skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned this in another comment but two notable applied applications would be AlphaFold [1] (greatly outscoring SOTA on major protein folding problem), and their data center efficiency [2] which has reducing their data centre cooling bill by 40%. I expect to see many more applications in the coming years as the algorithms get to a more useful point. I think (as does Demis Hassabis) there are going to nearly endless applications in biosciences, weather prediction, material design, and much much more.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/
[2] https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...
Local level bribery might not take the same forms that it takes in other countries, but the top level bribery is easy to see. We have massively expensive elections that are used to direct money towards a massively expensive system of 'election contractors' all of whom were elected officials at some point that now receive dark money via this system.

Of course, compared to our lobbying system, where people like Joe Lieberman now work, taking money to inform other elected officials that if they play the game right, they'll also make millions from corporations 'lobbying' the government. They'll help to make sure that you have a long career with lots of attention by funding your campaigns.

Lobbying sounds great, but like many things, we've perverted it.
I’m looking seriously at ReasonML. I think it’s more promising than Elm.
The no-questions-asked 90-day money back guarantee was one of the best decisions we ever made at Fog Creek. Try this: use Fog Creek Copilot for a full 24 hours, call up three months later and say, “hey guys, I need $5 for a cup of coffee. Give me back my money from that Copilot day pass,” and we’ll give it back to you. Try calling on the 91st or 92nd or 203rd day. You’ll still get it back. We really don’t want your money if you’re not satisfied. I’m pretty sure we’re running the only job listing service around that will refund your money just because your ad didn’t work. This is unheard of, but it means we get a lot more ad listings, because there’s nothing to lose.

Over the last six years or so, letting people return software has cost us 2%.

- Joel Spolsky (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/02/19/seven-steps-to-rem...)
==The U.S. has multiple metropolitan areas that each has a larger population and more ethnic diversity than the smaller European countries.==

Yes, but that was true when the US had a robust middle class (roughly 1940-2000). I haven't seen any evidence presented that proves demographic diversity is the reason for increased inequality.

Meanwhile, we can observe political decisions over the past 40 years which have had an impact on how worker productivity turns into wages. Examples are a lower the top income tax rate, a stagnant minimum wage, the explosion of stock-based compensation, weakening the estate tax, the weakening of unions, high healthcare costs, etc.
This American Life.

I've learned so much about how other people lives through years of listening to this podcast / radio show. I've literally been in tears during a few episodes, or busting out in laughter at others. One episode about kids who've lost their parents at a young age really helped me connect to my partner.

(Edit: My partner lost her father at a young age. This isn't a topic that most people feel comfortable discussing, even with someone close. The episode came on during a road trip and she broke into tears and turned off the radio because it was bringing back so much emotion. Later I asked her about if her experiences matched that of the people on the show, and she said yes.

So I went back and listened to it on my own and I felt like I learned a lot about her from listening to others share their experience.)

Plus, I think it taught me what it means to be a good, compelling story teller.
Typewriter repairman was told computers were king. he’s still in business
You should see a doc for a physical, you want to be sure your blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, and particularly thyroid hormone are in check.

If you are experiencing irritability (blowing up at people) then you definitely want to take an SSRI. Self-loathing would justify a heavy dose.

Definitely exercise more. The 20 minutes a day advise is way too little for lifelong fitness.
Interesting is also that you can learn history much better outside of school. In contrast to education institutions youtubers for instance usually succeed at presenting the stuff in an interesting fashion. And if you listen to these kind of presentations in several languages or from diverse political influenced sources then you can also get a rather objective overview.

This series taught me in a few hours what I didn't learn in school over years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB...
Thanks! The dollar amounts for data brokers come from their annual revenue statements. Though my experience in the industry plays into the estimate of how big their consumer files are and how much on average they make selling someone's data.
You are talking about different Russia's.

> they bore the brunt of Mongol invasion which utterly wiped the aristocracy at the time and set back the countries development by generations and depopulating the land. Luckily, the Mongols stopped there and didn't move further west, saving the populace of Western Europe

It's actual Russia (now called Rus` or Kievan Rus` in modern history), then Little Russia, now Ukraine.

> Without warmwater ports, Russia lacked the capacity to participate in maritime trade that bolstered the economy of Western Europe

It's bunch of various nations, then Great Russia, when part of them was captured by Russia, then Grand Duchy of Moscow, then Russian Empire (since 1860), now Russian Federation.

Time span | Historical name | Modern name | Language then and now
?? - V | Russia (Русся) | «Old Russa» town | Old Norwegian, not exists
VII-XII | Russia (Русь) | Kievan Rus`, Ukraine | Slavonic, Ukrainian
XVII- pt | Russia (Россия) | Russian Empire, Russian Federation | Many, Russian (modernized Church Slavonic)
No, it won't. It screwed me up in ways I still haven't fully grasped, and has long term negative consequences in my life. And I certainly wished I had been more mentally prepared to handle its impact.

Which is why is fucking bothers me that you dismiss life for kids in the developed world as an "absence of real problems". Just because we're not scavenging for food, doesn't mean we don't have real problems.

Sure, thankfully many kids won't need that knowledge until they're older, if ever. But it's not always clear who will. My family certainly didn't meet the stereotype.
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Traditional public transport certainly could do that (and demand-response routes are a thing in rural places), but fixed-route consistent routes make more sense in urban areas from geometric considerations (and you know, not requiring a charged smart phone to get from point A to B).
> For example, a business with 10 million in revenues and 9 million in expenses can exist 'forever'

but that's what I'm saying : at equal amount of work, expenses keep increasing in time.
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Exhalation
America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste
> Framing this product in terms of time spent rather than value created gives rise to all the wrong incentives

Mostly agreed, however, when you leave the determination of the value created in someone else's hands, other wrong incentives come up. And... the value is often reliant on execution of other areas of business outside your control (support, marketing, pricing, etc). I can do the same project for 2 companies - one will struggle to get any value from it, another will get millions.
Have I won the lottery? I've never had a single Bluetooth issue with any device I've ever had, except my current vehicle:

"All New" 2019 Ram 1500 (If anyone works for Uconnect, please email me.)

iPhone, iPhone 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, Nexus 7, Razer Phone, Thinkpad Yoga, Thinkpad Book, self-assembled desktop, Toyota Corolla - all have worked perfectly with various, cheap, Bluetooth devices - keyboards, mice, speakers, earbuds, and each other for BT file transfers.

(It's really sad that a Corolla has a better Bluetooth experience than a Ram which is 3x in cost.)
Go Time. For real; I've been able to get my dream job because of the conversations these folks have. I'm bummed they're on hiatus, but.
EconTalk.

Early in my career, I was a regular listener to three tech podcasts: Java Posse, StackOverflow podcast, and Software Engineering Radio. All three were valuable to my career in different ways, but EconTalk has most affected the way I think.

For those who aren't familiar, the host of EconTalk is a professor of economics, so many of his conversations revolve around the world of economics, but since economics touches a lot of things, he ends up talking to a diverse group of people. He is very good at admitting his own bias on the one hand, and then argue against it on the other hand.

Also, I found History of Rome valuable - it's an interesting story, but it also helps cure the chronological snobbery of assuming that our times are vastly different from others.
Jabra has been a leading manufacturer of ear pieces since they became a thing in the dumbphone era. Not a startup.
No it uses scripts from parastorage.com (part of wix).
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Picture this: an AI game where humans and computers collaborate
The Enormocast. interview format with the who’s who of rock climbing.

the craig demartino “and then i amputated my leg” episode is harrowing, the two-part hayden kennedy episode about cerro torre and the kompressor route is amazing, the lynn hill interview is wonderful, and he got honnold too.

On Being is hit or miss but the interviews with rep john louis, bishop tutu, eugene peterson, nadia bolz-weber have all stuck with me.
FWIW, AP everyday publishes "Today in History" (https://www.apnews.com/c543085359964ecb9ad6f6a9da21c3d0) and even makes a video for syndication.
Blame Apple for that. Not Mozilla.
Reply all by Gimlet (just acquired by Spotify).

Amazing in-depth journalism that’s entertaining and informative and some times mind blowing.
I'm sorry, taking into context the comment I quoted from the chain it resides in, from the way the person I'm responding to initially reacted to this post, it looked otherwise at a glance.
My apple airpods work well with my dell latitude. (skype conversations, music, etc) Frankly I was surprised it worked at all.
Can confirm that this book helps. I read "A guide to the good life" and practised stoicism at a time when my anxiety and stress levels were high. Very useful comment and it's great to be reminded of the book here.
Objectively Rich (2009)
It's not about understanding, it's about wanting what's best. For example, suburbanites probably want free parking and more highways in cities, even though that's not in the cities best interest.
"wire fraud"

I see what you did there.
It's fairly common for translators to do this to idioms that might not make sense in the destination language.
> Hooks offers nothing new over HoC and FaC

You've missed the point entirely. Hooks offer nothing new because their functionality was already implemented in React class components.

They literally add no functionality to React. The docs actually state quite clearly that developers are discouraged from replacing class components with function components.
Seems like a fair summary would be that since they don't offer any truly secure services (e.g. e2e encryption), there's nothing that this law could require them to subvert. Turning over an individual's account data pursuant to an Australian issued warrant was something they were already doing, and nothing about that has changed under the new law.
You still get some of the benefits for the connection to the client, assuming your use case fits. Many typical small setups serve static resources through the "proxy" (i.e. nginx for static assets and distributing requests to backends), benefiting there almost automatically. Similarly CDNs, which nowadays are used even by tiny projects.

(also, if you want your concerns to be taken seriously, I'd tone it down a bit. "so called benefits", "Google HTTP", and "probably coming next year" when QUIC has been in development and testing for over 5 years all don't really give the impression you actually care about the details)
Asynchronous programming. Blocking I/O and non-blocking I/O
You're not James Altucher are you? Cause he talks about how he did that all the time.
Also people who leave their "grey water" open (small trickle to avoid detection) - people can be terrible - it's why we have zoning laws and building codes.
His approach is very commendable. He listens, pulls people up when they say things that need further explination or sourcing and has a wide range of guests.

He takes a lot of flak about being "right-wing" or missing things every now and then but I think he honestly tries to do a good a job of getting objective, fact based interesting topics covered by experts or "famous faces"
> they can be very lightweight these days

You mean "noisy".
It's far far worse in Europe ESPECIALLY if offshored to a low GDP country.
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Hi!

This simple site lets you search for practicing doctors through their research. An example, you are about to have "Mohs Surgery", this tool will let you find doctors who have published research on this procedure AND are actual practicing doctors in your area.

If anyone finds it useful, I will clean up the UI.

A github star will keep me motivated :)

https://github.com/james-ransom/opendoctor.io
This doesn't fully explain why humans don't want to have a lot of kids. Have you ever been around kids? They're really a pain in the ass, especially if they're boys. (For instance, as a single guy, I'm far more likely to be interested in dating a single mother with girls than one with boys; little boys are just too destructive and disobedient.)

Smart people aren't having so many kids now because they don't have to. If they don't have a religion telling them they need to, and they have a good career and a very comfortable lifestyle that affords, why would they want to go to all the trouble that raising a lot of kids requires?

In addition to that, kids are very costly in today's society, and with adults not living near their families so much, you don't get any help with your kids when you need it, so that makes it even more unattractive.

Having a lot of kids made sense back in the days when you needed the help on your farm, and your whole extended family (or village) lived together and could collectively share the burdens of child-rearing. Now, it just doesn't.

The answer to me is simple: we need to outsource child-rearing to the State, as shown in the novel "Brave New World" where children were made in factories and then raised by trained professionals.
"high-performance knowledge worker that places a lot of self-worth in the quality of his work "

I have a very similar story to yours and it took me a few years to figure this out. You may have to learn to accept a lower level of performance from yourself. You may need to accept that you can't put out the type of quality that you used to, and at the speed you used to. Burn out is _serious_ and it can drag you down a pretty dark path. Beating yourself up over not being who you know you are will make things a lot worse. It isn't easy to do, but it also isn't permanent. It's better to let things go for a while (maybe even a year or two) until you are in a place mentally where you can handle the load of your own expectations (in combination with the load of all the different stressors in your life).

Move slowly and accept a long timeline for recovery. I'm finding that it is still quite easy to slip back into burnout if I push too hard. Spend time working on basic self care. Are you sleeping well? Are you eating healthy food? Are there any chronic health concerns that you could take this time to address? Are you depressed? Consuming too much alcohol? You might find that the way back starts with just taking care of yourself, and doing what you can to shield yourself from internal and external stressors.

"I plan and I scheme"

Before I started to recover I had a list of all the things that I expected myself to do. I even broke it down into the quarters of the year that I expected to achieve things by. That list, and the consequences of planning and self expectation had nearly terminal consequences. Consider that, and be gentle with your own expectations. I still record my ideas and the things that I want to do, but they aren't actionable. They'll still be waiting for me when I'm ready.
Calm raises $88M, valuing the meditation and sleep app at $1B
I actually think it has pretty good systems for "trying out" a specialization before committing to it (except for maybe the capitals and super capitals). Pretty much all of the T2 "specialized" ships have a T1 equivalent that can be fitted similarly. If you want to try out exploration, or mining, or hauling, or ewar, you don't have to wait until you can fly the expensive, high skill requirement ships. You can learn the basics and see if you like it in expendable T1 ships with cheap fittings.
@Mooreds is right. Shopify is the easiest way to start.

To expand a bit upon that answer: First, think about your product mix. You cannot sell everything (because you're not Amazon or Wal-Mart). Figure out which products are most desirable to the market and most profitable for you. Focus on those.

You can launch an online store with a single product and it's better to get running with one product than to wait until you have a big selection. This is true of even simple products like, say homemade soaps. It's better to launch with one scent and start marketing it than to wait until you have all three scents that you're thinking about ready to go. Adding your second and third products just gives you another chance to market -- to blog, tweet, email, etc about your new products.

Think carefully about pricing, too. How does the total cost of your product (with shipping) compare to others in the market? Can you offer a buy-one-get-one and make money? Can you offer free shipping if someone spends a certain amount? Can you give a coupon if someone signs up for emails? These techniques will help turn site visitors into buyers. This is called "conversion."

Think about your website branding and design. You don't need to spend a fortune but you probably want some professional input. While tools like Shopify are great, it's just as easy to build an ugly store as a pretty one. Ugly photos, amateur logos, and poor writing are a turn-off to potential buyers.

Think about support, including refunds. What will your policies be? Make them clear on the website before people buy so they're not angry with you later. Consider being generous with support and refunds, especially when you're new. Reputation costs money to build and being good to your buyers, even unhappy buyers, is a cheap way to build a good reputation.

Finally, think about how you will promote your store. Blogging is imperative and Shopify includes a blogging tool. Use it. If you're into social media, promote your products and blog posts in individual social media posts. Will you buy advertising? Where? Google AdWords is a black hole of spending, so consider that your last resort. Are there other websites or physical locations you could use for advertising? Think about the publications and events your buyers use and consider advertising there. Definitely keep an email list in Mailchimp, allow signups from your website, and email folks when there's something new of interest on your website like a new post, new product, or new promotion.

Don't be afraid to drop products or add new ones as you gauge customer demand. The only way to know what your customers really want is to put something out there for sale and see what happens!
I've added Cocaine and Rhinestones to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!

My favorite blog post I've ever written is a long rant about "Country music is dead" (no, it's not). Nobody agrees with me about that essay, apparently.
"To travel to many of these countries, however, you must apply for a visa in advance."

you need a visa, is not free to move.
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Not so much at all, but it's the only one podcast i'm always looking forward to. So it influence my live some how :)
Stoic Meditations (Massimo Pigliucci): https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations

Partially Examined Life: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/

Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/
I don't think that invalidates what I said. I never said anything about the bank's actions. Unless banks write laws now?
I work in the B2B space. One thing I've noticed is that if Enterprises aren't happy with the product they signed up for or the product doesn't deliver as promised they will refuse to pay (The ultimate motivator).

I feel like in the customer space you have less leverage and it's more of a headache to simply not pay or get a refund (in this case).
And he has a pretty much endless amount of videos so that you can pretty much autoplay them constantly in the background for a good while before running out of videos.
NREPL 0.6.0
The Desperado: Ed Averill Bank Robbery
What works for me is learning to have fun (again). That means discovering a new activity (or an old one that I haven't done in years). It has to be something non coding related like cooking, painting, playing an instrument, a video game, exercise, a writing project, maybe a couple of those at the same time.

My hypothesis is that the little spark of having fun at something will trigger something in my brain that will fuel my passion and energy after a couple of weeks.

Personally meditation has never worked for me. I did it daily for years when I was younger. It's possible I was too young, or maybe I wasn't doing it properly.

Light exercise and good sleeping habits also work great.
Spot on. I think a salary is also more or less like float, at least part of it. For that part, you are answerable to no one and can choose to invest it the way Buffett does. As much as people say that you can't pick stocks, you can, if you just stick to a very niche that you really understand, spend hours researching that niche, and invest for a really long term (> 10 years)
This is a hard question to answer because there are two possible interpretations to this question. The first is that is asking only for podcasts that have made a significant impact on your life. The second is to simply go through your podcasts and pick the one that has impacted your life the most, however small.

I'll answer according to the latter.

--Astonishing Legends has stretched my mind with the unexplained and opened me to the possibility of greater realities beyond what I immediately see.

--The Lawfare podcast (and Renato Mariotti's On Topic) has given me a (mostly) level headed and legal on-going discussion of the Trump/Russia affair. It has educated me a lot about our legal system and the value of the norms we keep in government.

--Hardcore History's series (basically audiobook length) on World War I has given me a sense about the tragedies and sufferings a previous generation experienced en mass that nobody has experienced today. Gives some perspective on life.

--Hello Internet is a podcast of pure fun that has expanded my hobbies and interests.

--Brain Software has help give me a better understanding of human psychology in the context of hypnosis and NLP.