skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I do. If I get a book recommendation, I immediately buy it and put it on a bookshelf. Every time I walk by, I scan the shelf and pick what speaks to me at that given time: fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, science, history, classics, short-story collections, biographies, etc. If you match your what you read to your mood and frame of mind, you can consume and retain information much more quickly and enjoyably. And having the book on hand is really important since my interests and mood change from day to day.

I also try follow some other general rules, that work for me:

* Read several books at once, esp. across disciplines.

* Read paper books.

* You don't need to finish books. Stopping mid-way is fine (still have problems with this!)

* Seek out durable works over bestsellers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect)

* Read across disciplines

* Write in books and make notes. Write up notes a couple of weeks after finishing (create your own commonplace book)

* Avoid audiobooks (if you want to retain the content). I just can't retain when I listen while driving/multitasking, but like listening to fiction for fun.

* Tag interesting books/papers cited in the books you like. Look them up and read them too.

* Find interesting/prolific readers on Goodreads. Lookup the books they read, esp. the ones you've never heard of.

* Let other people know that you like reading, and ask what they've read recently. When they read interesting books, they'll recommend them to you.
Nice and clean. I like it. There are so many fancy sites and bootstraps but finally in the end, if you have coded it and it can last next 10 years without a major change to the site design and you can focus on adding content to the site. That's a win.

I am working on my site http://www.bobbydreamer.com

Got side tracked and built this, a note taking app. https://Stash.bobbydreamer.com

It's still in development.
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Ya I started doing this while on a bicycling tour and on Air planes. Both situations I can give my brain lots of attention on absorbing the information at a faster rate because my other information inputs are not as busy.

The air plane is easiest for 2* speed because I can close my eyes which helps me focus on the sound even more.

I use Audible though.
Yeah and Facebook has far more resources than uBlock to fight the cat-and-mouse. So it is effective.
DRM never stopped piracy and DRM affected paying customers and drove them toward piracy makincg it more accissible (more people sharing bigger hive). The effect is not the cause in this case.
These big companies optimize to reduce false positives during hiring, and I can say with 99% confidence across engineering that they are, they can, and they are not. I've yet to meet a jerk here after almost 2 years.
One can see the Airbnb data for Toronto in the link below:

https://www.airdna.co/vacation-rental-data/app/ca/ontario/to...
Rule #1 should probably be complemented with Tyler Cowen's proviso: If the book lists PhD after the author's name, run the other way.
For PCs, cursive falls back to Comic Sans

Eep!
Ask HN: Building an Open Source Doctor
Hey HN,

My grandfather, who is in otherwise great health, recently got diagnosed with late stage cancer of the kidneys.

How feasible would it be to build an open source suite of diagnostic programs that people can use to build longer term, longitudinal health system?

The idea is that by building transparent, open source diagnostic models and looping it into a platform where you can track your health data, we could build a preventative system.

Am I being completely irrational, or missing something?
You're attacking a strawman. The parent comment said nothing like you're making it out to have.
This solution has been tried for a long time and it didn't work either:

"In 2010 the International Panel on Fissile Materials said "After six decades and the expenditure of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars, the promise of breeder reactors remains largely unfulfilled and efforts to commercialize them have been steadily cut back in most countries". In Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, breeder reactor development programs have been abandoned."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Discussion
I was under the impression that sociopaths are frequently impulsive, acting without considering the long term consequences of their behavior? (Pulling from sites like: https://psychcentral.com/blog/differences-between-a-psychopa... )
Then why are cities in the US where the population is currently declining also seeing significant increases in real estate pricing?

Do you think it is at all interesting that housing pricing on the west coast of Canada and the US recently flattened out at the exact same time the economy slowed in China?

Every single city in Canada and the US currently has this problem. Including Houston which has very permission zoning.
A better word would be "essay". It's simply a written document proposing and explaining some idea. The essay will be read by its reviewers quietly, so the document needs to be clear and self-sufficient in presenting that idea.

The essay will be discussed verbally too, but only after the reviewers have a chance to fully read the document and ruminate over it, typically for 30 minutes or more. The verbal discussion can elaborate on points made in the essay but isn't a substitute for them. This means that the quality of the writing needs to be high, and the hope is that high-quality writing facilitates high-quality thinking and presentation of ideas.
Luckily we don't live in a society where people are forced to allocate their resources to where other people think they are most efficient.
It's finally happened, Google has brought their near-complete lack of user support and eventual abandonment of services to the real world.
The trick I use for AM is they have a single user deal $99/12 months. You can almost always find $100 iTunes gift cards for $80-$85 making your effective price $6-$7/month.
My family had a cat called yellow cat... it was yellow.
I wished people like you were banned from HN
Hah, no, seeing the username is a factor in pushing me to make the comment. I feel as though many books tend to be far less wide ranging, because they take up a smaller view; Piketty's book (going from what I'm seeing on the descriptions, I haven't read it yet) seems to be limited in scope, and less polemical. But those aren't matters of its relevance. So I might venture to say that if we will see a book as consequential as Marx's, its author will see with revolutionary (forgive the pun) clarity right to the most abstract core of their object. In the modern era, there are only three widely regarded as having done so with force: Marx, Nietzche and Freud. I'm still waiting to see what the post-modern era brings out. Who will do to economics today what Marx did to political economy and sociology in the 19th century?
> Make it clear what you're selling and why it's worth $10 / month, and people will pay you. It's not as big of a problem as you think.

If only all buyers were as rational as you. IMO the problem is bigger (by far) than just make a case and people pay.
> Group calls were not a new feature

This bug affected Group FaceTime, which was added in 12.1 (released in October)
#1 is kinda tricky to apply to books that take down pseudo-science. In those cases, who is and isn't an "expert in the field" (and whether the field even meaningfully exists) is exactly the question.
I did give Gmail another try, but it absolutely did not feel like Inbox to me--at least not the parts that made me switch in the first place.
There is no difference? The market is the sum of the decisions of individual actors.
If PPT and even bullet points are disallowed, what about charts/graphs? It would be pretty annoying if every chart/graph had to be described in prose.
Were I to get a cat (can't, my wife is afraid of them) I very well might name it "dog" or "doggy".
Buy headphones with their own thumbwheel attenuator and/or mute button, or plug your corded headphones into an extension cord or dongle that has them.

Traditional broadcast radio gets zero feedback from most receivers. Spotify is already a step ahead of that by preventing users from avoiding ads just by changing the radio station, and I think that the clever tricks with the volume are really pushing it in terms of user hostility.

I pay to not get ads, so I'm not really motivated to explore avoiding them.

But if you try to advertise at me no matter what I do, or overestimate what I would pay, I will join in the arms race against your advertisers. I'll block the ads, and block the ad-blocker detectors, and block the ad-blocker-detector-blocker detectors. I'll crunch your cookies, and squash your pixel, and firewall your home-phoner.

Maybe I put a 30-minute buffering program on the audio stream that the music program is allowed to use, and tell that program to skip ahead during the ads. Maybe I also train another program to recognize the ads, and tell the first program exactly how far to skip ahead. Maybe I lock the music program in the matrix, and control all the data it tries to get from the system, to the point that it cannot ever say what reality truly is.

There's something to be said for just playing the ad audio without trying to ensure someone is listening, or identifying who it might be. After all, Spotify could be playing music to a cat in an otherwise empty house, with the mobile device quietly displaying "Now playing 'Meow Mix Theme - Metal Version' on device 'Bluetooth speaker'."

(If that song actually exists, I cannot attest to its quality, because I swear I thought I was making it up.)
I feel like that if you're almost 50 but in your mind you have to start life over you've made some not-so-smart decisions along the way.
Next time you need to scream louder.

Lessons learned.
This is bad advice. When it comes to school finish what you start otherwise you look like a quitter. Jumping ship every 1 year? I wouldn't hire that person. At most places it takes min 6 months to get up to speed.
Obviously Spotify sees value in offering a free tier to their service.
Worth noting for people unfamiliar: Long Island City is a neighborhood in Queens, a borough of NYC. While both Brooklyn and Queens are both technically on the physical island of Long Island, "Long Island" generally refers to Nassau County and the areas to the east.
One pretty decent correlation is that between poverty and mental illness. People who are regularly abused by others also end up mentally ill. To me it's pretty evident that mental illness is caused in large part by your environment. Remove somebody from a certain environment and they will no longer be mentally ill. Keep them in that environment and feed them pills and give them talk therapy and they'll remain ill.

It's not like this is some groundbreaking controversial revelation that flips the bird to science. It's a fact that isn't incorporated into a model of mental illness treatment that pretends that "mental illness" is primarily a result of a disordered badly behaving brain. This model is used because its easier to change a person than the society around them. It's easier to empirically measure change when you're measuring the effects of something on an individual rather than on the entire society.

I would account for the decline in mental health metrics in the west, there's more self reported mental illness, more suicide, more social withdrawal, largely on the failure to address big picture concerns. Clinical Psychology isn't useless to solve the mental health problems of society. It's just inadequete. It's like expecting tier 1 support to solve a problem that's rooted in an entire network being fucked up. What I see is a society that has problems that are correlated with poor mental health which aren't getting addressed and people are acting as if the solution is leaning more on solutions like talk therapy and pharmacuticals which are failing to address a society-wide decline in mental health.
This is the inverse of NIMBYism, which is about telling other people what they should do with their property... which is exactly what many of the people on this thread seems to want to do with respect to this woman.
I guess the lactic acid doesn’t get “forced” out during the dancing? Seems like it would.
You think they do? Or just that it's an unreasonably certain assertion? Is there a dividing line? If not plants/animals, then where?
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No; they just made the project sponsor pay $20,000 for a study to confirm that it wasn't historic. The cost of that study, and the time it took, and the uncertainty it added to the process, will all get factored into the price that people eventually have to pay for these desperately-needed, much-delayed homes.
I get your point, but isn't the parent to my comment equally as sarcastic a rhetorical response?
Insulin has been around 90 years. Its gone through several different methods of extraction and manufacturing. They know how to make it high quality and inexpensive.
Seems less about racism than women crapping on her. (I think her show is interesting and pleasant.)
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At least one major (like, major) management consulting firm turns basically all their communication into a PowerPoint, sooner or later (usually sooner). I gather they've found they can't consistently get C-level folks to pay attention to any other format, but it also ends up being their own internal format-of-record for almost everything. It's bananas.
In my experience, the best way of finding good books has been:

1) Find authors and intellectual subcultures that you are interested in, and follow what they are doing.

2) Read intelligent long-form reviews of books. Most good intellectual magazines and journals have a review section.

3) Read whatever you can on Amazon preview and Google Books before buying a book.
Well you could choose to work at a company that doesn’t treat human beings like money machines?

Or you could choose to not lie to yourself about said humans as money machines ideals with classic tropes like “there’s a lot of different teams” or “I haven’t seen that kind of thing at my local office”?

Throwing out a couple options here that don’t require intense mental gymnastics
IN SEARCH OF NO GROWTH COMPANIES
Where can one find ~10-50mm ARR companies looking for an exit? no/low growth fine.

Yes I've tried googling, and yes I've combed through the public companies that fit this criteria. I'm more curious about what do founders/companies do when they hit the scale wall (aside from just shutting the company down).
Because people add value to a community... what would you suggest, blockading the routes into the city?

Unless you have an idea for reversing the trend of urbanization, telling people where they can and can't live is going to be a tough sell.
New York was never as fanatically anti-growth as the bay area is today
They did the same thing with 4g. I had friends in high school with HSPA+ phones and they suddenly got an update to '4g'. Total lies, it was like 3mbit speedtests. Then we got real LTE and it was an order of magnitude faster.
Depends on how many use Gentoo, for example.

Proper Cassandra and Hadoop deployments are as niche as Fintech, the large majority could solve their problems with UNIX command line tools.

On my world the team manages deployments, I rather take Java over C++ compilation times, and having tools like Mission Control to monitor cluster performance on production servers.
Elaborating on the above, everyone gets into research to do cool science. But once you get there, you need to worry about funding, promotion, and other messy details of career maintenance. I've watched many excellent scientists, genuinely brilliant and thoughtful people, spend an inordinate amount of time on this, because they all know if they don't, they won't be able to continue doing science indefinitely.
I'll answer this like most of my software vendors do:

Please upgrade to USB-C to solve this issue, we are no longer supporting USB 3.0 or below.
I constantly point to the Amazon narrative as a good thing to do. I know it helps put my thoughts in order. That quote is great, thanks for sharing.
What is the coal waste problem and how is this comparable to the problem of nuclear waste?

Nuclear waste is a technical problem, otherwise it would have been solved already. There are countries like France where they have 80% of their electricity generated by nuclear power and politics is absolutely pro-nuclear. Yet, they don't have a solution to the nuclear waste problem.
As an aside, you ever see those 'Cash for Strips' signs on the side of the road[0]?

Those are typically a person who's insurance is so lacking that test strips end up as a financial burden. Typically, well insured diabetics will partner with someone who is less well off and share strips. The test strips from a good insurance provider are typically much more than enough to cover the time period that they are prescribed for (exp: you are given 1000/mo, but only use 300/mo).

It's a fascinating side of life, somewhat like the deaf community, that exists in plain sight and yet is invisible to anyone outside of that particular community. Sociologists should investigate that partnering process if they have not already, despite the uproar that insurance companies would make over these kind acts.

[0] https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/519e70b3dd198a728f9efe74a59...
I got downvoted big time the other day for a very similar comment to this, but it needs to be said: People that complain about ads have obviously never had anything that they needed to advertise.
I think I looked it up in an etymological dictionary and the dialectal form is archaic, I.e standard German uses a "mutated" version of the word.

Probably in German both meanings were used alongside for a while and then folks started to attach a "ge-" in front of one meaning to avoid confusion.
i like the design ., but the small font really annoys me, atleast one size big would be better!
Economic growth, pensions...
For lack of ideal heuristics, I recently built myself a tool to find books that "people like me" read most. This is similar to the rating heuristic, except it relies on a collaborative filtering & clustering of sorts. The internet is full of people who have reviewed and curated lists of books, books that can thus be associated with each-other. And so now I can ask my tool the simple question: For people who enjoyed these N books, what other books did they most enjoy? This is something I've found incredibly lacking on the likes of Amazon/GR/etc. recommendation mechanisms, hence why I built the tool. I won't plug it here since I don't want to be spammy but I can share directly with people if they'd like.
Heck, I can't even get some of my techy friends to drop hangouts even though google's retiring it. One of them even said "I'm going towait to see what google's next product is", you mean allo? Duo? What's possibly next that could be worth it? Why would you want to stick with that treatment?
Each level in the system INCLUDING PHYSICIANS gets a cut.Thein entice is to keep raising prices.
I'm wondering the same thing. I've paid for a premium account, and run a pi-hole on my home network. The way I interpret the language in the terms of service (IANAL) is that the act of blocking an ad is forbidden, but not the running of the ad-blocker itself. Since a premium accounts are not delivered ads in the first place, I would hope that this means paying users will be unaffected.

I am very interested to hear a more qualified interpretation of the situation.
Why would they shut it down if it works and makes profit? Just milk it.
> Spoilers: Google has an interesting solution in the works.

This appears to be a reference to Google's universal Noto font set, released in 2014:

https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Like the multicolored texts in the homepage. Good Colors choice. I like bright Colors but if you are going to be seeing it a lot better to go with Colors that doesn't spoil the eyes and page designs get darker over time.
> developer named all the variables for things from Norse Mythologies.

this is hilarious.
Those are not necessarily opposites. The centuries of various forces, traditions, and habits are what insulates them from western homogeneity. That is what enables them to produce artifacts that seem to be out of the norm to a western observer.
I see a lot of criticism but not a lot of praise. For me creating something so comprehensive and also easy to use is an achievement. And in my opinion this is much better than Regex for most cases because of the ease of use and readability. I think the main pushback you are seeing is just because people are invested in Regex.
I have banked with WF since about 2007 for my student and auto loans. Their online portal has always been worse than whatever my local credit union had.

The WF business is clearly set up to confuse and exploit consumers. My credit union websites have always helped me do what I want and need with my money. This includes the tiny local credit union in Idaho.
> if it's unsolicited then the consumer didn't opt for their attention to be steered toward it.

Isn't that everything in the world, always?

Why do I have to walk past the cereal to get to the milk on a supermarket, why I am being so deceived? After all, I didn't consent to being bombarded by all those car emblems on the highway on my way to work, and I definitely didn't agree to see the orange bar at the top of this page, that "Y" is hunting me I say! why is my attention being stolen away?
Yes, trying to get my long term investment plan done. I'm allocating a small % (few thousands a month) to riskier things. I'm betting on few cryptocurrencies now, but wouldn't mind to explore your advices :)

Also debating with myself I should do my investment via my personal account or via an offshore company.
Is there a version of this article that doesn't require subscribing?
Plot twist: I am 55 - worked most of the time as a consultant, so for me "having to learn something new" and especially "while everyone else around you either knew more than you or were looking at you expecting you to know all the answers" was more or less a constant.

Maybe this is why I do not understand what the problem is, exactly?
Could you please avoid commenting like this and post civilly and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sounds like an inevitable problem of too high of a population density. We have plenty of land elsewhere, maybe we should be looking at fixing our transportation systems and incentivizing work outside of these areas so that we don't have to all pile together like cords of wood.
Paul Fussell's book, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System is one of my favorite non-fiction books. I consider myself lucky to have discovered a copy at a used book store 20+ years ago. Unfortunately, it only has a 3.95 on Goodreads, so I guess it's going in the trash.

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison only has a 3.63 and I don't think she's really an "expert" in any of the specific topics she writes about. It's brilliant ...but maybe I can still return it?

This system is a great way to hyper-optimize for narrow-mindedness.
It's a fascinating problem, if you're into that kind of problem solving.

I recently had to build a large site that was English, Spanish, and Chinese. Which was fun considering that some of the audience was es-mx, some was es-es, and some were es-419.
I'd have to agree here. Bugs is not a norm for experienced teams with good processes. So I'd suggest to side with the customer first, agreeing with their expectations of low bug rates and tell them you'll be improving your testing/releasing processes. And then indeed do revisit your coding/testing/releasing processes to see what can be done better. -Alexey
Sure, after that it becomes politics and you can demonstrate in the streets about it

I'm not trying to dissuade you from pushing your political demands. It just seems like an odd choice of exemplar for 'creeping totalitarianism.'