skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very insightful, much more productive than another article describing "how I developed learned-helplessness and FOMO by reading Hacker News every day".
I want to finish to read Snowden’s autobiography: “Permanent Record”.

I started during a long train trip recently and found that I really enjoyed the tone of the first few chapters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiogra...
You points are valid but thats where visa list is different. It actually takes the basic information form Wikipedia and detailed information from government/embassy websites. On top of it, you can also see all the government where this information was gathered and verify it yourself. It saves a lot of time researching and interpreting the visa requirements. Also it has users tips for visa aswell.
Ironic that the site doesn't work unless you enable ads, since the entirety of the content past the first two paragraphs is in popovers.
> ... not looking at the schema ...

Wait, you just guessed the table names? what am i missing here?
I agree. Nobody cared that tech was collecting tons of data in the 00s, or that they had military contracts with some very questionable regimes. Then, traditional media realized that tech was their number one adversary. Tech was revealed as the number one threat to the media's ad revenue and premium content distribution. They were not the allies the publishers thought they were. And, with all this user data and cheap hosting, tech enabled niche groups to completely bypass traditional media in getting massive influence (some of these groups were really good, some of them were terrorist and/or nazi organizations).

Tech poses one of the most existential challenges to publishers, maybe ever. That's one of the reasons the media championed regulations on big tech in the final years of this decade; "So, you want to make money that used to be guaranteed for us big publishers? Enjoy being the editor in chief, bearing the brunt of the responsibility for what your users read. Don't expect the 'just an ad platform' argument to hold water, we found that out ourselves the hard way".

(Disclaimer; I'm a developer working for one of the Nordic countries largest publishers, so I sympathize a bit with the publisher's reasoning, even though I think eg. the upload filter laws passed in the EU and other stupid laws lobbied by big publishers is enough reason to be furious for years straight)
Jevon's paradox only occurs under very specific circumstances. I would bet on it not happening in the context Jeff Dean is referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox#Cause

> The size of the direct rebound effect is dependent on the price elasticity of demand for the good.[11] In a perfectly competitive market where fuel is the sole input used, if the price of fuel remains constant but efficiency is doubled, the effective price of travel would be halved (twice as much travel can be purchased). If in response, the amount of travel purchased more than doubles (i.e. demand is price elastic), then fuel consumption would increase, and the Jevons paradox would occur. If demand is price inelastic, the amount of travel purchased would less than double, and fuel consumption would decrease. However, goods and services generally use more than one type of input (e.g. fuel, labour, machinery), and other factors besides input cost may also affect price. These factors tend to reduce the rebound effect, making the Jevons paradox less likely to occur.
I usually don't plan in advance but I'll finish The Dark Tower series(3 to go).
The terminal is the best and only git client you need and it will always be free. You are doing yourself a disservice as a developer by not learning how to use your terminal
Heh, I sure would love to know exactly how big the index actually is.

And how much of it is never (or practically never) accessed.

And what the distribution graph looks like.

It sure would be fun to come up with a better engine, but where do I get the RAM to run it in? :< (ie: how do I _ethically_ pay for it? hahaha)
I am currently reading it as well. Only a few chapters in but already gained some interesting insights from it.
These are on my list:

Five Dysfuncitons of a Team: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21343.The_Five_Dysfuncti...

The Advantage: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12975375-the-advantage
Yo dawg we herd you like abstractions so we put a VM in a container-runtime in a hypervisor in your CPU so you can use JIT compilation while you use other JIT compilation
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by Bill Mollison
I'd like to read the Realm of the Elderlings series and the Skolian Saga, which I've neglected so far. Also, I think I'll start a thorough reading of all Spider-Man comics.

Regarding non-fiction, I think I will read some books about algebraic geometry and Lie groups. Haven't yet made a plan.
Security Vulnerabilities in the RCS Texting Protocol
I love “We”, one of my favorite work of science fiction! Crazy to think that has been written in 1921.
Standard Ebooks has a nice PD edition of the George Long translation.[1] Also Elizabeth Carter’s translation of Epictetus’s The Enchiridion[2] and Aubrey Stewart’s translation of Seneca’s Dialogues.[3]

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...

[3] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st...
Meditations can be a slog - he repeats himself constantly, as is the tendency in published ancient Greek diaries/correspondence. It's a great grounding for stoicism though. I'd recommend also reading the Enchiridion and Discourses of Epictetus - I found them easier to absorb.
I installed the new version the other day and I'm a bit puzzled by the enthusiasm about the new dark skin. I'll have to test it more as I've reverted for the 5.x look for now.

Reaper is amazing. Some of its default behaviors regarding tracks management (especially multi-takes tracks) are a bit weird coming from another DAW though.

The most impressive features for me is the a-track-can-be-anything and the routing capabilities.

It's hard to describe all the reasons why but to me it really feels like a DAW made for developers.
I'm not sure why this is downvoted, except perhaps because you linked to the mobile site. Here's the normal site: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=535590071686 (site is in Chinese. This is an open-source design, so there's no problem that a Chinese manufacturer is producing it.)
Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman
Kubeprompt: Kubernetes prompt info written in go
It’s fiction and mass-market but I enjoy reading the new John Grisham novel every October or about then. He’s consistent in quality, the books consistently interesting, and it’s about the only hardback novel I’ll shell out for instead of waiting for the paperback or Kindle version now.
Using the Machine Learning Hammer Wisely
I plan to reread a couple core works for myself. Of that list the ones that I’d recommend for others are:
Aurelius (trans. Martin Hammond)
Fear and Trembling
Man’s Search for Meaning
Tolstoy’s Confessions
Kundera’s The Art of the Novel

After doing a thorough reading of “How to Read a Book” I decided to try rereading a few books to pull more out of them.

I can’t recommend “How to Read a Book” enough - despite its anachronisms and glaring faults, it’s the only book I’ve found that has genuinely made me feel that I’ve not really read a single book in my life.
Anyone know if this also would translate to pain—say if the hand was crushed in an accident?
To start the year off, my casual just-before-sleep reading will be "Ender's Shadow", which is a story that isn't a prequel or a sequel to "Ender's Game", but a story parallel to it.

"What We Cannot Know", which is an exploration of all the topics that we might never be able to know, such as how to predict the weather, is the universe infinite etc.

"Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder", because it's dauntingly long and I'm feeling masochistic.

"Commodore - A Company on the Edge" because I really enjoyed "Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made", so I think I'll also like seeing how another computer I really like (the Commodore 64) came about.
Earth 2.0 Could Be Found in 2020 with This Spectrograph
I think the real issue is that these folks are profiting so much as to afford the art while folks have trouble paying for hospital stays. There are so many ways to get original artwork on the walls for a much cheaper price tag, after all - and things get even cheaper if one looks into prints.
Interesting list, commenting to have a look again later.
I'm already reading the name of the rose after giving up half-way a few years ago.
Plan to read again:

- How Democracies Die https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Democracies_Die

- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Third...
Google buys high quality carbon offsets, not just renewable energy. It's not clear whether that makes the footprint zero. It surely depends on how you count. But their approach is less naive than "just buy RECs."
One explanation that I read recently (https://aeon.co/essays/what-duelling-can-teach-us-about-taki...) is that taking offense may often be not so much the magnitude of the slight itself as it is about establishing that you are an equal and therefore have the right to take offense.

For example suppose that a trans person takes offense at someone refusing to use their preferred pronoun. The issue may not actually be about the importance of the pronoun so much as it is about whether they have the social right to define the pronoun that is associated with them.

I think that the failure to understand this dynamic could be one of the causes of polarization in America. For example:

- Conservatives often criticize "political correctness" by mocking what they perceive to be overreactions to minor slights. However, that may be missing the point if the issue is not the magnitude of the slight but whether someone has the right to take offense at all.

- Anger over removing the Confederate flag may not be about the flag itself so much as it is about asserting that Southerners have a right to be treated with respect.
I remember in 2004 being fascinated with the tons of alternative proposals to the current calendar. Read about them on the kind of sites one can now find using wiby ;)
That's where it gets tricky. I don't think anyone here has said patients in their 80s shouldn't get any life prolonging treatment.
My to-read shelve on Goodreads has 620 books on it, but top of my list are:

- Feed by M.T. Anderson

- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

- Equality by Edward Bellamy
Not even close to everything wrong in the tech industry
We hope. 400 year old cheese would not exactly be a treasure!
I listened to him read it on Audible. It's really interesting. Though it started off a little slow but picks up as it keeps going. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
> Our heretical approach is not to use Machine Learning. No training, no datasets, no labelling. We instead rely on deductive inference to get to quantitative conclusions.

> We feed the central decision-making processes with edge-computed and already classified data (ie. only meaningful and relevant information).

Outsight 3D Semantic Camera does not rely on ML, and according to them, it saves processing power together with being more reliable.
Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of overlap in my have-read/wants-to-read:

Master and Margarita: Very recommendable.

Three body problem: Got bored.

Enten-Eller: Delightful.

Basic economics (Sowell): Very recommendable.

How an economy grows and why it crashes: Childish and grossly simplifying. I read this one while taking a year's of economics on top of my CS. My impression is that some economists have a bad habit of not stating their basic scholastic assumptions. Sowell and Krugman are, in my opinion, not unbiased, but able to inform you at a level where you don't feel like they're also trying to brainwash you.

As for the remainder, I've taken a few notes for myself, so thanks. :-)
Yes, the US government is well known for its lack of corruption.
Genious! Thanks for sharing that.
The decade tech destroyed our business model
Good point. Planners are not the most innovative designers. Seems western cities will be stuck with dull bauhaus inspired, minimalistic and cubic design forever.
I'd love to have a language that combines the notation of APL with the ergonomics of J (ie. hooks and forks enabling functional-ish programming, a de facto open source implementation and a working Android "IDE").
It's become a yearly tradition of mine to reread this at the beach over the summer.
I recommend Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard over The Society of the Spectacle. Less obscure. Better Style. Also check out America by the same author:

> I went in search of astral America, not social and cultural America, but the America of the empty, absolute freedom of the freeways, not the deep America of mores and mentalities, but the America of desert speed, of motels and mineral surfaces. I looked for it in the speed of the screenplay, in the indifferent reflex of television, in the film of days and nights projected across an empty space, in the marvellously affectless succession of signs, images, faces, and ritual acts on the road; looked for what was nearest to the nuclear and enucleated universe, a universe which is virtually our own, right down to its European cottages. I sought the finished form of the future catastrophe of the social in geology, in that upturning of depth that can be seen in the striated spaces, the reliefs of salt and stone, the canyons where the fossil river flows down, the immemorial abyss of slowness that shows itself in erosion and geology. I even looked for it in the verticality of the great cities. I knew all about this nuclear form, this future catastrophe when I was still in Paris, of course. But to understand it, you have to take to the road, to that travelling which achieves what Virilio calls the aesthetics of disappearance.

Here: https://monoskop.org/images/a/ac/Baudrillard_Jean_America_19...
Need More RAM? Try Compressing What You've Got
All rants on Esperanto fall into these two categories:

- see, the language is not that simple as you think, it has this complexity you haven't thought of, so it fails

- the language is as simple as you think, but no one would ever speak like that, the real world is more complex, so it fails

Sometimes those two get mixed up in the same sentence.
I have noticed that it is common among the high rep users to say that the reputation doesn't matter, so this would put their claims to the test.
Does SFI also cover sandboxing?
Python: Top Programming Language of 2019?
The Gunslinger (part of The Dark Tower series) was excellent.

Demons and Wizards, the metal band, made a song called The Gunslinger, through which I learned of this book.
How about this? Or just search "Ergodox" on Ali Express.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32957791164.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32961243162.html

The keys are not profiled (they are all the same shape, rather than having different heights for each row), so except for the F and J (which have homing dips) they are interchangeable.

Alternatively, there are the geeky custom sets, like https://candykeys.com/group-buys/kat-milkshake , which sometimes support Ergo/Orth layouts. They can be less flexible (if they keycaps are profiled), and they will be considerably more expensive.
JavaScript testing #5. Testing hooks with react-hooks-testing-library and Redux
My fiancée is an avid reader of fiction and canonical literature, she averages around 40 books a year. I was looking for something interesting to get her one Birthday for a change and was recommended "The Master & Margarita" by some folks on reddit. She loved it. It's a very strange book apparently but it steered her into some other Russian authors since.

I've read "Why we sleep" on your list—I average about 20 non fiction a year. It made me think about my own sleeping habits, although I believe there is a blog post out there that claims there is little scientific evidence to back up some of the medical claims made in the book, I still found it beneficial and thought provoking. The history and theory around sleep and it's role in human evolution I found particularly interesting.
how are you finding it?
As far as I can tell, no planes have been delivered since the grounding. The airlines aren't willing to take delivery of a flawed product. It would just cost them money to park them, and may even have legal consequences, such as shifting the burden of proof in any legal disputes that may still arise.
How did you guys find out about bitbar before now? Product hunt? Reddit?
Political Digital Ad Targeting by Home Address
Internet agency finds explicit photos on president’s computer, fires IT staff
Good point, but beyond internalizing those ideas, you also really have to be on guard these - the technologies in question are ubiquitous. They are almost inescapable and are designed to get you hooked. It's easy to say look something up on reddit and then dive into tangentially related material which ends up turning into procrastination.
In my language 'month' and 'moon' are the same word and some people still don't make the connection. I once had someone ask me, when I was talking about some period of x months in antiquity, if they had months (moons) back then.
The point of the comment was that people likely cared less because people heard about it significantly less.
Thank you, I updated it.
How does that compare to https://bellard.org/tinyemu/ ?
There is an “All Electric Home” preserved in the county museum where I live. The most interesting thing is the large, hidden relay panel used to control everything, with a mess of low voltage wiring run throughout the house.

https://www.jocogov.org/facility/the-1950s-all-electric-hous...

Of course thus would be powered by nuclear energy.
I've heard it's a must-read for sci-fi lovers so I'm excited for that one!
From an outside perspective, modern here means that it fits nicely with the mentality and toolchains in vogue today.
> The idea that print is, in practice, a higher form of media

Is proven by causation, not correlation. There's a difference between "the consumption of media" and "media consumers".
Visualizing Every Pantone Color of the Year
Relevant :
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190523111408.h...

"100% renewables doesn't equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing"
Firefox. Reader mode.
And 2/3rds of the US population lives in 3.5% of the land area, what do you expect?

The correction here is not to spread things out again but to adapt to the concentration.
>Delivering business value is a more desired and compensated skill than raw programming ability

Not so much. First, great programmers are very well compensated, and second, most tech companies are organized to keep great programmers from even considering business issues: That's the land of managers, product owners, and scrum leads. Programmers are supposed to implement the requirements they're given quickly. Not how it should be maybe, but how it generally is.
Thanks again Jetti!
Another option is Vanilla: https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/
Thanks for the feedback too!

Since you seem to have similar taste (or people you respect?), what other books/authors have you enjoyed/would recommend? I am a big fan of Hesse, despite his works being very unrelated to anything on my list.
When I studied Nietzsche it was more or less “Read Zarathustra, then read all the ‘Viking Portable Nietzsche’ then read all of the ‘Basic Writings of Nietzche’” all translates by Hollingdale or, preferably, Kauffman.

Among the jewels you’ll find in such a reading are things like the seed of Nietzsche’s thought being placed, imo, in The Birth of Tragedy, with the line:

> It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified

Other Nietzsche related recommendations:
Pre-Nietzsche: Plato, Schopenhauer
Post-Nietzsche: Camus - maybe?
> The 'piano style'* on which she insisted is almost completely contrary to modern ergonomic teachings

What? That seems to be exactly the current advice.

http://ergonomictrends.com/proper-ergonomic-typing-posture-a...

http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ahtutorials/typingposture.html

(First two hits from a Google search.)
Protests Spread Across India over Divisive Citizenship Law
Every German airport with international flights has a "detention centre".

Even though the new airport in Berlin is still not ready the prison has been finished in 2012: https://www.morgenpost.de/flughafen-BER/article108749351/Flu...
Forum: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Agency and Artificial Life
what do you guys think about RPA market ?
UK is not the ISO code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the code is GB.

.gb and .uk are both functional, and .uk as a top-level domain is exceptional.

EU is also not an ISO code, but has been reserved, and is also a TLD as .eu.
Guess it's a slow news week. A large chunk of the country's GDP is concentrated where a large chunk of the population lives?? Riveting reporting, Bloomberg.
I don't know why you assume being an asshole is the trait your GP doesn't want to reveal. Any number of innocuous interests could hurt your reputation in different circles: hunting, being gay, watching anime, practicing (a different/any/no) religion.

"What did you do this weekend" is a loaded question if you're a cultural outlier at your workplace. Even decent people often have personal biases that lead to awkwardness and friction.
I did encounter this multiple times...not in the last decade though.
This is a big problem in The Netherlands. I want to buy a plot of land to build a home but it's always attached with a huge list of requirements. The home needs to be between A and B cubic meters, ridge height C, gutter height D, roof angle E, front needs to face the street, house needs to be perpendicular to the street, brick needs to be color F, needs to have parking for two cars, heating through system G.

I'm a big fan of prefab sustainable homes, the wooden flat-roofed bungalow ones that you can plop down from a factory in about two days. But those homes never meet the requirement list.
The basic concept of a commercial insurance based health system is that people basically pay for their own treatment. Thus wealthy people pay top dollar and get first class treatment at world beating institutions, while over 20 million Americans have no health cover whatsoever, and many of those on cheaper plans that can't afford lawyers get cheated out of crucial treatment.
> Because it seems obvious that watching one's hard-earned score shrink would be a bad experience.

But it's a Q&A site, not a point-gathering exercise. Leave the displayed score of the answers/questions but decay the benefit the author gains from it.
Driver 'blows up' car with 'excessive' use of air freshener
> because it's dauntingly long and I'm feeling masochistic.

it's only 544 pages?
The "suits" didn't just take over last year. The complaint is at least as old as their move to Chicago in 2001. That would at least put the 787 in the same class of "suit-designed" aircraft.

And yet, air travel today is far safer than it has ever been, the 737 non-withstanding. Considering air travel has increased by almost an order of magnitude since the heydays of engineering-run Boeing in the 60s, and fatalities have decreased by a similar factor, air travel today is about 70x safer than it was in the past.

Based on this data, any nostalgic theories of how safety today is being ruined by <x> are really hard to defend.