skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the "Holy Fathers" and their understanding of the Scriptures, particularly St John Chrysostom. St Ignatius of Antioch and St Justin Martyr as well -- the wisdom of the men who was merely a generation or two removed from the very Jesus Christ himself. I also find reading the second-hand non-Christian sources of Jesus and his followers fascinating as well, such as the works of Josephus and Tacitus.

The Bible being profound to people isn't anything new to people, but it was in particular the writings by these men that deepened it for me, solidified it, I don't know what was it. Maybe it was because I was a functioning agnostic the entire time I was brought up, it just made it that much more real to me. I can't really put my finger on it, but that was the experience I had.

For my non-cliche picks, starting with "Mindset" by Carol Dweck. Particular the a-ha moment here was the dichotomy between the "fixed" mindset and "growth" mindset. Shedding the notion that we were "fixed" in our ways. The particular example that resonated the most with me was the one about Michael Jordan. How I used to remember so many people saying "he was born with that talent" or "it was a gift from God"

No the gift was not his talents, it was his work ethic and determination. To find out he was actually cut from his high school varsity team at 15. To hear the stories of how he practiced so determined (and took great offense if his team mates didn't take practice as seriously as he did, sometimes to the detriment to some relationships), it just changed my whole perspective. I was going through a tough time of my own at work, and this book allowed me to realize that the feedback I was getting wasn't attacks against my character or meant I wasn't smart enough or good enough, they just were what they were, and they were opportunities to grow. Everything can be malleable with enough time, energy, focus, and most importantly, the right mindset.

A follow up to this in a tangential way was "The Obstacle is the Way" which really helped me learn how to roll with the punches, and turn everything into an opportunity, a challenge. If something wasn't fair, wasn't right, seemed impossible, it didn't become my destruction, it became my motivation.

Finally, for leadership, and kind of along that same theme of rolling with the punches and stop buying into the "life isn't fair" or "I got a unfair shake" was Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Lief Babin. The book details the stories of the Navy Seals that fought in the Battle of Ramadi in 2005-2006. Most people will be particularly interested in the chapter about Chris Kyle of "American Sniper" fame, as he was part of this Navy Seal unit.

Besides the awesome stories, the book details a great mindset for ownership and leadership in general. Teaches you how to ditch the word "they" when referring to other people in your organization (I found myself often complaining that things were more difficult than they needed to be, often using the word "they" when describing who exactly was making my life difficult). It helps you realize your part of the bargain when it comes to your organization's success.
There's a great video by Folding Ideas which talks about the issues with secondary services (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3snVCRo_bI - this is in the context of video platforms)

One big 'bootstrapping' problem is that the first to adopt a new platform are the people who are _too toxic_ for the original.
> Of course not, because "harmful" in your question isn't the same meaning as what the government uses.

What's the definition "the government uses"? And why is it different from the one in the comment you're replying to?

> PS: Does that strawman smoke menthols?

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To extend the functionality of the browser.

What you say is true, so the question is why is it on and not off by default?

Does it imply that a webpage without Javascript is not useful?
I just had battery replaced on my 6s. It still sucks.
> we're no better or worse than them

I think every philosophical or religious system of ethics or morality that I've ever encountered suggests that we are, or can strive to be, better than other animals.

What makes you say otherwise? Do you follow a specific set of beliefs or tradition?
The ‘flow state’: Where creative work thrives
Ask HN: Found rideshare app security leak but their bug bounty is invite-only
I noticed an ugly, stupid bug in 2FA for a major rideshare app. I noticed it and reproduced it on another device while recording it. I checked their developer page, but their bug program is invite-only (everybody else gets dumped to a generic message page). What to do?
Social media use may not lead to depression, but could be a symptom
With their recent attempt at patenting programming-language concepts, you'd be excused to think so. I thought the same.
Those numbers seem close enough that it's hard to conclude that there's a significant effect (especially given that there are many more variables at play here than just parental leave).
Usually town squares also have facilities or hookups for preparing meals (whether indoors like a prep kitchen or outdoors like a fixed bbq pit or a stone pizza oven, or at least electrical and water hookups for portable setups). An outdoors town square might have a gazebo, or a tent covered area for gathering, space to keep jackets, a place to relieve yourself during your activity (ie if it's outdoors, portapotties, or outhouse/out-building or if indoors publicly accessible washrooms)

A place where community can gather for the purpose of talking/communing with one another, in a town square fashion. Protection from elements during the activity, etc.

That's where I'm coming from.

http://www.tresbohemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/12east... (european example)

https://www.terrain.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Innovatio... (north american style, with public seating, a semicovered event platform, often times an underground parking garage with access to public washroom)

My posts above were pertaining to indoors gathering spaces (hence the seats, hanging coats, etc) but either way, Apple stores do NOT resemble outdoors towns squares at all as well.
The title is aggressively misleading:

> According to Segal, this stipend will be used to pay for Forman’s travel, housing, office, and security expenses.

It is probably still a lot of money for that, but it goes beyond just housing.
definitely Sophie's World.
a baseball bat or some other club is probably a faster, cleaner, safer tool should there ever be a next time
I agree. Like you are saying, I find voices dialogue similar to preset player characters. If the game is telling a story about a specific character (and, super importantly, spends a great deal of effort on deep and meaningful character building), then having a voiced or preset player character can really make the experience great. Geralt is such a character, he has a lot of depth and a lot of history and it’s a great experience to get to explore that.

If, on the other hand, the game has little or weak character building around the player character then please let me create my own character (let me choose gender, looks and name) and don’t have the character voiced at all — let me play the character I like to imagine they are instead.
They have also been fairly recently quarantining political subreddits, more specifically socialist subreddits.
Peopleware

Totally changed how I view budgeting/team management, etc. Helped me learn about my own productivity and how to improve it. Introding flow and such to me. A lot of other books say similar things but they are generic, so its easy to write off with "oh, well software os different". But peopleware is specifically about software development.
Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
That just means that more businesses fail that could have otherwise succeeded.
What's the "objective definition" you're referring to? And why do you claim my question is "being framed as a subjective definition being made objective"?
Nice thanks for sharing that
Found these links helpful:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theori...
https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3/wiki/Slides

Appears to be useful for static analysis and verification of a program.
Which they’ve had since before Angela came on-board and will continue to have long after she has left.
This is just client side, any tunneling or NAT64 is still allowed.
Glad I ctrl-f'd your name - I was about to regurgitate my poorly remembered version of this from an old comment of yours.
Ask HN: Twitter not working properly? (Something is technically wrong.)
But the steak was cut off from the corpse already. Have you tried biting through a cow hide with your teeth to get to that steak? The fish was already filleted with a knife etc.
I'm assuming the parent meant that NAT, as implemented in SOHO routers, does not support SCTP. They could implement it, but don't, and thus, NAT breaks it.

> But because of the second point, why should someone implement it?

I'm reading this as "SCTP has ports, why should someone implement it?" There is way more to SCTP than ports. For example, SCPT can deliver data on multiple independent streams, something HTTP/2 in many ways reinvents.
PDF link for paper:

Reverse-Engineering Satire, or "Paper on Computational Humor Accepted Despite Making Serious Advances" - Robert West, Eric Horvitz, Jan 2019

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.03253
I’ll keep an eye on openindustry.org. I’m the author and maintainer of an open source OPC UA stack/SDK.
Chinese, Taiwanese Restaurants Drop 'Golden' and 'Dragon'-Take on Mandarin Names
Resilience Thinking, by Walker and Salt, is a concise and clear presentation of what makes complex things resilient, and how it can go wrong. I see the ideas from there everywhere from ecosystems to business. This one really made it much easier to think about the big picture and the long tail of consequences in otherwise messy systems.

Complexity, by Mitchell, is an introductory look at complex systems that changed the way I see the systems in the world and sent me off on a long tangent to learn more.

Life's Ratchet, by Hoffann, is just plain mind-blowing, or at least it was for me. It's about the inner mechanics of living cells, and does a really good job of conveying how insanely complex life is.
I see reddit as having three levels of censorship. User (downvotes), moderator, and administrator. The users can give a sort of "wisdom of the crowd" analysis that lets them evaluate subjective/borderline decisions better than moderators. Moderators deal with more clear rule violations like spam. Admins take a minimalistic hands off approach only getting involved when communities are bringing bad press to the site, bothering other communities, posting illegal content, that sort of stuff

The problems Reddit is facing now are largely a result of the admins getting more activist as Reddit is more visible than ever. They're not just merely banning subs now. They're quarantining them. They've systemically changed their algorithms to stop controversial content from being seen by most users. They're saber rattling against mod teams more and stacking mod teams. The users have gone from a core of mostly geek to well your typical eternal september users. The moderators are censor-happy and seriously don't know how to fuck off.

Reddit will never be as good as it once was because its size is such a liability. This is a site which went from a founding member risking jail to post stuff from JSTOR to the internet to founders who decided they've "Grown up" ($$$) and don't care about free speech anymore.
First-Ever Interactive Audio Map of Nonverbal Vocal Communication
Webvan and Peapod tried and died. Supermarkets themselves have tried. Maybe Instacart, Google Express, Amazon Local can survive.
When Reddit rolled out their new mobile site I had strong suspicions the org must be a mess internally. Out of all the problems one stuck out to me. For many months the comment sorting dropdown took 15 seconds to open from a warm start. That is a billion dollar company making newbie mistakes with React as if it was an intern doing the rewrite.

But the situation employees like you have been describing is surreal, I would never have imagined.
Oh man, this is such a pretentious answer, but Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein. Seriously.

The basic idea of the book that you cannot think straight until you understand the hard limits of thought, and respect it can never be more than a supplement to performing useful actions in the world, is a lesson I've never unlearned.
I'd suggest taking a closer look at the first set of test chart comparison shots. The D800e is not resolving any lines on the chart at all--the "lines" you see in the D800e shot are moire.

You can see the same thing in the comparison shots of the camera. In the D800e shot, the Nikon logo and fine print on the lens are smeared, with yellow and blue artifacts. In the Mamiya Velvia shot, the Nikon logo is sharply defined, with no color artifacts. However, there is grain in Velvia shot.

This is a good example of how there is more to resolution and image quality than just counting megapixels. If you hate grain, the D800e shot is better, despite the moire. If you'll tolerate grain for more resolution, the Mamiya Velvia shot is better.
Ah, the great kiss of death. The service will only go downhill from here as they try to appease investors at the expense of their users.
The end of the page says
Created with https://www.madoko.net/

Try contacting the authors?
Unless you’re trying to change someone’s mind, why strive for internal consistency at all? I like animals; I hate killing; I like meat. Over time, I think this will push me in the vegetarian/vegan direction, but the contradiction does not bother me in and of itself.
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner. It's about Bell Labs and the people behind it.

The idea that a company would have some kind of special research division where people can pretty much do as they wish (just "improve the product") feels like something in a fantasy world. But it existed, and it gave us amazing inventions that fast forwarded technology and improved the lives of everyone, and barely anyone even knows about it! Lasers, the transistor, fiber optics, UNIX, the cell network, even friggin information theory.

Even the [eventual] HQ building was designed in a interesting way. They had purposely long hallways of offices, so whenever you had to go to lunch (or the bathroom) you would inevitably be 'caught' by coworkers, forcing interaction.
Add hair-dryed steak to the list of experiments: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/yes-i...
Same. It's a great space savings at (to me) a not very perceptible loss of quality. PSARips is the only scene group I know of doing regular x265 releases.
This is great. Now all I need is a plugin for mobile safari/chrome/firefox that rewrites all reddit URLs to append /.compact
And those distinctions existed when the US middle class was far more robust. You still haven’t proven that demographics and not politics is the cause.
> nobody will software-decode AV1 on their smartphones or laptops

Dav1d (https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d) runs fine on my laptop for 1080p AV1 decoding. Your mileage may vary.

> Nobody is going to design a hardware encoder until the standard stabilizes.

NGCodec will release a hardware encoder this year. They use FPGAs for their encoders. Twitch uses NGCodec for their live VP9 streaming:

https://ngcodec.com/news/2019/1/7/ngcodec-announces-av1-supp...

https://blog.twitch.tv/how-does-vp9-deliver-value-for-twitch...
It doesn't exist yet, but when Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast* wraps up the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution is the next stop. I'm really looking forward to it. Duncan does an incredible job of tying together the precursors, politics, social situation, and military campaigns into a coherent serial narrative.

* https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
The binary SFW/NSFW designation is also a problem. First there is the difference between NSFW text and NSFW visuals. You will see plenty of text posts on Reddit labeled as NSFW because they include a dirty joke, talk about sex, or includes something incredibly un-PC.

When it comes to visuals, there is a big difference with how comfortable people are with sex vs violence (NSFW/NSFL). Some people would be happy to see one but want to stay away from the other. Then you have the difference within those categories. A picture of a person in skimpy underwear is not the same thing as hardcore porn. Similarly a video of an athlete hyperextending their knee on a sports subreddit is different than the type of gore that you might see on the watchpeopledie subreddit mentioned above.

Maybe you should be able to indicate the severity and category of the NSFW-ness. Potentially something similar to MPAA ratings were you can have PG-13, R, X with an indication if it is for sex, violence, or something else. However that puts even more work on the users/moderators which is probably why Reddit would never implement it.
Getting off topic but I always ask folks what are some more examples of unexpected things to look out for?

I’ve become a bit disillusioned with cycling after 2 fairly bad crashes in about 6 months.

I didn’t have a fear of metal drawbridges, having gone over a variety of them numerous times. Then I hit one that was slick from rain earlier in the day. Tires swerved like I was on ice and I did not fall gracefully. Broke my elbow, nose, and needed many many stitches.

Recently I did all the “right” things- riding in daylight, in a bike lane, in bright clothing with a helmet, and still got right hooked by a careless driver. Walked that one off but limped for a week. after.
I was wondering about that too.

Seems he still vomited indigestible things (when they gave him the live cat). The autopsy revealed an inner body full of ulcers and pus. Maybe his metabolism was so high, he was burning a lot of it out.
This is what I do on browsers that have greasemonkey. The downside is that I have to be aware of their div and other things they make to try to make me switch to mobile.

Specifying a parameter of reddit’s specification allows me to work with them as a user to follow their parameter. If their users don’t like certain features (like nag popups) then it helps them to proactively solve this problem before their users leave.
I'd certainly give credit to Mike Judge for "Office Space" and "Silicon Valley" but he well and truly hit the nail on the head with the prescient "Idiocracy".
There's a math error even assuming your premise is true. There are 3.75 billion women on this world. Even limiting it to women with smartphones, there are over a billion of them. If each of them is currently spending $0.50 on a notepad (again, we're assuming your premise is true even though it's not), that's a $500M market. Not bad.
But why are they paying him a cash stipend instead of expensing against receipts? Or is this meant to be more of a cap on how much he can spend on all that monthly?
Did I read that right? Sperm counts increased by 420%?
_Godel_Escher_Bach_ by Douglas Hofstadter made me realize how everything I've found interesting in Art-music-math-science-nature-etc have interrelated features that can be explained from a logical/computational perspective. It planted some ideas in my head that would later blossom into a deep passion for computer science and particularly programming languages.
Some books:

Two books by Erich Fromm, a German/American philosopher of the 50s/60s: The Art of Loving. Some points: To him love is a skill that has to be practiced and learned, love in a relationship is constant hard work, love of another is only possible if you first love yourself, and you cannot love another human being if you do not love mankind. A little bit later he published The Sane Society, a Marxist critique of capitalist society, how consumerism leads to self-alienation etc.

>Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism have in common that they offered the atomized individual a new refuge and security. These systems are the culmination of alienation. The individual is made to feel powerless and insignificant, but taught to project all of his human powers into the figure of the leader, the state, the "fatherland," to whom he has to submit and whom he has to worship. He escapes from freedom and into a new idolatry. All the achievements of individuality and reason, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century are sacrificed on the altars of the new idols. ...built on the most flagrant lies, both with regard to their programs and to their leaders.

Sounds familiar?

- Donna Meadows' Thinking in Systems, how to model anything as an interconnected system, and how unseen positive and negative feedback loops cause unintended consequences in any system

- Anne Lammott's Bird by Bird - I have to write a lot for my work and this is the best primer on getting things out the door

- For the Australians: Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu, on how early white European settlers completely misunderstood indigenous agriculture, all the things that were lost when Europeans settled Australia, and what we can use today. Gives you a VERY different look at Australian history.

- Ha-Joon Chang's Economics: The User's Guide. Just came out, an absolutely amazing intro and look at modern economics, the flimsiness of neoliberalist thought, and how we need to use the tools of each economic school of thought to think about the economy, not getting stuck on one school
Then the Electron Runtime is updated but breaking the particular App that was relying on a feature that has changed since its publication. The problem is not updating the Runtime, it's ensuring that the apps relying on the runtime still work properly after feature updates in the runtime.
The single thing keeping me on Reddit is the existence of “old.reddit.com”.

There has not been one compelling change to the site in years. Quite the opposite, every change seems to be made by someone hell-bent on driving every potential visitor away, and frustrating the rest.

It’s frustrating, too, because content shouldn’t be hamstrung by the way you reach it but that’s the “modern” web. User interaction is a crucial part of any product.
You really shouldn't plug this crap into your computer, what with the threat of viruses and all.
An Interest Rates Primer for Cryptocurrency Folks
Ask HN: Selling Urine in Denver, Colorado
Given that the city of Denver might decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms, and the metabolic byproducts of amanita muscaria make urine more hallucinogenic than the mushrooms themselves, could there soon be urine - or urine extract - sales there?
Trailer homes are pretty amazing, especially these days. One of my relations lived for a time in one, and it was nicer than any apartment I occupied in college, that's for sure!

I'm a big fan of prefab construction [shout out to Buckminster Fuller] -- the topic always brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from the movie "True Stories" [obviously tongue-in-cheek] :

"Metal buildings are the dream that architects had at the beginning of the 20th century. But they, themselves, don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an architect to build a metal building. You just order it out of a catalog; it comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a few days, maybe a week."
Brief history of time
Please don't quote long lines of text with four spaces. It makes the text unreadable.
In his email on Friday, Forman attributed this latest reduction in staff to “the culmination of the enormous progress McClatchy has already made in our transition to a digital future,”

Is there any industry where a reduction in headcount is considered “progress?”

If Google would have reduced its employees by 19k, instead of increasing it by 19k in its most recent results, would that have been spun as “progress?”