skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You're not going to get a (remotely decent) novel

An actual implementation of such would be wonky?[1] Yes. But decent is a relative word. People are quite willing to put up with a lotta issue to get what they want. (The churn of quick-shift material in the self-publishing world is enough to demonstrate this.)

But, in relation to the nature of text vs video as I mentioned in another comment, the integrity of the written word probably doesn't matter. If video dominates, the words needed in a script need be no more than a generalized layout of plot-points filled with a bit of ad lib and improvisation. (Given the nature of so much 'reality tv' you don't even need that, simply impress the images and arrange them to the pre-defined consumer-expected structure.)

We really overestimate the importance of the novel. Tweets could be generated easily (and are), and such snippets, I'll argue, are to most-consumed scriptorial content. And visual media predominates. The novels that have wide-ranging effects are things like Dan Brown, which are structured in just such the way as they are much easier than would be suspected to be systematized (As most people will admit: he's really good at writing the same book over and over again).

And the people who care about 'remotely decent novels' beyond their own engagement are few and far between. They have no mainstream cultural value (in the US) beyond shock value.

[This is not to be taken as me knocking novels. Also, I may be too US-centric, but I doubt the rest of humanity is any less dominated by the arresting nature of the visual, or, again, they interact heavily through messaging apps that count in the snippet category.]

>regurgitating an existing novel

That's what most media is. (Which is not to be taken as a slam; a given culture has to repeat or it's not a culture.)

[1] Am I going to absolutely bet on that it would work? No. But I've done some work in this area, and I still will contend the distance between theory and praxis is much smaller than anyone wants to admit. The tooling would be much simpler than a full-blown AI.
That is not what I said. I just stated my preferences.
Microservices: Stone Soup for the Enterprise
From what author? I've seen this mentioned a few times but it's never clear to me which book this is.
Words always get truncated or omitted, though. It's technically UUID "version 1" (I think), but see how everybody just says "UUID 1". Teaching people to say "type" instead of "version" wouldn't do much good because most people aren't saying any word there anyway.

I'd prefer to use letters in cases like this. Letters have a much weaker association with ordering, there's no implication that the set is of infinite size, and there's no affordance for doing anything arithmetic with them except enumerating them.

For example, a plain old USB cable has an "A" and "B" ends, radiation can be alpha/beta/gamma, and power outlets can be type A, B, C, ... (it looks like they're up to "N" now). Nobody would think that a Danish "type K" plug is 9 versions improved on an American "type B" plug. It's just different.
>Eating his body weight in a day? That's pretty outlandish and easily debunked.

no. I don't understand what you're basing your claim on. As far as i see it is easily possible. Even with anatomically normal gut some stuff can make from mouth to the other end in as short as 30 minutes. So the bandwidth is there (say it takes 1 hour to make through the 7m length of the gut pipe which say of 4 square centimeter section - that is 2.8 liter/hour speed) . The story of that guy says that he had severe diarrhea and overall really suggests that he had severe gut bacterial issues - that is one of the situations when stuff makes it very quickly through the gut.

He is described as of a small weight despite significant food intake - that again matches the situation of the food quickly passing through instead of thorough digestion. He is described as constantly scavenging and eating - say 15 hours a day 4 kg/hour (in the ballpark of the above mentioned 2.8l/hour) gives you 60kg. 4kg/hour quickly moving non-stop though the gut does sound like a severe diarrhea.
Post WWII, Scharff emigrated to the US and worked as an interrogation instructor with the USAF, due to the respect US Army Air Force aircrew exposed to him had for Scharff during the war when Scharff interrogated them.

In the last decade plus of conflict, within military circles, Scharff’s book has been consistently brought up whenever the topic has covered things like waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques.

Scharff’s book is excellent and plays to our natural human need for compassionate and empathetic human connection.

It’s worth mentioning that while Scharff’s techniques have been proven to be very effective and useful for long-term interrogation there is still a place for “shock of capture” tactical questioning.

By that I mean in the period immediately following the capture of an enemy combatant there is an opportunity to apply psychological pressure(fear of implied threats, etc) and attempt to extract useful information without violence(they are now captured so the duty of care for them is on their captors), before they transition into longer-term incarceration and professional interrogation.
"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" by Robert D. Austin, Dorset House, 1996. Changed my entire world view. The basic idea - which Austin arrives at using an offshoot of game theory - is that all incentive systems will be gamed by the people to which they are applied, and there is no way around it.
Probably because it wasn't cheap to develop.
Only as anecdata, I remember a Forum/Discussion Board (technical) that a few years ago had issues (its word filter) with the word Matsushita (Panasonic was fine ;)).
Agreed.

I love them doing accessibility stuff, and I can see this being useful for specific people in my life. But when I initially read the announcement I thought about using it to transcribe business meetings.

Obviously the accuracy of this won't be "court reporter"-levels, but for casual note taking it would be "good enough."
"Isn't it possible that the reason their middle-class is so large is due in some part on political decisions they've made?"

The USA previously decided three times to explicitly create its middle class. The New Deal, the Homestead Act, etc. Policy choices which were hard fought and narrowly won.

Wealth and Democracy: How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy by Kevin Phillips

https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Fortunes-Government-...

Without active redistribution, accelerating inequity is inevitable.

That the rich get richer is just math. Not a value statement.

Plan accordingly.
They are pretty transparent about that fact.

There are obvious factors that contribute to a restaurant being visited by Michelin judges, not the least of which is its location relative to other restaurants that are visited. There is also the matter of judges needing to be familiar with a cuisine in order to judge it properly. Without extensive knowledge of ingredients, preparation methods and presentation patterns it is difficult to issue a Michelin rating. If they do not know the culinary landscape how do you imagine they will issue a rating? Doing so would destroy their credibility as a knowledgeable school of critics.

There used to be zero stars in Japan but that has changed over time as the Michelin system has embraced the cuisine and visa versa. It is easy to point out that many cuisines are not represented in the Michelin guide but what are the alternatives? That a limited number of people learn everything there is to know in an instant? That the ratings become so arbitrary that they are meaningless? There is nothing in the Michelin guide that claims that good food cannot be found elsewhere. I fail to see the controversy in a publication that is seemingly doing what it can to stick to what it knows while progressively broadening its horizons.
Divide and Conquer with Microservices
I haven't even done my 2018 taxes yet and neither have most people. Concern trolling much? I'm sure whatever tax break I got will be welcome. As far as a giveaway to the so-called "rich" you are revealing your biases. Yeah, anyone who makes an actual wage is now defined as "rich."

Same as how inflation pushed all of us into those higher tax brackets without doing anything else for us.
The Bible, definitely. Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan.

Those are the two most published books in history and have changed more people's thinking than any two other books.
How Should We Read the Totalitarian Philosophers?
I didn't know what Hanabi was, so I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanabi_(card_game)?oldformat=t...

One part of the game's description that immediately jumped out at me was the need to pass information efficiently to other players, without directly giving them the world state. This appears to be a generally similar problem to one described in a recent openai paper: https://blog.openai.com/interpretable-machine-learning-throu...
Mainframe still has great outlook and is not going anywhere
2-3+ grams a day is crazy. Ketamine from a legit clinic is around 100mg give or take based on body weight, once per 3-6 weeks. If you increase the dose of any safe drug by that many orders of magnitude, yes, your body will be harmed!
Reddit is still a haven for the far-right. It really leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they are tolerated there.
Curious, I'd say many of us younger folks see it in reverse: our parents got roped in the propaganda of "consume now and pay later, you'll certainly be earning more", and then the lie was exposed, and they're left unemployable and with a crippling mortgage. Under this perspective, by giving up on superfluous crap, we're just keeping our eyes wide open, because we're fully aware that we'll get fucked sooner or later.

Then again, that may be fully the intention of the current propaganda: it's harder to fight when everyone is just trying to protect themselves.

Yet mobilization, like tiny houses, is itself rather fashionable nowadays. Are we sure that's not propaganda?
I think that comment is all justifications for forced labor camps not being so bad, not an answer to my question.
People can surely utfg what sciter is in the context of a gui solution ?
So what are you all's theories on why they want to push users to the app? Does that enable them to track more movement, target you with ads easier, etc?
Besides this being an impressively reported and written story, to me it's also another example of how wrong I continue to have been, since watching "Catch Me If You Can" and thinking that there wasn't much chance for a Fred Abagnale to exist in the modern centralized digital world (the Fyre Festival is of course another recent example of high-flying fraud). Reading about how easy it was for the victim's boyfriend, recently associated (but not convicted) with a criminal hacking group, to make himself seem like a big social media/crypto influencer makes me think that the arms race between verification and obfuscation will go on for a long time.

This story was also another reminder of how fast and overwhelming the news cycle seems to be these days. I remember reading Tomi Masters' death because of how unusual it was, but had completely forgotten about it until reading this story. If you asked me to remember when I first read about her case, I would've sworn it was at least half a year ago. But her death was reported in late December, so just about 1.5 months ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
Yes good software costs money. Whatever is wet.
"Darwin's Cathedral" by David Sloan Wilson allowed me to come to peace with religion. Now I have a framework to understand why religions do what they do.

Reading "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer and "Private Truths, Public Lies" by Timur Kuran prepared the ground for it!
Bullshit. Reading pays off. Always. Just read good books.

You have only one life. But by reading you can assimilate cumulative wisdom from thousands of lives.

Sure, don't just read, personal striving is also needed for a wholesome life.

I agree that if a book claims to be amazing and life changing, it likely is not. I find books can offer singular insights, and intuition about how people and organizations operate, what psychological and historical principles are general, and so on.
You are probably thinking of Metamorphoses by Ovid. The original title of The Golden Ass is also Metamorphoses.
Welp. And this is why I think Ann Rand was deeply evil and The Fountain Head was a horrible work of propaganda.

It's not okay to be greedy, nor is it okay to be selfish. And these ideas are responsible for much of the harm in the world.

It is okay to know what you need and advocate for your needs, to take care of yourself. But that is not being greedy or selfish. And to do it effectively means you have to be able to recognize the difference between a "need" and a "want". You also have to be capable of balancing your own needs against the needs of others.

A mindset of "greed is good" and "it's okay to be self" does not even try to understand the difference between "need" and "want" and provides ample justification for screwing over everyone else in pursuit of greedy (unneeded) wants.
I know you're not looking for this, but this came to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpwH9WeVEfU

"VW bug of trailer homes"
I have one, love it, and real high on the list for why is that at the end of a busy day I regularly have 40% battery left in the bank.

Put side-by-side with a XS, i'm hard pressed to find a visual difference between screens, quality-wise.
Hypocorisms
Fnord!
> I suspect they will be bigger than Facebook (maybe not in valuation, but usage) in the next 7 years and these problems will only be exacerbated.

I only agree with that in the sense that I think Facebook (the facebnook.com site) usage will decline quicker that Reddit usage. As someone who's been on Reddit for almost 9 years, I feel like the redesign is kind of equivalent to the timeline change that Facebook had. While it's not going to cause massive user drop off on it's own, it's kind of the thing that opened people's eyes to the fact that they are the product on Reddit. Every new complaint about Reddit will be, "First they did the redesign and now they are doing {insert new annoying thing}"

I think we'll see a gradual decline in Reddit usage for a while, but nothing major as there are no real competitors in the space that can handle anywhere near their scale. Once an actual competitor pops up though, all it's going to take is one or two missteps and people will start moving off Reddit.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - René Girard
Wow things have become easy to gamify for the average guy. Back in the day the girl had to know you from a friend or work and demand real social proof.

With a few well placed pictures maybe a mention from an influencer I can get thousands of girls prevalidated to hookup with.

Someone will come out with an app soon: InstraLife, selects a target account ig account pulls in similiar photos and creates a mirror profile.. also follows most active users from target's profile..
Yea, if true, that 230 figure is shocking. I wouldn’t have thought they’d have more than 25% of that. What on earth are all these employees doing?

I worked at an avionics manufacturer that had a dozen or so products (things like physical displays and map systems that go into airplanes) that had less than 10 full time engineers. A few software devs, a few EE’s and an industrial engineer who did the chassis. Sure it’s not an apples to apples comparison but wow. Does it really take that many people to maintain an already-working web site? Isn’t the promise of “cloud” that your staff can scale far slower than your user base?

Craigslist has what, 50 people? Better comparison. Even that seems to be a lot.
Regarding (1): as someone new to pijul, I was thinking the same. Not just that, but I deal with patches in git all the time. I receive them, and I send them, via e-mail.
I know someone worked for reddit for a while last year (they don't anymore because they hated every second of it) and from what I understand the engineering teams there are a nightmare of groups that don't talk to each other, constantly write the same code in completely different ways, have no common style and just shoehorn in whatever they want. Everything breaks pretty much all the time.
All of that is aside from the fact that the workforce acted like a bunch of teens that just arrived at college and are going crazy due to lack of supervision (Every project had to be tiptoed around because of complicated interpersonal relationships).
Not to mention the CEO offering drugs to people in his cabin at camp Reddit (the yearly retreat they do)
Oh, and the fact that the platform itself hosts tons of alt-right, incel, racist, sexist, and violent content.
Apparently last year Steve (ceo) told everyone to enact a hiring freeze while he figures some stuff out, and then after a month or two, when managers informed him of all the candidates they passed up, Steve freaks out and tells them that they should have hired them. During the hiring freeze. That he enacted.

The app also sucks. They try to make everything play embedded, so that if you want to share it, you pretty much have to share the reddit link, because the link to the actual content is hidden. That's bad enough but the embedded stuff also barely works. More often than not I have to go directly to the source for an embedded video or giphycat thing to play.

Every story I've heard about reddit sounds like a nightmare. It really sucks that it's become the defacto repository for so many hobbies.
The worst dark patten in my view is 1) growing an online community around a set of values 2) growing so big you eclipse all competitors 3) suddenly changing your values to appeal to advertisers.

Reddit is in good company here, notably with YouTube and Twitter.
Their current CEO seems to be a bad actor. Despite people reporting shills or Russian trollbots, the admins basically don't do anything in the name of "free speech" but to me, propaganda and counter-intelligence ops shouldn't really qualify... I wish they'd just clean up all the racist and weirdo (incel) subreddits and focus on nurturing the interesting communities (ebikes, woodworking, vinyl, guitarpedals). There's a lot of good stuff on reddit and it'd be a shame for them to get dragged down by the worst communities.
you should see /u/batbomb's post above. At least in their small study, they did see a significant difference
> But you use her in logic based arguments and then appeal to emotion so.... which is it?

My appeal was to the amount of effort required between jobs.

> And then they’re poor? Boo hoo.

Poor people are allowed to have hobbies and interests just as well as the rich. This sentiment is disgusting and you should be ashamed.

> You get paid 3x your wife because Americans care about what you produce, and they don't care about what she produces.

Trust me, I have worked jobs where I have been paid very, very well where nobody has cared about what I produced except the couple of people who were paying me.
I wonder if they ran it against Google properities first. I imagine Gmail wouldn't fare well.
> Why don't you quit and work on your own passions and projects for free then?

Eventually, he will, just like everybody else will - which is why socialism fails ever time it's tried. Unfortunately, starting it is bloodless but ending it never is.
+1 to Autobiography of a Yogi. Made lasting impact on my life. This book has a lot of magnetism to it, some agree and some disagree but here are some of my favorite quotes in the book:

"Wisdom is the greatest cleanser."

"Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge"

"In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle."

Other notable books that had an impact on the way I think are:

On The Shortness of Life - Lucius Seneca

Steve Jobs Biography - This was way back before I moved to states and gave me an intro to states as well as S.V
old.reddit.com or reddit.com/.compact
If you really mean conversations of the original owner, I can't believe that's true after e2e has been enabled.

But it could be that messages sent to the original owner are received, since WhatsApp automatically re-encrypts and sends messages if the message has not been received yet and the key has been changed. So basically that would mean the message would be sent when the previous owner already changed their number. So the people shouldn't have sent the messages at all.

WhatsApp e2e encryption just makes sure that the only person that can read the message is the owner of the number, not necessarily the person you want to send it to.
Most of the books that changed how I think were effective because of the subject matter and not the specific book or writing style. I suspect other books on the same subject would've been equally perspective-changing. Here are some examples:

1) "A Guide of the Good Life." This is an approachable intro to stoicism and helped me become more conscious of which things are within my control and which things are outside of my control. I now spend a lot more time focusing on the former and a lot less time being anxious about the latter.

2) Books like "Traction" (by Gabriel Weinberg) and "Cracking Creativity" that take a fuzzy subject like marketing or being creative and show that you can get very far by following recipes/algorithms/heuristics. Skill like creativity are not purely innate; they can be learned.

3) "Economics in One Lesson." (Spoiler: the one lesson is: "economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.") After this book, I now think much more carefully about proposed policies/rules/business strategies/etc. "Subsidized child care" or "charge businesses per seat" can sound great on the surface, but specific proposals often have so many unintended or negative consequences that are not discussed, and it's important to weigh those consequences against the benefits.

4) A statistics textbook. I don't remember the specific book that was my first stats textbook, but learning about statistics made me a lot more skeptical and inquisitive about data. Now when I see a graph or number reported in the news, I think "are there ways that this might be misleading?" instead of "omg cool this is a graph in a popular magazine so it must be true."
Billionaire Bass’s Supersonic Jet Dream Wins Boeing Backing
I'd concur that the book was a huge eye-opener for me. Earlier, I used to think that I only needed to be right (for e.g., while making technical design decisions) and just say it out when I disagreed. This book taught me that the way you put forward your thoughts also matters. You can be right without being a dick and without screwing up your relationships with others.

I followed up this book with Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. That was another fantastic book for me.

For me, these two books fit right into the category of those that literally changed my life.
I don’t find it hard to swallow at all. The colors of OLED are way superior to LCD