skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit's userbase quality has been in decline for years. The top 10 posts every day are something like:

[Some snarky oversimplified political tweet]

Top Comment:

"It's almost as if [some snarky oversimplified, edgy-teenager-take they stole from John Oliver]."

Seeing the news that reddit was bringing in more investors just now made me want to take a peek at what the competition was up to. I remember Voat.co being set up when Reddit started banning a bunch of subreddits, so I figured I'd go check that out...Don't do it. The content is just straight racist desires for ethno-states, and an extremely popular conspiracy that Democrats favor abortion because they drink the blood of children. I'm not kidding:
https://voat.co/v/news/3016128. The top comment is literally "Every article I've read on this has omitted WHERE THEY GET THE GODDAMN BLOOD FROM."

So, ya. Guess we're stuck with reddit for now...
Both of your viewpoints are right - it entirely depends on what one is considering community.

In meatspace there are plenty of social communities where you will be looked down upon for being religious (if you really don't believe this, you either need to travel more or you need to keep questioning social dogmas even after you've found some place you fit in). The many more places where you'll be looked down on for being atheist does not support making one sweeping generalization - opposing flavors of intolerance do not cancel each other out!

It's similar to how the KKK is still a problem, yet we've got this new trend of oppressing free speech online. It's tough to affect the entrenched players in any game, and all too easy to attack easy targets in a simulation of fighting the good fight.
How to win friends and influence people: It's a book of common sense; and made me realize how little common sense I had.

Stranger in a Strange land: "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
on Russians, yes.
Imagine someone who makes an edgy joke, then imagine someone who makes only edgy jokes, constantly - then they stop being funny.
What Apple program gives you free AppleCare+? I’m part of the iPhone Upgrade Program, and I have to pay for both the phone and AppleCare+.
Yeah, using the battery life test from Anandtech as a guide, an SE gets about 70% of the battery life of an XR: 12.97 hours vs. 9.27 hours.

So I would guess around 28% of its battery when an XR is at 40%.
> This still doesn't make it fair.

You're not taking into account the thousands of hours people have to put in to learning how to program. That's real work and sacrifice. It's not unfair that that investment pays off.
Where'd you get your iPhone X? I find the XR way too big as well, and the XS is insanely overpriced.
> or even worse, your ISP-provided router or decade old middleware router on the Internet.

I can guarantee you that middleware will continue to exist. If they need to they'll force QUIC connections to terminate and switch to TLS 1.3. There's no way that companies will allow encrypted communications leaving their companies en-masse without being able to decrypt the content. Even more so for any totalitarian state governments that need to spy on their citizens..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_of_Nations (I started that Wikipedia page.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symbolic_Species

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_...
>I'm not against it being used but we need to be careful, we don't want another opiod crisis.

This is a horribly ignorant statement. Ketamine therapy is in no way comparable to widespread opioid prescription in risk. You are once again comparing drugs with entirely different mechanisms of action.
Well, there's one way to fail a Turing Test :).
Hanabi is easier - fewer hidden states, purely cooperative, and can be played with only two players.

(I'm aware that uncontested bridge bidding is a thing, but it's still harder than 2p Hanabi)
>It evoked nostalgia from the military.

Well now I'm remiss of not getting to see what the comment was, since it's now flagged. I can appreciate that specific nostalgia w/rt living quarters.
Chaos, by James Gleick. It's somewhere between biography and science for laypeople. Almost a biography of an idea. What he wrote about the edges of science and how scientific rebels think about their fields blew my mind when I read it in my teens, and it started the closest thing to a religion that has taken hold in my mind: a kind of Pantheist vision of how a fully deterministic universe can lead to an infinite, confusing, and beautiful world, with mathematical inevitability and precision rather than by some kind of magic.
Dushanbe Tea House
My doctor has been treating ketamine for years and he says that these doctors you are talking about are screwing patients. My doctor is more reputable: A) he has clinical research experience and B) he isn't making any more money than he would on other treatments for depression.

Yes, ketamine docs want you to see a psychiatrist because they don't want to deal with you. It's about the money and having as little responsibility as possible.

A support group to discuss experiences? That sounds like it would encourage a placebo effect.
If people are interested in getting started with web components, lit-html and LitElement, we have a bunch of scaffolding and tooling ready to go at: https://open-wc.org/
The other answers point out that the apostrophe is in the correct place. However, no one has yet to point out that you appear to have mistaken the apostrophe for a closing single quote. I assume that is the case, since you added an opening single quote in your comment that wasn't in the title.
> why do I need to be in debt (mortgage) for 30-40 years of my life

Because you're (hopefully) going to come out of the other side of those 30-40 years, regardless. In one case, you can have a house you own free and clear. In the other case, you're still paying rent to someone else.

And 30-40 years is the extreme. Paying just a little extra principal every month you can have the loan paid in well under 30 years.
Towards Federated Learning at Scale
The game you don’t want to play as a programmer
Based on the description and OP's username, I think this might be it:

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/1949-railroad-boxcar-on-mer...
The site is literally down for me right now. Second time this week.

Several high profile issues i encounter on a daily/weekly basis:

- Sometimes you are "not logged in", but when you click the login button, it says welcome back and you're properly logged in.

- Subreddits can change background color pagewide, which renders dark practically useless.

- It's so resource intensive that simply scrolling will make a youtube video in another tab start lagging.
Hey there!

I'm not an historian or anything of that kind but I'm really interested about the Russian Revolution and I spent quite a few hours on finding the best books about it. My knowledge about those books mainly comes from r/askhistorians (highly recommended!) and academic journals such as the American Historical Review and the Slavic Review. I saw a few other people recommending Miéville's October and even Reed's Ten Days. Now, I'm not claiming those books are bad in any way (I own Reed's) but if you're interested in an historical analysis those are probably not your best shot. Miéville is a sci-fi author who describes himself as a socialist, so he is not trained as an historian and, at the same time, he's definitely simpathetic to the Revolution. Reed's book was written during the Revolution and is a great book if you look at it as a primary source, but it's definitely a partial one. If you're interested in a book of history, then I would recommend you either Fitzpatrick's "The Russian Revolution", which is a short (about 200 pages) book from one of the great pioneers of the revisionist school in soviet historiography. For a more recent (and longer) book I would take a look at S.A. Smith's "Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928". I want to make it clear: Miéville's and Reed's books are great, but one should approach them knowing the context. It's similar to another great book (highly recommended!) by Orwell: Homage to Catalonia. It's similar to Reed's Ten Days, but I would not recommend it as an history book. Hopefully, those recommendations should be enough, but if you have other questions feel free to ask. For a quick look about Soviet historiography, here is a _great_ article by Sheila Fitzpatrick (the author of one of the books I recommended above) reviewing 5 books that came out in 2017: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n07/sheila-fitzpatrick/whats-left

Once you know the context, you can appreciate more books like Reed's and Mièville too.

Happy reading!
> Well if people can keep justifying working for companies acting in unethical fashion.

I see quite often shifting the blame to employees. Does not make more sense that is the powerful companies that are expected to do the right thing instead of people with children to feed and mortgages to pay? It is way harder to do the right thing when your family wellbeing depends on it. Even worse when you need thousands of employees acting in a coordinating way to get any effect at all.
animated by Trey Parker & Matt Stone
Almost everything on Reddit is far-left, or at least anti-Trump. Every front-page sub (e.g. r/pics, which you'd think would be completely non-political) gets bombarded with this spam. You have to actually go looking to find right-wing content, letalone "far-right" content which I haven't come across unless you deem memes to be far-right.

Hell, the fact they won't change r/politics to a more accurate name and remove it from the front page shows you exactly who Reddit caters to.
Maybe one of us changed a setting. My auto play has closed captions and no audio.
I am a mid-twenties single male Product Manager, working at a major tech company in SF.

I average 55 hours/week at work. Usually this means 9-7 5 days per week but sometimes its 9-8 or I'll work for 3-4 hours on a weekend.

I don't spend any time with family because I am single and my whole family lives on the east coast.

I spend 4-5 hours a week working out, usually weight training in the morning right before work.

Nothing fancy for productivity - create lists for everything, prioritize the items on your lists, and put the items you commit to on a calendar. Know yourself and try to schedule at a pace you can realistically accomplish, but don't freak out if you only tackle 70% of your list for any given day. The trick is to be disciplined about actually using these lists (I'm still bad at this).

When you're feeling like you're totally burned out and don't want to do any work - just do ONE thing that day. Making ANY progress at all is so much better for your psyche than getting nothing done, and once you complete that one thing you can stop beating yourself up for being unproductive and enjoy just doing nothing.
Reader beware, this book can eat smart people. I've known multiple PhDs who, after reading Ulysses, could never get through a party without talking about it.
Urban dictionary definition - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=edgelord

But in general people who try to be "edgy" and "dark" to a fairly ridiculous degree.
No, that's not socialism. Socialism is "a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole" (from dictionary.com). dbingham is proposing something different - vesting the ownership and control of enterprises in the workers at those enterprises, not in society as a whole.

I think the closest to this, in current practice, is the German model, where workers have at least a say in the direction of their enterprises (not sure about ownership). It seems to be working out really well for them.
I think most books I read should impact me, given the time invested in selecting and reading them.

My most recent example is Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, it made me realize how difficult it would be for us to communicate with, or even comprehend the motives of a sentient alien. I wrote a full review here: http://www.alphadevx.com/a/519-Review-of-Solaris-by-Stanisla...
"Don't be afraid to filter people out, it happens that some beginners take a toll on the time of the team, because they develop errors / don't test code."

I would put a huge caveat here: Make sure you're deeply involved the process and understand what's going before taking any steps to sideline a programmer that's underperforming.

I worked for 3 years on a project that was underperforming by every metric. Major features were constantly riddled with bugs, rewritten, over budget. We had no way to push our issues above the PM who was throwing the developers under the bus.

The functional requirements would change daily, deadlines would not move, we were getting less and less QA time and 0 time to write or update tests and we were trying to write an integration with a service that was still in development (trying to hit a moving target).

They brought in a BA and kid you not, she quit 3 weeks in. That got the notice of management, finally, and our semi-technical schizophrenic partner on the client side was let go. Before we were able to escalate these issues there was a very different impression of the work we were doing. Afterward it was like black and white. Perfect releases, on time, on budget, and we were delivering real value to the client.
No one has to use Facebook.
I had worked on one a few years ago, which used a DHT to exchange messages which were signed GPG JSON. At one point I had it using a Dining Cryptographers-style algorithm to post messages fairly anonymously. I don't recall if that stayed in.

One problem with P2P these days is that you need people to run servers, which they don't typically want to do. I made a small RaspPi box they could run, and planned to run a public instance for people who didn't want to go that far.

One problem I ran into is how to stop terrible posts.
Freenet/etc have a problem with people sharing illegal and harmful material, and I didn't particularly want to help with that.

Additionally, when you create an alt-platform, it gets used be people who are kicked off of mainstream platforms. I didn't really want to end up creating a service primarily used by pedophiles and nazis.

I think there are ways to solve the technical challenges, but it's still difficult to solve the community-management in a distributed/sane way.

(The solution I came up with btw was opt-in mods. People could publish a ban list, and you could subscribe to whomevers you want. But I don't think that's a great long-term solution)

I still think there is some good work to be done in this space, and I may circle back to it someday, but the community elements are vexing.

You can see my version at https://github.com/e1ven/Tavern
open-wc.org is a really great project. Thanks for your work there!
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- As someone who doesn't want to "negotiate" and be a hard bargainer across the table, this book taught me how to bring empathy to every negotiation, and to use that get both parties what they really want most. It's also a fascinating read that details a number of his negotiations as chief hostage negotiator for the FBI.
It's an intellectual freedom that has no precedent throughout history. If you walked into a library in the 1950s and thumbed through a book about communism, you were probably put on a list. If you walked into a privately owned book store, the owners had a right to gossip and tell others what you purchased, and I'm sure many people unfortunately made use of that liberty. This isn't new.
There is a keyboard button on the toolbar (portrait mode). When you press it, a keyboard shows up so that the user can communicate back to the speaker.
Speaking as a consultant, that introduces a new host of headaches and problems...
It down right now for me, second time this week. It's a fairly common occurence
What IRCs Me: Slack (2018)
One of the interesting aspects of Hanabi is that there really isn't enough turns to fully hint. So with every hint, you must ask yourself not just "Why is s/he telling me this?", but "Why are they telling me this now?" At least in the group I play with, the hint is presumed to be immediately useful, but you may have to make some deductions and take some risk to make a play.
Perfectionism – the killer of goals. How to change your mindset?
http://status.sendgrid.com/

They have a status page. What does Mandrill and MailChimp combining have anything to do with SendGrid and Twilio?
Start with No by Jim Camp.

Maybe it didn't change my mind about "everything," but it did change my mind about everything related to negotiating.

The premise is that "no," is not an answer to be feared and avoided - it's an answer to be sought out. Getting a "no" is a key part of understanding the other side's position.

Many of the techniques he teaches can be used in non-negotiation settings.

For example, consider the seemingly simple problem of asking good questions. The author advocates interrogative-led questions over leading questions:

- interrogative led: begins with "who," "where," "what," "when," and "why."

- leading: binary answer, and usually begins with "do" or "does"

Consider the difference between the answers you're likely to get by asking "Did you like the movie?" vs. "What did you think of the movie?"

When you ask someone an interrogative-led question, you acknowledge their agency and challenge them to think. When you ask a leading question, more often than not, you're trying to manipulate the other person. Worse, you will get much less helpful answers.

Works great for job interviews, and many other professional settings.

One oddity: I've seen interviews/presentations with author, but he's a surprisingly bad speaker. As a how-to writer he's one of the best I've read.
Hi, I wrote a post about perfectionism and how to deal with it. I think that in a startup culture leaders are pretty aware of this issue as they have faced it before (when building a product). Unfortunately, when it comes to new hires, especially ones completely new to startups, they don't understand how valuable their time is and what exactly they are being paid for. Many time it's not the perfect code that matters, but half broken feature that can be pushed to users to validate their needs.

What's your opinion? How many times have you had to deal with a colleague that wanted everything to be perfect?
Mark Zuckerberg says people are focusing on the 'negative' aspects of Facebook
Some false assumptions your post has made, may help answer your questions.

>Surely, no book can change your thinking about almost everything.

False, for me. Many books have significantly changed my thinking about one, many, or nearly all "things." If you're curious which ones and in what way, feel free to ask here or on my email address.

>I still haven't figured out why we love to discuss books so much. Is it egoism or need for approval?

I like to talk about the thoughts I have about things, including books. This is a sharing concept with my friends and partners - I enjoy hearing their opinions, bouncing ideas off them, and exploring topics. It gives me pleasure. It is not egoism, nor need for approval (I say with extreme confidence).

> Is it because we have to somehow justify hundreds of books we have bought and never actually read?

I don't have opinions on books I've never actually read, so this is an inapplicable statement. I also don't have hundreds of purchased, but unread, books. I have perhaps 20 purchased and unread, and about 50 on the immediate "want to read list" that are unpurchased and unread.

>Books become elements of decoration, just to show off and appear smarter perhaps.

This is not true for me.

> If they are stacked on the edge of your desk, that's even better, it portraits you as a restless intellectual adventurer.

There is nothing on my work desk but my notebook, phone charger, laptop, monitor, headphones, keyboard, mouse, and an empty coffee cup. At home, it's the same, minus the laptop, plus a bunch of postcards from friends jammed between two plants.

At this point, I'm convinced there is someone in your life you are thinking of, that annoys you, that has books on their desk. Perhaps they are legitimately annoying - it would be sad if this makes you hate all book readers.

> And when your guests arrive you make sure that they get a glimpse of your amazing "library".

My guest library is in the living room. It consists of cookbooks, a Haynes manual on the Suzuki SV650, and about 10 different picture books of cats, dogs, bridges, and infrastructure. Also, a D&D manual.

>and make some general remarks. Win-win. I'm sure you guys can relate.

Do you not discuss topics of shared enjoyment with other people? What makes "reading books" an unacceptable hobby discussed between friends?

Your rant gives me the impression that you believe people do things only to appear smarter, better, than others. I remember I used to think that way, because it didn't seem possible to me that "genuineness" could exist - nope, everyone is guided by primal urges. This isn't true. I hope you come to discover this one day.
It is also still a haven for the far-left. Does that leave a bad taste in your mouth too?
Unfortunately, recipes tend to be made for people who don't know how to cook, or are unfamiliar with the terms and techniques of the cuisine.
Prisoners of Geography: Ten maps that explain everything about the world (Tim Marshall)

The Feynman Processor (Gerard J. Milburn)

Strategy: A History (Lawrence Freedman)
Like most gov, they probably have access to a root CA and they MITM.
There is a time limit on securing food and shelter. If you spend 20 hours on being a Turk, that’s time lost doing something that may never sustain you or provide a road to sustaining yourself. But you don’t know that until you spend the time engaging with the system. And you may find yourself stuck, chasing short term prices, having lost your ability to move in the marketplace.
Weren't they talking about living in it? The wood and hardware will weigh considerably more than 700 pounds.
Props for sticking to the 5s for this long! I'm still rocking mine as well. Although, I just picked up a $200 Moto G6 (first android device ever) for development, but might just use it as my daily driver since even that budget android phone is an upgrade to the 5s at this point!

Gotta say though, I've been so impressed with how the 5s has held up over the years, that the investment in a higher priced iPhone might just be the way to go.
And then you still have more stuff to manage now based on the slim chance that one day years down the road you might rip your entire multi Az redundant infrastructure, your databases, etc with all of the read replicas to another provider....

And this doesn’t count all of the third party hosted services.

Aurora (Mysql) redundantly writes your data to six different storage devices across multiple availability zones. The read replicas read from the same disks. As soon as you bring up a read replica, the data is already there. You can’t do that with a standard Mysql read replica.
That was clearly sarcasm. A directed one and thus patronising. Irony happens when there is a contrast between intent and effect, like "the man had to bring his car to the repair shop after driving over a pothole. He is ironically responsible for maintaining the roads"
While "Luftwaffe" alone does not reveal much about the timeframe, "Luftwaffe interrogator" gives a strong clue. The need for air force interrogators likely decreased a lot since WWII for a country like Germany
I'm specifically talking about Reddit mobile on incognito mode. You are bombarded by App ads and even dark pattern modals trying to get you to install the app. Compare it to HN, which is a great experience in normal or incognito mode.

I get that I can create an anon account, but I don’t want to spend 5 minutes doing that every time I open an incognito tab.