skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much VC money was spent on marketing and promotion. You couldn't have just invented Patreon and waited for content creators to find you by going to Google and searching for "companies that serve as middlemen for people to give you patronage money". I bet marketing and promotion was/is a nontrivial percentage of expenses.
We're under no legal requirement but I simply don't trust Slack employees to be good stewards of our data. On a UI/UX basis, Slack and Discord are far superior to Mattermost, so hopefully they can use this funding to close that gap.
Not sure how he’s defining replacement, and but the target for a stable population would have to be over 2.
Calhoun's "Beautiful Ones" study from the 1960s is the just-so story here. A rat environment is built, becomes overpopulated, and eventually the children stop breeding and the colony dies out. However, it's of dubious predictive value.
Happy for everybody, but since it only really delivers benefits in less than 2% of use cases (those with crappy connections) I personally can't wait to have it be as quickly implemented and supported as ipv6 was.
I hate to break it to you, but having a baby means you are dumping 5 shitty diapers a day for first few months, then at least two a day for next six or 9 months. Yes lots of people go for reusable diapers, but lots is probably not more than 3% of parents in the US.....
Agree with what others have said here. Stoicism, meditation, diet, and exercise all help. If you're ultimately unhappy with your work, though, your life may require deeper change.

When in doubt, make art (broad definition) about your feelings. Draw, write, or compose music to get your feelings into a tangible format you can look at. If you decide to go this route, let your art be shitty. Just let it be shitty and make it anyway. I've made some super crappy beats in Garageband that nobody else will ever hear, but they helped me process through feelings.
Does any computer properly speak Bluetooth, in all its possible configurations, with no bugs? I'd like to take a look at that stack if so, because I've never seen it.

That's not an excuse for the devices also being buggy, but I'm well beyond expecting anything else.
I can't say I've listened to many podcasts that have been influential in the sense of improving my career or productivity, but I've listened to a few that I enjoyed a whole lot.

Startup by Gimlet Media is quite good. I really enjoyed the first season.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a fun dramatic reading of all sorts of history. I've heard it called "pop history" as a jibe, but I think that's a pretty good description for it. History as action novel makes a little more sense than history as staid recollection.

Cocaine and Rhinestones is a personal favorite right now. I love country and folk music, and it's all about the formation of modern country music, and the people and influences that shaped it.
cum town
I think Joe is pretty great, but is very dependent on who his guest is. I only ever listen when someone I know or trust has recommended an episode.
What Is First Meaningful Paint (FMP)?
Back in the 70s, most artists made little or no money from touring. You played live to promote your album, which made you the real money. Today, it's the opposite. Your album is practically worthless, but it might persuade people to pay $60+ to see your arena tour. The album is effectively a free sample of the "real" product, the live show.

The recording industry isn't stupid, so most major artists are now signed on "360 deals" - the record label gets a share of everything, from streaming to tickets to merchandise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal
So, a normal news website then.
I love Hidden Brain, but I find NYT's The Daily to be a great deeper dive on a current issue for my morning commute.
You said "women want" and it sounded general statement. Not same as women decide to have nor actually have.

Had the price (not just monetary) of having child be different, the decisions quite easily can be different.
Dave is a friend, he's now mentoring SAAS founders in the 517 area code in Michigan if anyone is interested.
Many years ago did a more adventurous (though organized) trip to Egypt and I enjoyed it a lot.

Slept a night in the desert and in an oasis, did a boat ride on the Nile, visited the Pyramids & Sphinx on the Giza plateau, Luxor, Elephantine, the Valley of Kings and of course the National Museum in Cairo. Also ate with a Nubian family. I don't believe the museums in NYC and London can compare in any way. I went there back in 2005 and of course some parts of the trip we had a military escort behind us. Back then it was quite safe, don't believe it's the same now.
The instant tethering function actually doesn't use Bluetooth, except to set things up. If you pay attention, you'll notice the phone disconnecting from any WiFi network it might be connected to.
Nerdist / ID10T, Conan needs a friend, Here's the thing with Alec Baldwin...

Mostly because I do a lot of UX work, and good interviewing skills are essential for understanding what someone is trying to say.
Is there a study that confirms this? I couldn't find any links in the blog post you seem to have copied it from. https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/tucker-carlson...
Am I assuming correctly that the idea behind this is that you self-host everything, to be isolated from energy failures that could have cascading effects? Or is it more due to security reasons to be harder of a target?
I do wish we could collectively arrive at a better standard for customer support than "Support by Public Shaming".

I'll admit to having used the "Send an email blast to the company executives" method in the past for dealing with airlines and telcos, but I feel like even that was a tad more discrete. At least it was an internal email and not a Twitter rant or a blog post. Regrettably, most companies seem to be removing their executive emails from public-facing pages, making the social media bomb the last and increasingly most common resort.

I suppose if we had a federal consumer protection bureau that actually had teeth, this wouldn't be necessary.
AWS X-Ray Support for .Net Core Is GA
How to Choose a Microcontroller for IoT
What's wrong with using a WiFi hotspot? I though that's the only way...
I know people love the wireless thing. But if you want some nice over ear cans, and dont mind a wire. Sennheiser HD 280 i think , should be around 100 bucks. Not sure who Jabra is but if it's some kind of fancy startup making headphones. No thanks. I will stick to people who do actual audio work to make my headphones please.
My understanding is that Spandrell considers himself a "race realist."

Please don't bring right-wing racist thought into HN.
From the article:

For my money, this is one of the best moments in the trilogy, if only for the haunting implication that orcs understand the concept of a menu. There will come a blog post where I consider the idea that orcs have a cultural memory of a more civilised existence. Where I wonder if maybe they are good people who have been woefully misrepresented in a history told by its victors. But it is not this blog post.
This is so cynical it is laughable. They are using games to develop algorithms as they are easily defined problems, but they have in turn used those algorithms on real world problems, notably AlphaFold and their data center improvements [1]. I'm sorry breaking world records every year isn't quite impressive enough for you.

Furthermore, their investment into TPU's is going to bring the price down in the long run, which is incredibly beneficial to everyone. And yes we should assume if AGI is possible it will require a lot of compute.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...
Thanks for the link. It was fun reading it again for the first time in 30 years!
A joke on one hand, a great inside on the other.

It is not just about allegiance seeking but also about beating other groups. And it's not just for fun but for zero-sum resources like budget, "more moral standpoint", natural resources, human resources, votes, views etc.

So altogether probably 3 points to consider (reason to do politics - zero-sum resources, challenges to succeed in - other teams try to get a bigger piece of the cake, and ways to achieve success - building alliances).
The a16z podcast tends to provide a ludicrous amount of information and insight on many topics. While many podcasts have interesting hosts, a16z is the least produced, and the most information-dense. They ask the right questions, as you'd expect from those at a solid VC.

For example, the latest episode with Novartis' CEO was an hour of really detailed info on the future of medicine, and the hosts (as always) did a great job of tying technology into the conversation.

It usually makes my head hurt after like 20 minutes, but in the best possible way. :)
Haha @ your edit. I spent 3.5 years living in Burkina Faso and thought about making a similar response but decided there was no way it would come off as anything other than pretentious (:

Pretty similar experience, but without the money issue as I was a Peace Corps volunteer. I was in the north and we took in some Mali PCVs when things got too crazy there. Sadly, PC is also out of Burkina now ): Some really wonderful communities in the Sahel and it sucks watching things slowly get worse and worse.
> Wasting your time on futile sentences like this tells me that you have more free time than you can handle.

I have no idea what you mean by this, but thanks for adding to the amount of joy in the universe.
And then either install Cloudflared [1], or Unbound [2].

[1] https://bendews.com/posts/implement-dns-over-https/

[2] https://pi-hole.net/2018/06/09/ftldns-and-unbound-combined-f...
I do wish more podcasts had alternative support methods other than advertising.

Unless the podcast doesn’t have ads and is done mostly out of passion and the host's own growth (The Collective) or I can pay to receive an ad-free feed (CANADALAND) I’m not going to subscribe to the audio-equivalent of a TV talk show.
I spent most of last year travelling, and getting an apartment where I had hot water whenever I wanted was heavenly. You don't realize how convenient things are until you don't have them for a long period of time. A hot shower now is a daily recognition that life is good
So, is it time to distrust every ssl cert issued by Australian cert provider? Is there a list?
Fintech and Blockchain for the developing world
I have Jabra Move bluetooth headphones. They're really good, but have slight bluetooth issues. I have to constantly delete and re-pair them. But I have it working with iOS, Windows, Linux, etc.
Spotify does indeed pay artists per song stream. The rate is between $0.004 to $0.008 per stream, and a "stream" is counted every time someone listens to a song for at least 30 seconds.

https://qz.com/1519823/is-spotify-making-songs-shorter/

https://qz.com/quartzy/1438412/the-reason-why-your-favorite-...

Incidentally, this model incentivizes artists to release shorter songs and to squeeze more songs into albums.

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/uncovering-how-stream...

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/are-rap-albu...

And an artist's new release isn't just competing with their old releases. It's also competing with releases from other artists.
Interestingly, I've found this doesn't work equally well for all media. Digital artists, webcomic people, etc. can often use patreon as a way to give fans access to unsellable WIPs. Similarly, writers will use patreon as a way to display trunk stories (although in this case patreon is a draw through its network effects more than it is the genuine best place to do this).
Joe Rogan definately. Not even a competition. The long format with interesting people is hard to beat. I love how he doesn't try and smear people when he does the interviews. Of course, I don't listen to every episode but he releases them so often so there is always something interesting to hear about.

Joe Rogan is how journalists should be like.
I thought the same but gave it a few seconds more and the content finally loaded.

https://www.nate-crowley.com/apps/lists/1/Batch?consistentRe... Time: 5.1 sec

The site is just under a bit of load right now.
Over 2.1ish due to childhood deaths and accidents before reproducing.
There was never any real democracy there. It just changed from dictatorship to dictatorship to dictatorship.
Hardcore History takes you for a ride. Even if it's "pop history" I feel like it gets me closer to the events then I've ever been before.

Blueprint for Armageddon does a fantastic job of convincing you that war is bad. Don't do war.
My Jabra Move headset does technically work with my laptop, but I have to perform some kind of reset because just switching the headphones on doesn't connect fully to my computer. It will look like it's connected, but nothing plays through the headphones. Only way to get both iTunes and computer audio to play through them is to hold the on switch for a few seconds until I hear a ding and a voice speak "To connect Move, go to the Bluetooth menu on the phone, and select it from the list"

I also tried installing that shitty Jabra app that basically was a huge waste of time. Didn't try contacting them, but I assume they'd just try to throw the problem over the fence and say my Bluetooth drivers in macOS were shitty or something.

It's not the most amazing experience, but they do sound very good.
...I don't get it.
Depends on the type of burnout, but I would caution about doubling down on exercise.

For two reasons:

1: It can be an attempt to avoid working through the issues that led to the burnout. Sometimes it can be like replacing one addiction with another.

2: Exercise is stress, and burnout is a reaction to prolonged stress. Moderate exercise can help, by elevating mood. Heavy exercise in burnout can lead to prolonged fatigue and CFS like symptoms.
Naomi Wu, who's a really cool maker out of Shenzhen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu
I'm not really claustrophobic but as a tall person all these stories about living in a van or a tiny house just make me feel cramped.
Probably a good call. Slack trains recommender systems w/ all user data mixed together. Although w/ attempts to preserve privacy... See their paper from recsys '18 Vancouver.
Maybe, if operating under a lot of restrictions and using theorem proof, but even then the compiler and the OS (and the CPU) also need to be bug-free for complete protection.

Compilers have plenty of bugs, so do operating systems and CPUs as we have seen in recent years.
Nasa “still working toward” 2020 launch of massive SLS rocket
Is mattermost the most popular self hosted alternative to slack now? I don't usually hear about rocket chat lately.
Fishing for Better Data
Cortex.
Introduced me to GTD methodology, and omnifocus. Helped me get my email under control. Made me think about investing in what I'm good at, not trying to improve at what I'm bad at.
You are a true Sage, sir!
because historically sexy sounding women have always been chosen to provide those roles of nurterer, helper, assistant, secretary, etc.

Buck that trend at your own risk buddy, but huge tech with zillions of dollars at risk isn't going to risk Spock's voice . . .
I have three to recommend:

1. Filkcast. A relatively new podcast by a friend of mine, diving into the world of "filk" music. As a filk musician myself, I think it's wonderful, and it's introduced me to a lot of new music. If you already know/love filk, it's terrific. If you don't know it but like science fiction/fantasy and folk music, you might find something new to love!

2. Hardcore History. Long-form history studies (4-5 hour episodes, with multi-episode series often stretching over 20 hours). The one-off "Celtic Holocaust", about Ceasar's invasion of Gaul, is a good start to get a feel for how it works. The epic "Blueprint for Armageddon", about WWI, is my favorite (and the most bleak). Very much enjoying the current series, "Supernova in the East" (the rise of Imperial Japan, culminating in WWII).

3. Philosophize This! Hour-ish long episodes of the history of philosophy, each episode centered on a particular philosopher or related school of them (sometimes a few episodes for particularly important figures). Starts with the earliest ancient Greeks, and builds forward to almost the present day (recent episodes have covered recent concepts like semiotics, and thinkers like Jean Baudrillard and Michel Foucault.
If they are ever forced to do that and it becomes public knowledge, I think it will finally be enough for a critical mass of security-conscious people to buy phones with user-controlled platforms where it becomes impossible.

In a way this might be a blessing.
I'm sorry, this is ridiculous.

Patreon runs a business. You'd force them to do business with people they have no desire to do business with. You're the authoritarian in that picture. There's no reason to think that there's any mysterious group forcing Patreon to act.

I'm neither of the right nor the left, this is a choice of the business, they chose not to do business with someone being actively hateful. Not someone taking a political stance, but someone spewing out prejudice, hatred and bile. I fully support them.

(I cannot reply to the below, being rate limited. The cake thing is discrimination on who someone is, not what they do. Different things. And this is hardly a freedom of speech issue, nobody is denying them the ability to express themselves, I am not obligated to bring you lemonade and let you shout hatred from my front yard in the name of FoS. )
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl changed how I viewed most of the world, especially as a counselor. Learning how experiences change how a person views the world and its impact on their life.

Reading about how he experienced time in a concentration camp with endless hope to be reunited with his wife kept him going and surviving each day hungry, cold, and doing his best to take care of the ill. He learned the positive impact of hope and when individuals lost it, they quickly fell ill or died. It gave me perspective and to challenge my way of thinking in addition to helping clients learn there are multiple ways to interpret anything.
See this site:

https://www.mind-body-health.net/

I have suffered many burnouts, because of my background which I won't go into here, and because of too many life stressors.

I have found that site to be spot on, both in the description of the syndrome, and in its suggestions for recovery.
Welcome to the web in recent years. Looking at my umatrix rules, for basic functionality a lot of sites need scripts from ajax.googleapis.com, [cdnjs.]cloudflare.com, brightcovecdn.com, static.parastorage.com (as in this site), and many other cdns besides.
Will your phone accept an app upgrade which has been signed by Google or Apple instead of by Signal?

If not, is the law capable of compelling your telephone vendor to ship you an upgrade that weakens its upgrade testing enough that Apple/Google can ship you such an upgrade?
Spin off Cloudflare Australia as an independent subcontractor of Cloudflare International.

Give customers a choice of whether to enable Australian proxies for their site.

Use distinct certificates for the proxies in each region, with short expiration times to limit the damage if a certificate falls into the wrong hands.
I'm willing to accept "Might enter an infinite loop", but AFAIK the halting problem says nothing about security.
Agreed. If the population really started to decrease, human society would just change to meet the challenge. We talk about "Universal healthcare", but then we'd be talking about "Universal childcare".

There is certainly an argument to be made that with more women entering the workforce, and retiring age increasing, that there are less people at home to watch babies. That puts pressure for people to either leave the work force, or delay having children. Government sponsored nannies/childcare would be a natural step to alleviate that economic burden.

It's not like the government doesn't already have tax incentives for having children. It would not be a stretch for them to step in in other ways to reward and incentivise parents for creating future tax payers.
People have been saying Buffet is a lucky outlier for decades. Is his success in the following decades survivorship bias or a valid ex post facto test of success? If you believed in Buffett's investment philosophy in the 1980s based on decades of results, and had a thousand bucks to buy a Berkshire A share, would it have been a lucky pick?

I didn't believe you could beat the market until about 2000, and I'm happy I started investing in Berkshire then. If I had bought Apple instead, it would have been a lucky pick imho. I think of investing in Berkshire to be based on ex post facto results, not survivorship bias.

A decade ago I did an analysis of the top 25 on the Forbes list[1], and the TL;DR is that they 1) inherited their wealth, 2) had bet on a single company, or 3) been a value investor. Nobody in the top 25 is a "trader" or "quant" (e.g. Paulson or Soros). That analysis is still true, btw.

[1] https://www.robnagler.com/2009/06/13/Objectively-Rich.html
This is half an article. Stopped when it was getting to the good bit. Without heading off for a whole load of research I would have quite liked to know why splitting the Mobius loop results in two sections with non-overlapping circles.

I get it, pop science, don't overload the reader with details and all, but a bit more would have been nice.
"Series A" is just a shorthand. Doesn't mean anything too specific.
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Very nice. The current rendering of this would be to formulate with relay/resistors the 2 gate NOR as universal gate giving arbirary boolean functions and the 2 NOR crossed feedback setup as RS-flip/flop or elementary memory bit. All this can be done with hobyist materials.
I'm experiencing the same issues with an IKEA speaker set which has also Bluetooth connectivity. Works fine with my One+ 3, but Ubuntu will always skip pieces of sound, when I do something else on the system.

Now that I think about it, I will give it a try with Windows 10 on the second SSD to check whether it's a problem with the BT module of my Lenovo W520.
To be fair it's not really worth setting up a blog just for a single post, and OP probably didn't know about things like threadreaderapp.
https://gumroad.com/l/airbuddy

I stumbled across this the other day. Airpod only, but it promises to bump the sampling rate among other things.
No, because I already did.