skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside: My ambition is to someday rise to that role, while staying remote. I would love to read your thoughts on how one can pursue and move into a CTO role remotely.
BEAM has some heuristics where it can switch to a busy wait in some cases in an attempt to reduce latency. This is tunable with the +sbwt argument to erl; but the default means it's hard to use the system CPU % as a load indicator.
PlusAI (https://plus.ai/en/) is way ahead of them.
Drinking While Pregnant: An Inconvenient Truth
> I can't ever say reddit was known for high quality content.

When it first began. before there were subreddits, it was a place for respectful, serious conversation.

A few years later /r/TrueReddit was started as an attempt to get back to the glory years. Now it's as bad as the rest of reddit.
You could propose a StackOverflow for it: https://area51.stackexchange.com/
I took in my iPhone 6 with a black screen. Was told it failed the current test and was a motherboard issue and was offered a replacement for $329. Took it to a independent shop down the street and they opened it and connected the disconnected charging port inside and replaced a missing plate probably left from a third party button repair. $30. Flagrantly lied to.
I can sympathize with this, however, if you read my recommended guide, it absolutely isn't "that kind" of criticism. It's very readable and made a lot of sense to me. :)
Click on the subreddit link in the comments...
This was interesting but a lot of the things are wrong. Mandarin does have words. They are just composed of characters instead of letters. And there is NO way you could read a Chinese newspaper by just knowing what the characters “mean”. Some characters don’t mean anything, and they’re just there for grammatical reasons. Other characters can get mixed with completely unrelated characters and get a totally unrelated meaning to either. So for those of you who don’t know Mandarin, please read a lot of this with a grain of salt.

Regarding the simple grammar, I’ll say that tenses and plurals are easy for an English speaker to pick up. But Mandarin introduces new grammatical requirements that English and most other languages don’t even have constructs for, like change of state (which serves as the past tense in many situations) or counting words. Once you move beyond the “simple” grammar, things get complex fast.
I assume you mean "The Revolution Betrayed?"

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Betrayed
Ask HN: Karma Question
I'm new to Hacker News and thought I might as well make an account for this platform so I could link this account to my keybase account but it requires at least 2 or more karma and I'm not familiar with how karma here works. Could somebody here possibly explain it to me? Is it similar to how it works on reddit?
Note: "Volkswagen", not Volkswagon
English doesn't have tones; it's what's known as a stress-timed language.
I was surprised to learn that many folks swear by Blender's NLE.
Free-Trade Cars: Why a U.S.–Europe Free-Trade Agreement Is a Good Idea (2013)
Green Honey
1/2 or 1/3 deposit upfront and then other payments of maybe 10-20% when certain milestones are completed.

And never start work without a contract which has been reviewed by a lawyer and that clearly states payment terms and repercussions for non-payment.
Possibly start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Because when done correctly (VS Code) it fucking rocks.
So basically Dilbert - the animated series :)
I'm 100% with you on this. My experience at Apple stores is where the veneer of "Apple" disappears. It's a mess. Hurded into likes. Having to wait 10-15-20 mins just to buy something I need zero help for. Watching how their sales systems, repair systems and apple.com are not remotely integrated so everything has to be entered in triplicate. Objectively bad support but with the name "Apple" applied everyone seems to give it pass.
Right, so you agree with me. Retail is not a growth engine in 2019.
Apple's APIs last for years, in some cases decades. In this world, properties like "this object can only have one reference" and "this function can only be called once" become arbitrary constraints on the future.

Think about instances where you've refactored a RefCell to an Rc or a FnOnce to a FnMut, and consider what it would be like if you were unable to make that change because it would break the interface. It would be profoundly limiting.
Had never heard of Nasrudin before. Looks very interesting.
Pretty good introduction! The one thing I found a little off was in the larger phrase constructions: the explanation of how larger "words" are formed from characters isn't quite right. For instance the example of "socialism", 社会主义, which he parses as "common production primary virtue", isn't really four words in a row, it's two "words" made of up two characters each: 社会 meaning society, 主义 typically used as an "-ism" suffix.

义 in isolation might mean "virtue", but most characters have a handful (or more) of meanings, and when it comes after 主, 义 takes on more of its "idea" meaning.

But all in all, pretty good!
Question: How'd you get into development?
I've always been curious how people have gotten into development so I thought I might as well ask.
Moto razr v3 2019 launch date in India – jabardast future and specifications
I've heard Chinese people learning Scandinavian languages complain that they're too damn "tonal": they found the sing-songy nature of those languages (at the sentence level, not the word/character) to be very bizarre.
> "No way! Why should I change it? He’s the one who sucks."

Relevant quote from Office Space
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a leopard seal anus of USB flash drives hurtling through the Pacific Ocean.
> a company with reliable income, access to good devs, and a long-term interest in the open web should come along and do this

That sounds like a nonprofit. In fact, it perfectly describes Mozilla.
I have quite a few:

- The Structure of Magic

- The Game by Neil Strauss

- Antifragile

- How to win friends and influence people

- 48 Laws of Power

- E-Myth

- Field Guide To Lucid Dreaming

- Turtle Trader by Michael Covel

Structure of magic may be the most impactful one out of all of them, but they are all hella good.
(original: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/20jlv3/n...)
How do you feel about crypto-reward sites?
Recently got started on a crypto-reward site called CoinCircle. Basically you complete certain tasks (one of them, for instance, is posting about CoinCircle on various social media Wink ) and they reward you with ETH, BTC, etc.

Anyways, the tasks, although mildly repetitive, are easy and quick to complete for an okay reward. They pick the top handful of folks every day to win prizes, etc.

Do you think this kind of thing is the new way for "mining" crypto?

Link for those interested. https://coincircle.com/l/NnMuOs7Jf~
> and dismiss native apps as being duplicated work.

It's worse than duplicated work, it's duplicated different work.
A Crypto Exchange CEO Dies–With the Only Key to $137M
I'll take your word for it! I didn't watch the animated series. It was too painful.
Zoning reform is the first step to affordable housing
One of the nice things about the age we live in is that you don't need to go to college to get a good understanding of history.

I have been listening to the Great Courses history lectures on Audible: https://www.audible.com/ep/the-great-courses-history while commuting. I have learned so much. Learning history helps give a new perspective on current events.
I don't disagree with the letter of your comment, but I take issue with the spirit. Markets are about exchange, and the pricing signal is the aggregate expression of what people value and how scarce it is. Far from being cold and impersonal, they are fully and completely about human values.

OP's wife may place a high intrinsic value on teaching, which serves as a kind of internal subsidy. In that case you'd expect the job to pay less, because more people are being 'subsidized' by their desire to do it.

On the other hand, nobody is burning with desire to be a garbageman. Nobody is a volunteer garbageman, and garbagemen make more money than you might expect (or at least, they did when I was graduating from high school.)

There's a reason glamorous and fun jobs generally don't pay very much. It's not that complicated, and it's not sinister.
I really dug this trailer-based development project in Palm Springs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4vz5Ms0rE They were able to find a manufacturer who would customize the design, and then they also did some post-hoc renovations after the homes were delivered. Plus some custom decks and carports. Seems like a really nice result for a good price.
Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet.
The Rendering Techniques of Deus EX: Mankind Divided and Rise of the Tomb Raider
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/compact-reddi...
free (!!!) workshops in Apple stores

I’m pretty sure those were around before the iPhone, certainly when the 4S was new.
Well I believe few people use the built in http module in go. Not sure if you're testing would allow for 3rd party frameworks but the Iris framework loves to claim fastest go web server. Gorilla or gin are also popular.

As for the structure of it you would like have everything split out into goroutines with a worker pool of goroutines ready to ferry the data from request to backend and back to client.
Seems like a nice potential solution would be promoting dual majors in journalism and history so journalists could provide deep historical context for the events they report on
My preference is actual office (which I currently have and share with one coworker), cubical (the higher the walls, the better), open space (no, just no).

Different people have different preferences.
Somewhat unusually for Indo-European, Swedish is literally a tonal language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Stress_and_p...

(that is, there are word pairs that are distinguished only by tone)
Navigating the Machine Learning Landscape, Pt. 2: Supervised Classifiers
"Be as close to English pronunciation as possible"?
> "Jiu" (pronounced like "Joe")

Pronounced like "Jyoe", maybe. "Joe" would be the syllable "zhou".
Why would you not use the standard library’s http package. I would!
Lyft lobbying to prevent Portland from regulating impact of ride-sharing
Imagine buying a 1000 square foot home, with a second story locked and available as an in-app purchase!
As a book lover, and a very frustrated one at that (for I never seem to have time to read all the books I would love to have already read), I've found Pierre Bayard's How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read both inspiring and liberating.

The title sounds it's appealing to some kind of self-help shenanigans on how to fake your knowledge on books, but in truth is a very coherent metaliterary theory that delves into memory, psychoanalysis, honesty, and creativity.

Because of this, and since it correctly argues that the line separating what you have read from what you haven't isn't as clear or obvious as it appears, it's inspiring because it shows you a way through the seemingly endless human library; and liberating because it allows you to reconcile yourself with your limited knowledge of any particular set of books.

Since it's impossible to know even a fraction of all that has been published, and because your memory is fallible, whenever you are talking about books, whatever book it may be, in some sense you are always talking about a book you haven't read.

That being so, it's far better to own it as it is and to take advantage of that fact, talking confidently about any book. And this is where this book can really come handy.

Ever since I first read it some years ago, I felt I had a weight lifted from my shoulders. I'm not as bold as Pierre Bayard is, and I still find myself awkward for not having read so many important books. But now I'm more at ease, knowing that others, whoever they are, are also in a somewhat similar situation. Instead of feeling an ignorant sod, I now know I'm surrounded by an endless throng of likewise ignoramuses.
Can you exist for your own purpose if you have no authority over your own existence? Farm animals exist because of their owners, therefore they exist for their owner's purposes alone, no?
That’s the idiomatic way to handle requests in Go. What’s the problem?
Yes, I second "The 5 Love Languages". Very good lessons for how to strenghten important relationships in my life. Before, I didn't realize how much more I prefered one kind of love language over some others.
Nobody is trash.
Python script I made for Super Bowl
Ask Weev how it worked out for him.
"... men with higher sperm concentrations are likely to have more testosterone in their bodies and thus may be more likely to smoke marijuana because simply they are willing to take more risks."
>Consider that statement with sexes reversed. Is it still true? Because I never hear of women being 'toxic'.

"toxic masculinity" isn't calling men toxic, it isn't even calling masculinity toxic, it's referring to a subset of masculine behavior which is harmful both to women and men, but mostly to women. Why would you consider calling women toxic to be the reverse?

Is there such a thing as "toxic femininity?" I don't know, I'm not a woman.

But whether or not there is has no bearing on whether toxic masculinity exists or what it represents. After all, as many people like to point out in discussions of gender, men and women are different, right? So there's no reason to assume the cultures of men and women shouldn't have different pathologies. That's what terms like "masculine" and "feminine" exist to describe.
In proper Mandarin pronunciation, "Xi" sounds more like the second syllable of "missy" not "she".
Heard the JRE podcast, will have to check out Attia's. Tons of good info.

Just starting to take a look at this. I've recently had a crash course in biology due to a cancer diagnosis in the family. One of the creepy behaviors of tumors is that they (through mechanisms that I don't understand) signal the body to create new blood vessels to feed tumors as they grow. To combat this, one of the drugs administered during chemo is bevacizumab/Avastin, which has an anti-angiogensis effect and suppresses this behavior in the body (which has some side effects as well).

Based on what I'm reading in the article, NMN seems to promote the development of new vessels. I'm curious if this would tend to promote/accelerate the development of tumors. It's of course possible that the two mechanisms would not intersect at all, or even possible that the increased blood flow would reduce senescent cells and other places where things go awry to begin with.

Was some other interesting stuff about resveratrol and metformin on the JRE podcast. Need to dig into that too (different family member with Type 1 diabetes, interested in potential theraputic effects of metformin for her as well)
“American Chinese” food was invented primarily in the Bay Area, so it makes sense that it’s so common there.

Chinese (and Chinese-descended) people lived in California in large numbers before any other part of the US - since the 19th century.
Gad Saad with Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey
Really neat resource. Coming into this thread with next-to-no knowledge of HTTP/3, this was a great high-level overview of the motivation and resulting protocol.

I'm wondering if anyone with a little more knowledge could go deeper into what the difference is between "TLS messages" and "TLS records" as talked about in this[1] snippet:

> the working group also decided that [...] [QUIC] should only use "TLS messages" and not "TLS records" for the protocol

From my understanding quickly reading through the spec, it looks like HTTP/3 starts with a standard TLS handshake for key exchange, but then QUIC "crypto" frames are used to carry application-level data instead of TLS frames[2]. Is this accurate? If so, why define a new frame format? Just to be able to lump multiple frames into one packet[3]?

[1] https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/proc-status.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#TLS_r...

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-tls-18#page-8
Yeah, especially a tech conference. Everyone has phones with cameras, vloggers and journalists covering things.

I know there are stories of casinos in Vegas breaking people's legs for cheating, but I guess that doesn't happen anymore since big corporations run them now with too much to lose. Plus if that ever happened and went viral, it would hurt their business.
"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini

This explains so much of human behavior, but I hesitate to recommend it to people because it is so easily weaponized. To borrow from Harry Potter, it's the closest thing I've seen to a book of charm spells, but was written as a defense against the dark arts. Better everyone read it rather than just the marketers.

What I really love about this book is how much of politics it has explained for me, including the downfall of the USSR and the American civil rights movements, but also newer events like Schwarzenegger's poltiical career.

If you like this, I'd also recommend:

"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
"Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
"The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg

All are in a similar vein. For more focused book on human behavior, I recommend first time team leads/managers read:

"Switch" by Dan and Chip Heath

A solid guide to changing organizational behavior.
If it's frozen they probably just need to reboot it.
Companies like Amazon have created huge, useful online marketplaces for new and used products and services. The companies act as facilitators but they don't want to do serious curation or customer support. For example, ever tried to call Amazon or eBay to discuss a problem or report possible fraud? As far as I can tell, these companies don't provide phone support. Their attitude seems to be "Why bother? We're not really interested in doing these things, our customers don't demand it, and it would be way too costly."
g’bye atrient. we hardly knew ye.
If someone is literally critical to your business, they need to have equity or some other mechanism to align incentives or you risk unaligned incentives torpedoing your business. This is the case with any business, regardless of parental leave laws.
The only exceptions are revolutions guided by good ideas and solid values.

Just "overthrow the current leaders and then (??? magic happens here ???) and then we get a better society" doesn't work. You end up where you started or worse because usually the ideas haven't changed.

Intellectual revolutions must precede political ones.

This is why I'm kind of a dull boring centrist politically. I dont support any major attempt to rock the boat because there has been no intellectual improvements that might guide such a thing.
Relying on better pronunciation of non-Chinese speakers as a form of romanization for Chinese speakers is not a good idea.

Does anyone remember when Beijing was Peking?

And I don't think Taiwan had an official romanization system, Wade giles seems more prevalent, and the road signs now are still a laughable mess.
"Opening the Door of Your Heart" by Ajahn Brahm
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=R0sMB9qk890C

This book consists of over 100 very short stories that are inspired by Buddhist teachings. It's contributed quite a bit to making me wiser, happier, less anxious and having better interpersonal skills.
I don’t quite get what security is being accomplished in this case. You can’t access the key store, so you nuke the encrypted database?
I am using reddit less and less because of the insistence on using the app no matter how many times I decline.

They have also become particularly creepy and anti-privacy lately.
‘Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect’ by Ian Stevenson.

This book radically changed my understanding of reality, consciousness and the nature of self. I’m a very skeptical and scientifically minded person; this book looks at the subject of life after death from an evidence based approach.
Guns Germs and Steel. Anything from Jared Diamond helps broaden your view of societies.
What other post? I think you're talking about someone else.
Major law firms generally give 16-18 weeks of maternity and 4 weeks of paternity leave.
Punjabi is also classified as Indo-European language and it is also a very strong tonal language. The topic is also a subject of research as none of surrounding languages have such tonal variations.
I used to be a serious workaholic, sleeping 3-5 hours a night during the week-days and, as you suggest, catching up in the weekends. I also used to be a moron. In retrospect, both states were correlated.

The first wake-up call was when I moved from Belgium to the US. In Belgium, one enjoys much more paid vacation than in the US. This discrepancy showed me that I did not truly recover in the weekends - I needed my vacation days to recover.

Though I consider the work-life balance a misnomer (you have one life; part of the time you 'work,' part of the time you do other things), it is still something you need to regulate. First of all, assuming you are what I would like to call a 'knowledge' worker, you need to do other stuff to keep your mind fresh.

Secondly, as a rule of thumb, I would suggest that if your job requires you to work 10+ hours a day, you are doing your job wrong. Though it might sound odd, this is a useful rule of thumb. Whenever you find yourself in such a situation - STOP. STOP and reconsider.

EDIT: changed to 10+ hours... (btw: this includes transit)
You can, either ask for the Chinese menu or ask if they have a certain dish (the Chinese name)
I've heard the claim that Charles Bliss, the eccentric inventor of the Blissymbolics writing system, claimed to have learned to read Chinese semantically, but not speak it, during his time living in China. But it's possible that either the degree to which Bliss claimed to be able to read Chinese, or the degree to which he really could read it, has been exaggerated.

I imagine that someone could choose to make deliberate progress on this skill, even though it's not at all a common approach to teaching or learning Chinese. I can report that I know that San Francisco is called 旧金山, and that I know the meaning of each of the three characters as well as their meaning together, but I don't know the sound of any of them. If I heard someone refer to San Francisco in spoken Chinese, I would have no idea what was being referred to, but if I saw it written, I would!

I've also seen Chinese speakers who don't know any Japanese understand the basic meaning of signs in Japanese, and vice versa, because often individual hanzi and kanji continue to share their most basic or common meanings (though by no means always). I realize this is also a far cry from being able to read a newspaper fluently, but I find it very suggestive, since most likely the speakers in question wouldn't be able to read these signs aloud!

Edit: but in support of your intuition about this, Wiktionary, for example, lists 256 Chinese words that use (for example) 市, a huge number of which probably don't have a transparent meaning to a non-Chinese speaker who knows all the individual characters in a given word. And it's a similar situation with other characters, so at least it would require a lot of deliberate study to understand complex texts.
Uhh...I grew up in an rural area with a lot of trailers and many of my relatives still live in them. They're proud of their homes and they find tiny houses pretty novel.

Yeah there's some decrepit mobile home parks out there, but most of these communities are not decrepit at all.

By the way, modern mobile homes (built in the 90s and later) get pretty big, many of them have 4 bedroom floor plans and stylish interiors.
So many!

- Never Split the Difference

- From Zero to One

- Way of the Peaceful Warrior

- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

- Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health