skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite part of KnowYourself.ai is the word cloud image of my most used words. I also love seeing other people’s word clouds.

I wish that the default share text included a hash tag e.g. #KnowYourself or #MostUsedWords so I could easily find what other people are sharing.

I was a beta user of Peepeth.com and later a crowd fund supporter which KnowYourself grew from. It was as I used Peepeth that I learnt to fully appreciate that my public words on social media could be analysed by advertisers, employers and governments.

KnowYourself.ai gives me the power to analyse my public posts for myself on platforms such as Twitter and Peepeth. Also to see how my messaging can change over time. Participating in the crowd funding campaign for Peepeth gave me credits for KnowYourself.ai which I am enjoying using (I need to work out how to gift). My word cloud shows that auto posting things like the weather can dominate the words in my feed. (Maybe it’s time to stop that IFTTT feed).

As a long term user of Peepeth I got to know and become friends with Bevan. He is a passionate maker. Pouring so much of his energy into making great products. I have loved using Peepeth and attending the retreat in Bali that Bevan hosted.

I recommend trying out KnowYourself.ai and seeing what your public posts show about you and then feed that in to how you post in future.

Looking forward to my word cloud on a coffee mug. (Though maybe once I stop with the weather posts)
There's one glaring issue with this simulation, and it's that it keeps the amount of wealth static — it models a zero-sum world, which is not our reality.

I would like to see this simulation run where the agents are also creating wealth into the system.
Other way around. The Guardian speculated in 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/jun/... that if Britain had joined the Euro:

* The mid-2000s British housing bubble, and its collapse in 2007, would have been even bigger.

* Britain would have had to ask the IMF, ECB, and EU for loans.

* The Tories would in 2010 have promised a referendum to leave the Euro and won a majority. Labour would have won fewer than 100 seats, and UKIP would have "made spectacular gains".

* The anti-Euro side would have won the referendum, and the currency would have collapsed.

* "after a deep and painful recession economic recovery began".

* "Britain would have destroyed the euro on departure, and would now be on the point of leaving the EU altogether. The idea that Farage might be the next prime minister would be quite credible."
No worries mate :) thanks for your reply, I’ll check it out.
Is Facebook Dangerous?
I think your answer is in your comment. Why would the digital marketing guys at Amazon say that their advertising doesn't work and their budget should be cut? They want a bigger budget with more responsibility, not less!
me being stupid but I actually thought flickr for video would fail because video takes more work than photos to create and because it takes more time to view them. clearly I was wrong
Exactly, that's how I come back here and leave this comment.
>> The IRS knew your return was inaccurate when you submitted it.

And didn't tell me for 2 years. I'm fine to pay what I owed. Not really cool with 2 years of interest and punitive feeds.

Believe me my HR rep got an earful, but unless I want to put up money to sue, that's all that will be happening. A lawyer didn't think I stood enough of a chance or would gain enough per hour to take the case on contingency.
Are you sure that was the reason they did that? I don't have any evidence, other than that I always assumed it was either cheaper or more practical to have narrower gauges in cities. It seems to be the case for most streetcar networks I've seen...
For me, avoiding the counterfeit gamble is a good reason to step outside of Amazon if there is any other reasonable option.
>You make it sound as though the economic pie is fixed and economics zero-sum. But that's clearly not the case, otherwise we'd still be living with stone age per-capita GDP (i.e., ~0).

The "growing of the pie" is also a fairy tale though to mask the realities...

For one, the "growing pie" still manages to give some people not just most of the pie, but also to live the majority with smaller (in absolute size) slices than before -- stagnant inflation adjusted wages for decades, higher rents and houses, higher education costs, higher health costs, etc.

Second, even if the "larges slices to the average person compared to before" was true, we shouldn't accept a minority to hoard increasingly more of the growing pie. For one, because money is power, so those elites would have increasingly more power over the rest damaging democracy. Second, because people should be compensated (for increased productivity etc) relatively to the size of the pie, not just larger than before.

If an economy was scaled at 10 and now is scaled at 1000 (units of money), then it's not enough that those making 0.0001 now make 0.0002. Doesn't have to be equally distributed to all, but people in such a society should make closer to (1000/10)x not just 2x.

Wealth in society is relative like that, not mere absolute. I don't think those proposing otherwise would be happy to be paid 2x what a peasant made in 1700 (inflation adjusted of course), just because it's "more". They expect their compensation to raise in accordance with the wealth level of their society and relatively to the size of the pie, not merely as a larger slice than some past in absolute terms.
NIMBYism in US is a big issue. California having the stupidest laws on record.

And then there's the culture of suburbanism and ages of policies to increase the sprawl. All of that making public mass transit less cost efficient.
I can’t agree more. The process of struggling through the doing part is one of the best ways to learn the subject matter. Read up on the fundamentals and get started.
I'm a late-20s American. I do have some basic understanding of metric units, although it is relative (a centimeter is about half an inch, a meter is a bit more than a yard, a kilometer is slightly more than half a mile.). That all goes out the window when you add a second unit, though - kilometers _per second_ means absolutely nothing to me.

Pardon me, the ignorant American... but this is who I am :D
> Which is problematic

Not at all. Its malfunctions are clear and obvious. If autothrottle starts moving thrust levers in unexpected ways, you turn the autothrottle off and assume manual control.

Thrust levers, reversers, braking or any other systems were not blocked or deployed unexpectedly. The aircraft simply reduced thrust too much while in control of speed, which is something one should always look out for, it's an expected failure, a known unknown.

The Turkish airplane crashed because the crew was flying an unstable approach and did not pay attention to warnings because their style of flying was expected to trigger warnings. This obscured the malfunction.

They came in too fast and too steep, ignored aural warnings, let thrust levers move to idle (which they expected because of high speed), failed to monitor airspeed and didn't notice last minute warnings because they were occupied with checklist that they should've already been through.

No-one was actually flying the airplane, despite the fact that there was an extra third safety pilot in the cockpit who was tasked with observing the flight.
Because apparently no other bakeries existed locally and produced donuts.

It’s dough and sugar, the name on the box is meaningless.
Per capita GDP increased less from the Stone Age to now than you might think. Even if you discount all goods other than food to zero, it’s less than 100x growth in the last ~5-10,000 years. That’s less than 0.1% per year growth over that timeframe.

Though valuing ancient goods at equivalent modern prices is debatable, it seems like a reasonable metric.
> This reeks of a type of thinking where you are relying on other parts of the system to compensate.

This is what Boeing did with Max. The airframe wasn’t stable in and of itself, and they relied on software to compensate. Terrible idea.
I wasn't aware of these issues. Did some searching and found this article that covers them (and others) in detail: https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...
So at this point who is being the pedantic one? Lol!
In the past, they prominently offered ‘free worldwide shipping’ but silently changed their prices according to the incoming IP. (This has now been fixed, possibly because they did ship orders placed in the US at the US-disclosed prices.)
There is a reason the many eastern religions that were the inspiration for a lot of new age ideas forbid drugs and alcohol. While you can have drug induced trances similar to meditation, in Zen they call it "losing your self", the entire point is to be able to develop that skill and point of view without a chemical aid. Not only is it a problem by being used as a crutch as you describe, but there's no guarantee it's experience is similar enough to naturally losing your self to be useful in the same ways.

Cool study though
This is maddening. The problem with the US healthcare system is that we're paying ~$30T/10yr†, not who we're paying it to. The idea that locking those exorbitant costs in would be a win is baffling.

The efficiency gains of single payer are overrated. We pay more than other countries do in admin overhead, but admin overhead itself is a small fraction of total costs, and as a percentage of our spend, admin costs would necessarily rise, probably dramatically, if Medicare starts covering 30 year olds in addition to 68 year olds.

† I'm just taking your number here, not interrogating it.
Bootcamps are great if you want to work on basic web or mobile apps, but you're gonna have to teach yourself a ton of the stuff you missed if you want to branch out as a developer. Not knocking it... I did a bootcamp and have been happily employed for years. But I've noticed that many of my classmates and other bootcamp grads find that after their first junior dev job, they end up doing product management or some other peripheral job rather than straight up development.
>how In'N'Out is different from McD's (simple menu, Thousand Island dressing, onion rings)

Is there a joke in here I'm missing? I don't associate Onion rings with McDonald's at all, and In'N'Out doesn't even have them.
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You are mixing up asynchronous IO with non-blocking IO with async syntax sugar.

As the name implies, async syntax sugar is a convenience, it does not magically improve performance.
This comment doesn't say anything; it's simply innuendo.
Yep, same in WA. In fact, every school bus deploys bright red flashing lights and displays giant stop signals unfolding from the back, with signs that say in very uncertain terms that it is illegal to pass a school bus when it is stopped and the lights are deployed.
MarkText is opensource too.
I think you are referring to Marvin Heemeyer in Granby, Colorado and he was absolutely wrong. I can't believe you think he was somehow justified in an attempted mass murder.

A concrete plant was being constructed on vacant land adjacent to his shop. He originally agreed to sell his land, but then backed out. He was angry the concrete plant cut off his shortcut access through their vacant land (he had no easement). So he decided to try to murder anyone who he viewed as standing in his way. It is very lucky that he got stuck before he could fully execute his plan.

"Investigators later found Heemeyer's handwritten list of targets. According to the police, it included the buildings he destroyed, the local Catholic church (which he did not damage), and the names of various people who had sided against him in past disputes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer

"He drove the machine out of his shop through the wall, then plowed through the concrete plant, the Town Hall, a newspaper office, a former judge’s widow’s home, a hardware store, and other homes. Authorities realized that every business or home that had been bulldozed had some connection to Heemeyer and his plight against the zoning committee."

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marvin-heemeyer-killdozer
Sounds similar to this other bubble where we blindly pay software engineers to create and modify software but we don't know how much revenue those software features, refactors or bug fixes generate, if anything at all. /s
I've also seen people do a ton of up front design, only for things to fall apart quickly during the implementation. I'm still largely a proponent of writing code sooner rather than later. Iterative development. Prove out concepts in isolation along the way. Rewrite and integrate as appropriate. But obviously you've got to do some upfront work, otherwise you might write custom software for things which have off the shelf solutions.
Ask HN: How to Achieve Mindfulness at Work?
I really care about growing, being really good at my job, and learning at it. I am ambitious.

It is hard to balance that and not be stressed. Have a good work-life balance, and sheer focus on the present. Do you feel that too? Have you tried to solve it? How do you achieve it daily?
The larger the correlation between effort and reward, the more motivation.

A more marginal reward would result in more marginal motivation. A significant reward would provide significant motivation.
Subdivision modeling with polygons is essentially the same concept as splines (creating algorithmically smoothed shapes from a limited number of control points). It's been around since like the 70s -- the Catmull-Clark (yes, those Catmull and Clark) subdivision algorithm was invented in 1978! And it's been the main way of creating 3D models for film and games since at least the mid to late 90s -- ever since 3D workstations got powerful enough to display polygon models in realtime and games started using normal mapping. For films, the first major studio production to have made use of it seems to be Pixar's Geri's Game, and Gollum from the LOTR trilogy is sort of famously held to be the last character from a big movie to have been made with the older NURBS modeling tech.

It's extremely powerful for organic objects like creatures, but complex shapes and objects combining sharp and smooth features can run into problems with polygon flow and topology where the smoothing algorithm will run into problems. So I'm not saying it's the complete solution to what you're looking for.

In the last 10 years it's been increasing replaced by digital sculpting techniques, which make use of the same math but tend to get around the problems by throwing a lot more polygons at them. Bundled with a suitable UX there's probably a lot of potential for something elementary-school-level-yet-powerful in those. Feature-wise the most powerful at the moment is ZBrush, but the esoteric interface and workflow is probably preventing true mainstream adoption. Seriously -- you thought Blender was unintuitive? But ZBrush is used in like every game and animation studio, because nothing else comes close in terms of tools and performance.
The alarm's entire purpose is to shift the blame to the engineer in the driver's seat
Guhranteed
What about people taking antidepressants wanting to meditate? Should they go off their medication in order to do so?
Pattern matching on noise yields false positives, more news at 11.
Right right. They have other weird concepts like "market rates" and average timeframe lodged in their heads.

It's complicated and pardon me if I have glossed over the details somewhat.

If you're smart, you get all of the work done in advance, then stage it over the course the next few days, providing a steady trickle to create the perception of steady progress and to have something to mention at the standup meetings. I suspect a good percentage of experienced developers with good customer management skills do something akin to this.
In the organisations I have worked, we have normally done something like this:

- <environment>-<component>-<application>.<application-portfolio/team>-<tenancy>.<hosting-environment>.<business_name>.com

This allowed us to delegate hosted zones to the application teams to self-manage their dns.

Example, the hosted zone:

- marketing-nonprod.aws.example.com

Would appear as a hosted zone in the Marketing, Non-Production aws account. Note that we track the "Tenancy Environment", i.e. whether it's a prod/non-prod/labs. This will map to multiple application environments, e.g. UAT/INT/etc will be under non-prod.

Then an application like:

- prod-web-app.marketing-prod.aws.example.com

could have a cname to:

- app.example.com

Which we would handle as a one-off service request to the central DNS management team (often dealing with things like Akemai at that stage).

If the application stack required multi-regionality, we could added a regional identifier into the application name.

My approach is overkill in many orgs. Many of these issues are made simpler through mechanisms like service discovery.
Otherwise Google will put an ad for some competitor, that many people will take for a search result, in that slot, right?
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My HRV has filters for both inbound and outbound airflow. I do change my filters regularly, but even in the rainy Pacific NW I haven never seen any mold growth on either filter, and I have an RPi logging air quality data with a decent sensor, so I can see my PM2.5 and PM 10 are both near-zero.
All the information a person could want is available if you know where to look. I'm providing well-documented information. If more information becomes public I can talk about it, otherwise, I simply can't. Let's just leave it at that.
Even if you fail, you might just be able to walk away with a $1 billion exit package.
"iPhone also still sends the device name to the DHCP server when requesting an IP, so if you haven't changed it, it is broadcasting "<Your first name>'s iPhone" to the network."

My iphone has no idea what my first (or last) name is, but I still find it irksome that I cannot change my SSID nor can I hide it.

There is no reason I should be advertising the existence of my phone to everyone in (radio) earshot ...
Stretching, Executing, Coasting – and Pacing to Avoid Burnout
> I was just discussing with a colleague how technology accretes and how no one reevaluates high-level design decisions even after every single factor leading to those decisions has changed.

Like a Ship of Theseus...
Clearly his clients believe otherwise, else he wouldn’t have a market
Latest report is that the pilot accidentally hit the wrong button. That's gonna be an expensive mistake.
They are meant to be temporary, and are not even fixed to the ground.
This largely already exists, but without the ethical non tracking thing.. which advertisers don’t care about.

Grapeshot
Peer39
Etc
you would do well to research the power of branding :^)
I'm a Russian peasant and I don't understand this at all.
I Personally Don’t Believe Solutions Are the Answer to Our Problems
Absolutely, I'm 100% sure. I'm not talking about indirect
"cui bono" desire to use politics to one's own advantage. Whether or not voters are worse off is subjective and debatable. Policy discussions are a form political participation. Selling a product isn't. There's a very clear distinction here. In my view, it's much less reasonable to make content distinctions based on "correct" political beliefs, vs. venders selling a product.
HOAs also enforce environmental requirements, legal requirements, etc. These are not voluntary payments and require payments to the HOA. Otherwise what happens it that it gets dumped on the city and everyone's taxes go up, another involuntary payment. There's a subdivision they are attempting to install next to my house by bypassing numerous requirements which are going to make HOA payments sky high. The developer is trying to do everything as cheap as possible and leave the homeowners holding the bill.
Tinder for heroin (or maybe Birchbox?) and airbnb for used syringes
That's all for this throwaway...
Logging off forever!
The people give their consent, but what maybe actually is surprising is how the police went about it according to the GSK LATimes podcast.

Police made a fake profile online with the killer's DNA. At first they got a match for a relative. It turned-out it too was a fake profile created by another LE agency with the GSK's DNA.

This is not illegal.
I am just bothered by the idea that the common folk have to explicitly police these corporations to do the right thing. This kind of justice allows people to risk bad policies just because they might, on the off-chance, get away.
I've had good results from consistently tuning my feed over the last few years, particularly by excluding low quality sources altogether.

I have seen the phenomena you're talking about though. For me it might be a political scandal that I mark as uninteresting, which then shows up again under some peripherally related category.
Yeah seriously. Drop this garbage in the same file with all those stories about communities who came together to cover someone's insane medical bills or outrageous legal defense.
> "What frustrates me is there’s a bit of magical thinking here," Johnson says. "As if Cambridge Analytica has hacked our brains so that we’re going to be like lemmings and jump off cliffs. As if we are powerless.”

Probably not, but nevertheless their efforts to polarise thinking and support the formation of echo chambers have been quite successful. While selection effect has indeed been disregarded often, in the case of CA it actually amplified the outcome.
Why are we ignoring the consumption factor? That's a very natural part of the wealth accumulation game.
This seems like a great idea. I used to have a collection of magic Postgres queries that would give me metrics for optimizing data models and indices. I’m surprised there isn’t a visual tool you can bolt into your Postgres install and get valuable metrics out.
Or drop explosives from a helicopter like the police did to the MOVE compound in Philly.
"Today, we reached out to Jayson to express our appreciation for good PR and admiration for not getting bad PR," a spokeswoman for Krispy Kreme tells CNN regarding their recent total 180.
Definitely. Psychedelics are useful in showing us the possibilities of the mind, especially for those of us who might have had a restricted outlook on what mind is capable of due to a secular worldview. But once we open that door, the correct way to open the door again and enter is with the right keys. Psychedelics are sort of a battering ram in this context. To quote Alan Watts on psychedelics, "once you get the message hang up the phone," to which I add: hang up the phone or risk getting strangled by the cord.
I meant more like 80 hours a week. It is, in my experience, difficult and cumbersome to charge for more than 40 hours a week since it kinda disrupts the usual cadence. You can do it sometimes for deadlines but wouldn't want to make a regular habit of it
In UK they managed to fix it, by stronger push to make it mandatory. In US somehow the government blew the effort that's why it's still like this today.
While I am just about to start reading the article, I would expect a difference between microdosing (antidepressant use of psilocybin, certainly consistent with how most antidepressants are used) and a trip or macrodose of psilocybin.
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> if it can't associate a new data point with a previous history (by identification or predicted position)

This sounds a bit strange, given that the entire technology around which autonomous driving is built is about identifying and recognising patterns in extremely noisy and variable data.
You could say the same thing about any chain. "Because apparently no other burger restaurants existed locally and produced burgers".

They do taste pretty good do Krispy Kremes!
You could also get arrested for having work tools locked up in your van or even carrying a deadly potato peeler in public

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3165489/Gardener-arr...

https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16209261.potato-peeler-l...