skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read extremely slowly compared to most, but seem to come up with more insights as well as debunkings.

A relative of mine is a natural born speed reader. She can read several 500+ page dense works a day. This is suggested to be impossible. I've personally tested her on her recall after having her quickly digest a work she's never seen before. She has perfect recall and can tell me what page a given passage appeared on, and recall from memory what comes next.

It's a savant ability. Probably less than 1 in a million, or perhaps billion.

She can't do anything with the ability. It's useless to her practically. She works minimum wage jobs, is married to an unemployed guy, and is always poor. She doesn't have any marketable talents. She continues to read huge amounts of material when she can find it. She long ago read all of the books in her small town library's fiction section. Discussing a topic she can cite references to it as if she is a search engine, but like the search engine, she doesn't have any insights into what any of it means.

I've suggested to her she try to market the ability, do a tour and show off. But she hates attention and craves nothing more than a quite reclusive life free from other people. Being publicly acknowledged as a freak would be the worst possible outcome for her, as far as she is concerned.
> Earning money is the worst of all false gods to chase. We in the western world have lost our path, and it's making us miserable. I met thousands of people in Africa that are happier and more joyous than virtually everyone I've ever met in Canada, Australia or the US.

I don’t disagree with your point.

IMO earning money isn’t the problem. The key is the balance between earning enough money to not struggle to do the things I enjoy, but not letting work and responsibility become the only thing in my life, blocking me from the things I enjoy.

But I will concede that western society has placed an emphasis on consumerism and we evidently all need more stuff. Consumerism is killing our planet as well as making us spend more and save less.

I’m similar in age to you, and despite my privilege, life can seem pretty pointless without time to self-direct, enjoy our interests and not be consumed by our jobs without a break.

Also, losing people close to you can change your perspective on what you spend your time doing. If I only have 20 summers left, I wouldn’t want to spend them working. But I still have to eat and pay rent for that amount of time, and working is the way I pay for it.
Do you have evidence that they rarely hear naive models like IMDB top 250.

I mean they have entire divisions of engineers dedicated to this so I assume they will disagree with you. So I am wondering if you have evidence that all those people are not doing anything to earn their pay
I actually find that excessive type inference is much harder to understand. It’s almost like the worst of dynamic and static types. You have no idea what the types are, but you know it won’t compile because of a cryptic error message.
It wasn't an arbitrary decision, there's a hard reason: round-trip format conversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-trip_format_conversion

The reason JSON can't support comments the way XML does, is that comments aren't part of the JavaScript "DOM". They disappear when you parse them, so they can't round-trip, and there's now way to stringify comments back out.

Standard XML parsers and XML/HTML DOM APIs give you all the comments and whitespace, and it's up to you to ignore them if you don't care, and they're not lost when you parse and re-serialize. Comments and whitespace are part of the standard DOM/SAX API, but you can't just nail those onto another model like JavaScript polymorphic objects/arrays after the fact.

Because parsed JavaScript objects and JSON structures provide no way to access the comments the parser threw away.

Although of course you could implement a parser that saved the comments, but it would need to support another more complex API than directly accessing JSON objects, which could somehow describe where each comment was in relation to the parsed object (since multiple comments can appear anywhere), and what kind of comment it was (// or /* */), as well as where all the whitespace the parser ignored was. (Although XML parsers typically don't tell you about whitespace inside of tags, so that can't round-trip.)

That is theoretically feasible with a JSON API implemented from the ground up in any language, like JSON.Net for example. But it's not practical in JavaScript itself (or Python or any language that parses JSON into pre-existing polymorphic arrays and objects), because you parse JSON into actual JavaScript (or Python) objects, whose API and implementation isn't under your control. So JSON being able to round-trip with any language other than JavaScript (and Python) itself would have been silly.

JSON would not be as powerful and useful a format if parsing then serializing JSON lost information. JSON was meant to be a round-trippable format, so there was no other choice but to leave out comments.

But maybe there's a use case for a "lossy" compressed JSON format like JPEGSON. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_data_conversion
Anyone who regularly browses their Youtube recommendations knows that the algorithm changed dramatically a few months ago.
> Some of which even outsell all Tesla cars in a country or two.

Which cars, where? Not being snarky, I'm actually curious.
The latest DLC added some environmental effects to the game, but nothing on the scale that SMAC had.
Just exposing the internal scripting interface / data format, without opening any sources, would go a long way.
Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?
The adult argument has absolutely fallen through because adults' attendance is tracked in another situation. So it's not a matter of being adult. It's a matter of what the specific relationship is of the student to the university.

It's ironic you mention psychologists. Therapists, personal trainers, life coaches, and other 1-to-1 service providers are the most likely to fire a customer for not attending. I personally know someone whose vocal coach made an ultimatum about attendance and ended up firing the customer. This is all very much adult.

In the end it's the sad consumerization of higher education in America. The pricing makes students so bitter as to demand "better service" rather than "better education". A university is more like a job in most of the world.
Related: nand2tetris: https://www.nand2tetris.org/.

"This site supports a course and a textbook that guide students and self-learners through the construction of a modern, full-scale computer system - hardware and software - from the ground up."
I dislike and block ads.

> Finally, keep in mind that none of this is your fault. Privacy shouldn’t be a matter of personal responsibility. It’s not your job to obsess over the latest technologies that can secretly monitor you, and you shouldn’t have to read through a quarter million words of privacy-policy legalese to understand how your phone shares data.

This is just plain wrong. It's not a data-mining company's job to teach you how to fight back. The EFF is spewing statist nonsense.

You have a choice, which is to not use such services. When you visit someone's Web site, you're using their services. If you don't like how their service works, don't use it (or block ads, delete cookies, etc.). It's not a government Web site that you must visit and may not decline to use without getting fined or jailed (if accessing the service via the Web is the only way you can pay your tax, register a motor vehicle, or obtain one of many services monopolized by the government).

> Privacy should be a right, not a privilege for the well-educated and those flush with spare time. Everyone deserves to live in a world—online and offline—that respects their privacy.

Most people (but not all) "deserve" it just like health and other nice things, but it's certainly not a right that limits other people's rights (to collect data on their property such as a Web site, for example).

You have the right to privacy on your property, not outside or while consequentially using other people's service. Outside of your property you only have the right to protect your privacy without violating other people's property rights.

What the EFF is saying if I go to a bar and the bartender remembers my name and favorite drink, I should be able to report him to Nanny State for violating my privacy rights. Sad!
Just buy a projector. Those have none of the connectivity features TV advertize nowadays and size does matter for displays.
This is a very wide generalization but effectively no crash testing or safety equipment.
It doesn't just lack a filter for 'beauty', it has a negative selection bias. People who are 'ugly'[1] will likely think they have better odds relying on their personality and other intangibles.

[1]Who view themselves as such, anyway.
I definitely second Manufacturing Consent! What a great book; how many books of political theory hold up that well 30 years later? I would recommend anybody who has any interest at all in current events read it.
Had a family trip this weekend, booked my flight fully refundable for max points and booked the rest of the family on econo tickets. It ended up being an amazing idea because i boarded like second and was able to hold an entire row on a flight full of families and kids. It was the last flight I needed, Now the wifey flies for free next year..

Was that worth a $1200 ticket?

Yes.
When my coworker discovered the other week that I didn't have a degree, he straight up told me a couple of years ago, the company wouldnt have even thought about hiring me.
It would be great if these functions were broken up, but how are you going to pay for the hosting?

Youtube works because Google has a printing press for money, and the same sort of general content analysis that powers recommendations also powers advertisements, and ads pay some of the bills.

If YouTube is around, uploader pays and viewer pays aren't going to compete. Recommender pays (and inserts ads?) could work, but is a hard sell unless you have content to recommend.
The Count of Monte Cristo - This is one breathtaking epic. I have been putting off reading this novel for quite some time and occasionally see this name popping up in HN too, but never gave a serious thought for giving it a go. Was I wrong! This is an epic in its true sense, and you will feel a sense of amazement as you progress through the novel. I'm quite a reader, and I have not experienced such amazement when reading any other book (atleast in recent times). Perhaps, I read this book when I was pretty down and kind of hopeless where my life is taking me, because this book is all about HOPE. Even if you are not a reader, the storyline itself will beat any of the entertaining stories out there. But this book is more than its storyline. At the minimum, you will learn to hope which is a big takeaway from this novel. If you are on the fence reading this, just go for it.

Other books which I find interesting

- The Slight Edge

- Sapiens

- The Master and Margarita (apart from the fact it is a great novel, this is so wickedly funny )
Archaeology meets genomics and big data
IRC is IRC for millenials, Slack came much much later
This is how i see travel bloggers too. Constantly updating the world about your whereabouts, framing every experience as something to be shared, it sounds exhausting to me - just like work!

I don't begrudge them, though. If this person ever needs to go back to work "in the real world", they've kept a brand going that proves they have a work ethic. And if they don't, then presumably at least they've found a way to earn enough cash to maintain the lifestyle they want.

One of the things i wrestle with as i get older is meaning. I don't have a partner and don't want a house or kids. I don't have the killer instinct needed to become a corporate bigwig or an entrepreneur. I keep puttering along as a senior dev, quitting when i have enough cash for a sabbatical, then going back to work somewhere else when the savings run out. I'll never have the means to retire and live my perfect life. I'll just die somewhere, poor and aged out of the profession i never really wanted to do anyway. I suppose that's how most humans go out, but it feels a bit pointless.

I envy people who are very driven and have a clear goal in their lives - whether that goal is to be a rockstar desk jockey, to travel blog the world, or to connect with the people around them. It seems life would be much easier that way. I just kinda drift about, mostly having mediocre or boring days, occasionally having good days, and one day i'll die. It's far from a terrible life, but i can't help but wonder if goal-driven types feel that their lives are more rewarding.
Appimage has solved the distribution on Linux problem, software packaged as Appimages are as easy to run as an exe on Windows, and no additional software is required (unlike Flatpak & Snap).
It's amazingly powerful. I have my students use it instead of dealing with Adobe.
Firstly, the definition of ethics ("the minimal set of rules that we agree upon in order to maintain our voluntarily stable pacific relationships over time and space") is wrong. Firstly, ethics are not-minimal. Secondly, there are numerous codes of ethics which lead to non-peaceful relations (eg many religious ethics).

"> Moreover, you can only reach a conclusion about my argument by being you, which means you need to have control over your own thoughts to achieve that conclusion (self-ownership)"

I don't see this as a given at all. A conclusion can be formed about some "arguments" (eg, X > Y) by mechanical means and others by other non-thought based means (drawing lots, dice etc).

Lemma (2) ("If we define ethics as the minimal set of rules that we agree upon in order to maintain our voluntarily stable pacific relationships over time and space, the only possible way we can achieve those ethics is through an argumentative process") is false in many ways.

For one thing "voluntarily" ignores the numerous cases of involuntary peaceful relations. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) gave Europe its longest period of peace in history and was not voluntary.

Secondly there are numerous protocols that lead to peaceful coexistence without argument. Hereditary rule and collectives are good examples.

Lemma (3) ("Self-ownership can't be maintained (therefore invalidating the time and space requirement) without some means (food, water, shelter, etc). Those means are scarce, and can only be used by a single person at a time.") is incorrect.

There are numerous examples of collectives where people do not own food and just use what they need. Hunter-Gather societies are another example.
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Unless you got an exceptional price for those GS5s, I'm missing why you prioritized that particular model, which was five generations old by 2018.

I had two. One bought new, one bought off Ebay. Never had trouble with either, but I had abandoned them by 2016ish. I rooted one (to get around mobile hotspot limits), later unrooting it when Tmobile stopped treating tethering/hotspot punitively.

The GS5 was the last of the line with removable battery. The GS6 was the last with an IR port.

One impressive aspect of the Galaxy S has, for me, been reliability. Mine have dropped to hard surfaces many, many times with no damage (aside from cracked glass, with which it still performs fine).
Surely people can just buy used dumb-TVs?

I have a much older LCD TV(admittedly Samsung, but it was a gift) from around 2011, no smart features, but it's still perfectly good and works with all my HDMI devices. If there are millions ditching their dumb-TVs for Telescreens, that must mean that there are plenty of dumb-TVs for sale on eBay and Craigslist.
About the radiation - pretty anecdotal, but Arthur “Art” Astrin (rip http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/its/MtgSum/Astrin.html) was responsible for Wireless part of Apple revival product range ~1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5NNxVwNwQ He spend couple of years flying weekly SF-Shenezhen. Ended up with severe metastatic melanoma. "Incidence of cancer among licenced commercial pilots flying North Atlantic routes" put 10% higher rick of malignant melanoma on frequent flyers.
How about using Pi-hole? Most of the blocked requests come from my Samsung TV but not sure it is sufficient.
Weekly Robotics
I think what replaces static typing as a safety rail in dynamic languages is testing, and the rise of dynamic languages the last 1-2 decades has been made possible by the parallel rise of automated test suites.

Personally, I would not attempt large refactorings without a decent test suite. I consider enabling fast and safe refactoring to be the main advantage of test suites!
This is the first I heard of Factfulness, but I have heard some similar arguments before. My question though, is: does it really matter? Are people in the Rust Belt going to be mollified by the revelation that, on average globally, life is much better? Or are they going to compare themselves with their parents and conclude that the world is going to hell regardless of what the averages say? Is the latter response unreasonable? These questions seem to be of urgent import in many democracies around the world.
I just learned today that he's published some recent updates in the Register. Latest is from four days ago!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/

Sadly, I don't think they're as good as the older ones.
Eh, real status is an exec lounge with a happy hour 5-8pm with top shelf booze and decent food. SPG was the best, but has gone down hill a bit since Marriott took over. Westin Ebisu Tokyo even has special drink nights where they bring a set of different liquors in a theme. Best hotel staff anywhere.
He's saying ES isn't D-in-ACID durable. That's correct. What's your objection?
Your interpretation is contrary to the presented text, which ends:

> Ms Sands said: "Greta is not actually judgmental towards individuals, accepting that other people will not all conform to her high standards and asking only for people to do what they can."

Note that 'CO2 treason' is a phrase you just invented, and not a quote from her. Nor does a DDG or Google search find preexisting uses of that phrase.

While the first relevant hits to "Queen Greta" on DDG link me to The Daily Stormer. Did you make up that term yourself, or are you really spreading American far-right neo-Nazi memes?

You also wrote "sailing for two weeks like Greta did" which is an obtuse interpretation at best.

It's a 2 hour flight from London to Stockholm. Adding travel time to/from the respective airports, plus security, call it no more than 7 hours.

Taking trains from London to Stockholm takes 27 hours. No sailing involved. You'll want to add 8 hours for a layover somewhere to sleep, so call it 35 hours.

(There doesn't appear to be a passenger ferry service from the UK to Sweden. A near daily freight ferry takes 26 hours from Immingham to Gothenburg, plus connection time on both sides.)
Just got done reading Adler's How to Read a Book a few days ago.

Recommend: Ward Farnsworth.

Apparently some law school dean who has written some books on law, none of which I have read. I personally just picture him more as a classicist.

His grasp on English writing knocks me off my feet. It is seriously something to behold.

His book on explaining chess tactics (also available online free[0]) is an absolutely amazing display of effective communication in writing.

In another writing style, he has three books[1][2][3] and apparently an upcoming fourth[4] where he presents an idea/concept, cites meaningful examples in the wild of their use, and provides his own commentary to touch up on his chosen topics. They make for delightful reading.

[0]: chesstactics.org
[1]: Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
[2]: Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor
[3]: The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
[4]: Farnsworth's Classical English Style
> The Madonna Inn charger was clogged with traffic yesterday

You'd plan a different route if there was access to other chargers. There's an EVgo site 5 km from the Madonna Inn. An Electrify America site is going in 19 km from that site.

Electrify America is adding new sites every week at the moment.

EVgo is adding a Tesla plug to their chargers. It's essentially a built-in CHAdeMO adapter. It's dumb having to support three different plugs. The sooner it gets to one plug the better. Europe has taken the correct approach by setting CCS type 2 Combo as the standard plug for all cars and chargers.

> Around here, we are actually have some issues with hotels being hostile towards Tesla owners and Tesla having issues finding properties to place chargers.

All the more reason to spread the work around to multiple companies.
Reference and Existence - Saul Kripke

These lectures were given in 1973 but they weren't properly published until 7 years ago. Kripke was probably the most influential philosopher of language of the second half of the past century. Reference and Existence is largely about how to talk about fictional entities and empty names. Kripke's philosophy is a really nice demonstration of applying rigorous logical thought to domains outside math/science, without getting mired in over-engineered abstractions and mathturbation.
I think the research you are referring to is about unconscious impact of looks on decision. Lack of pictures will affect choices, but will not necessarily make participants unhappy. The later requires an entirely different approach to be studied.
Streaming parsers are very inconvenient to work with.
> I'm more familiar with C#, so there may be differences, but while the DI containers do do a lot of dynamic work, it is carefully abstracted so that all code the user writes to interact with the container is type-safe. It's very rare for methods in these languages to return object or dynamic, and slightly less rare but still far from common for these to be arguments.

Sure, but this is true with (most) weird dynamic code in dynamic languages too. Just look at something like `attrs`. Its letting you dynamically construct classes, but you can do so in a type safe way.
Haskell function contracts don't tend to go that far beyond a type signature. Partially because what can be expressed in the type isn't that narrow nowadays.

The situation you're describing is a gigantic strawman per my years of professional FP experience.
I also like to read some Mary Beard blogs/articles from time to time.
The project looks really dead, but it would be nice to have either a revival, or a new alternative. I'd like to get a new TV, but I don't want the junk proprietary stack that it comes with.

Ideas?
Username block is a denial of service against that user.
> They both published content showing extreme dismay at the election of Trump.

So did the National Review (https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/donald-trump-conserva...), but they're hardly left.

Same for George Will (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-spiraling-presid...). Again, hardly left.
I'll have to read both of them in the coming year 2020 :)
When you are no longer in control, you don't own the product. It's a redefinition of ownership and eventually things come to own you.
Following the same kind of pattern as Flickr then, really.
Not OP, I applied to a Wells Fargo job in Charlotte that wouldn't even let me continue the application after entering that I did not have a degree. This was about maybe 3 or so years ago. I had talked to several recruiters about jobs at various companies (from consulting firms to small businesses) which cut communication after learning I dont have a degree. Most recently was a few months back when I talked to a recruiter about a job I was "perfect for" in Atlanta, he called me back later that day to say he couldnt submit me because "the position required a degree". I work at a fortune 500 company, and one of my coworkers straight up admitted the company wouldnt have hired me a few years ago.

These are just the example I could remember at the moment, I'm sure there have been more.