skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one book that finally made me to do some work and it's called "The Midas Method".
Some of it describes a set of rules (methods) we should live by to make the luck leaning towards us.

Simple things as "Watch your language! Never say “I can’t do that”" or "Never blame anything or anybody else for your misfortune" And my favorite is "Grab every opportunity which is going" You'll keep yourself busy and open for the world.

https://hundredfoot.com/bookstore/the-midas-method

It's a little dated but the stupid thing is the basic principles if you can be bothered to understand them really do work.
Along those lines, "The Conquest of Bread" by Kropotkin exposed me to a new way of thinking about liberty and political self-determination.
A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley (and her corresponding Learning How To Learn course) absolutely changed my approach to learning and studying.

Applying the lessons made my studying many times more productive. After getting Bs and Cs in many of my undergrad classes, I recently finished a five course post-bacc CS program with all As. While Dr. Oakley isn't the only reason, it absolutely helped!
I agree! It's been my experience that people genuinely believe they can reliably tell real empathy from fake.

It may be possible that the detection heuristics a given individual relies upon might, upon occasion, be a bit less reliable than could be hoped for. I've witnessed both false positives and false negatives.

Again, you're right. People do earnestly and honestly believe in their ability to detect genuineness.
Trying to use two at once sounds dangerous, and you'd lose the ability to move the meat around so that searing the edges of the steak would be very difficult. An equally sexy option is a deep fryer.

I've found that the searzall has a relatively steep learning curve. The learning curve is more like a knife than a pan. The kind of person who is buying the searzall is probably not used to being unskilled with a kitchen tool; I certainly wasn't.

I've successfully seared four porkchops with it, with none of them getting cold. The trick is getting each chop up to the searing point, where you can see bubbling on the surface, and then keeping it there. It's a little like spinning plates. You have to get them all going, but once they're there you only need to give each a little push once in a while. That also gives me a more satisfying crust than if I blitz through in a single pass.

Searing both before and after the immersion circulator is a strong option. I believe Dave Arnold recommends it (or deep frying) for folks interested in maximum crust formation.

It's really a transformative tool because it allows such high heat with such fine precision. It's my preferred tool for cooking the top of an egg that I still want a runny yolk. Also useful in any kind of home pizza-making. I've occasionally brought it to the office, though only when there's an outdoor space I can use.
It would be really ironic if this article was machine generated.
Are you saying it's better if maintenance requires a lot of work, to encourage people to do more maintenance?

If we made things harder to upgrade would that encourage more people to upgrade?
Mine was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, read around the same age (took me awhile to get through SiaSL).

The ideas around TANSTAAFL were what really drove me to believe in the value of hard work and being wary of the easy path to "success".
A hundred engineers for a site like Reddit is ridiculous. Scale is not an excuse - WhatsApp being the famous example of a hyperscaled product with many native clients and only a few dozen engineers. And who would Reddit be selling to? Are they going to run their own in-house ad platform?

I'm sure Reddit justifies it to themselves somehow.
I read through the bible every year and each time it shapes my thinking. For example, I was reading Exodus this morning about how we should care for the foreigner. I imagine several thousand years ago this was pretty radical. It also seems very relevant today.
Seems he had trouble absorbing calories from what he ate somehow.
With a raise that size seems like reddit will be at the mercy of investor best-interests and revenue generation will be priority one rather than the interests of the community.

It's easy to block ads on a browser but not as easy on a mobile app so they keep pushing these dark patterns to get to you to download the mobile app which personally am not a fan since there's an irrelevant 'promoted' post with every page scroll.
Just because my interviewer asks me that question, doesn't make him an ass.

Likewise, just because they would interpret that answer as a black mark, doesn't make him an ass. Maybe the reason I run into asses all the time, is because I am one. Even if they don't interpret it as a black mark, it's a pretty daft way to start a professional relationship.

There's too many unknowns, so the correct course of action is to make up some non-confrontational lie.
> Wall Street firms get financial feeds from zacks, edgars, morningstar and a whole slew of other financial data providers. Finance sites, like yahoo finance also get their data from these sources. They don't have to scrape anything for data. It comes in structured CSV, XML, etc format already.

Data quality varies from vendor to vendor. Additionally, speed is a factor in how profitably some strategies can be executed. When firms are examining bits on the wire to guess whether earnings were good or not (before the full headline arrives), you can’t necessarily wait for the vendors to update their releases, especially since all of your competitors will have exactly the same data.
Fernand Braudel had the biggest impact on how I think about history and the creation of the modern world:

In particular his focus on the structures of every day life:

https://www.amazon.com/Structures-Everyday-Life-Civilization...

And his focus on the importance of trade among the different parts of the world:

https://www.amazon.com/Perspective-World-Civilization-Capita...

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Braudel
"Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky really changed how I see the media and everything related to the media.

Like many "radicals" (it's the same for libertarians), he has great observations about the way things are, but umconvincing ideas for solutions. Oh well.
I would argue that calling out Ayn Rand's work and person as things in service of white nationalism is true, good & necessary.

You're the one who said 'racist'
For the record, systems at both FB and Google prevent internal employees from doing either. "There's nothing technical preventing any of these kinds of abuses" is only true in the sense that you can imagine implementations that don't prevent these kinds of abuses.
you mean alt right. Alt right is the racism and tariff producing political force.

I would hope you don't have a bad taste from right leaning economics. Not even China can deny the power of Free Markets.
Hi @garettmd. Thanks for your encouraging words. I have a working solution for Javascript and node applications here @ https://plugins.quadnix.com/ and here https://www.youtube.com/embed/-8jaCIbZ2Is
For every application you launch in this platform, the infra is being generated on the fly.
So far things have not gone that complicated because I am heavily using docker and simple apps just need an apache/node server on front to work.
But I have plans to add support for database and logs, and those could become little complicated.
I also accept your point that not all frameworks can be supported, but lets just start with few and see how far we can take it.
If you are a developer, would you be willing to try it out?
Ask HN: Should I convert C Corp to S Corp or continue to stay C Corp
I formed a C Corp anticipating funding but things didn't happen. Now it has become a huge liability. But the product is on track and the revenue will be small. I somehow plan to bootstrap. Should I convert C to S Corp or any other advice if you ever had dealt with such a situation.
The Searzall is on Amazon[0] and as mentioned you'll need a torch like this[1]! It's actually in stock right now so if you want one within the net 6 months I recommend buying it. They sell out quickly and they're manufactured in laggy batches. You'll also need to buy some of the propane locally. Their challenges with Amazon comes up regularly on their podcast... apparently it's been lots of headaches.

0- https://amzn.to/2MQOZzb

1- https://amzn.to/2DW7lvU
Two reasons come to mind:

DeepMind and OpenAI are indirectly in competition with each other.

The Gym interface is okay but the implementation is poor and does not readily support multiple agents.
An archetypal Soviet-era garage box recently got converted to a Tiny House in Tartu, Estonia:
https://g1.nh.ee/images/pix/iseloomuga-maja-muidu-paksude-ka...

Blocks of garages like these are a common part of Soviet heritage in Estonia, so they're essentially everywhere. Not quite sure, but due to its tiny size (probably ~215 sqft or
~20 m2) one may not need an extra building permit for doing something like ths.
My son and I have been trying to understand floating point numbers with almost no success, since it's usually explained with arcane mathematical symbols that neither of us understand. This page is brilliant and I'm going to show this to him, after editing the hilarious image with the owl. Why is profanity necessary to convey intensity? It's 2019, surely we have better ways of doing so by now.
+1. Reading Sowell really challenged my utopian impulses, it's amazing how deep his thoughts are but how simply they're expressed, apparently he advised people in the bay area to stop protecting so much open space in the 1970s with the warning that this would increase housing prices dramatically eventually. In hindsight this seems so intuitive and obvious but he gets credit for not needing hind sight and anticipating the most salient consequences.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry. Two people had to recommend it to me independently before I finally read it. Reading and deeply contemplating this book dramatically increased my ability to understand and predict emotionally driven behaviors. Drama in movies and in life started to make sense.
Don't count on it. If they continue with policies like single-sign-on the privacy-centric crowd will flee, followed by mainstream users. It's happened before and no empire has ever lasted an eternity.
They get the keys from the NSA.

(Sarcasm, but a non-zero fear that it's true.)
I really wish a company would make modular homes that are actually modular, in that you could start with a 'tiny home' module, then a few years down the line add a 'bedroom and master bath' module and turn the original bedroom into a child's space, and so on. The end result might be at a premium over getting a big house all at once, but in the meantime you'd get the benefit of being able to invest most of your money instead of sinking it into a mortgage.
Client did not pay?
"Why We Sleep" is the most important book I have read in many years. Helped me understand how my brain works and the nature of memory.

When I was younger, On The Road and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning opened my mind to travel and wandering.
GET NEW REDDIT

No thanks.

If old reddit ever gets taken away, I can only hope that they'll keep the APIs stable so that 3rd party clients can continue to live on.
Time lapse analog VCR [video]
The admin of my Mastodon instance tells me he'll have to shut it down if this passes: https://nerdculture.de/@ij/101541005474837977
> 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.

I never asked you to feel ashamed for that. I'm asking that you don't require everyone go though the same struggles as revenge.

Get this... I also think the people who are working to create the things that you are talking about should be able to have hobbies. I also think the people making the things that get consumed should be able to make enough to consume them. You are trying to turn my argument in to what you want it to be, not what it clearly is.

You are saying that, because I think people should be able to have better lives, I am saying some people should not have better lives? That doesn't even make sense.

Do better.
I can appreciate your opinion, but there’s nothing that can’t wait until tomorrow unless it’s life critical. Is it going to only take 15? Or will will it take 30-45 minutes and now I’ve missed dinner with my family for your question that is not critical.

If I don’t defend my time, who else will? I don’t buy the argument about rigidness being a bad thing. That’s how boundaries work best: clearly defined and enforced.
He's honestly quite sad now. I'm pretty sure all the terrible shit he's eaten and drank over the course of the years have rotted his brain.
now they just need to bolt it onto Glass or some other HUD. IRL subtitles. Could put a mic array on the frame too, and then get an indication of where the speaker is so you can be alerted even if you aren't facing the person.
Yesterday we got a user to use F12 tools to record the network session traffic of our page in IE11 and Chrome, and save it to HAR files.

This revealed a problem with the http proxy that the government department used, when they were blaming our system.

A government department will not install tcpdump for you. They might be actively unhelpful if their IT team is run by a BOFH.

This problem had to be debugged from the client, the server comms show no problem.

The more the browser can help me solve real life communication issues, the happier we are (and our users are!)
>Once you have reached the maximum in a window (e.g [2,4]), you can "float" it right and represent the number within the next window (e.g [4,8]). It only costs a little bit of precision since the window becomes twice as large.

WTF is that supposed to mean?
I find it ironic that their tagline is "The front page of the internet" but they push you to use a proprietary app.
Can you elaborate? I assumed that quarantining a sub was about the posts, rather than the comments. This is based on my experience of every subreddit having lots of offensive comments (granted, mostly downvoted.)
Really good article. Thanks for the author
I agree about the use of UDP to be able to reuse network gear, my comment was prompted by this part of the parent's comment:

>from now on we won't have to wait for your kernel to support feature X

This is orthogonal to the issue you're discussing (for instance as a thought experiment you could design a new protocol on top of ethernet in userland using raw sockets and it won't be supported by anybody, or you could implement something on top of TCP in the kernel and it'll work everywhere).

I just wanted to point out that outdated kernels aren't a fatality, it's a consequence of bad industry practices (in particular, although not uniquely, by Microsoft with its Windows OS). On Linux everything is updated together and the kernel is mostly just another package, so it's a non-issue. It's also means that applications don't have to package a custom updater (and all related infrastructure) by themselves.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice is another great book by Sowell that challenges the utopian mindset that underlies many modern policy discussions. It contrasts utopian "cosmic" justice with the much more prosaic (but achievable) "human" justice
/r/askhistorians tend to be an echochamber and they like to silence anything that didn't fit their agenda.
I'm not sure why you think I was being sarcastic. Irony isn't the same thing as sarcasm. I made no comment, implied or otherwise, about the person I was replying to. The comment was about the book, the fact that many people haven't studied Russian history, and the humour that results from the many possible interpretations...which works well when you have to explain it.

Btw, you don't need to interrogate everything for hidden meaning. Jokes about misinterpretation and misunderstandings are common, they aren't some kind of Mao-era public struggle session. The reason they are funny is because they happen to everyone and because interpretation is so personal. There is no one interpretation of Animal Farm that is correct...but some are more humorous than others (intentional).
The latest one for me was "On intelligence". It made me understand that intelligence is not that hard to understand on a conceptual level. The book is about machine intelligence, but the most impressive thing for me was the simplicity of how Jeff Hawkins defines intelligence
I'm going to guess eclectic and rich otherwise you probably wouldn't bring it up. I like the fact that how you live is reflected in your HN username.
I know what you mean. It’s hard to avoid feeling like what appears to be glossolalic nonsense would all be revealed as a majestic tour de force, perfectly comprehensible and life-changing, if you were familiar enough with Marx, Freud, Leibniz, Spinoza, Bergson, Kant, Sartre, and god knows whom else, to put it all together. I’m not, so I can’t prove or disprove the case, which makes it a weird answer to OP’s question; but per above, it remains the case for me that images and terms from that book have never stopped working in my ideation processes since I picked it up.
Ketamine is an off label treatment. Many of the practitioners aren't even psychiatrists. There are nurses, anesthesiologists, and pain specialists that do this as a side gig to make money. Your statement reads like we should put a lot of trust in these people when it's actually the opposite. One of the biggest clinics just hired a CEO to expand their business.

The time that the effect lasts is variable. A patient may need an infusion every week. That's $26,000 a year in some cases.

I actually had a doctor tell me that the infusions last 6 months.
Ask HN: Should I change my Co from C Corp to S Corp?
I formed a C Corp anticipating funding but things didn't happen. Now it has become a huge liability. But the product is on track and the revenue will be small. I somehow plan to bootstrap. Should I convert C to S Corp or any other advice if you ever had dealt with such a situation.
For those who want to see what the whole process looks like in reality, there is youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLSdKunI2Y
Interesting timing when you consider the layoffs and AI-assisted content. It's like the people that lost their jobs were replaced, so really the only changes ahead for many firms is content strategy, which is what will drive traffic.

Yet, the elephant in the room is the fact that more and more attention span is held by just a handful of platforms. If economic trends are any indication, the coming 'winter' will be rough for many firms that are competing for fewer dollars that aren't on Facebook or Google.

Interesting times ahead...
TinyMCE 5 released
Nuo vs. Maker X Dharma X Compound
I'm about 6% in to The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and I am certain that it has already changed my life. It presents the friction between the corporate optimization function (increase dividends and share value) and the basic human right to privacy and freedom that is continually being tipped in favor of the corporation. Our data has been spun to be this inconsequential means to make our life easier when in reality it is exploitable resource able to be crunched into manipulation for a profit.
It has changed my life because it has realigned my career aspirations as a software engineer.
Sure. First off, note that if you read her 2002 work about gender, it often relies on a(n in) famous "bridge study". In 2002, she mentioned it as "publication forthcoming"; 17 years later, it still hasn't been published.

But a general good overview of her statements regarding to blame, and why they fail, can be found on LanguageLog [1]. I'd also recommend searching LanguageLog, as there's other articles discussing how she often overstates the conclusions, and how the media takes it ever farther. If you're on Reddit (can't access it currently on work WiFi), search in /r/linguistics and /r/badlinguistics to find even more criticisms of it (and other Linguistic Relativity research).

[1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2592
Chrome is about ready to hobble ad blockers[1]. So soon, Firefox will be faster for many sites with ads.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extens...
Evangelical Atheism
This is a great example of a successful landing page.

I like that there was no cliche "pricing" menu item, which is on every cookie cutter SAAS website and is kind of a turn off.

They instead go through the sales pitch, listing all the features and examples and have the pricing at the end, which I prefer.
I hope it remains. I find it extremely useful for solving niche problems. A recent example of mine was Docker on Synology. It’s a weird interface with some niggling bugs. It turns out Reddit has this nicely covered and I’ve found this repeatedly. It’s way less technical than Stack Overflow but sometimes that’s what I need.
The toxic stew can be avoided while the little subs have solved hours of pain.
> Maybe being trained to think in ways that IQ tests prefer would raise peoples' scores?

That question has been tested repeatedly by the scientific community, and the answer seems to be 'no'.

> An IQ test isn't some sort of measure of inherent capacity, just a measure of how well someone takes an IQ test.

That's just not the case. IQ correlates with many interesting phenomena.

Of course, IQ doesn't come close to explaining everything about life outcomes, but compared to virtually every other measure in psychology (or the social sciences more broadly) nothing else comes close to the empirical validity or explanatory power of IQ.
Really appreciate your phrasing - I feel the same way about Anthony Bourdain's material (while on a very different matter) - has convinced me to check out some more Alan Watts.
> if you work a solid hour and only earn $1 gross income, that seems extremely exploitative

If that $1 per hour provides you with a better income than your peers with less physical labor, then this doesn't sound exploitive at all.
And from the figures I'm seeing, it'd be about 15,000,000 metric tons of CO2 for the manufacture of the phones to go with those manuals.
>I don't know a single person who had an extremely cushy childhood who is 'on fire' for anything or striving for greatness.

You could argue our current president had a pretty cushy childhood. Not sure if he's 'on fire' or 'striving for greatness' though.

Social mobility is heavily determined by a combination of race, IQ, gender, social-class, where you were born, and physical / mental health. All of that is dictated by luck when you are born. Our ego tries to convince us that we're "self made" but for the most part life is determined by "luck of the draw".
That is probably a property of representative democracy.
Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein. Just stunningly thoughtful and changed the way I interpret most things around me.
You might be interested to know that cargo can do that for you

$ cargo search regex
regex = "1.1.0" # An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and gua…
regex-automata = "0.1.5" # Automata construction and matching using regular expressions.
…
>But somehow that does not lead me away from the idea of a Universal Basic Income, but instead leads me to believe that something roughly that shape is what we need to save society.

The fascination with UBI is so strange. You are basically admitting that you think the system is so broken that the only way for it to continue to operate is to give people free money. How you come to that conclusion and not that the current system is completely broken and likely needs to be replaced confuses me.
Flow fundamentally changed how I look at self improvement, optimization and how you can work on yourself

https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/mihaly-csikszentmihaly...