That would lend insight into whether the gains posted by Sunbelt metros are largely of the rural-to-urban nature (or small metro to large metro, but still nearby), or whether most domestic arrivals are coming from places further away, from other regions of the country.

After all, the former kind is the usual urban concentration we've seen for a while, while the latter might be indicative of broader demographic trends like the Great Northward Migration, or the first Sunbelt Boom.
Netflix app on the Roku does the same. Quite annoying when you’re paused on the interface for a little bit and then all of a sudden something plays/roars at high volume.
> The only way to read an SQLite file is using SQLite

This part unfortunately isn't a position, it's absolute. It's hard to imagine a situation where as a developer we would not have access to a C runtime or for any reason whatsoever would not be able to use SQLite, but the hard dependency on its code is real, and represents a real hazard in the wrong environment. A super easy example would be parsing data on say, a tiny microcontroller on an IOT device. This can start to hurt quickly:

> Compiling with GCC and -Os results in a binary that is slightly less than 500KB in size

Open formats at least give you the option of implementing whatever minimal hack is necessary to finish your job without say, introducing some intermediary to do an upfront conversion, and at least for this reason SQLite cannot really be considered a perfectly universal format
Actually one of the latest episodes of the Impact is about how aggressively annexing ended up serving those within the city very poorly.

https://art19.com/shows/the-impact/episodes/99ffb9d5-58d6-44...

> The incredible shrinking city

> For decades, Memphis grew by bringing its suburbs into the city limits. City officials thought this suburb-gobbling policy would be an economic boon-- that it would bring in tax revenue.

> Instead, the policy was an economic disaster, especially for the majority black neighborhoods in the city's core.
In this episode, we’ll tell you about the consequences of Memphis’ sprawl, and the city’s plan to fix its past mistakes.

This article should not be treating it like such a panacea, because it certainly went poorly for Memphis
You're wrong when you assumed it is Musk' scam, it is not. But the idea of hyperloop is used by many as a bait to scam away investors money.
The fact that Netflix no longer has a rating system is quite sad. That was one of the high points of Netflix back in the day - the ability to read reviews of shows/movies before committing to them. Now everything has to be “recommended” to me.
Do any of these satellite systems work inside a building without running antennae to the roof?
They’re honestly kinda expensive. Dollar tree gives you a lot for your money
Nim has a little bit more python-ness and a little less ruby-ness imo. That's all I really remember -- it's been almost a year since I tried Nim.
Sounds like that will unlock some cheat code feature!
Honest question... idea was based on Elon Musk's papers, who pre-engineer the thing and even gave it a name. How come he couldn't found it? Last I checked Musk is worth north of $22 Billion dollars, did the Arrivo management try to talk him into investment ??
Except that he hasn't ended Eric's ability to hack on the kernel, which is a big difference.

Basically, Eric might be forced to go through others, who will examine his work for pulling quality.

If Eric can prove that he's changed for the better, Linus may well start pulling from him again.

Linus isn't some evil dictator ~ he's just trying to make a point that quality matters.
V4 is 2^32 or 10^11. You could fit an entire IPv4 with an entire IPv4 nested inside each one, throw them all away and repeat every day for 300 years.
Look at Sirius XM for a good reason world approach to this problem. It's not 100% foolproof but they manage to charge for the service well enough.
A micro-framework; with handler chaining, middleware and std lib compliant
Novelties? Plenty of building time clocks use this as it penetrates walls better than GPS (not to mention it's cheaper to both operate and use)