skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animal Farm was a really important book for me. I picked it up aged about 10 or 11 and I remember being really struck by how easily the pigs were able to exploit the other animals' grievances with humans to secure their own power. It felt like a grown-up story with some quite powerful, disturbing meanings under the covers. So I told my English teacher about it and all she told me in response was to go look up the Russian Revolution. I didn't understand why, but did it, and then the book had a second, much bigger impact on me. And of course what a way to learn about allegory!

It was the first time I realized books could be dangerous, subversive, and truly educational as well as simply informative or entertaining.
My go-to vote as well. Some of my favorite passages pertain to the awareness of-and management of- one's internal motivation and thought process when attempting to do good work.

"So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully then everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all."
1984, and the book-within-a-book in it.

Sapiens, recently. It had a profound effect on how I think about people, history and progress... Particularly, the points about group size and all th cultural clockwork required for and limiting our ability to function as large groups.

Paul Graham's essays, which are kind of a web book.

Practical Ethics, by Peter Singer influenced me a lot (made me study philosophy) but I was a lot less expensive impressed by my decades-later re-read.
The heavily moderated academic subs are great (/r/askhistorians and the ilk), but massive subs like /r/science are filled with clickbait headlines written by people who haven't read the literature or understood it's broader importance ("x in carrots can target tumor cells" -frontpage upvotes, yet published in a crap journal, or anything ctrl-f CRISPR). Many comments on these articles are only informed by these partially-true-well-not-quite headlines, yet they sail to the tops of threads.

Maybe some of the CS subs are better in quality, that's not my field, but the only biology sub I've found where technically trained people regularly post and comment has only like 50k subscribers and posts reach the top with 100 votes.
I also recommend Dawkins' follow-up book, "The Extended Phenotype." Dawkins' most popular writing may be on atheism and the critique of religion, but I think his greatest contributions were really found in this book plus The Selfish Gene. Though as a caveat, "The Extended Phenotype" requires some more technical sophistication in evolutionary biology than Selfish Gene.
What's an example of a concept from A Thousand Plateaus that has stuck with you?
This reminds me of some great customer service I had at a fast food place in the Uk called Leon.

I had a problem with a meal, something minor like an over cooked egg. When I returned it the manager said “Thanks so much for telling me. I will go make sure they do the next one right. And of course here’s a replacement.”

It really stood out to me because of the thank you, not for the replacement meal. Attitude is everything!
The best lens I probably own is my Canon ltm 35/2 which weighs a whopping 120g.
Yes we all know the logged in experience is terrific.

However, the anonymous experience is (was) also terrific for very different reasons. Reddit is next to unusable on mobile safari in incognito mode. Sometimes I don’t want to be tracked. I want to read whatever I want to at the moment, without having that be associated to my name in a database somewhere, and without having related ads follow me around. It’s an intellectual freedom that to many people is non-negotiable.

Reddit is now taking money from a Chinese company, where this kind of anonymity is not possible. That’s frightening to me as a longtime reddit user, both logged in and anon.
Factfulness by Hans Rosling - it tells you about our world with actual numbers.
>Yep. Look at woodworking, sailing, overlanding, etc. and you'll find people who care about their hobby and are knowledgeable.

I disagree. Those subs are chock full of people who suffer from "expert beginner" symptom. The real experts have moved on to communities with a higher bar of entry (mostly forums). You can't have real in-depth discussion about technical subjects when you're constantly getting buried by people who are mostly trying to score internet virtue signaling points by pointing out that their table saw is old and lacks the most modern safety features or that they're not using jack stands. Forums (or 4-Chan, or anywhere else with linear, non-ranked discussion) doesn't have that problem. Once you're above the lowest common denominator in any sub there's little left to gain because you can't reliably interact with people who are at or above your level (because those people get drowned out so they start keeping their mouths shut or leave entirely).
I've wanted to read A Thousand Plateaus for a few years. The first time I tried it, all that stuff about wolves and geology just lost me. I will have to try again. Honestly, I found it harder than Heidegger's Being and Time, which I worked through while listening to Hubert Dreyfus's lectures on iTunes U a few years ago.

Whenever I read about Deleuze and Guattari I get this feeling they are on to something - I just don't know what!
What?! Alarmism is sometimes the only reasonable response - like when you're house is invaded by folks shooting guns and a flamethrower. You get alarmed, and do something, anything, that might get you out of that.

So we know that climate change is upon us and will affect billions, upset global economies, cause ocean species collapse and resultant upset to our food chain. And we are advised that people's rights are more important that global survival?

The first state is denial, then bargaining. That's where I see that argument. Grief and acceptance are coming soon.
I'm an avid gamer, but honestly I can't read popular gaming subreddit (wow and halo for game specific sub), it's almost depressing. There's so much flames and complaints that you can even appreciate something without getting a lot of flake.
>I wish everyone read or watched Alan Watts lectures and books. The world would be a much nicer place if that was the case.

Parties would become a lot more insufferable.
For a New Liberty[1], and
Ethics of Liberty[2] by Murray Rothbard

[1] https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/For%20a%20New%20Liberty...
[2] https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/The%20Ethics%20of%20Lib...
How many users have rooted Android? Especially people in the west who are worth a lot more to advertisers?

It can’t be that high anymore. All the signals seem to be that rooting is trending down. I could be wrong of course as I have no hard data.
How to edit a low budget blockbuster
There are also browser extensions that force the redirect everytime. I haven't seen the redesign since it was released.
The justification for why that formula is correct (equivalent to the fundamental definition) is even more incomprehensible than the formula itself if written in English, but fairly clear, almost trivial, using algebraic notation. That is, if you want to "explain both the why of this function and how this specific function carries out that logic," using algebraic notation is far, far better than just using a natural language.
Because I feel it may encourage existing harmful behaviours that are causing the ideation to persist and end up fueling a cycle of dependancy.
"The Dictator's Handbook" by DeMesquita and Smith is a popular take on their academic work that describes a metamodel for reasoning about power and politics that bypasses how things "may" or "should" work and talks about how they "must" work.

https://www.amazon.ca/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Pol...

And a general +1 for GEB. If you read that as a teenager, you are different for it.
Agreed. This is a great analysis. Also keep in mind if the funnel thinks web users are low value and app users are high value, if web users fall it is a sign that the strategy is working. Not that you have loads of annoyed users.
Well if people can keep justifying working for companies acting in unethical fashion. Why wouldn't companies think it is fine to bullshit their way out of phony outrage generated by media/social media.
Money back guarantee is a good thing, go offer it. For a customer, it makes a purchase a no-brainer. For a seller, this is a good way to get rid of a toxic transaction early without loosing a nerve.

There will be some dudes who will try to exploit your pledge. But there is a trick: detect them early and use a more aggressive tactics.

For example, when someone claims your product does not work and needs an immediate refund after 5 minutes since the purchase and getting a license key, you can politely suggest them to do a chargeback themselves via the bank, because well, the product has a trial and it just cannot stop working just after entering the license key.

More often than not, such a customer will restrain from getting a refund and you will even get some respect points from them for doing a no-shit business.
We live in a simulation
You are describing reddit 8 years ago. Reddit today is a mess of political propaganda and fake content. Hardly anything knowledgable or interesting. Certainly the only "enthusiastic" people are the hordes of democratic party employees and trump supporters. Every else is just exhausted by it.
> I do wish there was at least one social platform that would try to follow the Craigslist ethos and stay "proudly independent."

I worked at reddit for 4 years, but quit in 2016, largely because they were clearly beginning to switch from a small, fairly independent company (despite being owned by Advance/Conde) to one that was going to become completely dependent on venture capital and I knew what that would end up doing to the site.

A few months later, I decided to start a non-profit and start working on a site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I think are hurting online communities: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes (HN discussion of the announcement here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103093)

It's in private alpha and is still fairly small, but it gets several hundred posts/comments a day and is progressing steadily. If you (or anyone else) is interested in an invite, send me an email at the address listed in the blog post and I'll be happy to give you one.
Right! Especially meals that would be considered "a dinner out" in the USA, e.g. incredible ramen can be had fast for lunch, and relatively cheap.
Jaynes's Origin of Consciousness -- not only because it's a fascinating argument in itself, but because it really makes me wonder, if Jaynes was right, is there another population-wide "upgrade" in store for humanity. If so, what it would look like?

Also, now that we know more about epigenetics, that's another really interesting framework in which to contemplate Jaynes's thesis.
in this case the tip is being paid to the contractor, not instagram, instagram is merely handling the fund transfer.

In effect it is retroactively reversing the pay rate. This is theft.
The browser is a client that works for the user (well, Google, Apple, and Microsoft muddy the waters).

The mobile app is a program that works for the developer.

The end result of browsers becoming more adtech-hostile and user-friendly is that more companies turn to mobile apps.
> EMDR is PE with a marketing machine behind it

What is "PE" in this context?
Yeah, I use their app on android and it's pretty bad. There's currently a bug that seems to get fixed and then reappear where if someone responds to your comment, you get an alert and when you click on the alert it takes you to the comment, but if the comment is too nested, it just takes you to the top of the thread. This makes responding to a comment in any thread with over 100 comments near impossible. Because of that, I'm using the web app currently and it's really annoying to be constantly pushed back toward a broken app.
Terry A. Davis, the schizophrenic author of LoseThos and TempleOS, has died
Tildes only started last May. Where were you checking for the several years before that?
One my gripes with "michelin star" system is that it is heavily tilted towards European and Japanese food. There is absolutely no Indian, South American, Mediterranean, Thai, or Chinese restaurants (albeit few though) in it's catalog. They are pretty much missing the diverse and exceptional gastronomical experience in doing so.

EDIT: Small change, looks like there are few Chinese restaurants!
Well, you can use a container service or use EC2 still.
Angel Match is a database of 50k investors to raise your capital
Sorry, this is not true. There were Usenet providers where you got practically zero spam and no false positives.
“Beyond Good and Evil” by Nietzsche. Will completely transform the way you look at morality and its role in culture.
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt is amazing too - https://mises.org/system/tdf/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economics%20i...
Of course. Unless you need some giant lens, a smartphone's imager and lens is probably good enough. Smartphones have eaten the low, and now the mid, end of cameras.
1) Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

2) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
That's good to hear! My understanding was that as you move towards your 40's and 50's it becomes more challenging to find engineering roles that are willing to compensate you for your increasing experience levels. I hope I'm wrong.
Personally, I might be able to convert a number to floating point using the formula, but it's not easy to grasp why. The visual explanation really helps with that.

Being able to read maths doesn't automatically mean that it is the best way to present an explanation of something.
Twitter is full of tales of people using the camera filters on their phone to change their appearance on Tinder, Match etc.

What do you call body dysmorphia when what you see in the mirror doesn't match what you see on your phone in every Instagram/Snap post of yours?
I thought modern OSes now pop up notification icons when this happens, so you can detect and punish apps that do that. Doesn't stop them from getting a snapshot of your system on first run, though.
Ketamine's antidepressive effects are by far the most potent when ketamine is administered as an IV drip over a long period of time, like 40ish minutes. If you simply inject it all at once, you will definitely go to la la land, but the duration will be too short.

And if you're talking about starting an IV on yourself... without training, the risks of really bad health issues, including death, are pretty high. Almost no one outside of professional health care has that training. Even if they did, you still need to be monitored by someone else via pulse ox and sometimes blood pressure for safety reasons, and said person monitoring you needs to have the training to know how to help you if something goes wrong. Keep in mind that if ketamine is effective for you, you will end up needing to keep taking it for a long time, typically every 3-6 weeks, or the effects wear off. That frequency multiplies the risks.

In short, I see the ratio of risk to effectiveness for home use ketamine to be emphatically not worth it. Unless you have a partner / friend who has the necessary training.

I know from talking to my doctor that of the $375 I pay, his cost for the ketamine he uses for that one treatment is under 10 bucks. If you've got a medical license, you get access to buy legit pharma drugs very easily. I believe he told me that one vial of Ketamine is something like $20 and there's multiple doses in there.
That's mostly because they DO NOT have a mature business model. Reddit struggles because their main source of revenue, ads, performs poorly on the generally tech savvy audience that makes up the core of their platform. They have been trying to figure out for literally the entire life of the company how to turn a top 10 visited website into actual consistent and repeatable revenue. You'd think it be pretty simple but look how much push back they've gotten on even relatively benign monetization strategies.
As soon as a viable alternative pops up that doesn't seem tailor made for racists, I'm there. So far every competitor I've seen pop up seems to think Reddit's biggest problem is their (rather weak) stance against hate speech and user harassment, and not all the actual problems being discussed here.
Duck duck go is terrible. I give it a try frequently, and it is the default search provider on my phone, but most of the time I get useless results and have to either do it again with google or give up and try searching the history on my desktop for what I needed. I don't know why PLAIN TEXT SUBSTRING MATCHING is so flipping hard. Yes, I know spam exists, but I would prefer a dumb search to a smart but useless one.

Looking at my own webserver logs, I often wonder why ahrefs or majestic do not start a search engine effort. They crawl me as often as bing or google do, and could easily get a foothold with a "less is more" approach to search.
Sweeteners are a very complicated science, and there is no perfect solution yet. But just about anything is better than real sugar.
Don't work for them, but I've had a similar experience.

I find it funny that the OP would ask this question while being an active part of HN. Reddit is HN, for niche topics for which communities are hard to find.

I am regular on subs like r/progmetal, r/boston , r/bodyweightfitness, r/frugalmalefashion and r/gifrecipes . Topics for which I wouldn't find even a close alternative anywhere on the internet.

In addition, there are popular subs like r/soccer and r/dota2 which have developed a personality of their own, with in-jokes, popular posters and regular weekly focused discussions.

In many ways, the front page of reddit is literally the least interesting part of it. I am glad it is that way, because it adds an element of inaccessibility to it, keeping away those without enough commitment. (HN does it too with its interface and topics that need specialized knowledge)
Paul Graham's essays aren't just "kind of" a book, they are a book. (A very good one BTW)

https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/d...
Yes. I have several lights comprised of LED's and simple power supplies I built ages ago. They are dirt simple, but probably not as cost effective to make. Mine use a small transformer, full wave bridge rectifiers, a couple capacitors and a few resistors in parallel. Nowadays, you could make a small switching power supply, like those found in laptop power supplies, but smaller... but I know that won't happen because the bulb would cost several times more.
Twin Geeks
My top books:

- The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan - It gave me the tools required to cut through bullshit and helped me free myself from the shackles of a religious upbringing

- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins - Gave me the courage to look at things differently when everyone thinks we know it all

- Zero to One by Peter Thiel - It made me question what I was doing professionally and I now have a list of questions to answer whenever I am in a startup to help guide me

- Compersion by Hypatia From Space - It help remove limits to how I can love and care for the people that are important to me.
Although there is a lot of hype around AI/ML, there are a ton of pragmatic things coming out of the research much like this Live Transcription by Google that I think will be incredibly helpful to people around the world.

The thing I am most excited about is that most of this work is being done in the open, in the very least much of this is being open sourced by Google, Facebook, and other giants. For all the heat they have been taking lately I do think they deserve to be applauded for this and Of course this is mostly happening in order to sell us cloud services but it cannot be understated how helpful this will be to many around the world.

Another thing I’m excited about is what I can build with these things, and even more what others will create with these models as building blocks in their applications.

As an example, and complete self promotion here, I was able to use some open source models by Google on TensorFlow to build a cross platform App that can read Articles to you using these neural networks. The amazing thing is I built it mostly on nights and weekends, which shows how easy some of this is to work with now, you can check it out here if you like https://articulu.com
Yeah the horde of edgelords in WPD totally isn't one of the reasons the sub got quarantined.

Gore will always be considered shock content, but the comments in WPD are almost always downright repulsive.
How efficient are subrrddits compared to always logged-in audience which told you their age, interests a location, explicitly?

Rethoric question.
there's a bunch of chinese restaurants. not sure about the others
Reddit convinced me that showing topics based on time-decay does not promote in-depth conversation. Facebook semi-proved it.
Lots of strawman examples. Anything imperfect will have errors. I didn't see much 'scientific' about the criticisms in the article. For instance, measures of how often techniques are right, how often labs are correct.
Do you have a citation for the $2M figure? I tried searching a bit. All I found were random sites saying roughly the same stuff conspiracy subreddits or sites were saying.

I’m not saying something didn’t go on, but if something did happen, where did that number come from besides “anonymous source[s]”
Thanks for your feedback. For a foreigner it's completely a different story, indeed.

The other point is that it's an unneeded distraction. Why to bother with all that stuff if it doesn't bring you closer to the goal.

Is it really lean to incorporate just to be able to test an MVP?

For me it's like using fax machine instead of email when everyone is on messengers...
Some friends of mine [0] actually made a puppet opera based on this chap - and a blast it was too.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2017/jan/26/watch-a-...
Isn't this expected when Sweden has a significantly lower population than the US?
I'll take issue with that. For all Clippy's interpretation problems (way ahead of their time), it was still trying to facilitate actions that were useful to you (not Microsoft).

Dark patterns are defined by trying to willfully get you to do something that's counter to your own intent.
War and peace by Tolstoi.

It made me aware that someone as successful and powerful as Napoleon himself was by a large extent only a product of the people and the mood at the time. What I mean is that it wasn't him who inspired the people; it rather was just the Zeitgeist he was the perfect person for.
I'm not a native speaker and can't really put it into words, but it completely changed my view of the amount of influence we really can have in this world, and how much we are a product of our time.

Narziß und Goldmund by Hesse.

Again a lack of words from my side.
Whoever is looking for meaning in life should read this book.
The last sentence of this book is (at least in German) the literary most perfect and awakening phrase I've ever read. I couldn't sleep for days afterwards.
Note, of course, that he was wrong about the gene being the unit of selection. Selection happens at an organismal level. As we've come to understand the interconnectedness of the genome, this has become even more clear. Dawkins' ideas generated a lot of debate among evolutionary biologists in the 1980s, but have largely fallen out of favor. They're just too simplistic to reflect reality.