skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading books is more than just looking at words on paper instead of a screen. At least in fiction, the process of understanding the world an author has created makes the story completely personal to you in a way that a movie never can be, because the imagined version of the settings and events is completely your own.

In this way, when a really well done book impacts you with some profound lesson about life or the human condition, it hits a million times harder because you've been living in that book's world and are emotionally invested.

The power of a good book is more than just ordinary transmission of information, it's delivering profound thoughts, emotions, and ideas packaged inside the context required to understand them.
"Heliogen uses computer vision software, automatic edge detection and other sophisticated technology to train a field of mirrors to reflect solar beams to one single spot."

In principle I think you are right, but that would mean for each plant you build you need the exact position of each mirror, the oven chamber and the motion of the sun through the day and year. I think the "AI" approach scales better, as it is rather simple "AI" application.
>> a/b test it on some patients

What do you think placebos in clinical trials are??
You're seriously just arguing for the sake of arguing and it's absurd.

Sure, I will clarify what I meant to you. Ask the same people that lived in Crimea at the time the original referendum took place.

>Lack of complains can’t be interpreted as a sign as support, because many people were imprisoned, tortured, and/or killed for such complains:

Lots of footage in Crimea during that time. There were no protests against the referendum. Vice News was filming the whole thing, along with other members of the press. No one was tortured to join Russia as you say. There was a vote, with some minorities that were upset by the outcome.

Economically speaking the people of Crimea caught a huge break. Ukraine has to realize that it needs to work with all neighbours. Look to countries that are successful by example. Do you see France boycotting Germany? Do you see China boycotting Japan? Fighting is the problem. Not listening to your people is the problem. Using scapegoats and boogymen instead of fighting internal corruption is the problem. Ignoring economic development is the problem.
This was posted on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21573694

Animats gave a nice summary [1] of the Vox article [2] that went into some detail.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21580596
[2] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/11/19/20970252/c...
The boundry between informed and uninformed decisions becomes blurred doesn't it. Very interesting.
I don't think the numbers don't come from China, they're measured by satelites.

https://www.livescience.com/49196-nasa-satellite-oco2-carbon...

China shows up very red, but they have 5x the people living in a much smaller area.
I agree on all points. I want to expand on two.

> On average [books] are of higher-quality, contain more research, and are better for developing your focus. So read books!

Along the same lines, the time and mental investment required to read a book, for me, produces a unique kind of immersive return. For example, I’m currently reading John Dos Passos’ USA trilogy. It is 1000+ pages of fiction about 1900-1930 America, and it takes time. But that time has given me a rich picture of what the period was like, written by a guy who lived it. Both because I’m spending time and actively thinking while reading. It’s hard for me to get the same thing from shorter-form or visual media.

> With that said, I also think people use the amount of books they read to value-signal their intelligence. Don't worry about that shit, worry about finding high-quality content that's worth reading.

Particular around new year/year in review time, I see many people online talking about reading x books per year. But reading books is not like running miles. It’s definitely about quality over quantity.

To take the example a little further, most people probably wouldn’t brag about seeing 1000 paintings this year.

If you love to read many books then more power to you. There are certainly several people I respect that read hundreds of books annually. But for me, I think a couple of quality books per month is already a ton of good input, and I hope people don’t get caught up in “# books read” as another metric to simply pump up.
yeah, interesting tidbit about Iran and telegram is that russian telegram channels who monetize themselves with ads can easily buy tens of 10k's of fake iran followers to boost their 'social capital'. And since telegram does not allow to check the geolocation of channel followers, some channels are growing from like 3K followers to 100K overnight.
You’re forgetting that how the word “and” works in English is often not the same as logical AND, e.g. in “give me a list of people who live in New York and Los Angeles” the “and” means OR.
No. Constitutional Tribunal allowed Evo to participate in the elections because of an international treaty that allows anyone to participate in elections. Also, right wing local magnate Camacho confessed to conspiring with police and military to oust Evo. The OAS is a know USA puppet organization and presented no proof of any wrongdoing in the election.

Confesión Camacho https://www.pagina12.com.ar/238942-luis-fernando-camacho-con...

Convencion Americana sobre Derechos Humanos 23, b) de votar y ser elegidos en elecciones periódicas auténticas http://www.oas.org/dil/esp/tratados_B-32_Convencion_American...
I'd say another question worth asking is whether waging war, or antagonism of any kind, is the optimal way to approach this problem.

This seems to be the overwhelmingly preferred approach, but my intuition tells me that seeking a mutually agreeable path of cooperation would be a wiser approach. Not that this is easy of course - heck, even getting people to realize that we aren't actually doing this seems fairly impossible.
the recent revival of hmm on ios by a major editor ( can’t remember the name) was such a disappointment... They completely changed the gameplay to adapt it to the current trend of buying things on the store to progress faster...

There’s such a big opportunity for a simple port of hmm on mobile with regular gameplay and maybe a small refresh of the graphics !
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Well it is called “The Western Canon” and this is right at the top of the page:

“I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us."

If you’re looking for an Eastern-focused selection (although obviously from a Western perspective), I recommend these lists:

https://www.sjc.edu/application/files/7315/7307/1179/Santa_F...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Books_of_the_East
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Wasn't mDNS designed for small networks like intranets, not the whole internet?

I'm reading a discussion on Google where in the comments it is mentioned that you can still obtain IP addresses even with mDNS enabled if you're allowing video and audio with a specific flag set (again with the configuration implementation.)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/6stQX...
this is paywalled pretty hard. the chrome incognito "trick" doesn't work for WSJ. can somebody please post the story?
I would say that reading non-fiction books/ebooks is a waste of time if not actively dog-earing and annotating pages.

Reading a book front to back, committing the important stuff to memory, and leaving the book unmarked, is a fantasy as far as I'm concerned.
I have envied working under great managers and to work in teams where there is a lot of learning. This tool can help people find jobs that is not available elsewhere, because the job has not been vacant yet. Also, you can get a first hand account of the role from the person who is currently in the job position, if you are a match.

Full disclosure: Me and Bouchen met in StartupSchool forums and I liked this idea and helped him build this product.
Absolutely correct! I used to sell expensive software for Lisp Machines and what sold it was the UI that was dual purpose: for development and for demos to management that they could understand.

BTW, off topic, but I love your books!
> We should expect a machine learning system to act as a correlation-seeker

We should expect machine learning systems to dismiss accidental indirect correlation for the benefit of the variables that are directly correlated. There are plenty of algorithms that achieve that, it's only that gradient descent doesn't.

The fact that our AIs are becoming biased is a bug. It should be fixed.
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Pretty sure this is a bunch of hoo-ra-ra started on twitter and hasn't yet been a proven threat to Signal itself to warrant legal action by them. Or whether this Qrypt company is going to do anything meaningful with it.

The title is also misleading as the patent has already been approved apparently.
Don't know it well enough to suggest any. That is what inclusion in the survey would have been useful for.

It is conventional to complain about condition codes, but I don't see what would be debilitating about just appending a set of condition codes to each register, so that renaming a register carries them along. Going from storing 64 bits to 70 bits each would't break the bank.
I hate anti-cheat software, because I had a lot more trouble with it than I had with cheaters.

After all, anti-cheat software is meant to solve just one problem (people modifying the technology), but there are other ways too to destroy the gaming experience of the other players (teamkilling, wasting resources, deconstructing buildings, etc.).

All those problems are not being solved by anti-cheat software. But the tools to solve them (IP-range banning, server-lockdown to known/trusted players, etc.), are also quite good at solving the cheater problem. In my experience, having a good admin community is a lot better than playing the cat and mouse game of developing an anti-cheat software.
I figured climate change would be that moment but we have an entire side of the political aisle essentially denying it's even happening.
A non-fiction book provides a set of ideas from multiple perspectives. It's unlikely that you'll remember a concept as soon as it's laid out but when reading, which is essentially engaging in a written discussion with the author, it's much more likely to sink in.
Believe they meant “empathizing gender.”
College as an incubator of Girardian terror
There is nothing that replaces reading great fiction for your growth and development as a human.
If all my friends are jumping off a bridge, it's probably bungee jumping.

I mean they could have all simultaneously gone insane, or be infested by alien mind parasites, but going bungee jumping is the much more likely reason.
Skepticism of crypto is immoral, and will be downvoted. Only confidence is allowed. lol
Let's turn this around, if the markets that China sell to implement tariff's dependent on fossil fuel usage what do you expect them to do? How do you expect them to "fight" that?

Do you expect they'll just give up selling to those markets entirely? That would lead to less manufacturing in China and a reduction in carbon output from the country. Manufacturing in the US/EU etc. would likely take up some of the slack, but at a much lower carbon output and higher price.

Do you expect them to just continue selling with the tariff? That would lead to a reduction in sales, a reduction in manufacturing, a reduction in carbon output. As before I'd guess manufacturing in the US/EU etc. would take some of the slack.

Or do you expect them to start a war over it? Do you think killing their customers makes sense to them?

Personally I think it much more likely that they'd make the required changes, increase prices accordingly and continue to be the manufacturing hub of the world. Currently they have no reason to curb their carbon usage, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't do it if they were given an economic reason.

I am genuinely interested in how you think they'd "fight" a carbon tax from the US/EU etc., because I can't see a way where it doesn't reduce the amount of carbon being released compared to a world without the carbon tax.
Amazon bans sellers from using FedEx for some deliveries
couldn't you eliminate the bad spinlock behavior by coding them to be go into an efficient wait if to much spinning is going on ?
Very true. I got the watch for exactly those features,
The problem is that those drugs never even make it into the pipeline because they don't get investment in the first place. The big drug companies aren't the ones actually developing new drugs; that's done by biotech startups. If a drug shows promise, big pharma buys the company and pays for stage 2+ clinical trials.

A friend of mine works in pharmaceutical marketing, and the big revelation I got from him was that the marketing departments run the drug companies from the top to the bottom. If marketing doesn't see a billion dollar market for a new drug, it won't even be considered for clinical trials. The VC in biotech knows this, so they won't fund startups that don't have this potential.

There was a HN thread on this recently in relation to antibiotics. [1] Antibiotics are a special case for their own reasons, but ultimately if the potential for insane windfalls isn't there, big pharma is not interested.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21782994
"Move fast, break things" never worked in any meaningful way, especially in AWS. It's a garbage philosophy repeated by idiots who don't support business applications driven by software on a global (enterprise, mission critical, always-on) scale. Literally no one at Amazon practices this idea, except the idiots who think that launching pre-alpha garbage into production because of poorly conceived re:invent promises is an acceptable business model that builds customer trust (spoilers, it doesn't). Source: worked there, did that.
I have a very similar perspective as you. Most non fiction books, being focused around a reasonably simple concept, could really be explained in a blog post (e.g. any Malcolm Gladwell book, zero to one by Thiel, Super Intelligence). By simple, I mean as opposed to complex, not necessarily easy to understand or unimportant. The main reason, I believe, for these to be books rather than posts is to examine that same concept from many vantage points to allow it to "stick". For these books, I feel like I can usually get most of the value by reading the first few chapters or many even a summary.

That being said, if you look for books on more complex topics, you find things that can't be put into a blog post (e.g. WWII, biographies, technical topics). These are things where each chapter really does bring something new. The flip side is that they're hard to read; nothing in chapter 1-n will really help you in reading chapter n+1.
Average life span is falling for the first time in a century. It would be one thing if people were apathetic due to a comfortable life. The current situation is more akin to a frog in a pot of slowly heating water.
“Is Bread the 'Silent Killer'”?
I just started reading books again in the last couple of years and I think it’s definitely worth it.

My recommendation is that you start with a physical book and not an ebook or audio book. It might test your attention span at first, but it’s the best way to get your focus back and you’ll find that your reading speed and comprehension will start to improve. Also, it’s nice not having to charge them ;)
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With shopify, wix, wordpress, weebly, joomla, squarespace, magento, etc ...what's the billion dollar opportunity the incumbents are missing out on?
Unless the digital archive is well captioned, I’d say a book is much better learning the context of a photo and the photographer.
on the time investment: "Ramit's Book-Buying Rule: If you're "thinking about" buying a book, just buy it. Don't waste 5 secs debating. Even 1 idea makes it worth it."
There's an episode of "World's Toughest Fixes" that follows an AOG team during the replacement of a 767 pressure dome.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Worlds+Toughest+Fixes+S01+E0...
that's what i thought. i don't use phone and sms anymore. a phone without messaging would be useless.
Many people are getting the time-line of events completely wrong.

The embassy protests (call it riots if you like) were a response to the US killing at least 25 of them [0], which was a response to them supposedly being responsible for the death of US contractor [1].

There were no casualties during the embassy protests, yet the consequence of that was the US killing QS, and other PMU leadership, near Baghdad airport.

Now some people are peddling stories about how those two were supposedly not connected at all, and the US allegedly had intelligence how QS was planning to attack US Americans all over the world, which comes across as a bit of FUD to distract from the reality that the US just assassinated the general of another nation.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50951742

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/27/politics/iraq-rocket-atta...
The original post links to the list, the one he is disavowing. That's the context, that specific list.
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I miss having the function keys on the left, Word Perfect 1987-style.

ETA: Aha! https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40L5A
True enough, but maybe the reports have been exaggerated.

The Texas City disaster,[0] involved ~2 million kg of ammonium nitrate. But TFA notes that the facility produced only ~400 kg gunpowder per day. Let alone ammonium nitrate, if any.

So what, bolide?

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
Not sure I agree about fixed price point.

When I'm spending 90% of the time developing software, especially if that's a stand-alone or well specified isolated components - I can quote after some initial research, and I agree it's a good way to go.

For other clients I'm doing a job of technical lead. In that case, too much time is spent defining requirements, reviewing other people's work, writing project documentation, etc. These things are borderline impossible to estimate in advance. For these projects, I prefer hourly contracts.
> Your acquisition costs are close to zero

I think the point was that the acquisition costs are _not_ close to zero. Rather, the acquisition costs are no longer specific to individual clients, they're general in nature. If you spend just as much time/money but don't spend it on specific client, then the cost for each client doesn't change (it's just the total divided by the number of clients).
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It doesn’t flush the entire cache (that would be a disaster) but it does shoot down the cache line containing the lock in all cores other than the one that acquired the lock.

The real issue with spin locks is fairness. There’s no assurance that any given thread will ever make progress. A thread could starve forever. Production-ready mutexes like absl::Mutex make efforts toward fairness, even if they don’t have hard guarantees.
If we accept the axiom that CO2 emissions are an eminent threat to the existence of humanity, then I think the answer is obvious. This isn't a friendly competition for who can invest the most in green tech. This is a life or death race to rid the world of carbon emissions. The world's largest polluter doubling its emissions over the next decade cannot be accepted under those conditions.
Almost all non-fiction books are garbage. But like the best ideas get surfaced in blog posts and videos, the best books get cited over and over again. Read those.

I try to filter out anything published in the past 5-10 years. There are definitely fad books.

Some books people talk around but don’t cite because they are so famous, like taking about Marxism instead of Das Capital or Darwinism instead of the Origin of Species. It is often worth reading the books that shook the world in your lifetime.
I’m a SaaS bootstrapper. What do you mean with “security stack”? Security is layered into all components of the tech stack. It is not a discrete part of the stack.
In the enterprise context, I guess the Google Search Appliance would be a good example.

Before you say "it wasn't widely used" -- that's probably why it was killed. Google customers who use a product that doesn't lead its market and/or make megabucks should be worried.

We know there are other products that are failing to gain traction in the marketplace -- like GCP. While I'm not saying GCP will meet Search Appliance's fate, it has already been reported[1] that there will be financial consequences if GCP is unable to get a #2 position in the cloud marketplace by 2023.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
Under this link I read:

> Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity.

So I don't see too much of a difference from a VPS I pay for that will cost me more if I start using more network bandwidth.

But then I hear that you don't have ssh access and that your architecture is built around one specific vendor, so now you can't move to a different provider. Sounds like hell to me.
I "learnt" java from youtube and got a job doing it.

Took me 2 years of experience to realise what low quality materials I had been using. Number of youtube views is ZERO indicator of quality. I had been mislead and held back in ways I simply couldn't understand at the time.

Doing my oracle java cert and learning the book that goes with made me competent.
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Show HN: Self-Published Book – “Data Science in Production”
Hi HN,

Over the past 6 months I've been working on a technical book focused on helping aspiring data scientists to get hands-on experience with cloud computing environments using the Python ecosystem. The book is targeted at readers already familiar with libraries such as Pandas and scikit-learn that are looking to build out a portfolio of applied projects.

To author the book, I used the Leanpub platform to provide drafts of the text as I completed each chapter. To typeset the book, I used the R bookdown package by Yihui Xie to translate my markdown into a PDF format. I also used Google docs to edit drafts and check for typos. One of the reasons that I wanted to self publish the book was to explore the different marketing platforms available for promoting texts and to get hands on with some of the user acquisition tools that are commonly used in the mobile gaming industry.

Here's links to the book, with sample chapters and code listings:

- Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/165206463X

- Digital (PDF): https://leanpub.com/ProductionDataScience

- Notebooks and Code: https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production

- Sample Chapters: https://github.com/bgweber/DS_Production/raw/master/book_sam...

- Chapter Excerpts: https://medium.com/@bgweber/book-launch-data-science-in-prod...

Please feel free to ask any questions or provide feedback.
Isn't it really all just Jeff Dean's internet?
That’s what virtually all battle-hardened lock libraries do: spin for a bit (but not too tightly, using a pause in the loop) then fall back to waiter lists and futex.