skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an ugly person I have a higher chance of scoring a date with someone attractive using this photoless site than I would have otherwise. Seems like a win.
Unless you cock up the mechanical part. I have recently bought a bunch of cheap wall clocks for the house, thinking you cannot mess up a quartz resonator, right? Turns out, you can by improperly sizing electrical vs. mechanical counterparts. So one of the clocks is late by about 5 minutes per month, and the other one randomly stops, but only when hung on the wall. Works like clockwork for the past 4 months or so since I dumped it in the recycling pile. I guess, the impulses keep coming as you would expect them, just not all of them end up moving the hands.
They do need to make money. How would you have them do it?

My preference is a markup on the cost of validating alleged attributes. If you claim to be 6'2" tall, that might be validated with a notarized statement from a doctor. If you claim to have a degree, that can be checked via the usual electronic clearinghouse non-profit that universities use. If you claim to own property, county records can be checked. All this costs money. Apply a markup, and that gives a profit that will seem reasonably fair to most people.

Another way is to sell the obvious products, ranging from condoms to wedding rings.
Electric heating pad and tape usually have a pretty short lifespan; the kind you might get to prevent ice dams on old, poorly insulated eaves / roofs might maybe last 5 years if you have cold winters.

Higher grade industrial elements might last longer, but nat. gas is going to be significantly more cost effective in the US
I think a better method is to read at least the first sentence of every paragraph and last sentence on short paragraphs. This way you have an idea on what the paragraph is about.

Another thing you can do is scan the paragraph you're skipping when reading the other paragraph for keywords.
Fitter, happier
More productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym, three days a week
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well, no more microwave dinners and saturated fats
A patient, better driver
A safer car, baby smiling in back seat
Sleeping well, no bad dreams
No paranoia
Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole
Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then
Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall
Favours for favours, fond but not in love
Charity standing orders on sundays, ring-road supermarket
No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants
Car wash, also on sundays
No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows, nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace, slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned, but powerless
An empowered and informed member of societ, pragmatism not idealism
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Tires that grip in the wet, shot of baby strapped in backseat
A good memory
Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat
Tied to a stick
That's driven into
Frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness
Calm, fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig in a cage on antibiotics
Finally got around to reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.

It was on my list for the past like, twenty years, and after reading it I really wish I would have read it back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes
I made a torrent:

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This includes all the files from your mirror except for the older database backups and the "latest" directory (which is just the extracted version of cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz).
I think JavaCard applets could be considered to be secure enclaves within a smartcard because JCOP is supposed to completely isolate them except for their exported interfaces.
Well, this is right on time given the discussion of Samsung screens phoning home ;)
Suppose it depends on what you're listening to and why, but I mostly listen to podcasts for entertainment, and I don't want to rush entertainment. I have enough trouble finding good stuff as it is.
It requires more effort and more precision. So I'll say no. Having trouble with something and compensating by doing a more difficult task is only a good coping strategy when it's something you very rarely have to do.
I used to organize such things into a big folder structure by topic. Since it was mental effort to keep organized, I rarely did it and sometimes had tens of thousands of unsorted emails. Realized that if I needed to find something, I could always find it by searching, but sometimes an important mail fell through the cracks.

Now I stay on top of mail by sorting into “todo”, “follow up” and “archive”. I go through the first 2 every few days and archive anything I don’t care about, and move things from follow up to todo if I feel I need to do some action. Typically this means sending a reminder to someone.

You can probably sort through 500 emails in a couple hours. If that’s too daunting, just do 100 per day.

I disagree with others that say to delete your bookmarks. I would just archive them so you can find them by searching later if something triggers your memory. But from now you can save bookmarks in 2 folders. If something is interesting, save it in your archive and forget about if. If something is actionable or time sensitive, save it in a “todo”, “to read” folder or open tab.
It is frustrating that everything has to be connected. Pretty soon toasters will need updates before toasting. Maybe ads will be burned into the toast?

For a "TV" I think I'll just get the biggest computer monitor I can and do without an actual television tuner. Most times I watch YouTube or Amazon Prime Video, more and more less Netflix and broadcast TV. Even with that setup a Pi Hole is a must.
Great suggestions. Your post reads like the first part of Meditations by Aurelius.
The rise of the network edge and what it means for telecommunications
Fantastic.

I would love a TV that entirely removes all the app features and retains my ability to network control it. I get why TV manufacturers don't want to release a TV like that, but, open-source replacement firmware seems like a fantastic solution. It could really be amazingly simple and meet my needs.
I agree, but I would guess the deals looked something like equity, first right of refusal on acquisition, some level of access to IP, and maybe something like timed or category exclusivity in exchange for investment.

I'd also guess that the money is going to mostly CapEx for infrastructure (facilities, automation, tooling, etc) and OpEx for headcount and sub-supplier NRE rather than to inventory. There are "cheaper" ways to finance something short term like inventory than giving up equity.
Ha! A very well timed article.
Section 9 of the RFC would indeed technically allow interpreting 01 as you please, but section 6 states:

“Numeric values that cannot be represented in the grammar below... are not permitted”

Regardless I agree we should not do such things.
I've had four careers, and each one became pretty much my whole identity. For some years, anyway. But eventually, I found myself becoming interested in something else. And eventually, that something else became a career. After a period of chaos, anyway.

And now my privacy/anonymity hobby has basically become a career. Except that I mostly don't get paid. Which isn't an issue.
I think a big part of it is that he goes out of his way to explain everything relevant, and to not gloss over any details. Most other people doing similar would gloss over those details without even realizing it.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Great overview of how we got here and how our shared 'delusions' keep us where where we are).

- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Great interviews by incredibly successful start up founders. Lesson 1: determination was the number one predictor of start up success. Lesson 2: most of the founders had no idea on how huge some of the companies would become nor the huge amounts of revenue their ideas would generate. Their number one focus was always grounded in solving a problem or delivering something great; everything else was secondary.)

- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Great crime story. It shows how small things can make a big difference. A seemingly inconsequential and small prison event where a man spreads a rumor about a family having lots of wealth in their household leads to a series of robberies which nightmares are made of. Completely true story and incredibly well written by Mr. Capote. It convinced me that life is ruled by chaos. Small things and seemingly small events play a vital role in determining its outcome).

- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Amazing book showing that a lot of personality disorders stem from childhood trauma / experiences).

- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Great overall book on UI design which definitely had an effect on how I approach designing user interfaces).

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Great thoughts from a great mind).

- How to Develop Superpower Memory by Harry Loraine (Great advice on how to drastically improve your memory using your visual cortex – as well as a great general overview of the methodology current world memory champions use to remember large volumes of information).

- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Worldly wisdom from one of the world’s greatest investors).

- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Great thoughts and advice from Carl Sagan. The last chapter had a profound effect on the way I think of the US constitution).

- The Things They Carried (Great novel about the hell of war, as well as incredible prose writing).

- Mindfulness in Plain English (Great book about mindfulness meditation).

- My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson (Great teachings and stories from the grand master of hypnosis).

- How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease (Great book with great advice on healthy eating).

- Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (It taught me how incredibly important exercise is when it comes to brain development / general health. If you could bottle its effects in a pill form, people would pay hundreds of dollars to unlock the incredible stuff it delivers).

- A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Great overview of what’s wrong with the current state of mathematics and the way that its taught. I completely agree with with the sentiment and the message).
Couple questions:

- If it's not zero but "close", what's the little bit then?

- What is your business model? How will the company eventually make money?
That, but also some who feel they’re losing the beauty game want to flip the board over.
Please borrow it. In fact, steal it.
Hello, thanks for releasing this! Are there any plans to release chapter 10?
No! I'm actually the original registrant of the domain. I actually have way too many domains and ideas that I'd love to build and this is a great example.

I originally registered it with the intent of building a remote monitoring and management tool or an infrastructure provider company but never got around to doing either venture.

The remote job site came about because I realized I was getting a lot of unintentional traffic from people searching for remote jobs. As it wasn't a terribly difficult venture, I decided to build it out and see how it went and so far, it's done well.
Part of that problem might be explained by thoughtlessness, but I can think of four practical reasons:

1. "Trash" marks a spot where you intend to return. This can help ensure that you have a regular place to sleep.

2. What appears to be trash might have some value to the hoarder, e.g., trashy but wearable clothing, recyclables, etc.

3. Litter can camouflage minor valuables, so you can accomplish #1 and also have a hiding place for stuff people might steal.

4. Given all of the above, trash naturally gathers in a homeless community and eventually gets dumped however is most practical.
This is a such a strange concept - optional static typing as an external add-on. All the headaches of needing another tool, none of the guarantees of the compiler doing the checking, and no optimization benefit from knowing the type at compile time. Plus the strangest feature of all - a mechanism for turning off the optional type checking so old code will still compile, even if it won't work right.

Optional type declarations for function parameters, checked and used by the compiler, would make sense. PyPy could use them to optimize basic numeric types. Within a function, you can usually infer types. From an optimization perspective, the only types worth distinguishing are probably int32, int64, slotted classes without inheritance, and everything else. "Everything else" needs the current dynamic dispatch mechanism; the other cases can have hard machine code generated.

But this optional stuff? That looks like a solution to a political problem, probably avoiding it being totally ignored. The Python designers used up their goodwill budget in the 2 to 3 fiasco.
I've been meaning to do through his videos for a long while now and finally over christmas I've managed to binge watch nearly all this series.

As a software guy currently doing the Embedded Systems course on edX, Ben's videos have really helped solidify what I've read in the course.

Big example was tri-state drivers, after reading about them in the course they hadn't quite clicked, and I searched YouTube and came across Ben's video. He explained the concept so incredibly well, it clicked immediately and I've found it a good companion for the course.
Does anyone know if anything comparable to SMAC these days?
I probably spent more time playing this game than anything else.
No worries about being off-topic. I’m more than happy to listen to your unconstrained writing. I always enjoy your comments and find you have a unique and valuable perspective.

Anyway, what sort of graduate work would you like to do and why?

And I’m surprised your academic performance in high school is still a hinderance. Do you also have not great test scores?

If you could get into someplace reasonably prestigious, would you go back to school full-time? Or is being able to go to school while still working important for you?
Can you expand? I'd like to learn more about this. Ok Cupid used to publish lots of interesting blog posts, so I'm assuming you got that from one, but I can't find it. Do you have a link?
[2011] Aldous Huxley, Dying of Cancer, Left This World Tripping on LSD (1963)

http://www.openculture.com/2011/10/aldous_huxleys_lsd_death_...

As an aside: The Doors (the band), in addition to being named after the book and having a classically-trained pianist, basically delved into a different genre with each album. The Electra label also had their albums put on early CDs in 1980/1981 made in West Germany.
Bunnie's blog post has really good description of it as well
http://bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706

The FPGA is the weak link as he says. Everything else is cool (like the physical keyboard and LCD you can inspect with a light) but you can't validate the FPGA. I'd assume it'd be harder for a threat actor to compromise (make a compromised FPGA would take more resources than compromising the keyboard, etc)
Could someone elaborate on what they think a good developer should "learn cold"
>I wonder if there's anyone out there who can read a non-alphabetic language (e.g. Chinese) but doesn't even know how to pronounce what they're reading.

This is actually how many people learn Japanese. They get an anki deck with kanji and their meanings and learn from that. The decks might have some pronunciations of the kanji, but typically not all of the pronunciations (or people don't learn them). This leads to a situation where they can read text and understand most (all?) of it, but would have difficulty reading it out loud.

Japanese kanji (and Chinese hanzi) are logographic. Each symbol denotes a word or a phrase and depending on the context it can have a different pronunciation, however the meanings generally stay rather similar.
I think you more or less answered your own question here - people succeed at jobs that they can sustain and I concur with that. Shitty leaders who look down on different people for their jobs are just that - shitty leaders.

One caveat I'd add is that I'm an introvert myself and initially found a lot of these meetings and especially conferences, extremely draining.

However I also realized that there were ways to make them not-as-draining. For example, don't go to a conference unless you are a speaker. That reduces the feeling that you need to approach people to make conversation, make small talk etc...

For meetings, set the expectations that there will be concrete and measurable tasks that come out of the meeting, or otherwise don't have them. Just the facts ma'am. It's surprisingly effective, and way more efficient when you cut out the BS.

Things like that I've found reduce the amount of heavy social reading, politics, etc... which are so draining to most introverts like us.

YMMV
Sounds like a clinical case of memory hoarding.

From: https://ocdla.com/memory-hoarding-obsessive-compulsive-disor...

> Memory hoarding is a mental compulsion to over-attend to the details of an event, person, or object in an attempt to mentally store it for safekeeping. This is generally done under the belief that the event, person, or object carries a special significance and will be important to recall exactly as-is at a later date. The memory serves the same function for the mental hoarder that the old newspaper serves for the physical hoarder.

I’ll admit too that I have had thousands of unread emails and tens of thousands of bookmarks.

You have to come to realize that it’s not all that important. And even if you can’t, there’s one way to start.

You fear that you’ll lose the data, that it’s important. So, save it all. Archive every single one of those emails, and export those bookmarks. Put them in a folder of their own and make a backup if you really care. Start fresh with a clean inbox and bookmarks folder.

If you were right, and you actually ever need the data it’s still there. But the more likely scenario is that you won’t, or it will be easier to just google the damn thing again. This is how you may begin to realize the behavior is irrational. It’s how I did.
Anyone who lives on Long Island or takes the LIRR will let out a bitter laugh at this article.

> 90.7 percent of trains were on time in November, an improvement of 3.8 percent over last year

The metrics used by the LIRR were so disconnected from reality that the state actually passed a law this year mandating that they had to adopt meaningful standards.

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/mta-lirr-...

The entire LIRR system is plagued by cancellations and delays on a daily basis. There's nothing quite like standing on the train platform looking at the little digital sign that says, "the 7:08 to PENN is on time" while you look at your phone and see its 7:25 and the train is still nowhere in sight.

https://twitter.com/LIRR
It's a good thing that it made it to AT&T Unix System 5 Release 4, then, so that it really counts.
Content bloat with needless crap seems to have happened to novels, movies and tv shows. It’s interesting to read penguin classics - maybe they don’t represent their respective eras, but they are usually (very subjectively) quite short.
Yeap. I read it in high school many moons ago. I should probably read it again, before and after dropping acid, just to understand the context. With each year and season of our lives, we see the world through different, hopefully wiser yet still youthfully-enthusiastic, eyes.
No need to apologize, it was just a friendly "better safe, then sorry" warning (not sure why it was downvoted). Anyway, you're welcome. If you have no serious product/brand plans, perhaps, you have nothing to worry about.
A big part of this is what kind of measurement your doing. I can easily boost my typing speed with a few errors. However, I would much rather type at 99.98% accuracy at 35WPM when programming or doing data entry than 80WPM at even 99.9% accuracy.

However, if your spending most of the day emailing people extreme accuracy is effectively pointless.
> Also, dating sites should facilitate meeting, not pen-pals or “virtual” phony “relationships.”

This. So much this. Above all else.

Playing the whole game of an online back-and-forth "relationship" before the first meeting is annoying and exhausting. Honestly, it feels like a complete waste of time as well.

There will be a yay/nay decision made by at least one party, within the first FIVE MINUTES of that first in-person meeting, that will render EVERYTHING previously exchanged online to be completely irrelevant. Better to just get to that point as quickly as possible, and not kid ourselves about it.
>Thinking more about this some more, I’m pretty sure that there is a conceptual and/or visual “sub vocalization” that I have experienced where I clearly knew what something meant, but the words to say it in any language didn’t readily come to my mind.

Isn't this a common occurrence when you just can't think of a word, but it's on the tip of your tongue? Another thing that's similar to this would be all the symbols we run into in real life. Things such as traffic signs, trademarks, settings buttons, hamburger menu etc.
Except that it worked...
I worked at Cloudflare, sometimes on luajit. When I find myself merging patches from random lua community members that will never be in an official point release to fix crashes in well-behaved lua code, I'm not sure what other word property describes the situation.

It may warm my heart to know that lukego, yichun, and siddhesh are also merging the same patch, but it doesn't really help.
Most of the homepage is nonsense
I found that you have to enable desktop mode before entering slack on mobile. If you have visited slack with a mobile user agent, it will force you to download the app even if you enable desktop mode.
Netflix Is Making ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’
Since you said you aren't currently charging anything for it, I would say you should wait to see if the market will validate it before shutting down. I.e, see if you can raise the price to something > $0 before calling it quits.
So let them complain. You can't please everyone.
Thanks for sharing Derek

I regularly use your book list for inspiration on what to read next
That’s more of an overt brag than a funny story.