skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm curious to know how you're handling this part:

> > I've put a lot of work into maintaining the ability to see change as opportunity past the age of 30

There're a few big skills, both of which are really about mindset and worldview than anything else:

One is to recognize and embrace impermanence, and to do so as a way of inoculating yourself against sunk-cost fallacies. So for example, I put in a lot of work to learn Python, Django, and web development when I got out of college, and then to learn C++, scalability, and optimization while I was at Google. When I left Google, I had the idea to do an API-compatible reimplementation of Django where all the framework bits are written in tightly-optimized C++. But as I started evaluating that idea, I looked around and realized a.) Django was no longer the preferred way to build webapps b.) The web, arguably, was no longer the preferred technology to build apps at all and c.) users of Django either didn't care about performance or they'd gotten to be big sites that can afford massive AWS bills. Sucks to be me. Better to recognize that early before sinking a lot of work into that project. I've still got those skills (though both Django and C++ are moving targets), and they came in handy when testing and rejecting the following couple startup ideas.

A second skill is to view learning as rewarding for its own sake, and something that you do lifelong rather than just when you're young so you can get a job. I'd internalized this pretty well as a kid.

A third is to pay attention to people around you, and when they're doing something seemingly stupid, ask yourself why they're doing it rather than immediately judging. And a fourth is to pay careful attention to things that disconfirm your previous hypotheses.

As an example of both of these - when I first heard about Bitcoin in 2013, I read the whitepaper, mentally filed it under "Distributed database; might spawn 2-3 interesting companies but won't go anywhere else", and then forgot about it for a few years. When the bubble hit in 2017, I was like "Pyramid scheme. Actually double pyramid scheme, which is kinda clever. Wait for it to burst."

But then from that assessment comes a hypothesis - when I looked in detail at the ICOs being funded, I should expect to see 100% scams. I only saw roughly 35% scams, plus another 50% that were well-meaning teams who were in well over their head. With over 6000 ICOs being done, that's hundreds of projects that might actually have a chance of being something real. So while the vast majority of crypto projects are scams, there's still something very interesting going on, and perhaps its younger boosters may be onto something.
I submitted with it capitalized. Looks like HN automatically uncapitalized it after submission (to prevent YELLING I guess?)
Dominion (ownership/power) isn't (just) a licence for exploitation, but also implies responsibility.

There is a growing movement within christianity that recognises this, and has thereby found a way to environmentalism along the right flank of politics. The pope is all in, and so are many protestant churches in Europe. It's mostly just US protestants/born-again reactionaries that continue to only read the unwritten parts of the bible that align with Ayn Rand.
I'm sure it varies from area to area but here in the Seattle area I've found that as compared to the standard supermarkets (meaning Safeway, QFC, Fred Meyer), Costco sells prime grade beef at the same price as supermarkets sell choice grade and organic chicken at the same price as supermarkets sell conventional. But what really gives Costco's meat department the edge is that their meat looks so much better/fresher than the supermarkets.

It's a similar story for organic produce, eggs, and so on. Items like cheese, dried fruit and nuts are about half the price of comparable quality elsewhere. And then there's items like olive oil where Costco sells at a great price with the added bonus that you get actual olive oil and not some blend of unknown origin.

But if you live near enough to a Costco and own a car, the real killer-app is their gasoline. In my area, it is 50-60 cents a gallon cheaper than gas stations. From this alone my membership would more than pay for itself even if I never stepped inside the store.
Because no utility can guarantee continuous service, nor should they economically be on the hook to provide batteries to everyone who needs 100% continuous service.

Medicaid has no control over power distribution system maintenance but can absolutely foresee occasional unscheduled electrical outages occurring.

Just like many essential buildings, like hospitals, provision their own electrical backup systems, so too must individuals who medically rely on power.

Here’s a site talking about emergency preparedness for households with children which require medical monitoring including equipment which requires AC power;

https://complexchild.org/articles/2011-articles/december/pow...

Keeping someone alive is sometimes tough work. There is a high level of individual responsibility here for someone who is not in an assisted living facility.
I’m not sure if your post was meant to challenge op’s idea or support them, but it isn’t clear to me that your statement contradicts them in anyway.

There are so many absolutely terrible things we could do which help us immensely in the short term yet ultimately lead to immense harm.

The two often go hand in hand.
One thing I love about France. Delicious bread is everywhere. Even the corner convenience store sells a wider variety and tastier selection of fresh bread than many grocery stores in the US.
One of Costco's biggest innovations was figuring out how to manage channel conflict for its everyday products.
That's just ridiculous.
Ya think? I like how Werner Heisenberg (re)invented matrix multiplication. If e_ij represents a transition from i -> j and e_ij e_kl = e_il if j == k and 0 otherwise, then A = sum_ij, a_ij e_ij represents the matrix A = [a_ij] and AB, using this rule, is matrix multiplication.
The site you are commenting on is effectively an Ad for yc. Should that be banned?
Stupid or not, that's a matter for the lawmakers. What I'm saying is that, as far as I know, a ruling that any publicly accessible URL is fair game would contradict previous rulings.

Now, this is based on my very patchy memory of sensationalist reporting of legal matters in a jurisdiction I don't reside in, so there's probably some wiggle room there ;)
I'd focus on the human element of work more. Younger engineers sometimes want to excel as individual contributors, but the value of being a team player, helping your co-workers in their careers, and tracking your team's health is huge.

A co-worker recently said that they used to chase good work when finding a job, but now they look primarily for good people. It sounded spot on.
> That's a pretty funny/clever hack (took me a minute to figure out you're Zooming with yourself).

Yes, multiple Zoom sessions from my same user account. I'd mostly do this to convey a diagram live with other people, that I would draw out. So They'd join once, I would join on one device and my ipad, with the first device being so they could see me sitting normally during the whole session.
Yea, that could be. At the time, the Leaf was just released, and The Tesla model S was on the verge of being delivered. To consumers, it felt like BMW wasn’t listening to their customers. We just wanted a normal car that had an electric drivetrain and reasonable range. When the i3 debuted, its styling skewed towards the Leaf/Prius. A lot of people didn’t want a car that stood out like that. I think a not-insignificant part of Tesla’s success was that the Model S looks pretty normal.
The Pulp project claims to have designed a RV32E core in 12 kGE. Which, I believe, implies around 48k transistors with CMOS logic.
No only Microsoft, many others too: .JAR, .WAR, .ODT, .ODS, .ODP, ...
My understanding is that the contract (TOS) portion is not decided. This decision stated that Linkedin does not have a protected property interest in the profiles, so it can not claim copyright there. It's possible they could claim things like compilation copyright; that's is as yet undecided. Also, the appears court only dealt with the CFAA issue I believe; there's still the contract (TOS) to consider, as well as a possible trespass claim.

Now, the CFAA was the only criminal statue involved, so I guess that supports what you said, that scraping is not unlawful. There still may be liability though, and using the data only internally would not necessarily protect from that. It remains to be seen.
Really good points made by this article imo. I feel like a lot of OO code problems can be the result of misuse of encapsulations. A private member of a class that mutates is rarely meant to be encapsulated but it is just a property of the class.
This is one of the more exciting things that has happened to traffic in NYC. Getting rid of cars in a city isn't possible, but being able to make this change to one street at a time seems feasible.

I live a block away from this area, and it's completely transformed the neighborhood. It's much safer to walk across 14th st. There are many shops in the area that seem to be getting more foot traffic (no data behind this). There are more people congregating around the bench/sitting areas around 14th street.
Indeed, thank you, won't mix that up again!
> most items I needed from them were generally about the same or only pennies cheaper per unit

are these exactly the same products or are you comparing equivalents ?
>> Why do we still allow fracking?

Good question. Seems like a bunch of opportunists are taking advantage of irrational fears about nuclear power.
Note, TenFourFox isn't quite "modern Firefox", it's a fork of an old version with backported fixes and improvements. And on Snow Leopard (which only supports Intel), you'd want to use Arctic Fox instead: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox.

> To your point, there are plenty newer MacOS versions that might still suit ones taste, still run 32 bit apps, and still get patched.

Where "plenty" equals "two", sure. Apple releases security patches for the last three Mac releases. So, High Sierra has one year left, and Mojave has two years.
Ha! No perl anymore
Yes - that was the inspiration
> webRequest API Well maybe it's an exception, but they have technical reasons mostly. Webrequest v3 is not stable so wait and see.

Bullshit. They decided they wanted this to fuck with adblockers, then found some "technical reasons" they could use as talking points, afterwards. Also, the reasons are apparently so "technical" and "necessary" that google said it would not apply the proposed crippling of webRequest to corporate deployments of Chrome. Corporate users apparently do not need privacy or performance. Go figure.

"B-but user privacy! Extensions can see request" - This is grand coming from google in the first place. Nonetheless, an easy way to solve this is to have special "webrequest" scripts which can apply rules etc, but cannot communicate out, so cannot exfiltrate data.

"B-but performance" - Wasn't a problem so far. If you're really concerned about those 10ms per request an adblocker might add, then either don't run one (and see how your "perf" behaves when all those nice ads load instead), or run one that uses the declarative stuff, which google can still implement additionally.

>If mozilla worked on improving chromium, think of the massive progress it would bring to the World! Website would have no limits on what is possible to create. Everything would be fast, etc.

By "massive progress" you mean outright monopoly on the internet technology for Google? That's not progress. I'm still mad at MS. Instead of taking google's sabotage (you cannot call it anything else really), they shouldn't just obeyed the new goverloads, but sued the living shit out of google. I bet they now a few good antitrust lawyers.
Really interesting idea! I'm not very knowledgeable around greenhouse gases, and even less around the various industrial processes that release them. Would cameras like this be able to give us the amount of CO2 released in say, metric tons? Or would it be too hard to actually get precise measurements and this is better for comparing orders of magnitude?
> in practice it might just be better to buy less, and thus buy more often.

why is that?
> If someone asked you what your favorite scene in a movie is, how would you respond?

I won't be able to respond, because I have no idea.

If you show me, like, a catalogue with screenshots of 50 different movie scenes from the movies I watched, I could tell you which of these 50 scenes I like the most right now.

> It would seem to me that fiction books would be exceptionally boring if I was not able to visualize what I was reading.

Yes, they are. I've always tried to "read more", and after reading something, I was usually confused of how a book that everyone praises so highly is extremely dull to me.

But now, after I found out about the aphantasia staff, it's clear to me that maybe 80% of the books are written for people who can visualize, by authors whose intent was to express themselves in a way that promotes visual imagery.

If you take that away, most books are useless for me. They don't have a compelling story, and their purpose is to make the process of reading enjoyable. For me, on the other hand, the process of reading is irrelevant.
When I read books, I'm looking for compelling stories and interesting concepts. For something to think about AFTER I've read the book.

My favorite book is 1984. The Lord of the Rings books are usually praised by people, but I'll
spend a better time reading news than reading The Lord of the Rings.

"The protagonist tries to challenge an authoritarian government and ends up in prison, being lectured about the politics" is a far more meaningful and relatable story,
than "The protagonist manages to destroy a certain ring, which somehow makes the evil god go away."

"So, I need to write about what happens to Sam and Frodo after they destroy the ring. Maybe they get stranded on the volcano and barely manage to survive, until a group of soldiers finds them and takes them to a safe place? Nah, it'll be too boring to imagine. Maybe the ancient aliens suddenly drop from the sky and rescue our heroes on their epic space ships made of dragons? Awesome, but it'll be too absurd. So, maybe the eagles appear, and Sam and Frodo fly on them? Perfect, it'll make this scene very enjoyable to imagine, while not being too farcical."

> If someone asked you to draw a sketch of your bedroom, could you? what would you be basing it on?

I could do it. I know my bedroom, and I'll start by drawing some basic lines and details, then I'll look at the drawing to compare it with my knowledge of the bedroom, maybe erase something, maybe add something, and repeat - until I know that I drew the best possible representation of what I know about my bedroom.

The thing with drawing is that I have to have the KNOWLEDGE about what I'm drawing in my conscious mind to be able to draw the thing.

For example, I'll recognize Obama if I look at a photo of him. But if you ask me to draw Obama, I won't be able to do it now, because I have no idea how specific features of him should look like.
I can study Obama's portrait for some time, and then I'll be able to draw a better picture of him. But still, I won't be able to draw an accurate representation of him without a reference photo of him.
"If you ban all ads -- less people will be using good products and services, and that will make our economy less effective."

That's a strange conclusion, since all products, including terrible ones are advertised. In fact ads are essentially content-free and don't help people decide if a product is good or not. They have zero correlation with the quality of a product.

Some countries like France and Germany have independent organizations that buy almost anything that one can think of, test it and make a list of quality products. That ensures people buy good products and services.

You've made me see once again that ads are essentially worthless for individuals.
> I don't think a tax approaching 90% is in any way just.

For this specific case, or in general? Because there are certainly externalities that are larger than the internalized cost of a good.
It's a shame, given that Smith actually is talented. This is the Ashton Kutcher/The Rock way to be rich and famous without actually needing to be talented. It's a testament to how much our society currently sucks, and how far I hope it will crumble when the next generation hopefully ceases to be as ridiculous.
Scala and Perl are even worse, i agree with you there. Some people love Haskell too, but i think it's awful.

MIT has replaced Lisp with Python, because even though they pushed forced it upon their students for decades they had to admit Lisp was archaic and not particularly readable. The Pharo IDE is arguably the most sophisticated IDE around today, but the fact remains that Lisp doesn't permit easy interchangeable parts, which is a major goal of the new programming languages being developed. Although very bright people can get very good at Lisp, the average person finds it extremely hard. Remember you are reading it from the inside-out which is highly unnatural to someone who reads books which read left-to-right.
IANAL either, but I do not read that as a lack of permission to remove your own content. It sounds more like a statement that the the user cannot expect the site owners to remove all their content on demand.

Which sounds like it is in direct conflict with GDPR.
The fact that I can trust Costco to have good quality products with low prices and great return policy means that I never have to buy day-to-day items from Amazon.

Amazon is where I go to buy books (and obscure one-off things that I can't buy from anywhere else). When buying from Amazon, I have to read the reviews, analyze them to figure out if the reviews are fake, read the return policy, research the seller, figure out the shipping dates etc. Given how broken the search is, I am not even sure if I am buying the best item in the category. Most of the time I end up reading wire-cutter reviews before buying from Amazon.

Amazon has billions of items at this point, and it is on me to figure out the right stuff that I should buy. I don't have that kind of time or patience to read hundreds of reviews before buying every single item.

Compared to this, Costco is a breeze. If they carry it, I just buy it assuming that it is going to be good quality. For me, the value they provide is curation of selection and filtering for quality. I am willing to pay the membership fee for this.

And this is anecdotally true for almost all of the families in my friends group in the Seattle area. I can see the perspective that if you don't have a family, the savings are probably not a big deal. And I also agree that there are people who don't want to drive to a store to buy stuff. But, I for one, am glad that Costco exists.
In 2050, solving global warming will become impossible, because whenever you arrange a meeting about it, all participants will die.
Costco's average selling price is also quite high. Very few items sell for less than ~$10, and anything that would normally go for significantly less gets sold in Costco-sized bundles to keep the unit price up.

One of their limiting factors for revenue per store is how quickly they can scan products at checkout. Higher ASP means more revenue for the same number of scans.
CGTN = China Global Television Network

> ... we must understand that corporations and businesses will always assign priority to complying with local laws and regulations, which will never change in any context.

F* people
You're misreading me. Folding in the face of an ultimatum is disappointing but hardly unexpected, and "force" mostly makes sense as a description for it.
Pressured or compelled (although almost the same) would seem a bit more apt maybe, but I'm not that picky.

My actual point was that angry noise in People's Daily isn't a concrete demand and cannot be said to have "forced" a company the size of Apple.

China's end goal (and the real danger here) being implicit threats and vaguely defined often shifting red lines, with an unpredictable severity of response, scaring most to not just reign in everything possibly controversial before anything's even happened, but do it twice as hard just to be safe.
The state of Android updates is still dire
"Or they can essentially turn off Safe Browsing in China."

The OP as well as the associated blog post[1] as well as the Apple-provided fine-print language do not make it clear to me that this "feature" is exclusively enabled for Chinese users (or, perhaps Chinese IPs).

Could someone point to a source that confirms a US person, in the US, with a US-purchased iphone, would not have their browsing history transformed and sent away for analysis to tencent ?

[1] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/10/13/dear-app...
Yet another approach is to send the entire list of all malware URLs to each client and let the client do all the processing on their end.

This way no data (hashed, anonymized, truncated, or otherwise) would need to be sent to Tencent, Apple, or Google, or anyone else.
> which will have to be part of our energy mix for the foreseeable future

That is only true as long it is cheaper than nuclear. The usage of natural gas is a mix of economic and political choices, and depending on the country you can get a very different choices.
Yes, because you can't run C++ in the client, while some Node libraries can now use the same code for pre-rendering pages on the server or rendering new pages on the client. This gets you the best of both worlds, where a first load or refresh has the page content baked in like a traditional static site, but once it loads you get faster naetvigation and live content updates.

(WASM and WAPI might eventually let you run WASM-compiled C++ in the client, but there's still a lot up in the air for interop purposes there.)
I love baking bread, but it's hard to argue with the $2.99 loaf from La Brea in the "bakery" at the local Kroger.
This sounds like the seismological equivalent of bloodletting, and would be about as effective.
I’ve been in France for a couple of months now, and I’ve found _one_ loaf that was up there with what I could get in a supermarket in Seattle, from essential baking or grand central.

There’s a lot of indifferent baguettes, and other basically white bread country loafs.
True story: British agents in WW I used sperm as invisible ink, approved by Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming of the Secret Service Bureau, under the motto "Every man his own stylo". Apparently some agents didn't use, erm, fresh ink, but previously produced reserves (despite Captain Cummings's decree that "fresh operation was necessary for each letter") and subsequently the practice was discontinued because of the smell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
Removing all shielding from the nuclear reactor doesn't do any harm... to the reactor.
75% of their profit is from the membership fees. They clearly aren't trying to work around the issue.
Good performance requires actual separate files. For example, to avoid useless recompression of unchanged files only because they come after deleted or updated data in the archive.
The next generation never ceases to be as ridiculous.
But it requires you to allocate personal space to store those purchases. A second freezer, or larger cupboard. So greater pressure on real estate. If I'm economizing my living space I won't be shopping at Costco.
>> That's straining credulity, especially considering the waning influence of religion in modern societies.

Not in the least. Dominionist and dispensationalist theology has had a huge influence on modern American evangelicals who in turn have a very significant influence on American politics.