skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put the book on the table. Open Evernote (or similar) and start a new note. Put on the headphones and play the same title as audiobook. Set play speed at 2x. Read along. For every page read write down a summarizing sentence along with page number.

Hearing, reading and writing helps memorize. After completing the book you will have a nice summary written in your own words that’s easy to recall if you need it in future.

Haven’t tried with fiction books, but for non fiction works really well.
I think that these belts make better sense in the west, than in south-eastern europe, maybe the gradient of climate is more complicated there.

The other famous trio are the olive oil/butter/lard belts, which again were fairly clear lines in the west (although obviously things have changed now). Data-points on what fat your grandmother used, in south-eastern europe, anyone?
> In graph theory, a tree is a cycle-free graph and a triangle is a cycle of length 3. Ergo, a triangle is not a tree.

Mathematics is not a rigorous language, so I'll put the crux of my argument in Tree Notation, which is a rigorous language:

betterGraphTheoryLanguage
nodeCell
cycleNode
triangleNode
extends cycleNode
cells nodeCell nodeCell nodeCell

There you go, a triangle is a cycle with length 3. Ergo, a triangle is a tree.

typo fix: changed Trees to Tree Notation.
A domain squatter will probably snag it immediately on the chance that the lapse was in error. At that point it will be expensive to get back, so make sure you won’t change your mind.
I have read "everything for everyone" and agree on some of the major points it and this article raises. I do think that there might be a bit of context missing from this thread and the article in general.

I think someone pointed out that "decentralization" is different from "democratization" and I would wholeheartedly agree. I think of both as independent variables which can be tuned in the construction of any organizational structure. Also to me the idea that democracy, as it pertains to business structures, should also be something that is tunable.

Projects like DAO's are great examples if highly distributed yet fairly undemocratic structures. As the core team creating them (and often monetizing them) do not nessecarily share power in the direction of the project. I am not advocating for or against that but just pointing it out.

But as history has shown there are real tradeoffs when you try and reach scale (in whatever metric) when you centralize democracy. It's my view that there is a sweet spot (and serious upside) for introducing decentralization and democratization into most projects, but it all depends on the use case. As a few examples take a look at the success of projects like stocksy.com (royalty based stock images company owned by the contributors), smart.coop (freelancers cooperative that handles contracts and billing). And of course Mondragon (https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/) which takes democracy in the workplace to an industrial scale.

At my current company (https://www.staffing.coop and https://www.tribeworks.io) we decided to form as a cooperative (instead of using a DAO) because it better fit our current needs. But we don't see this as a static choice.
You're (rightfully) highlighting the importance of proper research into a subject, and books (currently) provide a better monetary incentive/reward for that, but other than that, you've basically proven my point.

Replace books with a (credible) data source on the Internet, and you'll have the same result you're describing.
I always get excited by these types of tools and then end up going back to awk. How do you beat something that's already pre-installed on every Unix system for the last 40 years?

Having said that ... these do look like they have some useful extras, in particular, around the annoying part of retaining / manipulating header rows ...
In a just society the only possible way to get rich is through helping people. We want rich people. The more rich people the better off everyone is. Capitalism is beautiful. If a company is able to sustain market share through healthy competition then wonderful, that is great. Every law in the US right now is to ensure those corporations don't lose market share, edging everyone else out. It is basic economics. It is the government intervention that insures competition is reduced every single time, literally, not figuratively.
No, such beliefs were perhaps entertained by Descartes. But to assume that humans are separate from animals in our conscious perception of the world and our agency flies completely in the face of our understanding of basic biology, from genetics, developmental biology, to neurophysiology.

We could claim that all other human beings aren't conscious as well, and that any reactions are affective only. It's clearly not serious, but claiming the same about mammals and other higher vertebrates can't be serious either given their extremely close biological similarity. It is extremely unlikely that they aren't as entirely as aware of the world as ourselves, and it is not logical to assume there is some fundamental cognitive difference when our observations show such close similarity.
The Kinesis Advantage completely cured my RSI. It's also much more pleasant to type on than any other keyboard I've tried. Worth every penny. I also use a Kensington Slimblade trackball for when I can't avoid moving a pointer.
So, something I've found in pretty much every hotel I've ever stayed in, whether it costs $50/night or $1500/night - internet access is slow AF, and prone to total dropouts every now and then.

Honestly, that alone makes working from a hotel a bloody miserable experience - even if you're staying in a luxurious suite with your own butler.
I recently started using kindle highlights along with https://readwise.io/ and it works like a charm!
Facebook fires TechLead for having YouTube channel
Do you have a aquavit / snaps tradition? I think it is likely that Norway, like Sweden, had more emphasis on these spirits traditionally, before 1950 or so.
What works will depend on the person. For me it's the kinesis advantage 2, roller mouse red (not really a mouse but way better), an adjustable or standing desk (you can make this with a couple of monitor and laptop stands for travel and saving money purposes), and adopting touch typing in combination with sticky keys to avoid having to hold down keys. In addition, I do massage and chiro and have done PT, acupuncture, etc. I use a lacrosse ball on the back muscles to massage them and that brings the most relief as well as massaging the arms. I get rsi from holding my phone or even just sitting and watching tv (especially if it's not eye height). For me it seems to be mostly a muscular issue. I've also been working a bit with weights though I don't know if that helps. Everyone is different. If you have rsi, the most important thing is not to work through pain and try different things to fix it.
Libgphoto2 Controls Digital Cameras
I gave up looking after 1min
All I can say is that my girlfriend's father made the brandy from Moscato, and his parents made the same thing, and claimed it was made that way since before the Communists showed up.

I saw the fruit orchard and the vineyard.

However, you're missing the point as it relates to this discussion. Fruit brandy made from fruit is like wine, not vodka.

If you want to fight to the death that my girlfriend's parents and great-grandparents are atypical, that's totally fine.
> I'm not sure why Germany has the reputation as making great beers.

German brewers of mass-produced beer still stuck to the requirements of the German beer purity law when elsewhere, such as in the USA, brewers were putting rice and maize into their beer to cut costs.
If you know a bit of Python, you can use it directly on streams in your shell.

https://github.com/python-mario/mario
What false promises? Many of them graduate and are getting real jobs. One of the fastest growing new boot camps even lets people attend for free and makes back their money as a percentage of future salaries earned. Nothing could be further from ripping students off with false promises of jobs.
I remember there was a TUI app that could handle CSV, HDF, etc. I can't find if for the life of me though. I remember the author even made their own TUI library for it. I've been looking for it for a while now, if anyone knows please let me know.
REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required
NOAA Budget Proposal Hits Rough Waters in Congress
The article states that reaching Tier2 is more of a hassle for black or Latino customers. What?

Thank you for that original title also. How about this one, “Why do companies succeed? Because their profitable”. Why don’t you stop letting 8’th graders write and title articles?
I don't think psychology is typically considered STEM.
> Who do you think is writing the playbooks for ansible? How do you think you can even write those things without first having a deep understanding of how the system works

The sys-admins don’t even know what ansible is. The devs are writing the playbooks and trying to convince the sys-admins that terraform and packer/docker are great tools while the sys-admins are still remoting into windows servers and clicking though graphical installer dialogues to configure the oracle servers “just so”.

As for the “deep understanding” that was replaced with ready built AMI’s and packer/docker configs ages ago. You don’t need a local expert when you have the end result readily downloadable from a central trusted source. (And embarrassingly the available images are often better than what the local sys-admin thinks is top of the line).

And at the end of the day, while it’s extremely cool to see someone utilize 20 years of experience to squeeze out an extra 15% of performance from your setup... well an extra server which adds +98% performance costs like 10$ a month, and the expert of 20 years is just not cost effective.

There’s a culture clash, and it’s not because expertise isn’t valued. It’s just that a lot of old sys-admins have spent their entire carriers optimizing against targets that are no longer relevant, and teams can get by perfectly well without them.

Truth is that you honestly don’t need a sys-admin or DBA on modern team. The ‘kids’ do just fine without them, and just spin up the systems on AWS/Azure/GKS with a blatant disregard for the fact that they “do not yet have the needed seniority to carry out such important tasks”. And if the horrible complexity of it all becomes to
Much, they spin up 3-4 variants of the infrastructure and use the one that works best in performance and reliability testing, without ever needing to seek the alter of the almighty sys-admin with gifts of gold and silver in order to bless their endeavor and be allowed the extra couple of servers.

We don’t have coffee machine admins because coffee machines are trivial in the modern software company (even though they do of-cause need regular maintainer and cleaning and are extremely important). The same is true of sys-admins, they are no longer needed because the system procurement and provisioning are trivial (even if they also need regular maintenance and cleaning and are of-cause extremely important).
> The other side is composed of people like yourself willing to dismiss any degree of outrage or anger at Trump as simply "jumping on the bandwagon of 'trump bad'." They already immediately dismiss us every time.

Firstly, I'd like to emphasize the following. I want trump out of the presidents office.
My point here is not that trump isn't that bad. My point here is that we should try to avoid the "We've got him" moments. Moreover, we really should avoid playing up issues to make those moments more effective.

If we are going to get rid of trump, we will need to affect people on the other side. As such, lets assume the other side is open to reason. We want to make the argument as effective on them as possible. Bombarding them with many stories, some of which don't quite hold up when, does not help us convince them.

Such performances might help us feel better, it might make us feel like we are helping by exposing how bad trump is. But that is essentially preaching to the quire. We need a focus on things that are actually immensely bad, and not politically disputed. 'Grab em by the pussy', setting up concentration camps for foreigners, that kind of stuff.

> Even if you support his populist agenda, wear a MAGA hat with pride, and would bring your own hammer to build the damned wall yourself if you could, it should be obvious at this point that continuing to support Trump is a fool's errand.

Lets make it easier for these people. People don't easily change their views when challenged by facts. If there are mitigating circumstances, they grab on to them. So we need to point out things without any mitigating circumstances. Things like I mentioned above. Besides that, we should keep up on the bad stuff, rather than moving on when a few days of the bad stuff doesn't seem to change any minds. Then again, staying with old stuff isn't "news".
Learnings from Migrating Legacy to Microservices
Based on my reading of the article, she was 13 when Iggy slept with her and knew that fact. That’s a bit materially different than standard rock-and-roll excess.

Were age of consent laws less of a thing back in his day?

Edit: Seems as though this should’ve been / is a crime?[0]

[0] - http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230?section=primary...
Indeed not so minimal effort, I had to skip that chapter. Hopefully it will be updated in the future.

I've been using Atom so far, and I will try Cursive later
Thanks for all the tips. I started the book Brave, installed Cava and got it working, and am considering finally biting the bullet on emacs. Two birds with one stone!

Thanks for the tips!
The "long stay" discounts you'll find online are often available for stays over 1 or 2 weeks.

For really long-term stays, if you are able to speak to someone at the hotel, then it's often possible to negotiate much more favourable discounts than you'll find online.
There is a tradition within Romania of making distilled spirits from wine (vinars), but as I said, that is a very niche product and you just seem to have happened to run into it. Most of the country distills their brandy purely from fruit. In a lot of the villages that produce Romanian fruit brandy, grapes are not even grown by any of the families at all.
> but not actually perform

You're trying to measure how they'll perform on your work before you hire them? That sounds like you're trying to get free work from them. (Just a note.. this is on the words you used)

> recognize smart people who will do well with whatever they're given,

How does a take home coding test that is limited on time, and their own time + stress indicate that they are in that category?
According to the article, it is by the NSF and not by the commerce department.
Dunno, maybe you aren't the target for the article. As someone who has never played with deep learning, I thought it was presented just fine.
The local schools here now call it STEAM, include in "Arts" and now say:

>"It will include subjects like history, social studies, and language arts, all of which are vital facets of a STEAM curriculum."

and now STEM has no meaning anymore (if it ever did).

These are all fine subjects, but they miss the point of the push for STEM that was based on the theory that Americans are falling behind in Math, Science, and Engineering and we need these to be competitive.
I find journaling indispensable
Duplicati does the client side encryption with the Key never leaving my device? Backblaze didn't offer that when I was choosing a cloud backup and the reason I went with the competition. But Crashplan (RIP consumer version, now only 2x as expensive small business remains) client turned out to be just so ... amateurish in many ways, now that I actually had a drive die on me and need to restore a bunch of data. I'd love to switch to a more competent backup provider and cancel Code42/Crashplan once the restore is done in hopefully 2-3 Months.

Am I right that Duplicati only works with B2, not their cheap $6/device personal backup stuff? That would be a significant price increase. At that price I'd probably prefer the $1/TB/Month of S3 Glacier Deep Archive, though restoring at ~$100/TB seem quite painful.
How react-boilerplate, styled-components and Carte Blanche come to be? (2016)
Engineering, too. Electrical and Mechanical specifically. And Biotech.
> To use that word from standard vocabulary to describe something that just happens to use the same word as some utterly esoteric mathematical definition is misleading at best.

So are we trying to raise or lower the quality of public discourse? If a journalist uses a technical term in a headline, and then goes on to explain what the term means in the article, how is that not fine? It sounds like you only want journalists talking at a eighth grade level.

Why don't you try to re-write the findings yourself then? I think you'll find it difficult to say the least. Your first obstacle might be finding a better word to describe the mathematical shape of the structures other than 'dimension'. That's what mathematicians use, why can't journalists use it too?
I actually still use the (admittedly awful) Emacs bindings. I have both ctrl and alt available as thumb keys on both sides (using a Kinesis Advantage). I also activate these modifiers using an opposite hand to avoid "chording". This was enough to fix my RSI and keep using the bindings I am familiar with.
Words are used for communication. The definition of a word derives from the mutually understood definition of the word between the author and the reader.

>The world does not revolve around you.

The GP was quite careful to speak from the standpoint of a reader from a general audience. A work of writing does in fact revolve around its audience.
my time at Google has made me hate GCL so much.
A good roommate situation can be fine, but a bad one can be terrible. We've got to have other options.

Current internet connection tools encourage you to stay on your screen. You could easily design a system that nudges folks to actually get together in real time. Let's say you've been chatting via messenger for 10 minutes. Then you get a popup that says, "{name} is actually only x blocks away -- why don't you continue this over coffee?"

Meanwhile, a real-time idea could be apartments or houses with shared common areas. I miss the common rooms of college where you just happen to run into people. We could do that again as adults without the 9-act dramatic operas that happen when you share too much living space with folks. There's such thing as a happy medium.
Modeling Knowledge, Understanding, Expertise, and Innovation
Hi HN!

I'm very excited to be able to present Catalog to you here. In fact one of the reinforcements for my vision came from a post I read here a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858538

This app checks out almost all desirable features described in that post:

- Free and open source
- 100%-internet-independent.
- It works on all the platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux
- It uses SQLite as the store format of metadata, which makes it easy to read and modify programmatically.
- A node can be either a filesystem resource: a file / folder, or a hierarchy building block: a category
- All desirable metadata can be created by the user through categories
- Search for files: by name OR by an ancestor category of the file

You're welcome to leave questions here, and I will try to address them as best as I can.
I’m not disagreeing with you. The only times you save money by going to the cloud is by reducing the number of people you need or if you have a lot of elasticity in demand. I would never recommend anyone going to the cloud just to reproduce an infrastructure they could do at a colo.

Like all things business, "want" and "cost" are different, in this case, depending on your size of course, it could easily be cheaper to have a dedicated "build engineer" maintaining a build farm. This is how the majority of people do it. (I work in the video games industry, it's _MUCH_ cheaper to do it this way for us)

That’s $80K to $100K. You can buy a lot on AWS for that price...

Again, those are "wants", TCO can be much lower when out of the cloud. But again, depends on scale. (as in, lower scale is cheaper on cloud, not larger scale).

That’s another $100K to $200K....

I mean, 1 sysadmin can automate/orchestrate literally thousands of webservers.

That’s yet another $100K. You’re up to at least $250K - $500K In salaries.

Yes, but you are paying "overhead" for all of that, and not having talented engineers on your payroll who understand your business critical systems is, in my opinion, foolish.

I am one of the “talented engineers” that’s why I mentioned I could go out and get a job tomorrow as an AWS architect - my resume is very much buzzword compliant with what it would take from both a development, Devops, and netops side to hold my own in a small to medium size company. I just find that side of the fence boring - we outsource the boring work or the “undifferentiated heavy lifting”.

As that side got too much for me, we hired one dedicated sysadmin type person to coordinate between what he would do himself, our clients and our MSP.

I’m actually trotted our as the “infrastructure architect” to our clients even though my official title and day to day work is a developer. I haven’t embarrassed us yet.

I've dealt with vendor support and it's incredibly hit and miss, and it's much more "miss" when you're a smaller customer to the vendor. Of course, this is anecdotal.

I agree completely. If it’s something complex, I either do it myself or have very detailed requirements on what our needs are. But honestly, the more managed services you use, the less you have to do that part.
It's not so much the size as the way the font was defined and the trash latency/TTFB of whatever they are hosting it on.
A safer yaml:

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
I'm curious: fundamentally, can the economy find a place for many more talented STEM people ?

And if not, what's missing - useful ideas ? capital ? management ? Something else ?
What happens when you type GCC main.c?
On my Firefox Android this link goes into what seems infinite redirects. Um, thanks?
Something I've observed working in education: All educational acronyms eventually become SCHOOL.
Useful:

- Crashplan for Small Business (unlimited backups)

- Kerish Doctor (affordable Windows maintenance that works)

- a German email provider that I use since the 90s

- Netflix

Not really needed, but they were on sale and almost free anyway:

- several cheap & insecure VPNs for watching geographically locked content

- a not very well-known anti-virus

For fun / entertainment:

- lots and lots of games - I barely ever play them

- lots and lots of VST audio plugins I don't really need
> There may be a hidden layer of discrimination at play here as well. Studies and surveys have shown that some segments of consumers, such as women, African Americans, and Latinos, may experience higher hassle costs when dealing with customer service.

Their source for the 'women' part of that claim only says that, given the same treatment, women get more annoyed than men [1]. Not what I would classify as 'discrimination'.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/06/women-get-m...
I feel like this might explain atrocious unicode handling and special character escaping in most eBay properties... Looking at you gumtree!