skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad that somebody pointed that out. IMO, if somebody wants to get a quick overview of genetics, their time would be much better spent watching lectures 4-7 from Sapolsky's Human Behavioural Biology lectures [1]. In those 4 lectures Sapolsky's explores contradicting theories about (among other things) the unit of selection and gradualism. Highly recommend the whole series.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRXA1_e30o&list=PL150326949...
I am skeptical a single book can change how a person thinks about the world - at least on a practical level.

Actually transformative concepts are usually not simple, and they need to mature in the thinkers mind.

Most important subjects are ao large it would be impossible to cram them into a single book.

Books can be insightfull and amazing, and there are several that are so vivid I find chapters from them popping into my head. A few recent books I feel have been very enligthening to me:

Notes on the synthesis of form by Alexander. Skunk works by Ben Richie. Influence by Cialdini. Skin in the game by Taleb. Isaacson's biographies.
Something about Reddit that has been really irking me lately is the decline in quality of the comment threads, which is arguably one of the only reasons to visit the site nowadays since link aggregators are so common.

People seem to treat commenting like a game instead of a forum for discussion. I often see the same patterns from Twitter there (i.e., inciting outrage to get upvotes, virtue signaling, or just pointless jokes on serious articles). The introduction of Reddit Gold has made this substantially worse, as now there’s an additional point system which awards single comments instead of points of discussion.
It has nothing to do with the protocol of Matrix.

* OP has an iphone and some kind of non-iphone messaging interface accessed through ssh which can somehow send messages to iphone users through iMessage

* OP prefers to use the non-iphone messaging interface to send messages to iMessage recipients (I'm assuming both OP and recipients are using a modern generation of the iphone)

I'm saying that-- as it stands today-- OP is accepting a decrease in security by sending to the iMessage recipients from the non-iphone setup instead of from OP's iphone.

Regardless of the security protocol of Matrix and regardless of which client OP is using, what I'm claiming will be true.

It's also trivial to refute-- if I'm wrong then the messages OP is sending from their custom box should show up with a blue background in iMessage on the recipient's iphone. Is that the case or not?
WebKit also wanted to do something like this: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194028
>the platform itself hosts tons of alt-right, incel, racist, sexist, and violent content.

This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a censorship-heavy platform and the worst of a censorship-free platform.
You won’t shame me. You can’t make me feel ashamed of my father, who got my family out of poverty and didn’t even know how to order a beer or a meal at a restaurant until he was 55 because that’s just not how we spent money. Your perspective is rooted in the heights of privilege and entitlement, wherein first world people can live cozy secure lives, entitled to leisure and “hobbies” on the backs of second and third worlders who facelessly supply us cheap goods that our rich should provision for us just because we live in a country that enslaves the world’s poor. That “hobbies” and “leisure” as a human right doesn’t give you pause is disturbing, because if you don’t earn your hobbies and leisure and expect them anyway, you’re a piece of work given what goes on in the world to make our leisure possible. Americans live in a Disney fairyland created by Ronald Reagan and the 1980s. Why should poor people in America be entitled to 50,000 USD when people who work and create the things these poor people say they absolutely need to consume make 5,000 USD. What haught, what arrogance. What willful ignorance. That’s what’s disgusting.
Smaller doesn't always mean less overhead. Small enough (250sqft w/ 3 people probably hits that bar) and you're constantly moving things around and cleaning things to make space for something else.

If you've ever cooked in a tiny tiny kitchen, imagine that feeling spread throughout your entire home life.
> Vuvuzela is the first system that provides strong metadata privacy while scaling to millions of users. Previous systems that hide metadata using Tor (such as Pond) are prone to traffic analysis attacks.

Pardon my ignorance here, so how is something like my IP hidden from the centralized server? I would assume "strong metadata privacy" would include the most obvious metadata, IP, and keep it from the server like Tor which they compare against.
The worst thing in promoting their app is that I would gladly use it if it was faster than a web site, but it loads so much slower that it's just a much worse experience.

Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago. Facebook realized it when Google was launching G+.
Dawkins is amazingly lucid when he sticks to topics he knows very well. “The Selfish Gene” and “The Extended Phenotype” were world altering for me. Like integral calculus, I rarely have cause to apply the concept in the domain in which it was described, but the understanding that his conveyance of the material shaped in me is something I feel in my thinking every day, more than two decades later.

“The Mating Mind” by Geoffrey Miller (another biologist who would do the world a favor by sticking to his domain of expertise) came to me more recently but has left a similar impression. It impeccably elaborates upon the power of sexual selection and how it intertwines with natural selection.
Plus, you can read this one in about a day or two. Picked it up for the second time about a year ago. Cried again at the end.
Antifragile: How to live in a world we don't understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

I realized that my bad relationships are mostly the result of my lack of skin in the game. That indifference is not an advantage but that it is paralyzing.

That I have to feel to be able to risk and do something.

In addition to applying the concept of antifragility to many external things.

It has motivated me to start a business and to connect more with my loved ones, changed my perspective on research, what's important and the power of the passing of time. It definitely impacted my life.
For society, by making the distribution of goods/services more efficient. Amazon enriches our lives (compared to no Amazon) every time anyone uses it. The resources we all save, the delta, go partially to Mr. Bezos and owners of Amazon stock in the form of profit. They are rewarded for having allocated their capital efficiently. They can spend the money on whatever they want, but it is mostly allocated back into making Amazon more efficient -- not locked away as the gp suggests.

Bear in mind this is the extremely idealistic neoliberal take.
Idea plus ownership = moken
Indeed, it is.
You are right that this is the model, but if your argument is that this model means that unnecessary disk space is used, that's wrong.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-Internals-Packfiles states, using an example of a file which is 4K and then a new commit which adds a line to that file (thus making the new altered file 4K):

"What is cool is that although the objects on disk before you ran the gc were collectively about 8K in size, the new packfile is only 4K. How does Git do this? When Git packs objects, it looks for files that are named and sized similarly, and stores just the deltas from one version of the file to the next."

You are right that this isn't the thing that's presented to the user as "git diff". The model that Git uses is that each commit has each file at that version, but it uses an optimization (the packfile) to make sure that doesn't take up more disk space than necessary.
It's interesting that your complaint doesn't seem to be against the use of the "trailer trash" stereotype, but your inclusion in it. And in the process, you manage to stereotype other people.
Smart speaker adoption in U.S. reaches 66M units, with Amazon leading
> So you are saying Google is blackmailing websites into having a terrible user-experience?

Pretty much, yes.

AMP compliance gets you a better Google search placement. So, every site is going to make sure they get their AMP placement and then funnel you to something non-Google.
> incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.

But Reddit is only one of those things.
I work at a large tech company that's good at search and ads, and I actually just got back from swimming at lunch.

I work roughly 40 hours a week, and I have a commute that's ~45-60 minutes. It's 5 miles by road, but it's a classic unusual Boston commute by bus and T. Coming from a startup, the stability and health of working at a large company with well established practices and a good balance was a very welcome change.

I absolutely recommend the course Learning How To Learn, and one of the best insights I got from it is the importance of the "diffuse" mode for learning and processing. Sleep and exercise can be incredibly helpful for this, and I've found that everything is better with sleep and exercise. I try to swim 2-3 times a week at lunch, and I do weights on the weekends and occasionally in weekday evenings.

Often times I'll have a problem in my head before I run or swim, and usually by the time I've finished a solution will have naturally floated up from the depths. I've also found that a similar focused studying session followed by a long diffuse mode run, swim, or walk is incredibly productive for learning something new, and it feels like studying on easy-mode when it works!
Tesla Plans to Acquire Maxwell Technologies in Deal Valued at $218M
Ternimal: Simulate a lifeform in the terminal
Drift of the North Pole forces early magnetic map update
I second this. Switching from a Galaxy S7, the battery life for my Xr has been amazing!
If your screen is mostly black most of the time, OLED power consumption is superior to LCD. I wish more apps had a dark mode.
Artist Gets Canadian Government Grant to Create VR and Machinima Experiences
Matt Ridley - excellent science writer, highly recommended.
sleep at night, having friends over, and having a home gym sounds miserable to you? to each his own I guess. some people prefer to be woken up and being fat probably. most are not some though.
Customers engage in a voluntary transaction with Amazon. Where should these customers have spent their money instead?

I'm not sure I understand what you are proposing as an alternative. Taking Bezos assets to do something with?
This is the book that switched on the light for me. It’s no exaggeration to say that it put me on a path to the best levels of health and fitness I have ever known. I am 56 and feel like I’m in the prime of life.
I like books of Victor Hugo. They really change my mind.
In the UK.

The flat I live in is the _largest_ place I've lived in 28 years. Lived in quite a few different places, maybe 15.

It's a two bedroom flat.

Total floor area 36sqm, aka. 390sqft.

It's not a "tinyhouse". It's a typical rented flat, about average for the area.

I would love a larger place. I dream of storage, of a workshop room.

But when I see people reporting US sizes, it's hard to even imagine that much floor area.

To think, my biggest place is the same size as a specially-named "tiny house" in the US!
Yes, you can target subreddits.

I used to post my DNS-host (dns-api.com) on /r/sysadmin, for example.
Translate btwn JSON compatible structures and native Python classes using rules
Voat is appalling and revels in its terribleness. There has to be something better to migrate to.
It's probably in Google's interest to limit web bloat that degrades UX. AMP might be one strategy (with many negative aspects that many here will be familiar with), leveraging Chrome's browser share to impose limits might be another one.

Also reminds me on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038092 . I wonder if in the future we'll look at excessive JS bloat as we look at annoying pop-ups today.
Windows is bloated as soon as you boot
Death to Caps Lock (2006)
I’m hopeful that this means Tesla will Open Source Maxwell’s patients - https://patents.justia.com/assignee/maxwell-technologies-inc
They also obfuscate the real upvote/downvote numbers, purportedly to stop vote manipulation but I don't really see how it does anything but provide a mask of plausible deniability for editing the up/down figures for advertisements, subversive posts, etc.
I see a lot of talk of fairness to justify the urge to merge early. This is ironic since zipper merge is the fairest of all, if you can only get everybody to adhere to it. Nobody can get ahead if both lanes are full and moving at the same speed.
That's because at first appearances, the Reddit hive mind would make Karl Marx blush red.

Dig a little past the front page, though, and all the problems of having those groups share the same space with everyone else become evident.
Stevia is usually pretty good but have to keep the amount low.
Yeah, that was a biggie for me, until I read "Darwinian Fairytales" by David Stove. Everyone who has read Dawkins needs to have a look at this.

A philosopher has a look at what Dawkins actually says and realizes it is basically medieval demonology dressed up in pseudoscientific verbiage.
+1 for the book. In my case, I couldn't really follow or properly understand the advice in that book until I stumbled upon The Charisma Myth and followed the exercises there. Only then I had enough social skills to apply Dale Carnegie's tips.
Self organization in biological systems

It explains with many examples how stable, global structures arise from simple, local interactions.

It changed the way I think about economics, politics, society, evolution, computer science, and a whole host of other things.
> As far as I can see in the USA and in most of Europe it’s way more socially acceptable to declare to be atheists, rather than observing Christians.

If you believe that, I don't even know where to begin.

People in the US Bible Belt get death threats if they declare their atheism.

Online isn't offline. And most people still exist more in the offline world.
Because users like their batteries?

Because trying to do crypto properly in a language without integers is recipe for disaster?
Arthur Clarke's Childhood's end. I know it's fiction but it left me speechless. And aside from the descriptions of technology foreseen at that it was written, I think it's timeless.

“No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.”
Free Webinar – “From Dev to InfoSec: MyInfoSecStory”
Castle Europe. Keep the enemies outside and put everything inside in bubble wrap.
you could live in a smaller home. 1500sq ft is plenty enough for a family of four. How I know? I grew up in one. If your mortgage banker tells you you could buy 600K house, don't ever fall for that trap.
It's also interesting that the "over 330M active monthly users" number somehow hasn't changed in over a year now. Their site has it here, as "Last updated Nov. 12, 2017": https://www.redditinc.com/#section-3

Their official blog posts continue using that same 330M number: https://redditblog.com/2019/01/23/health-fitness-on-reddit/

The TechCrunch article does as well.

Either their number of active users hasn't changed at all in over a year, or they're actually shrinking and deliberately just staying with an outdated number that looks better.
> A lot of care was taken in the wording of the last IPCC report to communicate what findings have which level of confidence.

The level of confidence is near zero, and if the IPCC was being honest and unbiased that is what they would say. As I said previously upthread, anybody who claims they can model our climate with any level of accuracy on the order of decades is being completely disingenuous. We can't model weather even a month out. The history of global warming alarmism has nearly a hundred-year long trail of missed predictions. But they have it right this time, right?
How exactly does this work with encryption, which is becoming more and more prevalent? E.G., Tor...
Speaking for myself, it helped a lot to have another pair of hands for much of it. I enlisted my dad a lot and my friends a little bit. Anything involving moving a whole sheet of plywood is tough, especially when going from ground level to attaching to the structure.

I did all the smaller stuff myself, including framing, putting together the roof trusses, and roofing (minus the sheathing itself). You can easily manhandle around dimensional lumber by yourself; it's long but skinny easily to easily handle, unlike sheets.
Quite many crimes are such that if you were a smart person, you would not be committing them in the first place.

I think this is why even simple things such as wiretapping and checking which cell phones registered near the crime scene still work.
"10 years ago when reddit would go down, you rooted for them as the underdog to figure it out. Now when it happens, it's just sad. They still can't even handle the kind of traffic that the super bowl brings them. They've had years to figure this out."

Reddit goes down pretty rarely and I can't remember when it was ever down more than an hour or two. It also definitely didn't go down for the SuperBowl that I saw.

The rest of your points are fair though.
> it’s way more socially acceptable to declare to be atheists, rather than observing Christians

This was a story line in HBO's Silicon Valley.
"The iPhone XR is an interesting product for Apple: It is clear that it aims to be a lower-cost alternative to the higher-end XS flagships."

In what world is $800 an affordable price point?
I'd love to be surprised with a decent competitor but all of the Reddit spin-offs I've seen are all trying to be not-Reddit, and that often includes keeping the community niche/exclusive.
Any data on HTTP/3 performance? I don't see it in the book. There's the general claim that it's faster/lower latency, but there are no numbers behind that claim -- last time I checked QUIC's performance benefits were incredibly slight.
> 5. No other communication is allowed.

When playing with friends / casuals I've found that this is the one that trips people up (if you want to play strictly by the rules) - no, you can't ask if there are any reds left. You can't ask what hint Alice gave to Bob on her previous turn. You can't just say "Only one yellow 4 left, let's be careful" etc.
One argument is the left wing split when the white suburban middle class stopped supporting taxing itself to fund the social safety net.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/9/14543938/do...

"Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots." -- Richard Rorty [1997]
+1 reflecting back I think this is one of the books that has been key to changing my thinking. Was one of the first design book I read, but the lessons have been with me for the last decade+.
When we first launched https://www.Feastflow.com, a handcrafted lead gen service for freelance developers, we didn't offer a free trial or a money back guarantee and we got a lot of feedback that it was necessary. This might be a different perspective since we are a subscription service but having a "no questions asked" 30 day refund policy has definitely boosted our conversion and led to a much larger userbase. We found that our biggest sticking point was getting a user to give us a try and after experiencing the quality of our leads there is very little chance they ask for a refund.
> The assumption that the resulting 122bits are universally unique requires that they are truly chosen at random, CS(P)RNG is the most sane way to accomplish that.

Certainly not.

Take a Version 1 UUID (time-based), and spin it through a 128-bit LCGRNG. Do the AND / OR bitmasks needed to properly tag it a Version4 UUID and you're done. Bam, universally unique but not cryptographically random.

This would be very fast (cryptographic entropy is very slow!), and would be ideal for databases or most purposes.
Building a Toy Self-Driving Car: Part One
Any chance you could name some Indian restaurants that deserve 3 stars but haven't got them?
The concept seems pretty solid, but reading the output I feel like this is bordering on unethical. Maybe this is just a bad example, but it seems you’ve gone past programmatically giving people information, and into giving the impression you’re actually endorsing things. Unless you actually add metadata to the artist saying you love them, or rate the venue to indicate it’s good for live music, you’ve got no way of going beyond “Van Halen, a local rock band, are playing at American Brewpub at 7pm Thursday. You can drink local IPA while watching them, and buy tickets here.”
I hate how comments pop-in out of order. It's distracting.
1984 changed the way I perceive language and culture permanently. The notion that if certain words no longer exist in the language, then the associated idea will disappear from the culture was Earth-shaking to me.

Another idea that book drove home was the power for the media and the utter control of your life a government can exert when it completely controls it.
I really think "The illegals" needs to be erased from the discourse. Unless they have a distinct species moniker, they're still human beings located in the wrong place politically (in the geographical sense).
> But developers don't need to make any code changes or redeploy anything to mitigate those security issues

Right, so all deployed Active X based software magically became both secure and continued working as before after everyone installed the latest Windows patches?

The trivial patching only works for security issues due to implementation not design defects. If you have a design defect, your choice is typically either breaking working apps or usage patterns or breaking your users security. Microsoft has done both (e.g. Active X blocking, vs continued availability of CSV injection) and both have negatively affected millions.
I LOVE the Master and Margarita but I've only read it in English. When you say you read it in Russian for the first time, did you mean you've read it in English before? If so, were there huge differences?
Fake it till you make it, never really sat right with me, but it does allow you to focus on customers I guess...
How the Forbidden City’s treasures ended up divided between Beijing and Taipei
> Why is there even a setting? How many people would ever want to turn Javascript off?

Because without JS pages load much faster and browser takes less memory. Ad and tracking often doesn't work without JS. Why would anyone want to use JS?