skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot in this article that I'd endorse as a first-pass approximation of the truth for orienting oneself towards productive behaviors.

But...

There's a number of places where Naval is mixing the concerns of "status" and "values." This isn't an easy distinction to make, because status essentially exists by the standard of one form of values or another, but without this distinction you can gather both ideas like "all property should be owned/controlled by the state" or "taxation is theft" and "people should not be property" or "some regulation can balance problematic incentives" under the same umbrella of "status games", which makes certain muddled conclusions are easier (problematic or useful depending on how you look at it).

Once you understand this, though, it's easier to note that this piece is itself a bid in a status game -- it defines a set of values and sets them up as higher than a competing set of values. And the set of values he's advocating seems to be one by whose standards he would have a high status. ;)

This is distinct, by the way, from arguing that Naval is wrong (much less totally wrong). He is in some ways, not in others, and I hope that saying as much as I have makes the rest of that easier to work out as an exercise for the reader.

Though that will probably prove to be mostly be the case where it affirms the values a given reader already holds.
Checkups keep you healthy indirectly.

If you tell someone "you have cancer but it's growth rate isn't fast enough yet for it to be worth treating" that will have a very different impact than "you're fine but we need to keep an eye on you to make sure you're in optimal health". But really they describe the same state of the world.

The alternative being proposed is to lump the people who are fine in with the people who are going to die unless they get treatment urgently and effectively forget or destroy knowledge about their state so that the amount of anxiety avoided in the first group exceeds the amount of horrible death and pain in the second.

It seems pretty clear that we have a ... problem ..(?) somewhere if we're even considering this.

I'm going to guess that the problem is that we can't deal with hazardous information very well. The knowledge that a person has a specific not-worth-treating cancer somewhere is hazardous to them and they need to be insulted from it. But it is not hazardous to the medical system, rather it is useful since with further monitoring it can turn into something actionable (a successful cancer treatment instead of patient death). But people are expected to be managers of their health (which makes sense), so that means they kind of have to know this hazardous information.
DRM doesn't matter for most video games, only servers matter. If steam shuts down you won't be able to play most games regardless of DRM.
In regards to all the talk of not being able to verify your video source; perhaps we'll go back to film for things that need to be probably legitimate. Though perhaps that has the same issues.
Yep. In fact, when rich technologists fire back with comments like his, they are also bidding for status.

(Or, more politely, engaging in a public conversation about values.)
I have mixed feelings about the finger pointing/public embarrassment thing. Usually the SRE is matured enough cause they have to be, however the individual teams might not be the same when it comes to reacting/handling the Incident report/postmortem.

On a slightly different note, "low-level team to have at least one engineer on call at any given time" - this line itself is so true and at the same time it has so many things wrong. Not sure what the best way to put the modern day slavery into words given that I have yet not seen any large org giving day off's for the low-level team engineer just cause they were on call.
Who says they didn't escape to Earth, a billion years ago?

It's not as if they would still be around ... unless they live at the sea bottom; then there is no reason we would know.

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

But seriously, an invasion from Venus a billion years ago would leave no evidence we could reconstruct today. After they went extinct, less than a million years later, their microbes would remain. And eventually become us.
Are Influencers Frauds or the Future of Online Commerce?
> and it's this delicate social situation that requires more mental effort to negotiate than I want to give it

I understand what you're saying, and I recognize the blessing/curse that comes with attracting people.

However, as I've become an adult with a career and have left essentially all my friends behind, I've realized that making new friends is incredibly difficult. Even worse is trying to find dating partners. Lately I've been resorting to just talking to strangers and seeing if I can start a conversation.

Not to excuse the behavior of your drivers, but you should understand that men are having a difficult time with approaching women these days. We feel really inadequate and sort of aimless. The dating world is seriously dangerous right now and to be honest, there isn't a lot of guidance from women.

I've experienced a range of rejections and the least painful are always honest and upfront. Maybe you could try that?
That article has been debunked.
From the readme:

A small video of the game running over emulation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms
Ask HN: How do you use GitHub for LaTeX documents?
I recently started using github for a programming project from my university and I noticed a few people using it to host LaTeX projects as well. To the people on HN who do that, how does it work? Do you have a LaTeX editor with github support? How do you automate the process? What are your tips and tricks? (I usually write LaTeX using kile under Ubuntu 18.04, but I'm very willing to change editor if needed)
Some good advice, thanks
Realistically, you'd walk the list with a visited set and validate you didn't visit a node twice.

This would solve your problem in any realistic use case and you'd never even recognize a constant space solution was possible.
Glee
Also, started as a poor kid in India doesn't really present the whole picture. He was lucky that his family moved to New York when he was 9 which broadened the scope of opportunities he had.

From the Wiki article, "Ravikant moved to New York City with his family at the age of 9".

I still think what he has achieved is great and love some of what he shares but Naval can sometimes make things sound grander than they are.
I wish second hand smoke was more consistently considered a nuisance or health hazard in a residential context. Utah considers it a nuisance if it drifts into a home or business, but what about on your balcony? And NY state makes it illegal to smoke in playgrounds and parks, but again doesn't protect people's backyards from drift. It's annoying and vile.
Tech's Other Diversity Problem
So conservative view points have always been downvoted quickly?

It may have to do with the fact that your main account may be connected to your identity, and if you work at Google for example, uttering conservative view points might get you fired.
Then they should raise enough money to afford their employees. (Or make their equity meaningful, with longer exercise windows or by loaning the money for early exercise).
Summary by _max_bo_ in the twitter thread (https://twitter.com/stdlib/status/1136629930060636162) linked elsewhere:

> chrome wants things different. nix wants things to be the same, always. nixpkg programmer invokes horrifying incantation from the depths of hell to trick nix into thinking two different things are the same.
I think this is a great analogy since air bubbles are easier (for me) to imagine than the polarity of particles
Not the OP, but I want PragmataPro but it's a commercial font (so I need custom font support for that), so at least having Iosevka with ligatures support would be nice :-)

I have been trying Termius on and off for a year (I subscribed), but still couldn't switch away from Blink due to lack of custom font support and inability to map Capslock to Ctrl (but I solved this by using HHKB with my iPad, which has Ctrl in Caps position)

Additionally, please, please consider adding traditional TOTP. I don't like Authy, because its initial authentication requires SMS, and the fact that Authy acts as middle-man between me and the service (e.g. to delete non-TOTP Authy token, the service need to call Authy API to disconnect the user before _I_ can remove the token from my phone)
As someone who usually spots the Photoshop, I have some trouble assessing the danger of such techniques; thanks for bringing your input. I feel that someone who sees “through” a doctored piece of information will not even realize the power it may have had to others who might not participate in the conversation but end up part of the bubble nonetheless. By the time a fake has been debunked it's too late—but what's the alternative, censorship?
Someone at our place recently commented that the ops team during an incident strongly feels like NASA mission control in critical moments[1]. I wanted to protest, but that's surprisingly accurate.

> And if anyone is screaming or gets emotional, they should not be in that room.

If someone starts yelling around in my incident war room for no reason, they get thrown out. I'm a calm and quiet person, but bugging around during a major incident is one of the few things that make me mad.

1: https://youtu.be/Y0yOTanzx-s?t=3059
If you took the same mass of air and put it in two tropospheres, one is 2 km high and the other 20 km high. Would there be the same surface pressure?
I don't know Bryan personally -I wish I did-, but I am pretty sure he's hard to crush. There's always something else to do.

Many of us Solaris Engineering refugees have gone on to do other things. And trust me, for me it was hard and still is because I don't yet get to use the new Linux eBPF stuff daily and w/o privilege for the equivalent of DTrace USDT, and I also don't get to use ZoL, and because systemd is a very poor not-SMF, and because there is no FMA for Linux, and because epoll makes me sad, and so on and on. But I don't dwell on all the mistakes made by Sun's executives from 2000-2010 (and they made so many terrible mistakes), not often. Since that seems popular in this thread, I'll tell you what I think those mistakes were (some of which Oracle is still making):

- clinging to dying business (SPARC, J2ME) to the
point that other, better business was forgone to
avoid cannibalizing / competing with the dying
business

- killing Sun PS (2002)

- insisting on unacceptable-to-Google licensing
terms for Solaris (2002)

- suspending Solaris x86 development (2002)

- selling Sun to Oracle

There are more bad decisions, including buying MySQL (which was instantly forked, and that US$1bn price tag hurt).

Oddly, the torch of OS innovation has passed to MSFT. Not so odd, really, when you realize that MSFT learned the lessons of stack ranking (don't do it). And MSFT already had learned the lesson that to survive disruptions you must pivot. Bryan clearly learned those lessons early, so I think he'll be fine.
You might be interested in https://response.pagerduty.com/, PagerDuty's major incident response process documentation - a good starting point for that red binder.

Having been in the ringmasters seat for major incidents ranging from "relatively routine" to "it's all on fire", and had a ringside seat for a cloud provider outage of comparable magnitude to this one - it still fascinates me how creative solutions can get dreamed up under high pressure, and how effective someone to keep the response calm and _feel like it's in control_ is.
The Archive Team of independent website archivists use IRC, on Efnet, to communicate, coordinate, and plan. I got to witness and particiate in the "googleminus" project which succeeded in capturing 98% of public Google+ content before that site went down.

The ability to collaborate, combine and share information, and respond to contingencies on the fly was impressive.
Incredibly insightful. Great timing.
Google has made some resources available for managers and managers of managers here: https://rework.withgoogle.com/subjects/managers/

I found this helpful. There aren't many easily discoverable resources where effective management techniques are distilled. I'm writing a guide on coaching for my company and not only are there mountains of information all over the place, a whole lot of it is bullshit.
Rare seventeenth century poetry manuscript at risk of export
How to optimize your Azure environment
Of course you want that country. The thing is, the magical panacea of giving out free money to everyone just devalues the money. $1000 Yang Bucks will become the equivalent of $100 now within short order, as prices for things go up.
Seems crazy pessimistic. We could use HUGELY less plastic without a major impact. Start with clothes, get rid of all nylon, polyester, and plastic based materials. World changing? Hardly.

Get rid of plastic forks, spoons, knives, and straws... again no big deal.

Get rid of plastic used in food. Milk jugs, processed food, tv dinners, plastic bags of lemons/potatoes/etc. Kill off water bottles (which are a waste anyways), soda packages in plastic, cheap boxed wine, etc.

Sure there's some harder things, like say fertilizer, car interiors, toys, keyboards, mice, watches, network cables, etc. But still we could hugely reduce are use of oil.

Sadly the world was just starting to move away from oil a bit, then USA went from a large oil importer, to a huge exporter and the prices dropped.
Thanks for providing this. It's the sort of info that's virtually impossible to find as someone who doesn't speak Japanese. (I tried and only found sources that weren't official or were overly general like WHO stats.)

These all seem like pretty awful ways to die. I don't even know how you go about drowning yourself. I'm surprised medication isn't more common.
Improving Azure DevOps Cherry-Picking
Quake II, with Real-Time raytracing
I just look for the X to close the modal. I have no idea what Medium is yammering on about in that box.

They must really be optimists to think that even though I've closed the modal a thousand times, I might sign up the next time.
This was really cool in person!
Sounds like a desire for it to be 'Threlfallic melting' to me...
I started something similar about 12 years ago...inspired by the movie “Yes man” I started saying yes to every opportunity that I came across.

Wanna have lunch together? Yes!

Wanna go out with us tonight? Yes!

Wanna help me move? Yes!

It really got me out of my shell and made me realize that the reason I was alone is because I was an asshole. People had been trying to include me all my life, but I had always declined :(

I am much better these days :)
For the movie industry it's a challenge, but they settled for 5 languages to target. Remember, the Indian movie industries are the biggest in the world, by far outnumbering Hollywood or porn.

So they have English as lingua franca (mostly as repeated short statement to get the point to non-native speakers), but it's not a target language.

1. Hindi as dominant by the biggest industry from Mumbai (lot of trash movies, comparable to Hollywood).

2. Tamil from Chennai (much more political, having the more famous directors, but kinda ridicolous fashion styles).

3. Bengali from Kalkutta (very European, radical, cynical).

4. Telugu (Chennai, now Hyderabad) and I have no idea about the fifth. Is the a Punjab film industry?
There are two more south Indian smaller industries, but the south combined (Tamil, Telugu, Malalayam, Kennada) has a market share of 50%, whilst in west you only hear about Bollywood with its musicals. Take that Hollywood.
> Well one area where genetic algorithms are better than basic gradient descent is, naturally, nondifferentiable functions. But that is facile.

That's a poor assertion because even if detivative-free algorithms weren't already a thing, there are a myriad of smoothing techniques that enable nondifferentiable objective functions to be approximated by differentiable functions.

> I think the realistic strength is that there are some easy to use libraries that don't require the user to really know anything about optimisation or work too hard and can deal with very difficult optimization scenarios (and sometimes even deal with them well).

That's also not a reasonable assertion because there are also plenty software libraries for continuous and discrete optimization that are easy to use.

GAs in general are explored in academia because they are a fad that's easily publishable. Other than that this class of methods is in general very computationally expensive and very inefficient, and don't provide any advantage over plain old adaptive sampling, or even dumb regular lattice sampling.
Limit of Human Endurance Found
This article is over 35,000 words and he is speaking from experience (he isn't a young kid).
Photographically illustrated books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1844-1900
Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: My colleagues don't want to so I use it mostly for forums. Some programming languages have chat channels and I have heard that for open source dev it is still somewhat common but I suspect it is declining. It's a pity because I think Slack is stupid. Slack does not have the transparency of IRC and frankly the fact that you can share files and use fonts and indents are not selling points for me.

EDIT: Slack is stupid for me. To each their own I guess?

EDIT2: Just to make it clear, judging from other answers a lot of programmers use IRC every day. But not all of my colleagues are programmers. Some fall in the chasm between "data science" and programming and for such people IRC is unfortunately unfamiliar.
This sounds like an endorsement for real time chat, not really IRC at all
> Once you understand this, though, it's easier to note that this piece is itself a bid in a status game -- it defines a set of values and sets them up as higher than a competing set of values. And the set of values he's advocating seems to be one by whose standards he would have a high status. ;)

This is such a great point, presented masterfully. It exposes the game in ways that the original article couldn't, while using the original article as a conduit to do so. Pretty cool. And you manage to do it without devaluing Naval's interpretation / world view - which I think we both agree does have value.
So what’s the line on when google shuts this one down?
Yes, that's their point. Pure nothingness, the empty set, has the potential to create the set containing the empty set, and then the set containing that, sets containing combinations, etc etc.
+1 for beancount. I started with gnucash only to discover it doesn't play well with multiple currencies. Then, I looked into ledger and it was much better but I realized I would like access it programmatically. Finally, I settled on beancount which has an amazing UI, has sql-like query utility and good python bindings to extend it in any way I want.

For categorizing new transactions I found that regex matching and doing the rest manually works for me (takes me around 20 minutes every month)
A big part of that story was that even knowing of a world outside the members of Huxley's theoretical future society choose to stay in it.
Elementary particles have size delineated by the forces that act on them.

The concept of a "physical size" has no meaning, since particles don't act upon each other that way.

But the forces do not have a zero size, and that's important.
Because you can't get rid of the potential to reify.
actix (the actor library) hasn't reached 1.0.
actix-web has.
You cannot put air at 2 km and then at 20 km high! Of course the second layer will just flow down until it's supported by the first layer, which is in turn supported by the ground. So your question doesn't really make physical sense.
I'm well aware of and willing to admit my problems, so that's sorted out. The job situation is a major source of anxiety for me, as I don't look good on paper, and I'm not confident in my abilities to do technical interviews. Furthermore, though I'll have a CS B.S. from a high ranking public uni come next week -- my GPA is terrible, I have no internship experience, almost no personal projects, and a criminal record in another state. Since I transferred to this uni, I became more reclusive and depressive; it's a miracle I'll even get the stupid degree.

As for the dating thing. I have no interest in starting a family, and I specifically don't want to date women who are adamant about that kind of life. There are a lot of things I want to do, and having children would destroy my chances (at least the way I see it).
I was going to specifically ask how the "joined a church group" went because that seemed to be the example that had the most potential for being a slippery slope to a more complete change of life than you may have been looking for.

I have a family member that pretty much went all-in on came-to-it-later-in-life religion. It really felt like their susceptibility to loneliness was successfully exploited.
I have not read anything that suggests this is running on GCP?
Rocksmith is good too, but more serious
This is a great story. In my experience this sort of gaming-based route to programming expertise is not uncommon among programmers, and I suspect that it is a contributing factor to the gender imbalance. Scanning the quite large thread, I’m curious whether anyone is actually non-male at all.
Can you "play" this in real-time?
Getting security to scale: learnings from modern app SEC teams
I find it worrying that only now people start to be sceptical about visual information. There is a huge difference between real world and the framed and curated view photographer or documentarist gives you. If you go to school to learn about this stuff it's mostly about how to convey your view through these tools and the ethical implications of it.

I think people vastly underestimate how much editing and framing change the perceived truth of what happened. It is more subtle than manipulating the contents of video, but I think it can be in many ways more effective as most of this stuff bypasses your cognition and is not straight up lying.

It feels the same as in written news changing the quote vs. changing text around the quote.

I think we would be better of looking at video like it was picture drawn or text written by someone. It's an artistic rendition of the events.
Consequence of widespread gun availability: all petty threats have to be taken seriously. In a world where every few months someone does turn up and murder several people at school, which is then all over the national news, it's hard to see how it can be otherwise.
The programmer took great care about register allocation.

On this topic, the Saturn CPU of the HP-48 handheld calculator of the 90's had quite a lot of registers (9 of them 64-bit, plus a number of others and a hardware return stack) yet a 4-bit wide bus.

The whole CPU was optimized for BCD (binary coded decimal) computation and registers were structured into "fields" varying length. Thus you could program relatively advanced algorithms without having to swap registers with memory or stack all the time like on e.g. the Z80.

This allowed to write quite advanced things. For example I wrote ASM code that compiles to a 18kb binary where you can walk into a complex dungeon rendered in perspective with shading, with writings on walls, monsters, you can find objects, pick them, throw them, climb stairs, fall in pits.

See http://amphi-gouri.org/hp48/dm48/ for details.
>feel like people who study subjective topics like the value of human life (philosophers) have already internalized "learned helplessness".

This.
Anne Clark - Sleeper in Metropolis [1983]
Haven’t read the paper, but it seems to use glass powder.
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