skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree on RAD, but "history of being used in spreadsheet software" is a bit of an overstatement: there are Picosheet showcase [1] and one of the 7GUIs tasks [2] that are made with Red and implement bare-bone native spreadsheets in a handful of code, but that's pretty much it (AFAIK).

And no, Red is a general-purpose language, not specific to spreadsheets like TabulaScript, so your "similar enough" is quite misleading. This reminds of TreeSheets and Lobster [3] though.

[1]: https://www.red-lang.org/2016/07/native-reactive-spreadsheet...

[2]: https://github.com/9214/7guis-red/blob/master/cells.red

[3]: https://github.com/aardappel/treesheets/tree/master/lobster
#3: Making Fun of It
So the MBA's arent responsible for the people they manage? Or are the engineers rogue and answer to no one at Boeing?
> Taking over the entire supply chain is completely impossible though

And it's unnecessary. Black markets exist today and always will. The state would need to merely take over the major suppliers of raw inputs to all products, and major finished products, and that will be enough to keep crypto only relevant on the margins. If black markets become a problem due to crime (i.e. the mafia) they can be dealt with using law enforcement action.

> Another aspect of crypto is the ability to simply leave the oppressor's territory, taking your money with you.

I agree, and you will also leave behind many of the benefits that come from societies that have centralized organization, like i.e. roads and a justice system. No territory with a state that provides infrastructure is going to allow you to operate there indefinitely without paying for the privilege of using that infrastructure.

You will have to find a place with effectively no state, and provide the basics for yourself. But it would be hard, and it's not something that can scale to our current society's scale or prosperity, though.
This is a great example of how so many programmers think they are the first to discover something that is "ancient". In reality this is a problem older than Linux (linux just had the advantage of a huge and diverse open-source userbase from which to draw data). On the flipside, lots of good information takes years to go from discussion groups to books, so it can be hard to find relevant research. Applied compsci is literally the cutting edge of reality.
"but of course there is no actual harm of a porn actor teaching children"

Why would you be the judge of that? Parents have every right to object to their children being influenced by people that they consider to have poor character. Some people believe that libertine indulgence is a marker of poor character or poor education.
I am a fan of Goodreads and their yearly reading challenges. I’ve got about 250 books on my to read and, due to the social nature of the platform, can get new recommendations from my network.

One tip I’ve found is that, for non-fiction, if the average rating is 3.75 or higher, it’s going to be good. I’m prejudice against books lower than that and often cull before I read.

That tip doesn’t seem to apply to fiction.
I would love to hear what bizarre encoding they used that resulted in 2020 being an issue.

(I'm assuming these machines aren't all < year old and just break on any new year)
Agreed. His description of college life would be completely alien to anyone at the college I went to. But then again my college was in Canada... Maybe there's a cultural difference involved here?
I saw people express skepticism before this stuff, that is part of why this is effective. It partly depends upon there being low trust in "sources of truth". Want to know the funny thing? The people that eroded the trust are now the ones complaining the loudest about the results.

Also, why does sex sell? Because people desire sex.
You need to find a problem that only blockchain can solve. The problem needs to be one that many people have and want to solve. The problem can be one that people don't even know they have.

Blockchain is a tool towards a solution not a solution on itself so you need to find a problem it solves.

You can also create tools that help others use it and implement it.

Teaching others how to use it will also be profitable.

Actively look for companies that have a blockchain solution and decide if they have a future and invest in them or copy them.

Become THE expert in blockchain and be a high priced consultant.
Am I missing the breakthrough? This just reads like boilerplate tech marketing, replete with questionable ai usage. I suspect without its well known backer anyone would notice.
As an Iranian living in the US, what's your perspective on the recent claims by US officials: things like Iran attacking civilians in Saudi Arabia and US forces in SA and Iraq, seizing tankers, and supporting militias who were attempting to take over Iraq and killing protestors there?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-says-iran-may-have-ki...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/u-s-officials-iran-off...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/middleeast/british-tanker-sei...
I don't think it's about being out of touch. Even among the most out of touch people at the most out of touch schools, college students just don't behave like he's describing. Could you imagine the stereotypical prep school kid claiming that they're better than you, more valuable or higher status, because they got higher grades in an introductory class?
Backing up solar production with batteries is pointless. Except for a really specific cases. The costs are too high, the stress on the grid is too high, the grid need to be overscaled, the batteries need to be changed each 15 years the solar panels need to be changed each 20 years.

And even if we overcome this, we will need so much solar panel and batteries that we simply don't have enough raw materials to do so (to replace a 1GW nuclear core you need to cover half of Paris with solar panels, source http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/15/rap-enq/r2195-t1.asp).

In France, 95% of the stored electricity is done using reversible-damns (you pump water up to store, you empty the water and generate electricity when you need it), only 2% using batteries. We basically put damns everywhere we could on the territory. We have 2 days max of storage. How can we now store weeks/months of solar-panel/wind electricity we don't need to use it when we need it?

Batteries are inefficient for grid storage, oversized, heavy and too short term. That's it. We now know for decades that damns are the easiest way to do it and we can't do more than a few days of storage.

At one moment we simply have to face the maths and physics. Trusting the "next big thing" in battery storage/solar production, even if we do 5x more energy, even if we develop long lasting ones, will not work in the end. Our needs are too big and the amount of minerals and other raw materials we need is way too big. That's it.
> An AI trained using this data would assume a higher base rate of cannabis consumption by black people

This is a very good point, but it's not enough to ensure your input data aren't reflecting existing biases in society. (I believe it's necessary, but not sufficient.)

In my other comment I gave the example of maternity leave. A woman who becomes pregnant won't be as productive that year. It's no-one's 'fault' that this is the case, and it doesn't reflect anyone's bias. It's still important to ensure, when making hiring decisions, that applicants are not eliminated on the grounds of 'high pregnancy risk'.
> Thinking Fast and Slow

I thought a fair amount of this book was debunked in one way or another?
Nothing ironic about everyone doing it.
Occupational Reproductive Hazards for Female Surgeons in the Operating Room
Note that fair locking is still expensive. parking_lot achieves both speed and fairness by starting with unfair locking and falling back to fair locking.
I once owned a Lada Niva, which while it was overall a rather - to put it charitably - interesting car to own, it excelled during wintertime.

The engine sump was incredibly heavy; when inquiring as to why, I was told the idea was that you could light a (small!) fire under it to make it easier to get the engine cranking in severe cold.

That's Soviet engineering for you!
Snuck
If you do enough research through multiple, reputable sources trends do emerge. If someone says something radical like the president is a lizard person and every news outlet is pretty convinced he was born in the US to human parents then it’s safe to work with the understanding that he’s a human-as a silly example to illustrate the concept.
The Homely Mutt
As a SaaS bootstrapper, zero security stack. I used the crypto package in go?

Absolute security (aside from standard protection of passwords) is at the bottom of my to-do list. It'd have zero impact on finding product market fit.
> I'm curious what part of the system even required specifically coding an end date, and not just sanity checks relative to the current date.

It's working as designed... liability and support was shifted to the owners (cities) prior to the event.
I'm not convinced a design principle based off of a vacuum moulded plastic aesthetic is going to age well either.
> I'm not sure where this author went to college, but outside of a major city like London or NYC, you'd be hard pressed to find a more experientially diverse place (in America, at least) even amongst freshmen.

This seems to be a different claim than “they get the same indoctrination as each other”, which certainly seems fairly true from the fallout in a 9-5 job.

Granted, I think this is more of a problem with the “ivies” (public and private) than an endemic one as there’s less pressure to politically and economically conform.
Cardiometabolic disease costs associated with suboptimal diet
2020 was a common pivot year used in the "windowing" workaround to the Y2K bug. 2-digit years < 20 are defined as 20XX, while years >= 20 are defined as 19XX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing
I would assume that they were made Y2K compliant by pushing the cutoff date back to 2020, so date math are operating on 1920 dates by accident.
Most local print shops will do something like that for <$10. Totally worth it, IMHO.

And I just did a quick price check, and https://xpress.lulu.com/ will do it for $10 as well, with shipping in 2 or 3 days (US).
Dlang moves towards safe default
Adding annoyance to this change is that Safari has a bug where if you send a value with an invalid parameter in SameSite, ("lax" being considered an invalid value), Safari will default to Strict (rather than None) and thus there is another check developers have to handle, which is to user-agent sniff for a Safari/Webkit browser, then explicitly send "None" or not send the SameSite value of "Lax"

I'm pretty sure the WebKit team is aware of it but I don't recall a timetable for a release that addresses the issue, so up to Nov 2019 (when I last look this up) Safari still has this issue.
The best way to access the ideas of people you cannot talk to is to find the depth in their books. I'm thoroughly enjoying reading a book on Aristotle's work. There's so many well articulated perspectives on the world that challenge and grow my own perspective on the world that I would not like to live in a place without access to hundreds of great people and their books.

The internet is like the Starbucks version of the library. Fun, exciting with lots of sugar and broad coverage but lacking quality and is probably not good to have a lot.
On the topic of dates broken around New Year's, there is this perennial favorite:

http://dangoldin.com/2019/01/06/javas-simpledateformat-yyyy-...
I mostly read literature, fiction, and classics. Occasionally I read some modern science fiction and fantasy. Very rarely do I read the advice of someone that I don't know.

Fiction (and some forms of non-Fiction) are about our inner life. They help us discover questions to ask, how we feel, guide us in our understanding of others, society, and the world at large.

My favourite books tend to be about outsiders: L'Entranger, Fahrenheit 451, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, etc... I often find myself at odds with people, with popular opinion, and sometimes even with society. Reading about these figures has given me a lot to think about my place in relation to all of these outside forces, question my own moral compass in relation to other "outsiders," and even work on understanding the nature of otherness.

I've also loved The Nature of Things, The Prince, Days by Moonlight... poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith. They all take me places to where I can never go and leave me a different person than I was before.

Books aren't meant to be consumed. They're meant to be inhabited, lived in, worn like a favourite coat borrowed from a friend.

I can't imagine life without books.
That would be the case if the author had made the two lines start at the same place on the graph. But instead the author has the minimum wage line shrink down with the scale as the NASDAQ line appears.
Crucially: if you’re more likely to deliver successfully you’ll be able to price accordingly as well. E.g. if the perceived change of success with the 60k person is 80% and with you it’s 90% then you’re arguably worth a few 100k extra.

(Now: that %-chance-of-succes is difficult to measure. Which is why it’s a relationship business IMO :)
The Building an Indie Business Podcast- Podcast Marketing
my unsubstantiated guess is that this is a licensing scheme.

reminds me of the parking garage in hoboken that wouldn't pay for a new software license. omg was that over a decade ago? i'm getting old.

https://www.govtech.com/magazines/gt/Robot-Garage-Hijacks-Ca...
I feel the same way about education degrees.
> I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations, YouTube videos, CliffsNotes, podcasts, Reddit posts/comments, blog articles, etc

I don't think this is true. In theory, you may be able to find all the information contained in the books, but it's drowning in garbage. The benefit of books is that the information has been distilled for you. Good books distill information better than bad books.

> One issue for me is that books are a very big time investment. I read very slowly and I don't remember everything I read either.

I hardly read books any more, though I do enjoy a day of reading in the sun when it's warm. I listen to audiobooks while I'm traveling, working out, or doing housework.

> I have thousands of non-fiction (mostly self-improvement) books in my reading list on GoodReads, but almost never bother to read any.

Different folks will tell you different things, but for me, the following self-help content covered most of what I've read to date:

* Any Alan Watts lecture series - I listened to "Out of your mind" (listen to the whole thing)
* The Book of Joy (Dalai Lama and Desmond TuTu)
* Never split the Difference (Chris Voss)
* The hard thing about hard things (Ben Horowitz)

And then read (or listen to) whatever strikes your fancy.

The concentrated focus of books makes them stick better, in my opinion, than blog posts, online commentary, etc.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sneak

> sneak verb

> \ˈsnēk\

> sneaked \ˈsnēkt\ or snuck \ˈsnək\; sneaking"

Whether a verb is weak or strong in English can change over time and dialect.
Even better is the similarity between a bird seen side-on in level gliding flight and the same view of a B2. I tried to get an image link to put here but the internet has become impossible to use, so just Google it I guess.

It seems that the biggest difference between bird wings and airplane wings is that the former use a bell-shaped (per Prandtl) span loading that induces proverse yaw on on roll and allows them to turn without separate yaw input. The elliptical span loading used by the vast majority of man-made aircraft causes adverse yaw, which is probably the biggest reason most aircraft need rudders. Even the B2 has split-aileron drag rudders at its wingtips for this reason.
I don't want to get into a debate about whether Coursera themselves are disruptive. My original question was intended to be more about online education as a whole, even if I didn't make that clear.

I do think popularity and marketing both matter. Amazon was not the first online store. Linux wasn't the first or only OS. Neither was Microsoft the first windowing OS, not even close.

Does popularity / marketing matter for education? It might. When someone says they took a course on Coursera, or at Oxford that means something to almost everyone. Very often education serves a dual purpose: 1. Actually learning the thing. 2. Being able to put a signal on your resume that gets you past certain barriers.
It's unwise to base your assessment of him on a single article. (Edit: I wrongly assumed the two links were to the same article, one archived).

It's not unreasonable for a literary critic to view the bestowal of literary awards on commercial writers with distaste.

Those writers have more fame and wealth than they will ever need; it's fair enough to query why acclaim, publicity and awards - that would benefit less populist authors far more - has been directed in this way.
> If my name doesn’t give you a clue,I was around and developing way before AWS or hosted solutions was a thing. Being able to provision resources by writing yaml and not having to deal with the infrastructure gatekeepers is a godsend.

Take some time to learn some soft skills, just enough to be able to convince people to do stuff for you, if you are the "throw over the wall ones" I recommend to get out of your sillo and interact well with the rest of your team :)

The problem with "serverless" is this kind of attitude around it.
You sort of almost already did with your reply. Just copy it, add pics, add code, add more text and details,

Done.

Do it.
The xr starts at $600. It’s a rich person fantasy that you’d go for two fallible devices which work poorly for basic things like texting, ride hailing, looking up menus rather than one device that does more.
RE: #1, I think it’s probably just one of those assumptions that passes over our collective heads until we have a wake-up call, like the need for TLS over leased fiber in the wake of the PRISM/MUSCULAR revelations. I could totally see a hypothetical “chain of changes” that lead to something like a lack of exploit mitigations on internal/preference pages. Those kind of interfaces used to be implemented with native OS GUI controls (or some facsimile like XUL), and I assume the collective thinking toward their security didn’t get rethought much when Chrome et al implemented them with web controls. Considering I’m here commenting about it and not discovering this myself just makes me thankful these things get found at all :)
> The ethical argument for why everyone should have access to [math] is a lot stronger than why everyone should have access to [math].

Sorry, I don't understand your argument.
Off topic :

I cannot access the page, "One more step,Please complete the security check to access www.38north.org" (captcha from cloudflare it seems)

Solving the captcha didn't work for me, more captcha are presented to me.

I'm on LTE network with javascript disabled, and I'm not allowed to access the page.

This is discrimination, CAPTCHA should be illegal

EDIT : for people with same issue, this works : https://web.archive.org/web/20200104181552/https://www.38nor...
Yep, that’s what keeps me up at night. I’ve had family express their individual preference for sources with zero credibility or authority over sources from medical doctors/phds/other reputable sources. They’re predisposed to believe manipulative stuff and prefer it!
This was also the first thing I thought of recommending but I was worried it required too much background knowledge in economics.
The code hasn't been all zeros for 40 to 50 years. It was all zeros on some of the arsenal for about 15 years from ~1962 until ~1977.
Can anyone (from China) identify these Messaging services?
This is frankly a stupid problem caused by people who can't multiply, but I guess a stupid problem deserves a stupid solution.
I'm aware of the priming studies being debunked, but what else?
What is a use case for optimizing interprocessor latency?
> This shot by Dribbble user alexplyuto gained over 3000 likes and pushed the trend forward. [1]

That mockup is aesthetically pleasing, but from a usability perspective it's terrible: every UI element looks like a button. The progress bar (?) looks like a slider. How do users know which elements they're supposed to interact with? Why do we make the same mistakes over and over?

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/3200/1*gza8htfpZ-5eDabA7_kTJw.pn...
I wouldn't be surprised if something alone the lines of `split("20")` or `replace("20", ““)` was the culprit somewhere (to turn it into a 2-digit year). I've seen the most absurd date handling code...
The Netherlands has a digital government sign-in ("DigID") which works very well, secured using text messaging or 2 factor auth. With it you view all of your official documents across all branches of government. It allows for delegating permissions (say between a married couple). It's really great and shows that with competence these systems work out great.
Thinking Fast and Slow came out in 2011. Also there is recent work showing that some of its conclusions may be flawed due to failure to replicate.

Self help books are not all bad. The early ones around cognitive behavioral therapy have been proven to help in scientific studies. I would look to ones that have scientific basis. That being said the placebo effect is very powerful.
Books are also dangerous. Because the amount of effort you have to invest in a book is quite large people tend to develop biases around a book.

It's a strange phenomena. The more effort someone invests in something the higher their bias towards it. Much is the same for books.

I know of no human who has read every detail of the books war and peace or Moby dick with their own free will and came out saying that the plot was total crap. It's literally because the energy placed into finishing the book is so high that the bias is even higher.

Movie adaptations of said books will likely have terrible plots even when the plots are literally identical to the books. The only thing missing from the movies is your bias.

Note that this does not mean I am saying books are bad. They do offer things that online articles fail to offer. Just wanted to note that almost no one mentioned the dark side of investing so much time into books.
At least in finance it's more "move slowly and hope no one notices it's broken."
> I suggest you try to put the plan down on paper to realize it’s feasibility.

Dude, there's a whole book about it.

> an example of this system working

And, yes, Farmer Dave did it. For all I know he's doing it right now. I haven't talked to him in years.

You can contact him right now and ask him to put you in touch with the people who are already doing this.
Thought about mentioning this in the above rant. Yes, a lot of that book is debunked. No, that doesn't stop all self-help books from being based on it. It's also still worth reading, just don't take each individual claim as gospel and if you're going to excitedly incorporate any given claim into your model of how things work, have some other evidence for it or read some papers. (Though the papers you read will also be debunked before you can say "priming effect.")
Actually at this point the game theoretic best move for all parties is to be as manipulative as possible. To change back to a pre-manipulation equilibrium requires overriding effort against these tactics from all players. I’m treating the hostile sources/interests as outside the game in that examination.
I think the people who get their mind blown by Girard never read any other literary theory. Yes, my 10x Rockstar Ninja friend, Girard is from the literature department! Horror! But wait, what other mind blowing insights on life might those English majors know that you don't? Uh oh!