skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes you sound like a rootin' tootin' cowboy.
"1984 orwell" finds it. Just "1984" looks like it's finding a translation or something - the cover picture clearly shows George Orwell. Maybe Dean is the translator? Still a bit odd.
Probably the most astute comment on this entire thread. In particular the willingness of putatively skeptical and inquisitive people to accept the most transparent, dissembling excuses from the likes of Gates has been quite a sight to see.
This is better than most of these "tips for a good life" lists, but I feel like it too misses a certain level of overarching consistency. Almost every item has a situation in which the "correct" thing to do is exactly the opposite of what is recommended. How do you make that decision?

As with all of these lists, I always wonder whether this is what the author thinks now, after attaining success, or if these principles are what they relied on during the process? Or perhaps even what they wish they did now that they have more time to think about it?

A commenter below mentions "life is not an optimization problem" -- but isn't it? You're fundamentally making decisions every day that balance your constraints against your goals, interests, and passions. If you just let your life go by without making some real decisions, won't you just regret what you didn't do later?

The reason you have to optimize like this is because a lot of these principles, should you attempt to leverage them to make a decision, provide contradictory advice. Part of this is due to the subjective terms (ie, definitions of extreme vary), but if you're going to use this list as a template or an inspiration, eventually you have to resolve what these things mean to you. I certainly haven't figured that all out and don't expect I ever will; I don't see how anyone could without having experienced all possible things.

All that being said, there are definitely some items that are clearly beneficial and don't put you in decision making paralysis, such as 18 or 24. But there are others that leave me more confused, such as "Don't waste time" or "Don't worry so much". How am I to know if an activity is time wasted until after I do it or if worrying is excessive or warning me about a real issue?

Finally, if you don't identify as neurotypical, what items apply, don't apply, or apply differently? How do you live your life if what everyone else says to do doesn't (seem to) work for you?

Not trashing Sam's thoughts here for sure, but I've read dozens of these things and never came away without having more questions then when I started.
Great! I'm curious what you think the mechanism is, since laptops aren't a mechanism for inhaling addictive chemicals into your lungs, but hey, you might be right! Wanna make a bet?
This specific incident a bunch of people were around the equipment. Presidential Candidate Jill Stein was there and took a can of spray paint and painted the scoop of one of the bulldozers with an activist slogan. The incident is on film and was widely covered by the media. That was the vandalism. These bulldozer scoops have a rough life and any graffiti on them wears off within hours of their next use so the assertion that this was legitimate damage is questionable. It's known and documented on film exactly what happened there on that day. It's also known that only a tiny number of people engaged in bulldozer graffiti, the particular people who did were filmed, and their identities are known. The person named in the affidavit was not among any of the people who were seen painting the bulldozer scoop. Furthermore nothing observed there would be reasonably described by any rational person as "rioting", which is the charge being levied with this butt being the only evidence presented.
The ability of the drivers helps too.

Maybe they should swap cars and do it again?
I'm sort of assuming that if they were trafficked the staff members didn't do anything about it; I haven't paid a lot of attention to the story but I don't think it was tip-offs from the MIT lab were important to Epstein's arrest.
I think I had a cigarette butt or two in North Dakota at the time, too. Looks like they need to come get me as well. I'm still in good ole Des Moines, Iowa. :)

There was no illegal activity going on. Everyone told everyone else how sensitive things were. We were all on our toes. The true crimes were committed by the paid oil protectors, the cops, the companies making this project happen and the government.

They took a LOT of land from a lot of people, simply trying to get by. Even if you opposed it and refused any sort of financial compensation (which in fact several people tried to do) then the land was taken anyways.
There's a power analysis in the paper showing that they've got plenty of statistical power. (Estimated N=34 subjects for 90% power, but they used 77 subjects instead).
Total hipocrisy
SimCity is real and it lives in California.
Washington State has no income tax.
What advantage is there to using attrs instead of the new dataclasses module in the standard library?
This article gives me FOMO on JOMO.
Leadership. I don't know if it was Etsy executives, hired strategists, or shareholders that prioritized growth of their marketplace over its quality, but it was, in retrospect, not a good way to handle the brand. The other possible ways they could have grown their company are innumerable even if they aren't obvious.
You may be right it's the VCs that are to blame.
I'd expect more than "a bit" for the extra $45,000+. Tesla wins in the looks department, though.
Although very US centric in its views - Europe is a little bit better at least when it comes to student debt and talent or hard work a more important than connections - it strikes a chord ( pun intended) with many aspiring musicians.
Spotify has one genious feature that I use a lot: similar artists. The problem with machine learning and recommendations is that it has a few pitfalls that lead to poor results. This is on full display on Amazon which manages to recommend stuff I've already bought from them while not being able to tell the difference between hard science fiction and fantasy. The resulting recommendation bubble seems impossible to escape.

With Spotify, they do have a few features that work for me. I've discovered new artists by exploring their "Fans Also Like" feature. The nice thing about this is that they don't try to be too smart there.

Their normal recommendations suffer from the same issues that other sites have and are thrown off by the fact that my tastes are all over the place. I happily listen to sixties psychedelic rock, jazz, metal and some techno or some punk and tend to go from one to the other. Yet I'm very picky about what I listen to. Somewhere along the lines it seems to have decided I'm a middle aged guy (correct) and it consistently does not recommend me any music made this century; which is kind of frustrating if you are trying to find something new to listen to. Recommendation bubbles are a thing and escaping from them is hard.

I work around it by using the fans also like feature and using it's suggested additions to playlists. This works surprisingly well. Example based similarity search is a much simpler problem then recommendations. And it's IMHO a much more interesting feature to explore content with.
Well when supermarkets all closed at 5:30, except one not very late night (7pm? 8pm?) a week certainly seemed to be. Current hours of 6 late nights probably to 9 or 10, and some 24/6 supermarkets, just restricting Sunday doesn't seem restrictive.

The Islands, and some parts of Wales, maybe other regions had a much more restrictive approach to Sundays than our old "fun permitted" rules, as a religious thing. They'd have more like a total shutdown, with dry Sundays and restriction of entertainments and travel. That may have changed, but they might still be far behind even our old Sunday trading rules!
There was a big influx of Californians to Seattle early 90s from aerospace tectonic shifts and normal moving around. The worry was rising property prices mainly, because they brought lots of cash from selling their expensive California homes.

And they were always leaving off the last syllables of words. But mainly property prices.
I think they might think they're not English speaking because it wasn't the English wikipedia sites that went down. Then again, they may easily have tried that too but it's larger, built to handle more traffic.
"we only collect DNA for violent crimes" right!

we need to remember this as they push for facial recognition, gait recognition, voice recognition, etc.
Maybe it was parked in a really stupid way which made a collision likely.
You didn't like neuromancer...?
A better comparison would be Cloudfront and Application Load Balancers since you can expose your own ec2 server or load balancer and be e2e encrypted (unless AWS wanted to run commands on your instance, which they could do, but that's a different threat vector entirely).
That's because "Marxist rhetoric" expresses a legitimate grievance, though. Your argument is a conflation fallacy. It can be simultaneously true that:

1. Law enforcement disproportionately and unfairly serves the interests of the powerful above the reasonable interests of justice.

2. Proletarian seizure of the means of production is terrible economic policy.

I mean, come on. They did three years of investigation and lab work to chase one guy down on a disorderly conduct[1] charge. That's just absurd. How many open case rape kits in Bismark ND went untested since 2016? If the number is more than one, I think even the most Blue Lives Matterest among us would agree that this was a miscarriage of justice.

[1] Edit: it's even dumber: "conspiracy to commit criminal mischief". Three years, folks. They worked that case for three years.
Why is the default lax instead of strict?
>no one cares enough to delete their account.

That's demonstrably untrue: there are articles at the top of Google results about this very subject including a guide on how to do it on The New York Times that references the breaches.

https://www.narcity.com/news/canadians-are-deleting-their-fa...

Anecdotally I deleted mine over privacy concerns but it was prior to the breaches. My wife didn't like the fact that friends of friends could see photos of her. She didn't know those people and didn't like it. I was more exasperated by Facebook tweaking privacy knobs through updates and was always to share more not less.

So I deleted my account since I couldn't promise that even if I choose privacy settings today that protected her privacy they'd be there tomorrow. Ironically she's still a Facebook customer and has no clue how to change privacy settings, but that's between her and Facebook.
Our engineering college had a policy that all old tests had to be on file at the library. It prevented professors from just recycling exams and deprived the cheater groups of their advantage. The science colleges did not do that, and cheating was rampant for those classes.
I was not there, and I am not up on all the facts, but was there not criminal trespass and destruction of property?
The paper I saw was doing it using an aqueous process at ordinary temperatures. Capital costs of the actual cells would likely be very low. Though feed stock processing might not be.

One of things that struck me is if the capital costs are low enough an aqueous process should be something you can bring online and offline rapidly depending on current market rates. Consider Germany already had a few late nights in winder where rates went negative. You can see where I'm going here.
This opinion piece is written by a well-known research professor at CalTech and sits behind Feynman's old desk.

He's been extolling this exact message for years.

I think he would say he's trying to de-woo QM by asking folks to think critically about it's principles

He is not saying that the predictions that QM gives is wrong.

He's a hard materialist and rejects the Copenhagen interpretation of QM (as many do who think intently about it) and prefers Many World's Interpretation, but admits there's more work to be done. He's saying in the article that folks should work on it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll
The Time Netflix Considered Selling Itself to Amazon for Peanuts
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That's a valid stance but they didn't host the website; they only provided DDOS protection for the actual host (which proceeded to drop 8ch once CF stopped providing the protection).
From "Why attrs"[1]:

PEP 557 added Data Classes to Python 3.7 that resemble attrs in many ways.

They are the result of the Python community’s wish to have an easier way to write classes in the standard library that doesn’t carry the problems of namedtuples. To that end, attrs and its developers were involved in the PEP process and while we may disagree with some minor decisions that have been made, it’s a fine library and if it stops you from abusing namedtuples, they are a huge win.

Nevertheless, there are still reasons to prefer attrs over Data Classes whose relevancy depends on your circumstances:
attrs supports all mainstream Python versions, including CPython 2.7 and PyPy.

Data Classes are intentionally less powerful than attrs. There is a long list of features that were sacrificed for the sake of simplicity and while the most obvious ones are validators, converters, and __slots__, it permeates throughout all APIs.

On the other hand, Data Classes currently do not offer any significant feature that attrs doesn’t already have.

attrs can and will move faster. We are not bound to any release schedules and we have a clear deprecation policy.

One of the reasons to not vendor attrs in the standard library was to not impede attrs’s future developement.

[1] http://www.attrs.org/en/stable/why.html#data-classes
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I think the bigger issue with Epstein specifically is that it was an open secret that he hadn't changed anything about his behavior
Eating healthy food and exercising regularly isn’t optional in this sense either, and yet people avoid it. Sunscreen isn’t optional if you’re light skinned and go out in the sun, but people often skip it. More examples abound.

You can talk about what people should do all you want, it doesn’t change anything.

My main point is that, as a health problem, drug addiction doesn’t look that much different from a lot of other health problems. Personal choices greatly influence your chances of acquiring it, your ability to beat it, and your odds of dying from it. This applies to many other medical conditions as well, but attitudes toward addicts are vastly different.
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John Carmack among others agrees with you about Tesla acceleration not being antisocial. Here he is talking about it (timestamp in link takes you to the right part of the video):

https://youtu.be/Ua-ikbZVofc?t=674
> People say this as if Californian is an ethnicity.

You say that as if it is not.
> Against new green tech yes, it's a better argument.

Right, so I'll take cheap panels and turbines please. We should stop pushing the luxury reactors. We can't afford them if we actually want to spend the limited funds we have to save the planet.
At point in time in the story Epstein had already pled guilty to solicitation of a minor for prostitution as part of a sweetheart plea agreement avoiding sex trafficking charges. This was a well known fact. Noone should have been assuming his innocence then.
> My preference is to rely on the judgement of reviewers whose taste kind of matches mine.

I wish there were a website where I could put in all of my favorite video games, books, movies, anime, etc. And it would recommend me things based on what people with similar tastes liked. Then, I could try out the recommendation and then either like or dislike it.

I would slowly acquire a recommendation network of people like me, effectively crowd sourcing the content-finding to a bunch of clones!
Big thanks to Mozilla for making internet a more secure place.
In order to function well, markets have to be correctly regulated. In particular, externalities must be accounted for. Energy markets fail to do that (CO2 emissions is a large externality) and are broken - I wager we wouldn't depend on fossil fuels for much longer if it weren't the case.
Ask HN: Quantum Entanglement as Seeded Function
Disclaimer: I'm an armchair physicist. I have no background, I just like reading articles.

I was reading an article about quantum mechanics today and was thinking about the particularly "spooky" properties. And I had an interesting idea for a way of looking at entanglement.

A seedable random-number function generates a stream of seemingly random numbers based off of an initial input seed. Even though the numbers are "random" the same seed will always produce the same sequence of numbers.

Entangled quantum particles, to my understanding, are entangled by putting them into the same initial state at the same time. Then, no matter how far apart they are, when the two are observed their possibility spaces collapse to the same (seemingly random) state.

What if the set of quantum possibilities which we think of as random is actually an extremely chaotic, deterministic function, determined only by initial state (not otherwise affected by the outside world). So entanglement is just giving two particles the same "seed".

Does any one know if there's anything clearly flawed with this idea, and/or has this been thought of before?
If you're building your own management tools, I'd probably suggest persisting the data in your own system as well, rather than constantly hitting the AWS APIs. 10 users going to your tool to look at EC2 instances at the same moment don't need 10 different calls to AWS. Have your management tool query the API once, and persist the data for a period of time. It all being json responses makes this a fairly reasonable and easy use case for mongodb or postgres.
Listen, I know you have your pet loves: American obesity, loneliness, debt, etc. etc. I have mine. And it is possible that if I allocated all labour I wouldn't do it like you would. In fact, I suspect no two people would have the exact same allocation.

Fortunately, because we are free people, we have proposed a mechanism. You make something valuable to me and you get a sort of exchangeable vote from me that you can use to get someone (perhaps even me) to make something valuable for you. This is a nice mechanism because that way useful people can be rewarded for their usefulness by letting them choose the next thing for labour to be allocated to.

This system is distributed, everyone trusts the vote, and you can't make me do something against my will. This system of free and fair collaboration and competition has produced the current allocation as the current consolidated view of what people want. It's not what you want, true. It's not even what I want. But it's what we (all of us) want as independent agents collaborating and competing with each other.
If you don't like William Gibson... you and I have very different tastes; Neuromancer is a particularly perfect example of the sort of thing I like.

There is a certain amount of calibrating for the awards group; for my taste? the nebula is... not 100%; much like how I enjoy '80s action films rather more than Ebert. like I've never read a Pulitzer for fiction book that I didn't think was incredible, while some of the nebula books I've read were only pretty good. (I haven't read anything by Liu Cixin yet, but it sounds like my thing? I mean, it was hyped, to me at least, as genre sci-fi written from a very different cultural perspective, which is totally my thing.)
Maybe if you're Dropbox, Rust is an option, but Rust is much, much more complicated than Python and not nearly as approachable - especially for beginners.
The point is that Reddit tries to moderate, which is good enough for their providers (AWS/Fastly).

The 8ch takedown wasn't actually due to issues with moderation, since (at least based on the owner's video) 8ch removed the post, actively responds to real law enforcement requests, and the original post was actually posted to IG. The issue was that CF was getting enough bad press, and more importantly enough calls/concerns from real Enterprise clients (this is speculation on my part), to take down the website.
The OP was clearly trying to throw shade at the article. The argument of the article is that they shouldn’t be exporting this gas. The comment was saying “well these other guys do worse.” That’s the exact definition of Whataboutism, and I urge you to read the Wikipedia articles to understand why that type of moral relativism is a logical fallacy.

Otherwise why point out it’s “business as usual”. It’s not like the comment was adding information anyone didn’t already know. Trying to paint the comment as something else is just being purposefully obtuse.
One of the sickest exploitation films ever somehow spawned three sequels
The article mentions PyPy wasn't fast enough on their code, so they wrote a whole "new language". I wonder if they tried contributing some relevant performance improvements to PyPy. I ask because in my experience PyPy can make a massive difference if I'm using it on CPU-intensive code, and it'd benefit everyone to have a faster PyPy.
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Oh, sorry about that! I meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20905366 --- I was writing on my hand computer where copying and pasting links is a pain.
>A simple one that comes up a lot is back dating when a donation "occurred" to be within a certain tax year. Donations don't "occur" until they are processed completely. The end of the tax year has lots of donations come in. If the foundation isn't on their toes, they might not process all of them in time for the tax deadline

To fix this, many nonprofits have a fiscal year that is different than the calendar year (calendar year being Jan - Dec) while a fiscal year can be any 12 month period (for example, July beginning to June end). The organization reports based on its fiscal year, so it has plenty of time to process December donations. See here for detail: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizatio... (this details for nonprofit orgs but the same can be done for businesses and sole-proprietor orgs should this interest someone).

(I have experience in working AML and Compliance for a large multinational bank)
You can gain a fair memory consumption improvement by using slotted classes. The standard namedtuple and attrs use them. However, dataclasses do not. So, you can have both ergonomics and slotted classes by using attrs.
Anyone familiar with racing know if its okay if drivers hit the bumpy red/white edging on the track curves? Or does it slow down the car?

I noticed he was an excellent driver and still hit the sides a few times seemingly on purpose.
A book like the "Neuromancer" really needs to be understood in it's time. If you read it now, it will look very clichéd. But that's because it introduced and popularized those very clichés!

A lot of really significant cultural works have become so absorbed in our common culture, and sometimes improved upon, that the original starts to look cliché and even naive. Is there a name for this effect?