skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of loan startups in India nowadays is bewildering.

I really think this is a bubble in the making. Despite the stock market hitting highs all news I believe to be credible point towards slowing down and deterioration.

This isn't just about flouting laws but also ill-equipped (IMHO) expansion of loan providers
I don't think I'd ever read a book purely on 'leadership' but I read a fair bit of military history and there is no doubt that there are some examples of outstanding leadership to be found there.
I have a feeling that "forcible havesting of organs" is just propaganda. I remember hearing about "forcible harvesting of organs" of the falun gong 20 years ago when the west and china were going through a difficult period of china's ascension to the WTO. And once the "difficulties" were overcome, nothing about falun gong and the "organ harvesting".

I also remember the propaganda about iraqi soldiers killing babies in hospitals which turned out to be a manufactured lie.

I'm sure the chinese government does a lot of bad things, like every major government, but the 24/7 ridiculous "news" we are getting now, is just propaganda.

I'm not a psychic, but I predicted the following when the trade war began.

1. "organ harvesting" ( to be fair I mistakenly assumed it would be tied to tibetans or the falun gong )

2. hong kong protest ( just like during the pivot to asia 5 years ago )

3. "chinese spies" or "politicians" magically defecting with outlandish stories

4. "international" awards ( nobel peace, think tank awards, whatever ) being awarded to politically expedient people

And if things really escalate, then I'll make another prediction - yellow peril style propaganda. And of course, the chinese will also escalate their propaganda.
I've written some models for "personal use and validation", and I keep it in my toolbelt (with Alloy) in case my thinking is not clear about something
at the very least it's worth it to watch the video courses by Lamport himself.
> if you want to take your $4,600 laptop and $1,400 phone, on which people spent decades perfecting color reproduction, and you're paying $13/mo for Netflix to watch shows with multi-million dollar budgets and dedicated colorists, and you start watching Orange is the New Black and you make it yellow,

You're projecting way too much my man. What about the people with 70$ monitors using flux while coding at night to avoid fucking up their sleep cycle ?

> The best way to interpret this evidence is that blue light will not make you sleep less or experience insomnia more.

Type "blue light circadian rhythm study" on google and you basically only find studies supporting that blue light has a negative impact.
I got a pair of anti blue light glasses recently and I'm 100% confident they indeed do reduce eye strain and ease falling asleep.
Would you have any pictures? This sounds fascinating (with the caveats you mentioned of course)
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/18/china-kil...
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The issue with Google is, that Google doesn’t care about privacy and randomly changes its behavior, like recently closing thousands of accounts for using the live chat in YouTube. This company isn’t trustworthy.

I’d prefer such applications to run offline with automatic instant synchronization, so no company can tell me what to do or not to do.
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What? Everybody who had 2 functioning neurons left told (and continues to tell) everybody after each and every fucking "terror" attack, that ... it doesn't really matter, it's a so minuscule amount of violence and death compared to big systemic things (car crashes, obesity, air/noise/attention pollution, mental health problems, domestic abuse, natural aging associated "problems" like dementia and dying, real foreign policy - barriers to trade, corruption, oppressive regimes, concentration camps).

Of course. Of course. Certain powers milked (and continues to milk) flashy terror attacks for political gains.
This problem has been solved: Xiaomi has put the selfie camera behind the screen [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/6/5/18654365/xi...
> I go very slow, drive very carefully on roads that I know by heart, and hadn't had a single accident in twenty years.

Said every drunk driver, ever. I have no respect for drunk drivers. You don't care about your life, that's on you. But you are putting the lives of other people in serious jeopardy by doing this. Someone could end up having their life destroyed, or maybe even dying because of your shitty actions.

> And since drunk driving does kill people, and nobody dared to defend drinkers, there has been a lack of balance in the initiatives against it.

There is a reason behind this. When you are drunk, you have lowered inhibitions, poor judgement, more (often unwarranted, like in your previous post) self confidence, vision problems, poor hand-eye coordination, drowsiness, the list goes on. You should not in any case be driving while drunk, and you do have to be daring to defend drunk driving. I am happy there has been a lack of balance in that regard.

If it was just you driving on am empty field or track where the only person you could harm is yourself, I'd have no problem with it. But you are putting others at risk, and that's where I draw the line.
It is always difficult to give advice, even when sought, on something as serious as this. My 2 cents follows.

> Wondering if I should just quit?
Possible. But is this a false dichotomy? Toxic environment, politics, conflicts lends to leave very soon; founds are very please lends to staying.

If you are close to leaving, I would go over your team leads head, not on any specific issue, but on this meta issue an tell them you're close to leaving. You might end up leaving anyway, but approach them in good faith. (Others here have suggested they might offer you rainbows and unicorns and you should just leave anyway.) Would a horizontal move within the company be a good deal for you?

Minor issues getting through is a management problem. Them pushing down is them not doing their job. As a manager, when something happens once I consider carefully and my response is very local. When a trend emerges, I need to look it the mirror.

> Is career salvageable?
Not only is it salvageable but from your self appraisal it is on the rise. You are not responsible for the business decisions and petty immediate management. You solve problems like a ninja. Sell it. Sell your excellence at solving problems, and your adaptability to different contexts, and you are the man.

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I had a mild burn-out. I'll keep this brief. Work was too hard for the sake of just being hard (i.e. very bad management) so I rode the roller coaster for a while and then left just before it was too late (which was still too late TBH). I haven't worked in 1.25 years but I can afford not to. (I'm sorry if not everyone has this luxury.) I don't regret it. I do spend my time mostly wisely (spec projects, odd jobs just for fun, etc.) It's sanity-or-nothing instead of big-bucks-or-no-bucks right now (this model may change).
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+1 for all of these.

Ben Horowitz's new book "What You Do Is Who You Are" is also well written and quite entertaining. There's a good mix of personal experience, humour and history.
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As a layman, it makes me wonder what a hologram within a hologram within a hologram can explain.
"Turn the ship around" is one of my favorite books too; most leadership books follow the same formula- everything is broken, the consultant arrives with a magic fix, and voila! Unicorns start flying.

"Turn the ship around" is unique that it shows the problems with the author's approach- how it failed at first, how he had to work around it, how he tweaked the approach.

A very honest, no BS book. Highly recommended
I don't see why I should be at excess risk of dying because I tripped on my shoelace or badly maintained road while walking to the shops. In particular, a person walking to buy milk shouldn't be at excess risk of death even through their own fault. If you hit your head when you fall and die from it, then that happens. But if you survive the fall, another person going to pick up their children from soccer shouldn't be excused from killing you just because it happened on the road.

Using a road shouldn't be Russian roulette.
> Well the hardware fix would be replacing a likely rather expensive board,

"Rather expensive"?

Just to give you an idea: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
Skip the business books and just study the lives of great leaders. Personally I recommend Napoleon, Orson Welles, Kurosawa, Fellini and Hitchcock. Basically anyone that was consistently productive in a group-based endeavor.
To judge from the number of works of fiction I've read where rich characters giving money to charity say the tax write-off is larger than the donation, I think a great many people are unclear on the details of how the tax system works.
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Yeah, that's the joy of it. Mis-steps, and dark nights of the soul and all. That's the reality of leadership; it's poking around in the dark.
Blue sky peaks between 500-550nm, this is 100nm more than LEDs, and much more diffuse.
His other book "Only The Paranoid Survive" also contains some useful advice, albeit can be a little repetitive.
Intel is losing against AMD – Engadget
i don't think you should beat yourself up like this. The fact you are aware means you will consciously or subconsciously make better choices
Npower restructuring could cause up to 4,500 job losses, unions fear
Most open source software wouldn't exist if it wasn't for proprietary software succesfully showing there is a market for it.
VSCode's solution is awesome. Rmarkdown works the same way, and it makes a lot of sense. Let code live as plaintext, it's native format, and only render results at runtime. Trying to preserve results in the file just makes things needlessly stateful.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
I’ve seen excel named on job descriptions for decades. No OSS or alternative to Office has ever had that demand.
You mean the 98% of people world wide that doesn't use GNU software?
Two wrongs don't make a right. We should be fighting against the surveillance of those systems also.
That 2D approach sounds interesting, I'm wondering if a game could be created to give people better intuitive understanding of this stuff.
Thank you for f.lux, I enjoy coming home early, being with my family then working later in the night. Having f.lux installed on my computer has improved my quality of sleep tremendously

However to tie it to the article : do you know of the variability between individuals of lighting effect on morale ? I know a lot of people getting depressed when winter comes, but it has 0 effect on me
Here's what is working for me:

- Never stop learning! Luckily, nowadays we have plenty of resources(HN, technical books, podcasts, etc...) we can use to improve Domain Knowledge on a subject, this is extremely important because it will create the hypothesis set we can query to solve problems later.

- Being resources constrained. Working with too many degrees of freedom is not only a common UX antipattern but also a way to kill creativity. If it's possible in your company, I strongly recommend doing technical customer support twice per month. Imho, this is a great setup to improve your problem-solving skills.
> extrapolates from the fake news crisis that started in 2016

That's fake news. A fake news crisis was popularized in 2016, around the election of a particularly controversial politician. But I've seen no evidence that it started or even got much worse then, rather than just becoming more visible. And it's worse when we're not aware of it, so this "crisis" may have actually been progress in that it deservedly decreased trust in news.
Sure! I've built a site that are used by internal sales people where they record customer purchases. Around 10 people per day would use it. Found it boring after a while. Luckily my ex-manager referred me to the company which he joined, I'm happy now.
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I think there were a series of disasters - of which the Hindenburg was just the last.

All the same, I think with modern materials, Hydrogen would be pretty safe.
And it's not just the actions you take when driving inebriated yourself. By taking the 'I never had an accident, I just drive slowly and surely' stance, you implicitly tell others that this is fine, and that one or two drinks don't matter (or three, or four), as long as you take it slow and steady, and really, the law is too strict anyway.

People are influenced by others, younger drivers in particular. You are not only responsible for your own actions, but also for the message you send to others.
Indeed. To me C's ^ as xor has always been the weird one since it actually looks like a logical and: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols
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I remember reading a guide from IBM about training the memory path of some Power architecture system. The tl;dr; was essentially "Follow <big set of rules for circuit board layout> exactly, as if your life depended on it, and spend six months tuning and qualifying parts."

It's amazing that anything works at all.
So this is a closed-source webkit fork?
Nothing to see here, moving on then :)

Webkit a comparably easy target to strip down and embed elsewhere. See Apple watch.
The 12 Aspects of OOP and Why Functional Programming Has a Better Answer
Happy Thanksgiving
To whoever you are or wherever you are from.
> It's said that nothing gets stolen in Singapore, until you speak to Singaporeans.

A friend of mine left her cellphone in a mall bathroom once, on the bench when she washed her hands. Went all the way home and realised she forgot it.

After ~4 hours when she reached the mall. It was still sitting where she left it.

> Your "Hawker Centers" have people in their 70s bent forward cleaning up tables to some earn money.

There is no social safety net in Singapore. So once you get old, there's no benefit or dole, or any government funded programs to give you a comfy life where tax payers pay for you. The idea is you life off your CPF. Because there are people who have no savings. The government subsidizes their salaries. If a company hires them then the government will pay a portion of the salary, this gives incentive to businesses to hire them.

You could raise taxes for businesses and individuals, but then who would move their business or come work in Singapore?
I've been thinking about language agnostic RPC as well. That would be so neat!

gRPC can already do that but gRPC's design is unnecessary bloated. The nice thing about RPC is its potential of zero-config setup. gRPC totally fails on that and it's painful to setup gRPC.

The RoR/python server could be used to automatically serve the RPC API. For a zero-config setup.
Sorry, but the article you linked says nothing about "reversing the results" of the OP article, it is about the same research as the OP article... Which at best you might say reverses the results from the 90s which originally found acceleration of cosmic expansion.
I wish people talked about the relationship between logic and math in high school. No one told me that math is really an extension of logic until I got to college (or if they did I ignored them.) Once you realize that you realize how unimportant the application actually is and the whole subject starts to make sense (at least to me.)
I have heard reports that some smart TV's (and other "smart" devices?) will sometimes connect to any open wifi within range without user consent or knowledge.
For remote are delivery, there is the often ignored issues of replacement mass.

Basically, if you deliver 100 tons to some remote location, the airship is now 100 tons lighter once you ofload it. Unless you want it to immediatelly shoot up to the stratosphere, you need to rebalance it.

You either have tobrelease some of the gas to reduce the lifting force (pretty expensive if you use helium) or load 100 tons of some replacement mass (even if you load 100 tons of local dirt, it can still not be an easy task on a remote location).
What's your specific area of expertise and work?
> So an argument that people necessarily need Big Brother to behave falls flat on its face.

Japanese culture is very different from pretty much any other culture. They respect each other and their country and environment. (except whales) They are raised from a young age to look after each other and respect each other. Something the rest of the world could learn from.
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So what? We have people believing in flat earth and fake moon landings, thinking vaccines are evil, homeopathy, following religions created by people giving video interviews.

There will be dummies willing to believe in anything. They should not matter how science is shaped.
My family seriously struggled with cash when I was younger. Naturally, I never had any of the expensive toys that were all the rage with my peers.
What I did have was books. My dad would go to a second-hand book store every day and pick out books that he thought I'd like. My dad couldn't read English very well, so I ended up getting a bunch of books that were definitely not intended for my age bracket - encyclopaedias, novels, textbooks (including a massive textbook on American law that I still have, despite the fact that I live in the UK) and so on.
Everything good about me as a person is a direct result of what my dad did for me back then.
> The 2/3 mess (yes it is still a thing)

It's still a thing for the (loud) few who couldn't manage to move to 3 after 10 years. The rest just went on. The ecosystem is on 3 [0] and it has been for years now.

[0]: http://py3readiness.org/

> The insane packaging situation. Packaging a Python app is a nightmare.

The packaging story in Python is in the middle of a big transformation from legacy tools to modern npm/yarn/cargo-like tools. pipenv [1] and poetry [2] are the most popular contenders. It will take a while until the community settles on this, but both tools work already.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

[2]: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry

> Dynamically typed

Python 3.5 introduced type annotations. It is now possible to write statically typed code in Python via mypy [3], which from my experience works similar well as TypeScript works for JavaScript.

[3]: https://github.com/python/mypy
A black hole that's so big it shouldn't exist
I am a colorist, working on a very expensive Eizo and I still have f.lux on my machine. Obviously I added exceptions for all applications that are color critical and switch it of for an hour while watching a movie late.

For me it is just a natural sign that I shouldn’t go on forever on the computer. A way to bring the outside night/day cycle onto my machine, you could say.
There are lots of free tutorials, documentation, and even full courses out there. I’d probably take some of the ideas here and research the resources available to learn them.

It’s been pointed out to me that touch typing isn’t as broadly known as I thought it was. If your kids haven’t by grade 9, I’d set up a touch typing course. Complete with unlabeled keyboards and all.
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> Maybe you refer to the overall conditions of all those involved in the projects (construction workers etc)?

This is what I meant, but I worded it very poorly. I appreciate the correction :)
Of course there was disinformation ("fake news") before 2016 -- nobody would dispute that -- but it wasn't really framed as a crisis yet. So I would suggest you don't just dismiss this whole essay on the basis of semantic squabbling about the tl;dr summary.
Presumbly because Excel is used far more widely in the corporate world and will be of more use to students
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> developed a clean room browser architecture

Implies that this isn't a webkit fork, they started from scratch.

See also: https://twitter.com/FlowBrowser/status/1200098712816631809
Who has to frame it as a crisis for it to count? I remember being very disturbed by the fake news getting upvoted on reddit when I was in high school. I remember talking about it with other people who were also disturbed.
That is not true. In February, they were merely "look[ing] at it".

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574#issuecomm...
- seeking help from other people

- understanding other people's solutions

- optimizing for less complexity and more clarity

- differences between academic/nonprofessional and professional environments
If the problem really is the team lead, then getting rid of the team lead (or even just talking to them) might go a long way to improve the situation.

I would say, talk to the founders about your problems. How you're getting burned out, and how you're not working well with the team lead. Addressing the team lead is their responsibility, as is creating a healthy work environment for you. If they can't salvage the situation, leave. But they really need to address this, or they lose you. They need you more than you need them. Keep that in mind.
Doesn't work for me :/
Frankly, I'm just thankful for this post and the comments here
Neat project ! Dearly needed. But may i ask, why not use pandoc to convert notebooks to orgmode and git that ?
Have you ever been to Switzerland? What you describe sounds like Suisse, but without all those dark aspects you mention. Open and just society that does treat people fairly. Super low criminality (compared to most world). Kids playing outside etc.

Maybe for US persons this seems like a paradise, but its not a unique place. I know where I want to raise my kids. It sure as hell ain't some artificial bubble like Singapore. Never have been there, plenty of colleagues did (or live there), cool and all but not great for actually settling there.

I value true freedom way too high.
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I’m an ex Singaporean and I remember the good old ‘politics is for politicians and civilians should stay out’ days in the 90s.

This _ruling party_ is benevolent when it suits them.
I can't help thinking that resurrection of Google Reader (and RSS readers in general) and del.icio.us might help.
I have done it every year, mostly in Rust or C++, with a smattering of other languages (Factor, SML, Haskell). I think I will go with Racket this year.

I'm not competing, partly because I don't want to be up at 6AM, and partly because I like it better as a relaxed 15-30 minutes where I learn some new stuff about the environment I'm working with (for example, one year I used CMake to build, just to get some experience with it).
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This is a bloody good constraint. Thanks.
The successor of SMS has already been hacked
Sadly, yes. The majority Chinese population has the mindset that economics and security is more important civil rights.
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The idea of a reliability-indicator has been floating around for some time for few-to-no viable results. A much more broad-spectrum immunity-system building exercise is Crash Course's Navigating Digital Information ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5YKW6fhlss&list=PL8dPuuaLjX... ), which is excellent, and the ep linked is strongly recommended for everyone.