skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Occam's razor is for scientific theories, not human behavior.

Not at all. Occam's razor says simpler theories (of anything) are more plausible than complex ones. Hanlon's razor says you can't distinguish between malice and stupidity. Occam is clearly the reference mmanfrin meant to make.
Also typing on a 3+ year old 2015 MBP. Touchwood no issues except for a slightly wonky right speaker. I hope I can extend its life until Apple comes to its sense, or it'll have to be a Dell XPS for me...
Some things that have helped procrastination for me are 2 things:

1) think about something to look forward to regarding the particular task — for example maybe just simply writing the email saying that it’s done is the only thing I can look forward to, the current thing is super annoying to do, or the food I’ll eat afterward.

2) second thing I do is when I sense that I’m not going to make progress on the thing, I just stop working on the thing and schedule it for later.. trying to do something for hours and not actually doing it is actually fairly stressful and wastes a bunch of time and emotionally you feel annoyed about it as well. This sounds like procrastination but I mean within a context where I actually attempt to do the thing at each scheduled time rather than sit there and play on your phone on top of your math book while you are supposed to be studying. I just say welp math ain’t happening right now. Schedule for later when I’ll be mentally prepared.

I have definitely pretty much always thought procrastination is super emotional. Certain things you don’t want to do so you put it off. Once there is very little time left you know that you have forced yourself into a limited engagement on a thing you want to minimize your involvement with so you have made a reasonable decision to avoid dealing with something that could annoy you for an extended time.
I'm sure you considered whether optimizing for click-through rate at the expense of diversity of response "moods" (or whatever) was the right tradeoff. Why did you ultimately decide it was?
Not quite as bad as it sounds.

These weren't real user passwords. They were temporary passwords for new users to 'print out' for use on your first day of work.

Except some people might not have changed that password on the first day, and in that case, Google was retaining the original in plaintext rather than hashed (presumably so the administrator could reprint the sheet with the initial password)
AutoRest.PowerShell 2 (French)
Is it really dangerous to log into compromised machines, though?

I think unless one does something stupid like SSH agent forwarding or using shared passwords, it should be safe even if machine is totally compromised.

If you fetch a remote binary or script to your dev machine and run it, your dev machine could be compromised -- but I am not sure why would anyone want to do this.

If you specify X forwarding, then anyone can own you. But you should not have any X apps on the remote server to begin with.

If you are transferring files, then vulnerabilities in rsync/rcp could get you. But those would have to be on the client side, your desktop machine -- and hopefully this machine is well patched.

If you are using IP filters / the machine is on LAN, then yes, it could be bad. But in this case, the machine was on the public network.

There was old bug with "get window title" putting stuff into input buffer, but it was fixed years ago.

Don't get me wrong, I think you do want to keep the machines up to date, and one should always enable unattended updates.

But I also believe in defense-in-depth, so if one is "managing more critical pieces of infrastructure", they should always assume the remote machine they are managing is compromised, and always take precautions.
What about the mitigation against MDS? Without hyperthreading, the advantages are less perceivable.

And how expensive is it? No thanks, up to today, a Dell/Lenovo+Linux goes way way better than MBP and the heavy OSX.
Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Bonanza King: John McKay by Gregory Crouch
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

The last two are especially good as audiobook autobiographies read by the author.
UE4's pricing model is a lot like Unity's pricing model nowadays as far as I can tell.
> Fastmail's service is $5/month

Fastmail also based out of Australia. There are dimensions to hypocrisy, not all of which are relevant from every perspective. Product choice is complexly multi-dimensional. A better response might involve asking why such a proclaimed privacy-conscious consumer remains with Gmail.
The unnamed person could probably describe her experience in the same words as the author did here. Author made her uncomfortable, organizers may have consulted some gender or wherever oriented groups. We don't know the other side of the story.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Born Standing Up (Steve Martin's autobiography)
fastmail is a lot nicer on macOS/iOS at least because apple and fastmail partnered to allow push email notifications. http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-available...
With the current trend that cities are becoming mega cities, and the price of physical space in the central business area of those mega cities are going up, I think there will be demand to shift white collar workspace to the virtual world.
400 USD is a low enough price compared to rent plus furniture, maintenance, etc..
On the software side there already exist Immersed VR and Virtual Desktop.
If they could increase the refresh rate such that the average people don't get motion sickness wearing it, while keeping this relatively low cost, I think it could disrupt how we work.
Since here we are talking about placebo, I wonder if it has a meaning to say "placebo" when speaking about psychotherapy, since there is no "substance". Of course there is going to be a placebo effect as long as people think it's going to work. I think the point is that since in mild and moderate depression we have to choose between the placebo of a drug and the placebo of psychoterapy, let's choose the one with less side effects.

On the topic of placebo, I found Irving Kirsch's talk about anti-depressants vs placebo in depression [1] very interesting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISptt3CRAqc
In my experience sleeping with lights on causes more shallow sleep.
I confirm it is easier to wake up, but after several days in a row I felt more tired than usually.

I found that blocking all sources of light during sleep and using light to make it easier to wake up works best for me.
Mapping Part-Whole Hierarchies into Connectionist Networks – Hinton (1990) [pdf]
CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers
Do not ever activate password recovery over SMS
I, as a user, do not need any files in /usr/share/apps. The system might need. And I don't want to deal with those.

All other major operating systems (can) work like this; download something > click it > it works. No need to launch terminal, set executable permissions and type the name of file.
I hope we see an article in two or three weeks about how this trial went. Started on Tuesday, which is kind of exciting, but I'm certain I've seen more articles about trials started than articles about how the trials went.
What is the best search engine to use
popular search engine track you and this can seriously jeopardize the security ,so anyone can suggest the best search engine to use
If you use the other plan, old resources are not accessible anymore. Is it fine enough?
Another explanation: "no" responses require more information.

If you are saying yes, then that's basically all you need to say. If you're saying no, you usually also provide a reason, so you probably wouldn't use any of the short, generic "no" responses Gmail would come up with.
If you look back in history, taxes always have been for ordinary citizens. Even before modern tax systems.
There are a lot of different versions of Win32 and WPF based on the Windows and .NET version they’re targeted to, respectively.

Cocoa is more like targeting an evergreen browser. Just target the version that is just old enough to support enough users and you’re good (and users are happy). Unlike evergreen browsers, though, you do hit hard cutoffs once every few years, but I suspect navigating those means updating the compilation/signing process more than rewriting anything (correct me if I’m wrong).
> I can get seen the same day or next day.

You must not live in a big city because it is difficult to get appointments in the bay area.
Two things I like about Gmail over Fastmail:

- I can have multiple inboxes displayed in Gmail at the same time, such as is:unread or is:starred

- I can compose an email while reading another in the same window/tab

That being said, there are a lot of things I like about Fastmail over Gmail, notably that its way faster. As an admin (our business uses both Fastmail and Gsuite), I also like how much simpler and more standards compliant Fastmail is as well.
I recall case in Russia back in 2005, it was used to gain access to regular bank account.
Take a few minutes to create a gmail with a female sounding username or even an HN handle that clearly belongs to a woman. Send 10 emails or comment here for a few days and see how differently you’re treated.

Look even at the disrespectful
comments Jessica got in response to that announcement. How often, if ever, have you seen those sort of comments on HN directed towards male partners at YC?

I’m not even saying this facetiously. I wish more men in tech had the courage to see what it’s like to be a woman in tech. I think it would do everyone a lot of good.
In South Africa there are many beautiful churches from a bygone era. One of the most well known is in Graaff-Reinet. [1]

Church played a very dominant role in Protestant communities, together with the other pillars of the family and the school. I think that the cross-over period to more secular belief systems indeed does lose a lot of the community aspect of the church.

It is also not clear at all how to fill the void... Sports? Hobbies? Nature? Guns n' Roses concerts?

[1] https://www.graaffreinet.co.za/listing/dutch_reformed_church...
In theory. In practise it's much faster to push for a fix to your users with a brand new fat binary than having to figure out the mess that is distributing your software on every possible Linux distribution (obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/).

Also shared libaries assumed your software will work on a different version of a library which is quite a bold assumption that may or may be true depending on the phase of the moon
"MacBook Pro now delivers two times faster performance than a quad-core MacBook Pro and 40 percent more performance than a 6-core MacBook Pro, making it the fastest Mac notebook ever.1"
Most useless quote ever.
I don’t think fair tax system doesn’t exist. (With a few exceptions in EU)
Increase your worth as freelancer by providing value, not by lowering the price
"MacBook Pro now delivers two times faster performance than a quad-core MacBook Pro and 40 percent more performance than a 6-core MacBook Pro, making it the fastest Mac notebook ever.1"

most useless math ever
Sorry, I thought it would be clear that I wasn't trying to cite a complete list. There are also countless corporate tax incentives too. Clean energy is one example. How do you incentivize companies to use clean energy by taxing individuals?
>Finally, the big advantage is that the release is done by the author

I see that as the biggest net win of the current system although it may seem inefficient or bureaucratic. I do not trust the authors. The only modicum of sanity and trust comes from the fact that debain/fedora maintainers are actually on your (the user's) side and have strong rules and guidelines about everything. Desktop linux doesn't have that much meaningful isolation or sandboxing that malicous apps cannot circumvent. It's only now that we are seeing some efforts in this direction. Still, it's quite far from something like android where you can quite safely run arbitrary applications.
>It was solved, and then we unsolved it when we decided that 'move fast and break things' was more important than ABI stability.'

I don't believe it was "solved", and I don't believed it was caused by people "moving fast and breaking things".

Linux became HUGE, in terms of the number of people involved, and there is no master body that would govern anything. As an application developer, you could build against libfoo, then your app break on debian because they never updated libfoo besides some strange monkeypatch, and be broken on redhat because they decided to fix bug #12494 differently from the developers of libfoo.

God himself has decided it's too hard, too complex and too much of a clusterfuck of competing motivations to expect that RedHat/Debian/FooBarLinux will reliably all provide the same shared library. And the user doesn't case, bandwidth the cheaper than disk, and its most certainly cheaper that user's time.
IMO, Leonardo biography is an ok exposition to the time period and contains interesting trivia.

Could you recommend a better biography from that period?
Related and interesting: a full list of foreign-born samurai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-born_samurai_i...
We also take qualitative metrics pretty seriously and found that this experience was well received on a more subjective level, high csat in particular. It surpassed the success criteria we set out for the feature and I'm happy about where it landed. Of course it's not going to be ideal for everyone, so we have a setting to disable.

To be clearer on our metrics: In addition to qual there's also a precision/recall tradeoff, so saying ctr alone was an oversimplification. We have coverage targets, but that doesn't really impact the positivity of the suggestions.
From my personal experience I think the metrics produced the correct outcome here. I'm not going to click one of those things unless it gets the tone right. So, if you present one 'yes', one 'no', and one 'maybe' (for example) then you only have one chance to nail the tone (because obviously the only candidate is the one that is giving the answer I want to give) and the odds are pretty low. If on the other hand 95% of all replies are a yes, giving three 'yes' options gives you three chances to right the right tone, 95% of the time.
Swift trials instant cross-border gpi payments through TIPS
I suppose you are talking about "Assistance and Access Bill"? I don't see how this relates to this discussion, which is about your email provider using your email text for commercial profits.

That said, if you prefer US government to Australian government, I am sure there are also privacy-preserving email providers in US as well. And there is also Swiss Protonmail, outside of both US and UK jurisdictionm, but it is more expensive.
Quite the opposite: I've never seen a HN discussion about Wolfram where the company, the person, the language and the pricing model don't all end up getting torn to shreds.
Just have a wide range of frequencies you can use, every material absorbs some part of the EM spectrum
Same here: One user!
Here are some that I've enjoyed reading:

Steve Martin - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Kevin Mitnick - Ghost In The Wires

Kenneth Roman - The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs

Alan Deutschman - The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

James Wallace - Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Alice Schroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity
"Taiwan is a sovereign nation"

"Tiananmen square massacre"

"Free Tibet"

"Falun gong organ harvesting"

"Winnie the Pooh"
This is the new superstition of the digital age: instead of saying "huh, that's funny" when some autocomplete suggestions strike you as odd, invent a myth about your personal relationship to the gods of computing (the big tech firms) to explain it.

There are a lot of things about the computers we use that we simply don't understand unless someone tells us (because we weren't involved and don't have access to the code) and yet I guess many people want to pretend that they know what's going on?
I would assume that your archived emails would be available for download via IMAP. Is that not the case?
Both is useless and expensive (over 240€/year for both).
I have a cochlear implant, I'm probably locked into Med-El for life! :-) But as far as I know, they're not yet spying on people via my cyborg ear.
The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
>some of them are arguably worse than procrastination (eg overengineering).

Drinking.
Your experience differs from mine - some sites won't be blocked outright but will be throttled. I can tell they're throttled because as you said, hit the VPN and they load instantly.
As someone who tends to write overly verbose emails, I find this feature to be useful, in that it reminds me how often "Will do." is an entirely appropriate, succinct response.
GDB lets you add as many print statements as you'd like to a binary you can't change, for one.
Focus on the Right Growth Metrics, by Facebook VP of Growth Alex Schultz
Don't forget about trade-offs. Such kind of bundled packages have worse security than distro packaged method, where dependencies are getting patches and fixes. Because most developers won't ever bother patching their bundled dependencies.

So know what you are paying with.
>so anything that's already challenging current infrastructure, like livestreaming video, is right off the table

For a wireless mesh... yeah, probably. But if you relax the requirements to include things like small home servers (still using the internet), things that challenge centralized infrastructure can be very doable.

With good network connectivity, there are things that decentralized services already do better than centralized ones. Distributing files to a large group of people is much easier with BitTorrent than hosting the files directly would be; the bandwidth requirements are themselves less centralized in a peer-to-peer system.
> I'd use a mobile-sized computer with no radios, just ethernet, USB (for a keyboard) and HDMI (monitor).

sounds exactly like Raspberry PI? (or any of the 100's of other cheap SBCs)
The new kilogram just debuted
The fact that autocrats eventually die of old age is one of the main things discouraging people from bloody revolution—because it’s a lot cheaper (in lives lost, for one) to just wait and let nature take its course.

Without death by aging, this moderating influence wouldn’t be there, so we’d see far more assassination attempts and coup staging.
Build something that users want, with ProductHunt founder Ryan Hoover
It's not perfect by any stretch. I suspect that right now it's very far into its plateau of productivity, and very far outside of the Internet's spotlight, which made everybody calm down. Lowtax is also not really involved much anymore, so the entire site is effectively on life support.
In terms of actual student performance (as opposed to grades), I'd expect parents to be a major factor. They're going to build support networks-- running the fundraisers, supporting extracurriculars, keeping an eye on student performance and scandals.

When we provide "options" -- charters, private schooling, even public magnets-- the parents who are motivated and concerned enough to build those networks tend to pounce on them. The "default" public school loses its champions and ends up producing worse outcomes for everyone whose parents aren't tuned in.
On a related note, Macs came with the following music before iTunes gained its music store.

It includes a song by Snake River Conspiracy about polyamory! Bet you no one expected that from Apple back in 2000.

https://open.spotify.com/user/rezmason/playlist/0mWEVPaZDH2Y...
> I struggle to name a single useful c library that's useful as a system-wide shared library nowadays.

Libcurl is the only one I frequently use that seem to take it seriously, there might be others but frustratingly few will indicate what level of binary compatibility they guarantee, it would be nice to have a list of reliable libraries. Not just for binary compatability but I would be nice to know how much churn you can expect with any given library.

On the other hand, considering the state of the software industry with relation to privacy (including some open source products) running software from arbitrary sources is becoming less and less viable anyway, I'm not sure it's a problem worth fixing.
Not meant as a dig at you, but your comment reminds me so much of this recent HN story: https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-a...

Guy spent a year trying to build a better slack, but then finds out people love to complain about slack, but will not make any steps to actually try any alternatives.
It sounds like laughable bullshit.

Also, no new details. This is pretty much a reprint of all the previously described garbage.

The author doesn't seem to be capable of fact checking any statements. Otherwise, they wouldn't be confusing what seems to be mistaken as obscure technical jargon for what is more likely the name of a company (splunk).

https://splunk.com

The entire article is incapable of plumbing deeper than the concept of an IP address, when delving into technical detail. There is a total absence of concepts such as payloads, exploits, vulnerabilities, zero-days, backdoors, root kits, remote administration tools or CVE numbers.

They try to restate that some horrible thing has happened, and yet, it still seems to be an image loaded via HTML in an email message.

Of course it could be that they even though they lack the ability to articulate how they were abused, it doesn't mean they weren't abused in the manner they seem to allege, but how does one reconcile such a situation?

Grabbing an IP address from an HTTP request for an image, and logging the details of that request on the server side, is not a malicious act. To suggest as much reeks of legal stalling and smoke screens.
Post capitalism? You don't need to make anything, just announce products people want to buy, regardless of whether they're actually buildable. Next step, raise billions of $ on the back of the 'product', then presumably sell[1] empty boxes for all those unboxing videos.

[1] It probably won't be selling, it'll probably licencing, or renting, or renting of other peoples boxes, or some combination thereof.
The truth may be banal, but the impact is not. That's the problem with technology. So often, there's no ill intent in the design decisions, but at scale, the effects can be harmful, even massively harmful.

> We're optimizing for click through rate. That's it. There's no editorial judgement...

Something that all of us as technologists need to learn is that this IS an editorial judgement. We do not get to disclaim responsibility just because we delegated that responsibility to an algorithm. It is we who delegated it, we who chose the algorithm and the metrics, and we who are responsible.

"We're optimizing for click through rate" is how we got the proliferation of misinformation on Facebook. It's how we got https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1037831503101579264. It's how we got Pizzagate.

"We're optimizing for click through rate" is simply not good enough in 2019.

We could claim to be naive in 2000, perhaps even 2010. But today? We all know we're playing with fire now, and it doesn't much matter that of course we didn't MEAN to burn the house down. What matters is that we don't give lit matches to children and we know how to not set the house on fire.
Everyone will suggest DuckDuckGo but the results can be a bit lacking for some terms. I use Google and don't care.
For me, I find procrastination to be the exact opposite. Say I have a big project I want to complete, and I know I'll feel happy, proud, and accomplished if I complete the project, but I get stuck or frustrated with some intermediate step. Then what I usually end up distracting me is chronic or boring things. I'll organize my email inbox, or watch a million YouTube videos I'm not all that into, etc.