skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Self-Awareness Is (and How to Cultivate It)
Mapping out your dopamine detox
Murdoch newspapers in question.. caught not actually covering the fires.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/04/the-australian...
> we can ask them questions in order to find out how they came to a particular conclusion.

For the most basic cognitive tasks, we typically can't.

If you show someone a picture of a cat and a dog, they can easily recognize which is which.

If you then ask, "but how do you know?", I don't think most people could say anything useful. If it looks like a cat and it walks like a cat...
Very cool OP!
With webtorrent clients you might just get a miner in your codebase:

https://github.com/DiegoRBaquero/BTorrent/issues/71#issuecom...
> No, uh, the high level language performs way more work.

The effective work is the same: a line is printed to the screen. The part you consider "wasted" does only go to waste if all of your programs are "hello world" programs, at which point, you might consider yourself fairly lucky if you also get paid for that.

> Yes, nobody has ever written a complex program in C.

> You're right. Let's rewrite the Linux kernel in Ruby.

You're attacking a straw man. You completely omitted the part I wrote about "long development times and a mass of bugs that come straight from their inability to abstract when necessary and from their memory management systems that lack sanity and safety."

No one doubts the existence of Linux, BSDs, Darwin, or Windows. I doubt the programmer productivity while working on them.
This is just whattaboutism seeing as there's currently good crypto exchanges in every major currency, accessible from most countries. Does your argument hinge on this somehow changing everywhere?

Do you know what asylum is? I can permanently move to plenty of countries without asylum, I think you're getting a bit off track..
There isn't an ethnicity wage gap. If you look at data from the Low Wage Commission rather than ONS data (or indeed, any academic work on this) it is very clear (i.e. data that actually uses proper independent variables and looks at within-occupation differentials...the issue with the data reported by the BBC is that the model is underspecified and the unexplained variance is all attributed to racism...this defies logic).

Btw, it is very clear that some ethnic minorities are underpaid and excluded from certain occupations (i.e. they are underpaid within occupation, aren't promoted, and are excluded from occupations systemically)...but it is Pakastani/Bangladeshi, not blacks.

What racism? There is evidence that the UK is one of the most racially tolerant societies in Europe and comparable with any other developed country (admittedly, Europe is not a good comparison because of the prevalence of intolerance there) - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00012...

I will say that I have observed a definite change of attitude by black students however. I went to the university local to me, there are a huge number of non-white students (majority in some faculties) and I have never observed any problem ever (discussing race or nationality would make no sense to any of the students there). The Afro-Carribean society (one, btw, that has always had white members) held an event where white people were banned from attending (again, not just non-black...specifically white) on the subject of resisting white culture. This is a Russell Group uni that you need 3As for in almost every course. This is the result of hammering the idea of racism and inferiority into one group and repeatedly telling them that other people think they are less than. The idea that this is reducing intolerance is quite contrary to all the evidence.

Btw, it is kind of funny that the UK has a solution for this problem...it works...and no-one is interested. The only thing you seem to care about is more identity wars, more conflict, more hate.
I'm sorry that you have viewed books this way for at least ten years. Deeper treatment of a given topic or story necessarily takes a long time to explain and the format of longform text exposition is called a book. They are worth reading. Also many are timeless, most problems are not new. Please read books and focus at first on books considered to be timeless classics. It sounds like you will be pleasantly surprised. I expect this will enrich your life a lot in ways you probably don't know exist. Don't expect immediate measurable benefits. Also don't give up after reading one or two. Also you will get faster at reading them.

I think a big part of the problem here is that if you focus on topical and especially self-help books, the content in them is shallow, mostly meaningless bullshit that is comparable in quality to online discussion. As a good general rule don't read anything marketed as self help. And I can't emphasize enough how shallow and low value online discussion generally is.

Fiction is good. Non-fiction can be good if you know what you want, but popular non-fiction is more likely to be bullshit. I recommend One Hundred Years Of Solitude, which is widely regarded as one of the best novels ever.
Of course the world is complex. This stuff makes sense unless it doesn’t. That $10,000 piece of land may require capital budget to utilize that you don’t have, for example.

I ran into the concert example when it was announced a couple of years ago that David Wright would take the field for the N.Y. Mets for the last time. My $12 tickets were suddenly worth $300 or more. Rationally, it would make sense to pocket a few thousand bucks. But the experience had a certain value, and I wouldn’t be able to get my kids and nieces and nephews together, in NY, etc for a year or more. So we had an amazing time and missed an economic coup.
I didn’t see a great deal of effort to convince anyone of anything.

Why must all blog posts be attempts to change the world?
ELI5 please.

Where is the data for all of those IPFS hashes stored?

And what ensures that it will persist?
> as it doesn't rely on site developers updating and setting the new flag right.

Chrome is enabling this flag by default. Websites can opt out, but if they do nothing they are opted in.

Blocking third party cookies doesnt really stop csrf attacks. At most it makes the attack a bit more noticeable as it prevents some of the quieter methods of pulling off the attack. Since as far as i understand, if you submit a cross-domain POST form, that's still a first party cookie
But why would a license from Bruce Perens be valid? The copyright holder (from the point of view of a foreign country) would be the US government.
Pairing as a Manager
I built an http server and a markov chain library to learn python. They're both pretty worthwhile weekend-size projects.

I heard cryptopals [0] is really good for learning both crypto and a new programming language. It might be cool to build things like a DNS resolver, an X window manager, gameboy game, or something from coreutils like grep or tar

[0] https://cryptopals.com/
This is actually false. Early psychologists thought that humans could know everything about their own brain's processes, but observational psychology proved most of their assumptions wrong. It's called introspection, and it's almost always not indicative of a person's actual inner workings.
https://github.com/tormol/tiny-rust-executable

(See also http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2015/01/151-byte-... which was the original implementation, this shaved a few more bytes off)
Any org for solo consultant? How do you guys solve the health insurance problem?

Thanks...
You're right. The other person is extremely rude and dismissive.
How about giving them an old game boy or DS with a selection of games from your local used game store or ebay?
Victim in Fatal Laptop Theft at Starbucks in Montclair Died on His Birthday
I use visual studio code, it’s the editor I’m most comfortable with these days. I have android studio installed but don’t really use it except when publishing.
Expert systems from the 70s and 80s had a capability similar to this. They could explain how they reached a conclusion by reporting the rules they used to get there. The problem was that interviewing experts and coming up with a huge rules database was a ton of work and didn't scale very well.

Maybe the next direction in AI will be to bridge the gap between expert systems and black box models?
I dunno, Aristotle seems kind of important. Or if you must have someone more recent, Alasdair MacIntyre.

I confess I didn't get much out of my forays into Girard. It seems to mostly be amateur primatology. It's entirely possible I didn't try hard enough, or whatever Thiel got out of it, he got out of it in person rather than from the books. It's also possible Girard is overrated by Thiel fanboy types.
Simple Proof to the Container with Most Water Problem
I don't know, it sounds like a kink for her and it seems like he was into it too (or at least likes helping her). Of course it does seem like a slippery slope thing, I'm usually skeptical that sex and friendship or money and friendship can mix except for really healthy people and I'm even more skeptical once you combine the two
We're talking about changing a default behaviour that will affect literally every website that uses cookies. That's a trade-off where I'm not sure the benefits do clearly outweigh the downsides.
To add to the many good comments, it's also very low population density -- at 18 people per km^2. Being well down in the southern hemisphere, it's well out of the way when the fighting and desperate mass migration kicks off. It's probably no coincidence it was one of the last land areas to gain humans.
I've never understood the pre-summarization technique. I've had lecturers constantly state what they intend to say so much that its a distraction. When I see this style of writing I glaze over as well.
Different people have different definitions of arguing, especially when it comes to family. There is healthy debate and there is dishes flying through the air, name calling, screaming, and slammed doors. Leaning towards the former can be healthy. The latter? I don't think so.
It's an ages old dilemma, per-hour vs. per-project. There's no single right approach. It's a choice, often circumstantial. Both options have risks.

Solo/freelancing awards us that freedom to balance the risks. After all we do sell our time - we either bill our client for it OR give the account of it to ourselves (man, that design took me awile....).

So eventually it's supposed to bring out that feel of one's own time value. Raising rate is what logically comes out of this too.

Being solo also means facing one's own anxiety and insecurity. So we need to be flexible and choose whatever works to boost our professional and personal confidence, then review what outcomes this turned us. This, again, will eventually harmonize what you bill your client to what you really want to be paid.

The real question is how soon this balances out before bills would choke us. So it makes sense to not routinely under-charge just because of anxiety, as this only will make it stronger next time.
> The effective work is the same: a line is printed to the screen. The part you consider "wasted" does only go to waste if all of your programs are "hello world" programs, at which point, you might consider yourself fairly lucky if you also get paid for that.

Did the CPU work go towards something useful? No? Then it is waste. Some waste is inevitable; that doesn't change what it is. It's still waste. We should minimize waste. It's kind of simple.

>You're attacking a straw man. You completely omitted the part I wrote about "long development times and a mass of bugs that come straight from their inability to abstract when necessary and from their memory management systems that lack sanity and safety."

No mate, you're the one attacking a straw man. You're ignoring the actual evidence of people getting important things done in low level languages and hand-waving it away because it doesn't agree with your preconceived notions of how things should be done.
What a dumb question is it? The same logic is behind sports and nobel price awards.

It's easier to say to people who make financial decision that this is great artificial intelligence that will solve all your problems then explain mathematical equations behind it that 90% people won't understand. The more complicated the stuff is the higher probability it will be sold. That's the standard in IT world from quite some time.
Show HN: ASMR Is Changing the Way People Think
You will do really well as a proof-reader.
I use both (model M at home, Unicomp at work) and while I've not had any failures, it's clear that the Unicomp is made of cheaper materials. One example is the case itself - the Model M's case is made of thick ABS, while the Unicomp is made of thin polystyrene. As a result, the two keyboards feel different - there's a a resonance from keypresses on the Unicomp that's almost entirely dampened on the M.
Ask HN: Going from personal project back end to commercial
Hello all, a kinda noob here. I'm currently developing a small management application for my mom and I was thinking that when it is kinda working to try selling it. I'm making a whole stack with a Vue+electron client and a NestJS+MySQL Backend.

My main question is how does one transition from having to only worry about one database with like 3 tables to accepting multiple users with their separate databases? Would you run the same single backend server and mysql instance and just have separate databases? I'm currently using docker, so I guess it would be possible to just spin up a new stack for every client, but that seems wasteful.

Would love to hear some feedback since it's a bit hard to search for this specific dilemma on Google
Yes, and Mr Perens is making a valid point here too. In such a way as to be regrettably easy to dismiss. I watched him instruct Linus Torvalds in how "the kernel project should be run" in 1998; he wasn't wrong but I'm sure I wasn't the only one who wanted to smack him rather than hear him out.

I say this in deepest sympathy for the man, I'm similarly non-charming but much much more repellent.
This is completely credible. But what can we do?

At least, there should be investigations of people returning from surgery in China.
Fantastic - the end result pdf looks great.

Please blog about the details of the production process (scripts you wrote, problems with paper sizes or the amazon real paper process.) I am 30,000 words into a book and would love to hear more.

Good luck !
unicomp keyboards are terrible quality. FYI before you purchase.
Hey Tim,

Upwork. Create a profile as a technical writer, and put links to your docs.

I've picked up partime gigs for API documentation, product usage documentation / User Guide, with screenshots and gifs on that platform. If you are US based, even better cos lot of Companies want to hire US based freelancer for TAX reasons and what not.

Upwork search for client even has a filter that says "US only" and I've used that as a client also, to hire freelancers from within US.

Besides traditional technical writing, there are also gigs for Technical blog posts on various subjects. Avoid the one-off gigs that are low paying, and focus on startups or companies that have already paid for other gigs (you can see it in their profile).
The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Lighting Energy Use: A Literature Review
Fear has been used for a very long time to control Americans...
The decade long bull market has been really good to a lot of active retail traders.
The Impact of Medical School Oaths and Other Professional Codes of Ethics (2011)
Browsers are far more battle-tested than just about any other web-facing application on your computer.

Of course, you could make the personal decision to trust a client, and that is fine. But if you aren’t willing to blindly trust a client, the other guy’s point still stands - browsers are probably just the better choice here from a security POV.
In all fairness, age/maturity of software is a thing that could affect that; it would be interesting to know if Chrome also had less low-hanging fruit when it was the same age as Chromium-Edge is now.
>Average white US citizen has $1,000,000 in wealth, the average black person $500.

Knowing what we know about wealth distribution that just means there's less "crazy rich" black people.
That's very possible -- a lot of game features come out of that process.

But, I would say the responsibility of a designer is to be able to parse player feedback and disregard bad suggestions. If your players knew how to design a game, they would be game designers.

One of the big reasons design is so hard is because you're trying to understand another person's motivations better than they themselves do. Feedback shouldn't be ignored, but neither should it be implemented verbatim. Players just aren't good at sussing out their own motivations -- they'll tell you, "we want more rewards for ranked" instead of "we don't want to feel obligated to dip into unrelated game modes", or "we want to feel more like we're progressing towards something."

Players also aren't good at giving feedback about what feels wrong, their feedback instead takes the form of half-thought ideas of how to fix what feels wrong. Responding to that feedback means digging under it to find out the actual problem and addressing that specifically.

Note that this isn't just me talking. Rosewater himself has talked about this phenomenon a lot in his design blog on MTG, and he has a good quote on this[0]:

> The key is whether or not what the players want will in the end make them happy. Players ask for things all the time that if we actually gave them would make the game less enjoyable for them. We do spend a lot of time trying to understand what they players want, though, because when we are able to give players things they want, we do.

The point being, I have no doubt that if MTG Arena announced tomorrow that it was getting rid of ranked rewards and seasons, the playerbase would be livid. I still suspect an alternate system for rewards would be better in the long run.

[0]: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/s...
I agree that the truncation at 1998 is odd. The footer has "The Autism History Project © 2019 by Ellen Herman", so it seems like it's not an abandoned univerity account.

I think that the previous slide of 1998, which says "the neurologically different represent a new addition to the familiar political categories of class/gender/race and will augment the insights of the social model of disability" is potentially interesting. It seems too open-ended, though; in what way "different"?
tl;dr: yes

First let me address the time investment angle. Not every hour is the same. There are active hours when I'm creating something, having conversations, actively learning. There are passive hours when I'm consuming content - watching movies or YouTube videos, listening to podcasts, reading books. An hour spent reading a book is not an hour not spent learning a new ML technique. It's an hour not spent watching TV. Once you realize that, you stop feeling guilty.

Now back to the main subject. Reading Cliff's notes and comments will give you some idea of what's in a book, but it will be by definition incomplete, and likely biased. A good example is George Orwell's 1984. You need to read the entire book to understand the very last sentence. It is very powerful, but if you skip the book and just read it out of context it won't have the same effect. You may think you understand what the book is about, but that understanding will be rather shallow.

The biggest problem with books is that, like everywhere else, 90+% is crap and it's not easy to tell which books you'll like. Recommendations don't work well because they depend on people. You won't necessarily like a book I liked. So effectively you're on your own as far as discovery goes.
It's illegal. Also, sex tends to be more enjoyable when you can enjoy it regularly with the same partner ( hence marriage ).

Therefore, yes, it is unhealthy. Move along.
I thought a recent article here said YouTube passed the break-even point in 2015
That is exactly what I do not like about systems such a Chrome OS and Windows. I want the choice about upgrading the kernel. The Linux kernel is quite good about not breaking user-space applications.

I have an Acer C720 that have been running Linux for 5 years.
Now it has Debian with a 5.4.0 kernel and it works just fine.

In the beginning it was running Ubuntu which also worked fine.
I got it because the SSD died a year ago, but I run Linux from an SD-card.
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What do you mean by "private"?

I mean, if it's securely encrypted, does it matter if others can see it? And indeed, if it's online, you must assume that others can see it.

My privacy concern is about IP addresses. So I'd want to use IPFS with Tor onions as stores.
is that not what you and I are?
Seoul's proximity to the border and the NK artillery based there complicates things more than you suggest: https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-north-korea-would...
Brave Browser has WebTorrent built in. Just paste a magnet link into the URL bar and it will start downloading/seeding.
I stopped caring about iTunes when I updated and 99% of my music got deleted because of whatever licensing change they had made without explaining the implications of said update.

Thankfully I had backups - as a musician, I have a LOT of songs, samples, and tracks that wouldn't ever have licenses from Apple. Now my music is all in a single Read-Only directory, and I only use music players that understand the use of Meta data for proper song sorting.

It was only the second time Apple screwed me over musically. The other time was when they updated Logic Audio to 64-bits and didn't include a utility to convert the old directories. To this day, there still isn't a way to convert old Logic files to the current format unless everything you did was mixed down as stems.
What a horrible thing to happen. All kind thoughts and prayers for the family and loved ones of this tragedy.
New York City's mansion tax impacts housing cost
Can one use Tor onions as stores?
> (Chromium now maintained by Googlers)

“now” sort of implies there was a time when Chromium existed but was maintained by someone else.
It’s interesting to see the use of a number of non-standard units of measurement in describing the event.
I still fantasize that there will be an 'Empire Earth 3" - or an Empire Earth 2.1 (V2 re-released and updated for android / ps4 ) -

and or an open sourcing of a clone so that we could crowd source an EE 4 ...

I enjoyed age of empires but always liked empire earth 1 and 2 better.. never could pinpoint why exactly.

maybe a subconscious connection to some of the populace' gameplay mechanics on the Amiga - dunno.

maybe it's time for me to look at one of the EE clone things and try to make it like EE. I'ts been a long while, does AoE have magic priests that can convert enemy followers or similar? or is it just attack / kill ?
this is a problem with airbnb. for traditional hotel, this would never go unnoticed.
I agree that large decision trees are also hard to interpret. The idea in the above paper is that we regularize with respect to average tree path length, based on the intuition that smaller trees are more interpretable. (But the issue about pixel thresholds probably still stands.)
> If you nevertheless haven't updated libarchive since 2018, all hope is not lost! Binary builds of pacman-static are available from Eli Schwartz' personal repository, signed with their Trusted User keys, with which you can perform the update.

I am a little shocked that they bothered; Arch is rolling release and explicitly does not support partial upgrades (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Part...). So to hit this means that you didn't update a rather important library for over a year, which officially implies that you didn't update at all for over a year, which... is unlikely to be sensible.
Thanks for the sentiment. I assume it has something to do with speaking favorably about an EV vehicle that isn't a Tesla while in a Tesla thread.