skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been struggling with motivation in recent months so have been writing todo lists as a way to stay on task. One technique that has been helping is to write all steps, even when I don't know how to do some of them yet. Normally I do the opposite and only start working after I've solved the entire problem in my head (which sounds crazy but worked up until I hit 40 and bigger life questions added too much distraction).

Anyway, what if some failures are unavoidable? Like, what if some things are external to what you can anticipate or accomplish? For example, here is a todo list for a typical startup:

1) Learn the tools so you can make stuff

2) Optionally find a handful of teammates with similar interests or pain points to help

3) Get funding

4) Work on your startup for 6 months to 2 years

5) Get traction by hard sells or going viral

6) Scale by improving the product, adding employees, etc

7) Exit and move on to the next startup or retire with millions of dollars

There is currently no solution for steps 3 or 5. The rest of the steps are straightforward and done by most software developers in one form or another dozens of times over a career (except for 7 obviously). Most people on the outside only see steps 2, 6 and 7 so have a distorted view of the startup process because those tend to be the easiest steps or take care of themselves after the startup acquires a life of its own. On top of that, they may only dream about startups because step 1 tends to depend on demographics. Step 4 (the part we care about because it’s our lifestyle so we’d almost do it for free) tends to be the least important, but also the riskiest because your idea will manifest when someone else does it after the 2 years window of opportunity passes.

So as far as I can tell 20 years into my career, until we solve steps 3 and 5, startup failure will hover around 90% or more. Learning from mistakes only eats away slightly at that number, perhaps by giving people more of what they want in step 5, or expanding your professional network for steps 2 and 7. So the smart thing to do is play it safe contracting or working for companies, never accomplishing anything of any importance other than making rent or raising children like humans have done for thousands of years.

So since it’s Friday, I’d like to put out a thought to meditate on that maybe we should be trying to make a startup to solve startups, along the same lines as what Y Combinator is doing.
Socialism is incompatible with human nature
Humans closer to seeing though the eyes of animals – University of Exeter
Ignoring walk-in customers is eating the goose that lays the golden eggs
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> The sensation of seeing blue is clearly, to me, unrelated to the material aspects of blue light or the interaction of that light on the cells in my retina, or the electric signals of neurons in my brain.

Why is it your assumption that the sensation of seeing something is anything other than simply the network of neurons in one part of your brain firing in concert in response to visual stimuli? Why is the color purple, which is a mix of blue and red, also perceived as an intermediate between blue and red if the sensation of seeing a color is not linked to it's actual, physical properties and how they interact with your visual sense organs?
Then we need better humans.
I think there is not a problem using multiple kinds of UUIDs in the same system; they will not interfere with each other, because the UUIDs are necessarily different.

Another possibility is to use URIs; UUIDs are URIs too! (Put "urn:uuid:" at front to make a UUID into a URI.)
Licensed on memory capacity of the leaf nodes. Roughly $8k/year each which is inline with most other commercial databases.

4-node (up to 32gb RAM each) cluster is free to use though with all features.
> and if you won't, it's alright, you'll remember everything once you die

Just like we remember everything from before we're born? Or will we get all that back once we die as well? Why do we lose it all in the middle? What a series of empty, meaningless, unverifiable claims.

This is all just drug-fueled pseudo-spiritualism brought on by hallucinations.
In particular, communication is in some ways a complex multiplayer game requiring multi-level modeling of other participants. In the ideal case, it can be modeled as a cooperative game. In suboptimal cases that sadly occur often in the real world, it's a game where you're fractionally cooperating and fractionally competing with every other player, and the degree to which you're cooperating or competing with any given player depends on your model of them, which you update over time based on your observations of how they "play". And it's a helpful shortcut in modeling if you can group expectations of other "players" into common conventions.

Hanabi's multi-level "what is my model of each other player, and what is my model for their model of other players including me" is remarkably deeper than it looks on the surface. Play it for long enough, and you start to handle situations for which preconceived "conventions" don't help: "OK, of the four players at the table, three of them understand certain common conventions, one of them doesn't seem to understand at least one convention based on the misfire they just had/caused (which is also consistent with their low player rating), I can probably assume they don't understand any other conventions commonly considered more challenging than the one they just failed at, so if I give this hint, how will the more advanced players understand it, can I do so without the less advanced player misunderstanding it in a harmful way, and what will happen? And also, for future games, I should remember that this player doesn't know these conventions (yet) until I see evidence that they've improved. I might also consider helping them learn more common conventions. Or, if they don't know enough conventions and don't improve, I might not want to play with them in the future at all."
Suspected Campaign from Russia on Reddit
I don't know how exactly it works, but I do not have that problem.
Tensorflow.js losses performance race to ONNX.js and WebDNN
I remember being surprised at etag fingerprinting.
http://lucb1e.com/rp/cookielesscookies/

Seems obvious once you read how it works. I suppose once you get your mind around how browsers leak and/or persist info, not much of it is surprising anymore.
Most restaurants that have a storefront (just about all the big chains) also serve reheated frozen food.
Reading the article, I was shocked to realize almost everyone involved is Jewish.

John Berger, Griselda Pollock, Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukács, Béla Balázs, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Vilém Flusser, Simone Weil - an entirely Jewish way of seeing.
Tangentially, imitation is a severely underrated way to learn. A lot of people who are really good at X started out by trying to copy their heroes verbatim. (E.g., you're a kid who wants to be good at guitar, so you try to play exactly like Jimi Hendrix for the first 5 years of practice.)

Find someone who's really good at something, and pretend to be them. In copying their mannerisms you might accidentally pick up on some of their keys to success.
Well, nowadays all of them are just fine when you install OS and run several tests. Problems handling is what really matters.
Any river would work. An interesting application for LA or the Bay area
Magic Leap’s next-generation headset is reportedly ‘years away from launch’
Yev here -> Gleb's email is above, but if you do already have some hardware from 45 Drives or FreeNAS - Backblaze B2 may already be integrated into them!
The article argues that nothing is forever. There may be technology changes in the future that make DNS providers obsolete. So that money is less guaranteed over time than an endowment.
>randomness is equivalent to an extra player that makes irrational unpredictable moves.

Irrational and unpredictable moves are also present in two-player perfect information games.
Thank you. I agree with that approach. I do have an interest in programming languages. I played around with programming languages in my free time. I'll start with this subject, and see if I am good enough to do it.
Running multiple kitchen appliances at once without tripping a breaker is a convenience I miss now living in the US.
Indeed. It's not that I don't care about the job, but after doing it so many times it loses its magic already. I do think stuffs that I am building during my day job is useful.
I think it's coming sooner than later but Magic Leap definitely coughed up their lead in the space and spent a ton of money in the process. Microsoft have an equivalent product and I think we'll see Apple Glasses in a year or so.
Happily, I know nothing about Java's memory model.

I mostly had C in mind in my earlier comment. Yes, x86 formally guarantees patterns that are not guaranteed by the C standard. The key is that the behavior is implementation-defined, not undefined. Everyday C compilers targeting x86 have x86 memory model semantics.

So that's why I said (with the case of C in mind), no, running on a different memory model wouldn't necessarily expose bugs in the x86 target. Your program might not be portable to another implementation, but that isn't inherently a bug. (Especially given x86's more or less omnipresence in the software space, from pretty low end up to fairly high end systems.)

In modern C (C11 and newer) you would prefer developers use portable memory constructs such as atomic_store_explicit or atomic_load_explicit with some particular memory_order semantics. These are specified in §7.17.3 "Order and consistency." (The C17 publication of the same section might be more clear, I just wanted to illustrate the C language has had portable constructs for this since the 2011 version.) Of course, it is possible that developers use more relaxed semantics than are actually (portably) valid, and it happens to work on x86 just like code that doesn't use C11 memory model atomics.

(And the vast majority of developers should be using higher level constructs like mutexes or rwlocks or existing lock-free data structure libraries, such as ConcurrencyKit[1], instead of messing with complicated memory semantics. I suppose the same is true in Java land.)

In C land, there are starting to be nice tools to detect these kind of things explicitly rather than just observing memory corruption on ARM, such as KTSAN and KCSAN. I don't know if Java has anything similar.

Anyway, I don't know if any of that is useful to you. Sorry for the wall of text.

[1]: http://concurrencykit.org/
That’s not how funding works. If you believe the product is worth exactly what you pay that’s not funding, that’s buying. Funding is the belief that at some point the ownership will be worth the wait given the investment.
There could be a business opportunity here in selling router that ease the gap between consumers who know nothing about networking and implementing better iot security -- if they can sell the fear.
how is an activist shareholder different from an activist?
In most javascript sandboxes if you request a domain from an site you are restricted by the same content policy. This makes it harder to do things like make requests to sites for example that don't use https when your on one that does use it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...
Engineering Leaders Are Failing Themselves
There was some overlap, and both had lots of "Magic" hype, but there were some really great people working at General Magic, and not nearly as high a level of narcissistic bullshit and self aggrandization and utterly dishonest marketing as from Magic Leap.

I mean, come on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY
I hope I'll get to where you are one day.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/pay-workers-a-living...
There are such feature different people like.

A feature I cannot do without is the web developer console; much of the modern web pages are bad without it.

The older XPCOM-based extensions also are more powerful than the WebExtensions and can do many more things (I don't like the design of XPCOM, but nevertheless WebExtensions isn't very good either). Such as, I can alter the behaviour of the location bar; I don't like the default behaviour and I want it to treat my entry as a relative URL (rather than trying to add the scheme automatically or treat it as a search query), so I programmed it to do that.
I don‘t care how much he donates. My point is exactly that we shouldn‘t have to rely on one wealthy individual for anything. The money should‘ve stayed in big parts with the people that helped build this wealth (i.e. employees) and the ones living in the country which enabled this creation of wealth (i.e. taxes)
> You /still/ have no way to ensure that the checkbox corresponded with the name, and that you cast the vote you think you did

Well the voter can verify if the voting machine is acting honestly by querying the salt used for encryption (refer to "How do you know your ballot was properly constructed?"). From an adversarial voting machine's perspective the chances of the voter validating the ballot is 0.5 and given the sensitivity of the elections, I'd imagine even one incident of foul play spreading like wildfire to raise alarms
They don't need to individually test every single product, they just need to make sure that they can turn around and sue the supplier if the product turns out too be defective. If they have no means to hold their suppliers accountable for the quality of the product, then they should be testing every single product.
Researchers develop AI that reads lips from video footage
> Bolt look less ugly

People I talk to say that it looks "tiny" and toy-like. Not so much ugly. Also, fun to drive.

Maybe they can beef up the look a bit -- this Hyundai Kona EV is the same size, but looks better (the SUV look may appeal to GM buyers): https://www.consumerreports.org/hybrids-evs/2019-hyundai-kon...
whether there are flaws in the analysis or not, every reasonable person knows that if you go to a social setting like club for example, a woman can get laid pretty much anytime as long as she's willing, she only has to signal she is down to it and there will be plenty of men who will jump on board ... now try to go to club as a man and signal your willingness to get laid ... you'll get zero ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBtF3I7fDfU there's many such videos ... is anyone surprised by the results a great deal of men say yes, when reversed, and a jacked model looking guys asked women for sex guess the results 0.

The reality is that men are willing to have sex with broader range of women while most women want the same guys as all other women ... this is evolutionary as for a guy to reproduce bears no risk so he wants quantity while a woman is incapacitated for 9 months minimum, therefore the choices.

The above guy who called the poor dude an incel just acted like an idiot.
Datadog Real User Monitoring
> has (had?)

Had. The article is from 2011; according to Wikipedia "On March 24, 2012, Cheney underwent a heart transplant procedure", "he remained alive without a pulse for nearly fifteen months." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Health_problems
> All kinds of crime will become impossible

This will never be the case.

The constraints are currently on the resources available for police to find the suspect. While prolific surveillance will make finding the X "persons of interest" easier + faster + more reliable, the constraint would then be on identifying other evidence and the court/prosecutor system to process plea bargaining and/or jury trials.

Additionally, jails and the resources concerned with jailing are very expensive (VERY large outlays and high upkeep) in the current high-cash-bail environment.
People should attack the ideas that people have, not attack the people for having ideas.

Theres a huge difference between expressing disagreement with an idea and trying to ruin someone's life.
Sub-title of the story: "Stores want to give customers an Amazon Go-like experience..."
I can't wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they'll always be relatively expensive, but I'm primarily a dev (not ops) and I don't have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely.

Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it (Rust based), but at $7/m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5/m DO box can host quite a few apps in containers, by comparison.

Perhaps Serverless would be a great playground for low/no traffic apps, but I've not gotten into serverless much.
The intention was to just show the data as it. But I agree with your interpretation :)

(The author of the article).
I asked if it was possible, you are asking me for an RFP.
Galloway founded the digital intelligence firm L2 Inc, which was acquired in March 2017 by Gartner for $155 million, and the now defunct Firebrand Partners (founded in 2005), an activist hedge fund that has invested over $1 billion in U.S. consumer and media companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Galloway_(professor)
Natwest also does this with its login system (the whole 'enter the X, X and Xth characters from your password' thing).

Seems like it may be an unfortunate 'trend' for banking services in this country.
Magic Leap is proof that first mover advantage is fictional (or at least it's not an iron law that guarantees success). They spent large sums of money to put out the least half-baked AR product on the market. They would be in better shape now if they hadn't grown so fast.

That being said, AR truly is the future. In a few years there will be multiple digital universes overlaid onto our world. Magic Leap should be commended for their technical accomplishments, but can they stay solvent until their dream of the future is realized? I honestly hope they pull through.
> even file criminal charges against individuals?

Usually it would be recommended to FBI for legal review, and if they find that laws were broken, then referred to the DOJ for prosecution.

> we see over and over comments of the "omg no criminal charges"

If you committed a crime, whether violent or financial, then you should be prosecuted. It's disheartening to see government lawyers give away the candy store every time just so they can secure a "quick" negotiation and move on with their jobs.

Unless people have _real_ disincentives to break the law.. guess what? They're just going to break the law and hide behind their money for as long as we let them. This needs to change or we're going to experience the 1930s again.
This article strikes a very personal chord with me. My girlfriend of six months broke up with me without giving any apparent reason. After several months, I found out that she had discovered that she had tumor. Before she started on chemo, she decided to break up with me.
The irony of the situation is that she won't really tell me what happened, and without violating her trust and respecting her privacy, and her choice to face this alone, I have no way of even finding out how she is doing.
All I can do is silently hope that she would regain her health again.
sure you can pull a digg and expect more money, but actually lose your users to a competitor. i 'd definitely quit twitter if it starts doing things like what facebook did to FB-page owners by holding their audience hostage for ransom. I think twitter, like reddit, inherently don't have high monetization potential because their format doesn't appeal to the massive audiences which flock to fb / instagram
I've used BuyVM for years and they are quite reliable. Though, I had one VPS terminated (including all data wiped) because I didn't pay the monthly invoice within 1 week of the due date. They have one of the most strict timelines on invoices I've ever seen for a web service:

4,2,4 - Unpaid services will be suspended four days past the due date on the service.

4,2,5 - Unpaid services will be terminated seven days past the due date on the service.

That said, the $15/year package is a super excellent deal for a basic VPS and I've never had any technical issues.
True, perhaps this approach would not work for condors, eagles etc.

However for most native birds in my country even a spot of an acre or two can be a good bird habitat for nesting and feeding and birds will happily overfly humanity to get to and fro.
If the Chinese government wants to man in the middle traffic to foreign sites they can just force PC vendors to install a CCP controlled CA root on systems and make it illegal and/or very difficult to remove it. Shit, they can require vendors include a hardware backdoor, especially since so much of that hardware is produced domestically.

Then they can view the traffic even going to and from foreign sites who would not comply with an order to share private keys and no safe browsing blacklist (like that would be accessible from inside the regime anyway) will help you.
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
I used to browse the Web (not the Wap!) 13 years ago on my Nokia N70 (Symbian OS, 220 Mhz, 32MB) smartphone, on a Internet plan that cost 1€/MB (I have a plan that costs 100 000 times less today), and while it was a bit rough, it was already pretty serviceable!

Most of the content (in time spent on it) is still text (remember what HTTP stands for?), and text takes hardly any processing power!
> Rarely is it taken a step further - to question deconstruction itself

That hasn't really been the case for a long time. Deconstruction was officially declared off-message in the aftermath of 9/11: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-I... . It's had something of a rehabilitation in the post-financial-crisis world of the new wokeness, though.
They need to start advertising like Occulus is doing, buying up literally all the ad slots on Youtube.

By comparison, I haven't seen a single ad for Magic Leap anywhere on the internet. People aren't buying it b/c they've never heard of it.
Yahoo went through this with Carl Icahn.
I genuinely don’t understand how this is possible/profitable. $80/mo is just shy of $10,000 in $10yr. Even if all of that is marginal profit (e.g., the costs to them after running the lines once are zero), there’s no way that pays for the crews to lay even 10mi of fiber.

Something has to be missing here.
A fascinating book to read is "King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery" by G. Wayne Miller.

Early open heart surgery was pioneered with TWO patients whose circulatory systems were connected together so that patient two could could breathe and pump blood for patient one while the heart was stopped.

Amazing (in a sort of blank-faced-blink-blink sort of way)
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/Tinfoil

I am convinced that Cheney is the reason Barnaby Jack was murdered.

Jack knew how to remotely attack pacemakers, as well as pumps and other medical devices and was to speak at BlackHat... but was neutralized just days prior...

/Tinfoil